Seasonal

Jack-o'-Lantern Pickup Truck

A little orange truck that makes your October shelf look ten times better.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 40822 · 2025

Pieces177

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number40822

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The verdict

I built this one in an evening with a mug of something warm next to me, and it turned out to be exactly the kind of set I want on my desk in autumn: small, cheerful, and finished before I lost interest.

The truck bed loaded with pumpkins is the whole joke of the set, and it lands. This is not a set that will challenge an experienced builder for long, and I want to be upfront about that, but it was never trying to be. It is a seasonal centerpiece, and on that job it delivers.

Best for: builders who like a quick, cheerful autumn display piece rather than a technical challenge

The full review

What it is

There is a specific kind of LEGO set I look forward to every year: the small seasonal piece that has no ambition to be a showpiece, it just wants to make your house feel like the season it is. The Jack-o'-Lantern Pickup Truck is squarely that set. It is a stubby little pickup with a rounded cab and a truck bed piled with carved pumpkins, and the whole thing reads as a scene the second you set it down. I like that it commits to the joke of the design rather than trying to be a serious vehicle model with a couple of pumpkins bolted on as an afterthought.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the build itself: at 177 pieces this is not going to occupy you for long. If you are the kind of builder who wants a satisfying multi-session project, look elsewhere in the catalog, this is a single sitting and a short one. It is also a seasonal set, which means LEGO will pull it from shelves once the run is done, and once that happens you are relying on secondary market pricing if you want one later. Neither of those things is a flaw exactly, they are just the nature of a set built to decorate a season rather than anchor a collection.

Who it's for

Grab this one if you want a cheerful autumn decoration you can build in an hour, if you collect the seasonal line, or if you want a low-pressure set to hand a newer builder alongside something bigger. Skip it if you are shopping by price per piece or looking for engineering to sink your teeth into, this set was never trying to compete on either front.

The parts story

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

The build itself moves fast and cleanly. You start with the chassis and cab, which snap together with the kind of straightforward, satisfying steps that make small sets pleasant rather than tedious, then you move to the real event: loading the truck bed with an assortment of pumpkins built at slightly different sizes so the pile actually looks like a harvest haul instead of a row of identical shapes.

The pumpkins are where the piece count earns its keep. Getting a convincing jack-o'-lantern face and a rounded pumpkin silhouette out of standard LEGO elements takes some clever stacking, and seeing the truck bed filled in gives the set its personality. It will not hand you a rare new mold or a printed element you have never seen before, but the way familiar pieces get repurposed into a pumpkin harvest is the kind of small design cleverness that makes LEGO's seasonal line worth paying attention to.

Fun facts

01The Jack-o'-Lantern Pickup Truck is part of LEGO's small-format Halloween seasonal wave, the same slot that has previously included haunted houses and trick-or-treat scenes.
02At 177 pieces, it is sized as a quick single-session build rather than a display centerpiece meant to rival LEGO's larger seasonal sets.
03Seasonal sets in this line are typically produced for one holiday cycle, which is why collectors tend to buy them close to release rather than waiting.