Brickheadz

Joy, Sadness & Anxiety

Three feelings, one shelf, and a whole lot of orange hair.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 40749 · 2024

Pieces300

Minifigs3

Year2024

Set number40749

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The verdict

I built Anxiety first because she's the reason this set exists, and honestly her frizzy orange hair piece is the star of the whole box.

Joy and Sadness are the reliable old friends here, chunky and cheerful in that classic Brickheadz cube shape, but Anxiety is the one people are actually buying this for since she's brand new to the movie and brand new to plastic. This is a quick, satisfying build, not a technical showpiece, so go in expecting charm over challenge. If you love Inside Out or you collect Brickheadz for the display value, this earns its spot. If you want a set that fights back a little, it won't.

Best for: Inside Out fans and Brickheadz collectors who want the new emotions on the shelf

The full review

What it is

This is a three-in-one Brickheadz box built around Inside Out 2, and it landed exactly when everyone wanted a plastic version of the new emotion causing all the chaos in Riley's head. Joy is bright and instantly recognizable, Sadness is soft and blue and a little slouched in that way that fits her personality, and Anxiety gets the most interesting build of the three, with a wide-eyed head and that unmistakable frizz of orange hair standing straight up. Snapping the pieces into place is quick, tactile, and satisfying in the way Brickheadz always is, and seeing all three lined up together on a desk genuinely made me smile.

The catch

I'll be straight with you though, this isn't a set to buy for the building experience. Brickheadz sets are built to look good, not to test you, so if you're hoping for tricky sub-builds or clever part-swapping you won't find much of it here. At 300 pieces split three ways, each figure comes together in a matter of minutes, and once you've built one Brickheadz cube body you've basically built them all. The value is entirely in the characters themselves and how much you love the movie.

Who it's for

Get this one if you're an Inside Out fan who wants Anxiety on your shelf, if you collect Brickheadz and like to keep a themed set together, or if you want a low-stakes build to do with a kid who's seen the movie a dozen times. Skip it if you already own the earlier Joy and Sadness Brickheadz release and only want the new character, since you'll be paying for two figures you may not need again.

The parts story

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

Building this one is fast and easy going, exactly what you want from a Brickheadz set. Each figure follows the familiar cube-body, big-head formula, so you're mostly stacking plates and slotting in printed tiles for the face rather than working through complex techniques. It's the kind of build you can finish over a coffee, and that's the point, it's meant to be a quick hit of movie nostalgia rather than a weekend project.

The piece that actually earns its keep here is Anxiety's hair, a wild, wide orange mass sculpted to stand on end that instantly reads as her character even from across a room. It's new to this set and easily the most distinctive mold in the box. Joy and Sadness lean on printed elements for their faces and signature colors rather than new molds, which keeps the build simple but does mean the real collector's interest is concentrated in Anxiety. At three figures for one box, the piece count works out reasonably compared to buying single-character Brickheadz separately.

Fun facts

01Anxiety made her Brickheadz debut in this set alongside the release of Inside Out 2, making it one of the first physical LEGO representations of the character.
02Brickheadz figures share a standardized cube-shaped body across the entire theme, so the build technique for Joy and Sadness here is nearly identical to earlier Inside Out Brickheadz releases.
03The set groups three emotions in a single box rather than the single or double-figure format common elsewhere in the Brickheadz line, reflecting Inside Out 2's expanded cast of feelings.