Fortnite

Peely Bone

A half-banana, half-skeleton display piece that's weirder and better than it sounds.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 77072 · 2024

Pieces1,414

Minifigsn/a

Year2024

Set number77072

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The verdict

This one is gloriously strange, and I mean that as a compliment.

Peely Bone is a 36cm brick-built figure that's fresh yellow banana down one side and grinning skeleton down the other, and the split-personality build is genuinely clever to put together. The sticking point is the price, because a hundred dollars for one poseable statue with no minifig asks a lot, and the design nudges you toward buying two for the full effect. If you love Fortnite or you just want something odd on your shelf, this set delivers.

Best for: Fortnite fans who want a striking, slightly gruesome display figure

The full review

What it is

Some LEGO® sets you understand at a glance, and Peely Bone is not one of them. It's Fortnite's banana mascot, except this is his spookier alter ego, so one side of the figure is a plump cheerful banana and the other side is stripped back to a bare skeleton with a grinning skull. The whole thing stands about 36cm tall on a little nameplate, and honestly it stops people mid-conversation when they spot it on a shelf. This was the very first Fortnite set to carry an 18+ label, and that badge is there purely for the detail and the slightly gruesome subject, not because anything about it is difficult in a scary way.

The catch

Here's where I have to be straight with you, because the price is the thing everyone catches on. A hundred dollars gets you one figure and no minifigure at all, which stings a little when so many sets at this size throw in a handful of characters. Worse, the design is split right down the middle on purpose, banana front, bones back, and the not-so-subtle implication is that two of these sets would let you build one complete banana Peely and one complete skeleton. That's a two hundred dollar suggestion dressed up as a feature, and plenty of reviewers rolled their eyes at it. Build time is all over the map depending on how carefully you go, with some folks breezing through in under three hours and others taking most of a day picking through the tiny parts. And once it's built, the playability is close to zero. The arms and wrists move, the accessories come off, and that's your lot. This is a statue, full stop.

Who it's for

So who should actually get this. If you play Fortnite, or you have a soft spot for the goofy banana, or you simply like display pieces with a bit of a dark streak, you'll get real joy out of it and the build itself is more rewarding than the price tag suggests. If you're after minifigures, poseability, or anything you'd call a toy, this isn't your set and you'll feel shortchanged. It won over a lot of skeptics slowly, myself included, once the two halves came together and the character really showed up. Go in knowing it's a shelf sculpture and you'll be happy. Go in expecting value-per-piece bargains and you won't.

The parts story

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

The build is a study in contrast, and that's what makes it fun. You work up a solid Technic-reinforced core near the top of the torso, then dress the two sides completely differently. The banana half is a warm run of yellow straight and curved slopes laid over a SNOT (studs-not-on-top) assembly, all smooth tiles and rounded bricks that hide every stud so the surface reads like real fruit skin. Flip to the skeleton half and you're fitting new curved bricks into a proper skull shape seated on a dividing brown plate, with ribs and bone detail built out below. Pacing is steady rather than repetitive, and because it's a figure you keep seeing the character emerge as you go, which keeps you hooked through the fiddlier small-part stages.

For parts people there's real interest here. The set runs 1,414 pieces across 28 colors and roughly 520 unique part-and-color combinations, with a generous 65 spares, and notably there are no stickers, so every printed or shaped element is molded. The standout is a hinge brick that appears in yellow for the first time ever in this set, which is the kind of thing recolor hunters get excited about. You also get a big haul of yellow curved slopes and a pile of small skeletal white elements that are handy for MOC builders. With no minifig eating into the budget, nearly all those pieces go straight into the model, so the part-count value is better than the sticker price first suggests.

Fun facts

01This was the very first LEGO Fortnite set to carry an 18+ rating, applied purely for the detailed and slightly macabre subject rather than any build difficulty.
02Fortnite's Peely was dreamed up by Donald Mustard partly to tease his banana-hating brother Chad, and the character debuted as a Chapter 1 Season 8 outfit in early 2019.
03The Peely Bone variant first appeared during Fortnite's Halloween Fortnitemares event, which is why he's a banana on one side and a skeleton on the other.
04The set includes a first-ever yellow version of a specific hinge brick, a genuine parts milestone that recolor collectors clocked immediately.