Sonic The Hedgehog

Sonic’s Campfire Clash

A cheap ticket into the pod launcher fun, but a very small one.

Brick Rated Score

3.4/5

Set 77001 · 2025

Pieces177

Minifigs1

Year2025

Set number77001

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The verdict

I like what this set is trying to do more than I like what it actually gives you.

It takes the pod launcher gimmick that's been running through the Sonic line and shrinks it down to a nineteen dollar impulse buy, which is a genuinely nice idea for a kid who wants in on the smashing action without asking a parent for fifty dollars. But the build itself is over almost as soon as it starts, and the one included minifigure means there's no clash of characters to actually stage, just a campfire and a launcher. I'd hand this to a seven or eight year old who's obsessed with the games and call it a win. I would not hand it to an adult fan expecting a satisfying afternoon.

Best for: younger Sonic game fans getting their first LEGO Sonic set on a tight budget

The full review

What it is

Sonic's Campfire Clash is 177 pieces built around one job: give you a campfire scene and a speed sphere launcher you can fire at something. That's it, that's the set. Designer Isaac Snyder clearly built this as the entry point into 2025's wave of Sonic sets, the one priced low enough that a kid can ask for it on a whim and actually get a yes. I appreciate that instinct. Not every set needs to be a display piece, some just need to get a launcher into small hands fast.

The catch

Where it comes up short is scale. Brickset flagged it as the smallest set in the whole line to include the pod launcher mechanic, and once you've built the campfire and clicked the launcher together, there isn't much model left to admire. One minifigure means the box art promise of a clash doesn't really land on the table, you're mostly staging a solo scene rather than a fight. That gap between what the name suggests and what you get is exactly why the expert score at BrickPicker came in rough (55 out of 100, a skip it call) even while everyday owners were rating it close to full marks. Both things can be true: fun for the kid firing the launcher, thin for the adult evaluating the model.

Who it's for

Get this one if you've got a young Sonic Adventure 2 fan who wants the Chaos Emerald and Gold Rings pieces in hand and doesn't need a big build to stay interested. Skip it if you're an adult collector hoping for a proper diorama, this is a stocking stuffer, not a showpiece, and it's priced and sized exactly like one.

The parts story

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

There isn't much of a build here, and that's sort of the point. You put together a small campfire area, click the speed sphere launcher into place, and you're done well before you've settled into a rhythm. It's the kind of build a seven year old can finish start to finish without help, which is clearly the audience LEGO had in mind.

The pieces worth talking about are the licensed accessories rather than any clever technique: the Chaos Emerald piece and the three Gold Rings are straight pulls from the Sonic Adventure 2 world, and they're the parts a game fan will actually want to hold up and recognize. At around eleven cents a piece it's not a value play for part collectors, you're paying for the license and the launcher gimmick, not piece count.

Fun facts

01Brickset specifically called out 77001 as the smallest set in LEGO's lineup to include the pod launcher play feature, making it the cheapest way to get that mechanic.
02The set bundles in a Chaos Emerald piece and three Gold Rings, both direct references to Sonic Adventure 2 rather than generic Sonic iconography.
03It was designed by Isaac Snyder and released January 1, 2025 at $19.99 / £17.99, positioning it as a budget entry point into that year's Sonic wave.
04Despite a rough expert score from BrickPicker (55/100, a skip it verdict), everyday owners on the same site rated it 4.8 out of 5, a pretty wide gap between critic and owner opinion.