Nezha's Ring of Fire Mech
The busiest mech Monkie Kid has ever made, and it splits the room.
Brick Rated Score
Set 80057 · 2024
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I have such a soft spot for the Monkie Kid theme, and this one had me the second I saw those wind fire wheels bolted onto the feet.
It's loud, it's ornate, and it's absolutely built for kids to skid it across a table and fire six stud shooters. Just know going in that it wants to roll, not strike hero poses, because the feet are longer than the legs and it tips backward the moment you get ambitious. If you love the show or the character of Nezha, you'll forgive it a lot.
Best for: Monkie Kid fans and kids who want a play-first mech with real firepower
What it is
Nezha's Ring of Fire Mech is a 1,163-piece Monkie Kid LEGO® set from Season 5, and it is easily the busiest mech the theme has ever put out. Everything about it is turned up to eleven. You get an opening cockpit, wheels tucked under the feet so the whole thing glides, six fire energy stud shooters, a fire-tipped spear, and those unmistakable wind fire wheels that are Nezha's whole signature. It's a chunky, ornate figure that reads instantly as a character rather than a generic robot, and if you know the show or the mythology behind Nezha, that hit of recognition is lovely. This is a set that clearly wants to be played with, not just posed on a shelf, and once you accept that, a lot of it clicks.
The catch
Now for the honest part, because the caveats here are real and builders have raised them loudly. The standing balance is genuinely poor. The feet come in around 18cm long while the legs are only about 15cm tall, so the moment you try any kind of dramatic battle stance it rocks backward and stumbles. It's happiest with both legs squarely under the body, or better yet rolling on its wheels, which honestly is where the fun is anyway. The back is a wall of scuffed sheet plastic and printed detail that some people love and others find chaotic, and I lean toward chaotic. Small things loosen too. The knee pads tip forward with handling, and the bonus drone's propellers knock into the arm and the ring when you swivel them, which feels like a feature that got built because it could be rather than because it needed to be. At $139.99 for 1,163 pieces you're paying around twelve cents a part, which is fair but not a steal, so this is really a buy for the theme and the play, not for a bargain part-count.
Who it's for
So who ends up happy with it? Kids and Monkie Kid fans, without question. If you or someone in your house loves the show, or you just find the character of Nezha irresistible (and I do), the six shooters, the roll-around action and the six figures deliver exactly the kind of noisy, hands-on fun this line does best. If you came for a poseable display mech with rock-solid articulation and a clean look, I'd steer you elsewhere, and plenty of fans will point you at 80045 Ultra Mech as the stronger build in the theme. This one won me over on personality and playability while never quite winning the argument on engineering. It's a very good set with its flaws worn right out in the open, and I'm oddly fond of it for that.
The parts story
What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.
The build runs around three hours and moves through the mech section by section, torso and cockpit first, then the arms and that big ring, then the tricky lower legs and wheeled feet. Most of it is satisfying, dense mech assembly with a lot of articulation going in as you go, neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles all get real movement. The upper body comes together stable and genuinely poseable, which is the best part of the build. The legs and feet are where the engineering gets ambitious and slightly over-reaches, packing wheels and length into a foot that ends up fighting the model's own balance. There's a single small sticker sheet plus loose sheet-plastic pieces for the flame and ring detailing, and be warned that those plastic sheets can turn up scuffed in the box.
On pieces, the pull here is really the printing and the figures rather than a haul of rare bricks. You get fresh prints on Monkie Kid's helmet and on Monkey King's torso and legs, and brand new head, torso and leg prints for Nezha himself, so three of the six minifigures are unique to this set, alongside Mei, the Nine-Headed Demon and the 100-Eyed Demon. There's a purple Color Stone element and a good spread of fire-colored parts, transparent oranges and reds, that feed the wind fire wheels and the six stud shooters. It's a colorful, print-heavy parts mix in 32 colors that leans into the character rather than handing you a pile of neutral system parts, so treat the value as coming from the figures and the play features rather than the raw brick count.
Fun facts
- 01Nezha is one of the most beloved child deities in Chinese mythology, worshipped as a patron god of children, and his wind fire wheels are said to work as a pair with the left wheel creating wind and the right wheel spewing fire.
- 02The set was designed by John Ho and Xiaodong Wen and belongs to Monkie Kid Season 5, released on June 1, 2024, with a projected retirement in 2026.
- 03In the classic novel Journey to the West, Nezha is a heavenly general who actually fights the Monkey King, so putting both of their minifigures in one box is a nice nod to their tangled history.
- 04According to legend Nezha was reborn from lotus roots after his death and earned the title Third Lotus Prince, which is why lotus and flame motifs follow the character everywhere including this mech.
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