Classic

Bricks Bricks Bricks

A big honest bucket of bricks that trades scenery for pure open-ended play.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 10717 · 2018

Pieces1,500

Minifigsn/a

Year2018

Set number10717

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The verdict

This is 1,500 pieces in something like 33 colors, and that's really the whole pitch, in the best way.

There's no big showpiece to finish and shelf, just a deep well of parts you'll pull from for years. If you love free building or you're feeding a growing brick collection, it earns its keep. If you want a set that becomes one impressive model, look elsewhere.

Best for: Free builders and families topping up a shared brick stash

The full review

What it is

There's a particular kind of joy in tipping out a fresh box of loose bricks, and this LEGO® set is built entirely around that feeling. Bricks Bricks Bricks is exactly what the name promises, 1,500 pieces in roughly 33 colors with no theme, no story, and no one right way to use it. Designer Jonathan Robson wasn't trying to give you a spaceship or a castle to assemble once and admire. He was handing you raw material. The box suggests things you can make, a country house, a little gramophone with a turntable that actually spins, a pink and purple elephant with a baby, a classic red telephone, but those are just starting sparks. The real product here is possibility.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about the number, because 1,500 sounds enormous and it isn't quite what your gut expects. A big chunk of that count is small stuff, loads of 1x1 and 1x2 plates and bricks, plus little decorative odds and ends. The most common complaint from builders is that they wanted more of the meaty 2x4 and 2x6 bricks that make quick sturdy walls, and this box leans lighter on those than you'd hope. So if you sit down picturing a single towering model, you'll feel the gap. There's also no baseplate drama or specialized elements to get excited over, it's a bucket, not a build. And because it retired, the price has drifted up past its old $59.99, with sealed boxes now trading around $80 or more, which dents the value story if you're buying new today.

Who it's for

So who actually thrives with this one. Free builders, first and foremost, the people who'd rather invent than follow steps. Families pooling a shared brick stash will love it too, because color variety and small-part volume are exactly what a communal bin needs to stay fun. The three complexity levels in the booklet mean a four year old and a ten year old can both find a way in, which is rarer than it sounds. If that's you, this is an easy yes and a smart foundation to build a bigger collection on. If you're the kind of builder who lives for a clever finished model on the shelf, though, this will feel like homework supplies rather than the assignment, and you'll be happier with a themed set. Know which one you are and this decision makes itself.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building here isn't sequential the way a themed set is, and that's the point. You can follow the booklet, which walks you through models at three difficulty tiers, or you can ignore it entirely and just build from your head. The included instructions are gentle and well paced for younger hands, and the little models are cleverer than you'd guess, that gramophone has a rotating turntable and an adjustable needle, and the elephants have a real sense of character for such simple shapes. Because everything comes apart and goes back together freely, the pacing is whatever you make it, five minutes or a whole rainy afternoon.

On the parts themselves, the value is in breadth rather than any single rare gem. You get a 32x32 blue baseplate, which is a genuinely useful large piece to anchor builds on, plus a brick separator that saves small fingers a lot of frustration. Scattered through the box are wheels, transparent windows and doors, and printed eye pieces that instantly give any creature some personality. The color range is the quiet star, roughly 33 shades means you can actually plan a build around a palette instead of settling for whatever's in the tub. At its original price this landed as strong per-piece value, and as a top-up for an existing collection it still stretches a long way. Just go in knowing you're buying variety and volume, not a set of standout molds.

Fun facts

01The set was designed by LEGO's Jonathan Robson and released in 2018 as one of the larger loose-brick boxes in the Classic line.
02Despite the 1,500-piece count, it ships with no minifigures at all, the printed eye pieces are as close as it gets to a character.
03The box art models include a working miniature gramophone whose turntable actually spins and whose needle arm adjusts.
04It has since retired, and sealed boxes now trade on the secondary market around $80 or more, roughly 39 percent above the original $59.99 retail price.