Despicable Me 4

Minions and Gru's Family Mansion

The whole Despicable Me family in one box, and honestly that is most of the appeal.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 75583 · 2024

Pieces868

Minifigs9

Year2024

Set number75583

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The verdict

This is the set you buy if you want the definitive Despicable Me lineup in one purchase, and the nine figures really do carry it.

The gothic mansion has a genuinely great silhouette and the girls' tree house next to it is a burst of colour with a working zip line. The build itself is fun but a bit compromised in places, and Gru as a standard minifigure just does not quite look like Gru. Get it for the characters and the scene you can set up, not for cutting-edge engineering.

Best for: Despicable Me fans who want every main character in a single set

The full review

What it is

The thing that sold me on this set is the sheer completeness of it. In one box you get Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, Agnes, Baby Gru and three Mega Minions, which is very nearly the entire family plus the movie's new oversized Minions. If you only ever buy one Despicable Me 4 set, this is clearly the one LEGO built for that job, and the moment I laid all nine figures out on the table I understood the pull. The gothic mansion has a lovely exaggerated shape, all steep dark roof slopes climbing to 27cm, and next to it the girls' tree house is a completely different mood, bright and playful with a zip line running down to a little party area complete with bongos. Inside the house you get the red couch, the fireplace, the rocket-style bedroom and a Minion laboratory stuffed with rotating gadget units, including a toilet and a cookie storage box, which is exactly the kind of daft detail the films are built on.

The catch

I will be straight with you about where it wobbles. For a $99.99 set the model itself is not huge, and the price only starts to feel fair once you count the nine figures into it. The build runs about an hour and a half and never gets very challenging, which is fine for the age range but means adult builders should not expect much to chew on. There are a fair few stickers too, so budget some patience and a steady hand for placement. The bigger visual sin is those blue, red and yellow Technic pieces propping up the roof panels. They are left completely bare, and once you notice them you cannot unnotice them. A few compromises were made to keep the footprint compact as well, so the mansion is missing a second dormer window and the raised staircase entrance the movie house actually has.

Who it's for

So who should get this. If you love the franchise and want the characters more than anything, this is an easy yes, because the figure selection is close to faultless and the playset gives kids loads to act out. Families with younger builders will get real mileage from the zip line, the rotating lab and the two very different buildings. If you are chasing a display-grade architectural piece or a build with clever engineering to sink into, temper your expectations, because the exposed Technic and the modest size will nag at you. For the right person, though, the joy of having the whole gang together outweighs the rough edges.

The parts story

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

Building this is a relaxed, breezy job rather than a technical workout. It comes together in roughly ninety minutes across the two structures, and the most interesting moments are in the mansion roof, where some of the angled slope techniques are genuinely worth stealing for your own custom houses. Everything else is straightforward, and the many stickers are the part that will slow you down most, so take your time lining them up.

The real story here is the figures. The three Mega Minions are the standout, with Jerry built from new elements, noticeably bigger than a normal Minion and given a rough, rocky texture with jagged teeth in blue overalls, while Tim gets long yellow flex-tube arms and Mel wears a mechanical eyepiece. The human family all have printed front and back torsos, and most of them include alternate facial expressions, which is a nice touch for play. With nine figures packed in, the part-count value leans heavily on those characters rather than the brick count, and that is the honest math of this box.

Fun facts

01The set launched on 1 May 2024 alongside the Despicable Me 4 film.
02The Mega Minions are new to the fourth film, and Jerry is built from brand-new molded elements that make him bulkier than a standard Minion.
03The mansion stands about 27cm tall, with its steep gothic roofline being the piece reviewers most consistently praised.
04Most of the human figures include alternate printed faces, but Gru's distinctive nose could not be recreated in minifigure form and is missing entirely.