The LEGO Movie

Queen Watevra's Build Whatever Box!

One box, fifteen builds, and a queen who never sits still.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 70825 · 2019

Pieces455

Minifigsn/a

Year2019

Set number70825

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The verdict

I love a set that refuses to be finished, and this one genuinely isn't, not once.

You build Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi, then you take her apart and turn the same 455 pieces into a car, a whale, a dragon, a rocket, a toaster, whatever mood strikes. That trans-clear rainbow head piece is the real star here, it catches light in a way photos never quite capture. This is for the kid (or adult) who gets bored rebuilding the same model twice, not for someone who wants a display piece that stays put on a shelf.

Best for: kids and adult fans who love open-ended, rebuild-it-again creative building over static display models

The full review

What it is

I'll be straight with you, most LEGO sets ask you to build one thing and be happy with it. This one hands you Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi and then dares you to smash her apart into a hammer, a gorilla, a bat, a cello, whatever you're in the mood for. It's the rebuild loop that got me. My first pass through I did the queen, the car, and the whale in one sitting because I kept wanting to see what the same handful of bricks could turn into next.

The catch

Now the honest caveats. At 455 pieces and roughly forty dollars at retail, some of the fifteen alternate builds are genuinely tiny, a few feel more like a quick pose than a proper model, so don't go in expecting fifteen equally substantial builds. There's also no minifigure in the box, which trips people up since so many LEGO Movie sets come with one, here the queen herself is the only figure and she's a brick-built model, not a standard minifig. And a handful of the fun builds live in the companion app rather than the printed instruction booklet, which is a small hunt if you don't know to look.

Who it's for

If you or your kid are the type who gets restless rebuilding the same set over and over, this is exactly the antidote, it rewards fidgety, creative hands. If you want a set that looks impressive parked on a shelf and stays that way, skip it, this one wants to be taken apart.

The parts story

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

Building this one feels less like following a single path and more like being handed a toolbox. The core queen build goes together fast and cleanly, and then the instructions branch out into car, butterfly, hammer, devil, volcano, cello, whale, octopus, gorilla, dinosaur, dragon, bat, rocket, and toaster forms. Nothing here is a marathon build, it's built for short, repeated sessions where you tear down and reassemble rather than one long sit-down project.

The standout piece by far is the trans-clear rainbow head and crown element made for Queen Watevra, it doesn't show up in many other sets and it's the piece everyone comments on first. Beyond that it's a colorful grab bag of basic bricks, plates, and a few curved and wedge pieces that make the alternate forms read clearly as a car or a whale rather than an abstract blob. There's real part-count value here for the price since you're getting a wide, useful mix of colors and shapes rather than a pile of single-purpose pieces, which makes it a decent parts pack for MOC builders even after the official builds get old.

Fun facts

01The 455-piece set can officially be rebuilt into fifteen different forms, including a car, whale, gorilla, dragon, rocket, and toaster, all from the LEGO Movie 2 tie-in wave.
02It was released in December 2018 ahead of the film's February 2019 release and retired around March 2020, giving it a relatively short shelf life before leaving stores.
03The set's rainbow trans-clear head and crown piece was created specifically for Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi and remains one of the more unusual specialty elements to come out of the LEGO Movie 2 lineup.
04Original retail price was 39.99 USD, and secondhand values have swung widely since retirement, with some trackers pricing sealed copies near 35 dollars and others closer to 21 dollars depending on market conditions.