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Over the Moon with Pharrell Williams

A black shuttle riding a rainbow, and a build like nothing else LEGO has tried.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 10391 · 2024

Pieces966

Minifigs2

Year2024

Set number10391

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The verdict

This one caught me completely off guard.

It's a sleek black space shuttle lifting off on a curved rainbow jet stream, and it genuinely does not read as LEGO on a shelf, which I mean as a compliment. The build is quick and the price stings a little for what you get, so go in for the sculpture and the head abacus, not for hours of engineering. If you loved the Piece by Piece film or you just want a display piece with real feeling behind it, this will make you smile every time you walk past it.

Best for: display builders who want something colorful and unusual on the shelf

The full review

What it is

The first thing you notice about this LEGO® set is that it does not look like a normal LEGO box on a shelf. It's a glossy black space shuttle caught mid-launch, tilted upward, and riding a great curving arc of rainbow color that stands in for the jet stream. The whole thing tells a little story about imagination lifting you off the ground, and it comes from Pharrell Williams and his 2024 biopic Piece by Piece, which is the film that was rendered entirely in LEGO. So this is a set with a real point of view, and honestly that's rare. Most display models want to look accurate. This one wants to make you feel something, and it mostly pulls it off.

The catch

Now for the part I have to be straight with you about, because the reviewers all landed in the same place and so did I. The value is the sore spot. You're looking at roughly 110 dollars for 966 pieces, and a good chunk of those pieces are the small heads and tiles that make up the second build, so the shuttle and jet stream themselves aren't giant. The build also moves fast, about an hour start to finish, which is lovely if you want a relaxed evening and less lovely if you were hoping to lose a whole weekend to it. And because it's a sculpture rather than a playset, there are no functions, no play features, nothing to fiddle with once it's done. You build it, you pose it, you admire it. That's the deal.

Who it's for

So who should grab this one. If you're a display person who wants color and personality on the shelf instead of another gray spaceship, this is an easy yes, and the head abacus alone is a genuinely thoughtful piece to have sitting on a desk. If you loved the film or you connect with what Pharrell was going for, the price fades into the background pretty quickly. But if you build for the joy of the build itself, the clever techniques, the hours of it, this short and pricey set will leave you wanting more, and I'd tell you to wait for a discount before jumping in. It's now retired, having run from September 2024 to the end of 2025, so the deals are getting scarcer, which is worth knowing before you decide.

The parts story

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

The build splits into two very different halves. First you make the shuttle and its stand, and this is where the real cleverness lives, because the shuttle has to look like it's genuinely blasting upward while balanced on a swoosh of color. The rainbow jet stream is built in stacked bands that fan out and curve, and getting that sense of motion out of static bricks is the satisfying bit. Then you switch gears entirely and build the head abacus, which is a frame holding rows of minifigure heads you can slide back and forth. It's repetitive, sure, but it's a calm, meditative kind of repetitive, and the finished object is oddly charming.

For parts people there's real substance here. Forty-nine minifigure heads come in the box, around thirty of them created specifically for this set, and they cover seven skin tones, the widest range LEGO has ever included in a single product, including dark orange tones you rarely see in the System line and one head printed with a lip scar in the position of a cleft lip repair. On top of that you get titanium metallic helmets, which are a fun and useful recolor, plus new printed elements like a white 2x2 round tile with a rocket outline and a black 1x4 brick reading ATLANTIS APPTS. The two minifigs, Pharrell and his wife Helen Lasichanh, wear those titanium spacesuits with printed logos front and back, and Pharrell keeps his red cap. It's a genuinely generous parts haul for anyone who builds their own scenes.

Fun facts

01The set ties in to Pharrell's 2024 biopic Piece by Piece, a film about his life told entirely through LEGO animation.
02Its head abacus holds 49 minifigure heads across seven skin tones, the widest range of skin tones LEGO has ever put in one set.
03One of the new heads is printed with a lip scar in the spot of a cleft lip repair, a quiet nod to real self-expression.
04The colorful jet stream isn't just decoration, it's meant to represent imagination and creativity fueling your way upward.