Jurassic World

Indoraptor Rampage at Lockwood Estate

The dinosaurs and the cast are the stars here, and they really do deliver.

Brick Rated Score

3.6/5

Set 75930 · 2018

Pieces1,019

Minifigs6

Year2018

Set number75930

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The verdict

This is the big centerpiece of the Fallen Kingdom wave, and the reason to want it is that gorgeous new Indoraptor plus almost the entire movie cast in one box.

The manor itself is where things get honest, because it's more of a flat gothic facade than a house you can play deep inside. If you love the dinosaurs and the collectible angle, you'll be glad you grabbed it. If you want a rich architectural build, it comes up a little short.

Best for: Jurassic Park fans who care most about the dinosaurs and the movie cast

The full review

What it is

The Indoraptor Rampage at Lockwood Estate is the flagship of LEGO's® 2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom lineup, and it knows exactly what you came for. You get the movie's whole rogues gallery of dinosaurs and people in one 1,019 piece box, anchored by that sleek, nasty Indoraptor. The gothic manor facade behind them genuinely looks the part, all tall dark windows, drainage pipes running down the stone, and a roof rigged to collapse when the action gets going. Set it on a shelf at the right angle and it reads like a frame straight out of the film. There's a museum, a lab, an office, a little bedroom, and a big buildable Triceratops skull tucked into the display, so there's more going on than a single room.

The catch

Here's the part I want you to hear before you buy. That manor is impressively tall and wide, but it is barely any depth at all. It's essentially a beautiful front wall with just enough shelf behind it for a few studs, which means the dinosaurs you love have almost nowhere to properly stand inside the house. The play space you'd expect from a set this size never quite arrives. The build itself leans repetitive too, with the wall panels asking you to repeat the same sequence again and again, so the middle stretch can drag if you like your builds full of surprises. And at the launch price of 129.99, plenty of folks felt the house didn't fully justify the sticker next to smaller, denser sets in the range.

Who it's for

So who ends up happy with this one? If you're a Jurassic Park person first and a builder second, this is an easy yes, because the Indoraptor and Blue and the near complete cast are the heart of it and they deliver in full. If you're chasing it now, the collector angle helps your case, since it retired at the end of 2019 and the sealed value has more than doubled past its original price. If what you crave is a deep, room by room mansion you can pose scenes all through, temper your expectations, because the depth just isn't here. Go in loving the dinosaurs and you'll have a great time. Go in wanting architecture and you'll feel the compromise.

The parts story

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

The build splits into two very different moods. The dinosaurs and the Triceratops skull are the fun, characterful part, full of that satisfying click when you rig the posable limbs and the snapping jaws. The manor is the slower half. Because it's built as a tall, thin facade, you spend real time repeating the same wall panel steps to get the height and the row of windows, and that repetition is the single thing most reviewers flag. The collapsing roof function and the removable windows give you a couple of genuinely clever moments, and the drainage pipes down the stonework are a lovely little detail, but the overall structure is more display piece than deep interior.

On pieces, the headline is the Indoraptor itself, a brand new mold at the time with piercing red printed eyes and a jaw that opens to those jagged teeth. That figure plus Blue the Velociraptor and a baby dino make this a dinosaur lover's parts haul on their own. The printing on LEGO's dinosaurs took a clear step up from the 2015 range, and it shows. Add six minifigs, Owen, Claire, Maisie, Mills, Wheatley, and Eversol, three of them exclusive here, and the character value is strong. Straight part count value on the bricks is only middling for the money, which is the usual Fallen Kingdom trade, but you're really paying for the creatures and the cast, and on that front it stacks up well.

Fun facts

01The Indoraptor's head was an all new mold for this set, complete with printed red eyes and a jaw that snaps shut on its jagged teeth.
02Six minifigs cover nearly the entire Fallen Kingdom cast, and three of them (including young Maisie Lockwood) appear in no other LEGO set.
03It was the largest set in the 2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom range at 1,019 pieces, released April 2018 and retired at the end of 2019.
04Since retiring, sealed copies have more than doubled their 129.99 launch price, a rare run for a licensed play set.