Pigsy's Noodle Tank
A tracked mech shaped like a giant noodle bowl, and yes, it is exactly as fun as that sounds.
Brick Rated Score
Set 80026 · 2021
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The whole thing is a war machine built around Pigsy's love of food, and the moment I understood that the hull is literally a bowl of noodles I was sold.
It is one of the more imaginative builds Monkie Kid ever put out, with a pink pig-snout gatling gun, chopstick weapons and a fridge that fires noodle dishes. It is not perfect (a few food props just sit loose and fall out), but the personality carries it. If you want a LEGO vehicle with genuine charm rather than another grey spaceship, this is a joy.
Best for: builders who love oddball, characterful vehicles with a sense of humor
What it is
Pigsy's Noodle Tank is what happens when a LEGO designer takes a food-obsessed character completely seriously and builds him a war machine out of dinner. The hull is a giant noodle bowl on tank tracks, topped with a pink gatling gun shaped like a pig snout, two detachable chopstick weapons and a red rake at the front that lifts and drops as you roll it along. The first time it clicked that the entire vehicle is a bowl of noodles, I laughed out loud. Reviewers have compared its imagination to the first wave of LEGO Movie sets, and honestly that is fair. This is the kind of set that reminds you LEGO vehicles do not have to be sensible to be great.
The catch
I will be straight with you about the rough edges, because they are real. Several of the food props are just placed loosely into the pot and frying pan with no stud or clip to secure them, so the fried egg and rice ball fall out the moment you tilt anything. It is a small thing, but on a set built entirely around food it stings a little. The white round swirl piece meant to be noodles also causes confusion (more than one person has looked at it and seen ice cream), and a tan recolor would have sold the effect far better. And at 59.99 dollars new for 662 pieces, the value was fair rather than generous, especially now that it has retired and secondary prices have pushed north of that.
Who it's for
So who is this for. If you collect Monkie Kid, or you simply love vehicles with real character and a streak of silliness, you will adore it and the play features hold up well for actual kids. The four minifigures alone (Pigsy, Mr. Tang, Pan and Lee in his panda costume) give you a proper little scene. If you are chasing display-piece elegance or a purely efficient parts-per-dollar haul, this is not that set, and you can safely skip it. But for charm and originality, it earns its place, and it is one of the sweeter oddballs in the theme's back catalogue.
The parts story
What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.
Building it is a treat because the bowl hull uses a proper technique rather than brute force. A stack of familiar parts creates a convincing traditional noodle bowl, except it is assembled upside down, then a neat little trick flips the whole assembly back to studs-on-top. That inversion is the highlight of the build and the sort of thing you will want to show off once you understand how it works. The rest of the tank comes together quickly, with the kitchen, fridge shooter and weapon mounts adding constant little payoffs along the way.
The standout elements are the printed pieces and the food. You get a spread of food parts (bao, eggs, a rice ball, noodle dishes) plus the pig-snout rapid shooter that gives the gatling gun its personality. The minifigures carry the real value here: all four have dual-sided torso prints, three have dual-sided heads, and Lee arrives in a full black-and-white panda mascot suit complete with skates, a genuinely fun and unusual figure. For parts, the food and character prints are the draw more than any single rare mold, so treat it as a play-and-display set rather than a parts pack.
Fun facts
- 01This was the fifth appearance of Pigsy as a minifigure, and he reuses the same head print seen on every previous version.
- 02The set retired in December 2022, and sealed copies have since traded well above the original 59.99 dollar retail price.
- 03Lee, the panda-costumed mascot, had appeared once before in 80011 Red Son's Inferno Truck.
- 04The fridge on the tank is a hidden disc shooter that fires out little noodle dishes topped with a fried egg.
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