Disney

Kakamora Barge

A whole coconut-armored crew crammed onto one gloriously silly pirate raft.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 43258 · 2025

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Year2025

Set number43258

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The verdict

The Kakamora were my favorite thing in Moana, so seeing a whole barge of them in brick form made me grin before I even opened the box.

It is a proper play set, three boats that clip together, a working catapult, a zipline, and nine characters including the new Moana 2 leader Kotu. It is also a hundred dollars for under 600 pieces, so you are paying for the license and the figures, not the brick count. If there is a Moana-obsessed kid in your life this will get played to pieces, and that is exactly the point.

Best for: Moana-loving kids age 7 and up who want a crew to act out sea battles

The full review

What it is

The Kakamora Barge is a Moana 2 play set built around the coconut pirates, those tiny armored menaces who steal every scene they roll into. LEGO gave them a floating fortress that comes apart into three smaller boats, plus a separate double-hulled canoe for Moana and Maui, and packed it with the sort of features a seven-year-old dreams about: a catapult, a treasure chest, secret hiding spots, and a zipline strung across the deck. The first time I clicked the three hulls together and loaded a Kakamora into the launcher, I laughed out loud. It is unapologetically a toy, and it knows it.

The catch

I have to be straight with you about the price, because it is the thing that will decide this for most people. This set runs about 100 dollars for a little under 600 pieces, which is a rough ratio even by licensed-theme standards. You are paying for the Disney name and for a generous roster of figures rather than for an engineering marvel. The build itself is quick and gentle, clear instructions, nothing that will challenge anyone who has assembled a set before, and an adult can be done inside an hour. Once it is together the barge is a bit loose and rattly, the kind of thing that survives enthusiastic play but would not earn a permanent spot on a shelf next to your nicer models.

Who it's for

So who is this actually for? A Moana-mad kid, full stop. If a child in your world quotes the movie and does the Kakamora voice, this will be loved hard and long, because the whole design invites you to stage sea battles and split the fleet and fling coconuts across the room. Grown-up collectors chasing part-count value or a satisfying build should look elsewhere and wait for a sale if the figures alone tempt them. But as a source of open-ended pretend play with a crew of characters you cannot get anywhere else, it does the job it set out to do.

The parts story

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

Building this is a relaxed hour, not a marathon. You assemble the three boat sections in turn, each one small enough to finish in a sitting, then link them into the full barge. The techniques are straightforward and kid-friendly, with the action functions (the catapult arm, the zipline, a couple of hidden compartments) being the most interesting moments. There is nothing here that will teach an experienced builder a new trick, but the pace is forgiving and the payoff is a big, chunky vessel that immediately wants to be played with rather than admired.

The real stars are the characters, not the bricks. You get the six Kakamora in their coconut-shell armor with printed warrior faces, and their round, stubby build is genuinely charming, plus this is the first LEGO appearance of Kotu, the Kakamora leader introduced in Moana 2. Moana and Maui come with nicely printed torsos, and Heihei is his usual molded chicken self. For parts fans there is not much rare or exotic to harvest, the value lives entirely in that unusually full cast of figures crammed into a single box.

Fun facts

01The barge is designed to split into three separate boats, and the box also includes a double-hulled canoe with a hidden storage crate.
02This set marks the LEGO debut of Kotu, the Kakamora leader introduced in Disney's Moana 2.
03The catapult can launch either a loose coconut or an actual Kakamora figure, staying true to how the coconut pirates fight in the films.
04The Kakamora wear coconut-shell armor decorated with painted warrior faces, one of the most recognizable visual gags from the Moana movies.