Bluey

Playground Fun with Bluey

A slide, a swing, and Bluey herself, built small enough for the smallest hands in your house

Brick Rated Score

4.1/5

Set 11201 · 2025

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Year2025

Set number11201

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The verdict

I handed this one to a four year old before I let myself touch it, and that is exactly the point of this set.

It is chunky, forgiving, and built around a scene kids already act out every day, a backyard playground with Bluey and her family close by. It will never impress you with clever engineering because that is not its job. What it does well is give a very young builder a real win, start to finish, without an adult doing the hard parts for them.

Best for: preschoolers and Bluey superfans building their first LEGO set almost entirely on their own

The full review

What it is

I will be straight with you, this is not a set for people who read reviews looking for clever building techniques or a satisfying part count. It is a Bluey set aimed squarely at the show's core audience, kids who are three, four, five years old and want to build the world they already love. What I liked the moment I opened it is how deliberately easy everything is. The pieces are simplified and oversized where it matters, the instructions move in big obvious steps, and there is nothing here that will make a small kid give up and hand it back to a parent.

The catch

The honest caveat is size and time. A hundred and four pieces goes together quickly, closer to a single sitting than a project you return to over a few days. If you are buying this for yourself as a display piece or a shelf build, it will feel slight. And if your child already has a drawer full of bigger LEGO sets, this one will not challenge them the way a Creator or City set would. It is a starter, not a step up.

Who it's for

Where it earns its place is with the exact kid who is watching Bluey right now and has never finished a LEGO set alone. Hand them this box and there is a real chance they finish it themselves, then immediately start playing out backyard games with the finished playground, which is the whole reason this line exists. Skip it if you want piece count for your money or if the builder in your house has already outgrown easy-build sets, in which case look at the bigger Bluey family home sets instead.

The parts story

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

Building this is less about technique and more about handing a small kid a genuine sense of accomplishment. The steps are short, the pieces are grouped in obvious chunks, and there is no sorting through a sea of similar-looking parts the way you get in a normal-scale set. It is built to be finished, not agonized over, and that is the right call for the audience.

The standout parts are the playground pieces themselves, the slide and swing are shaped specifically for this set and read instantly as playground equipment rather than generic LEGO shapes, which matters a lot to a kid who wants the scene to look like the show. The Bluey figures carry the rest of the appeal, since they are the reason this set exists at all, and for a household that watches the show daily that recognizability is worth more than any part count.

Fun facts

01Bluey is an Australian animated preschool show from Ludo Studio that became one of the most streamed kids shows in the world, which is what made it a natural fit for a dedicated LEGO theme
02The Bluey LEGO line was built specifically around younger builders, using simplified, larger-format pieces rather than standard LEGO System scale
03Playground Fun with Bluey is one of the smaller entries in the theme, positioned as an easy entry point next to the larger Bluey family home style sets
04The set recreates one of the most repeated settings in the show itself, since backyard and playground games are a running theme across Bluey episodes