Jurassic World

Dinosaur Missions: Allosaurus Transport Truck

The first LEGO Allosaurus rides in on one seriously chunky rig.

Brick Rated Score

4.1/5

Set 76966 · 2024

Pieces588

Minifigs4

Year2024

Set number76966

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The verdict

The Allosaurus is the reason to own this, a brand new dinosaur with a head mold LEGO had never made before, and it steals the whole show.

You also get a genuinely big truck-and-trailer with a cage that drops open on a satisfying lever push, plus four minifigures including the Camp Cretaceous crew. I do think it runs about ten to fifteen dollars steep at full price, so I would wait for a discount unless the dinosaur has already won you over. For dinosaur-mad kids and Chaos Theory fans, though, it is a lot of playable set.

Best for: Dinosaur-obsessed kids and Jurassic World fans who want the newest Allosaurus

The full review

What it is

The moment I got the Allosaurus assembled I understood exactly what this set is selling. It is the first Allosaurus LEGO has ever produced, and the new head mold is the thing that makes it, much smaller and more elongated than the familiar T. rex snout, which gives the whole animal a sleeker, hungrier profile. Around it sits a proper haulage rig: a large semi truck with an opening roof and hood, a three-minifigure cab with a bed in the back, and a long yellow and green cage trailer with fold-out front supports and a rear ramp. There is a quad bike and a drone thrown in as side builds too. For 588 pieces it feels physically big, and that heft is a lot of the appeal.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the money. Most reviewers landed in the same place I did, that at 89.99 dollars this asks about ten to fifteen dollars more than it should. Part of that is because the dinosaur, gorgeous as it is, reuses recolored body parts from previous LEGO dinosaurs and only the head is genuinely new tooling. The truck, meanwhile, relies on large pre-formed panels and elements, so the build moves quickly, roughly an hour and ten minutes for everything, without ever really testing you. None of that makes it a bad set. It just means the sticker price is doing the dinosaur a favor rather than the engineering.

Who it's for

If you have a dinosaur-obsessed kid, or you are a Jurassic World fan who wants the newest predator in the lineup, this is an easy yes, especially on a discount. The play value is real: the cage, the ramp, the drone, the quad, the crew of minifigures to run the whole rescue. If you build mainly for clever mechanisms or a meaty parts challenge, though, this one will feel a touch simple for the outlay, and you might be happier waiting or looking at a set built around the engineering rather than the animal.

The parts story

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

Building this is a brisk, friendly sit-down rather than a marathon. The truck comes together on large panels and pre-formed sections, so you get that satisfying feeling of a big model taking shape fast, and it is very much aimed at the eight-and-up crowd it is marked for. The best single moment is wiring up the cage: a red double cheese-slope acts as a lever, and pushing it releases the cage sides so they drop down under their own weight. It is simple and it works every single time, which is exactly what you want in a play feature.

The headline part is that new Allosaurus head, a fresh mold making its debut here, paired with recolored versions of existing dinosaur body components. Parts fans also clocked the Jurassic Park guard, whose head appears in one of LEGO's newer sienna brown skin shades, a small but nice detail for collectors. Add the exclusive Kenji, Darius and Yaz minifigures in their Chaos Theory outfits and the value tilts heavily toward figures and that one-of-a-kind dinosaur rather than a bin of unusual bricks.

Fun facts

01This set introduced the very first LEGO Allosaurus, built on a brand new head mold that is smaller and more elongated than the studio's T. rex snout.
02It launched alongside the Jurassic World: Chaos Theory animated series in 2024, and includes exclusive minifigures of series regulars Kenji, Darius and Yaz.
03On the secondary market BrickEconomy has tracked sealed copies climbing well above the 89.99 dollar retail price, up around 35 percent, a sign it is drying up at stores.