Brickheadz

Spring Festival Mickey Mouse

A little red and gold Mickey who knows exactly how to make an entrance.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 40673 · 2024

Pieces120

Minifigsn/a

Year2024

Set number40673

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The verdict

I love that LEGO keeps giving Mickey a new outfit every year for this Lunar New Year drop, and the red and gold color story on this one is genuinely festive without tipping into gaudy.

It builds fast, it looks sharp on a shelf next to the rest of the Disney BrickHeadz lineup, and the price per piece is fair for the theme. I would not call it essential if you already own two or three of the earlier Chinese New Year BrickHeadz, since the format repeats itself, but if this is your first one or you collect every festival release, it earns its spot.

Best for: Disney BrickHeadz collectors who pick up the Lunar New Year release every year

The full review

What it is

This is Mickey dressed up for the Lunar New Year again, and I have a soft spot for this little sub-line inside BrickHeadz. LEGO has been doing a festival-themed Mickey or Minnie almost every year now, and the costume design team clearly has fun with it. This one puts Mickey in a red and gold outfit with some nice textured detailing that reads as fabric rather than flat brick, and the color combination alone made me smile when I opened the box.

The catch

I will be honest about the ceiling here. BrickHeadz sets are small by design, usually built in fifteen to twenty minutes, and 120 pieces for a single figure like this one means a good chunk of that count goes toward the display base and the oversized head and body blocks rather than intricate engineering. If you are coming to this expecting a complex build session, you will finish it before your tea gets cold. That is the format, not a flaw unique to this set, but it is worth knowing going in.

Who it's for

Get this one if you already collect the Disney Lunar New Year BrickHeadz and want the set to complete your row, or if you are buying a cheerful, easy gift for someone who loves Mickey and doesn't need a challenge. Skip it if you are looking for a substantial building session or if you already have two or three of these festival Mickeys and are feeling the repetition. It is a lovely little display piece, just not a set that reinvents what BrickHeadz can do.

The parts story

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

Building this one is a quick, calm session rather than a puzzle. You start with the display brick base, snap together the oversized square body and head blocks, then spend most of your time adding the costume layers on top, the collar, the sash, and the little accessories that turn a plain BrickHeadz shape into a specific festival look. It is the kind of build you can finish while chatting with someone else in the room, and that is part of the charm.

The pieces that stood out to me are the ones doing double duty on the costume, small curved and printed elements repurposed to suggest fabric folds and trim rather than being molded as one bespoke piece. That is classic BrickHeadz thinking, getting a lot of visual richness out of standard parts rather than new molds. For 120 pieces you are paying mostly for the display experience and the character likeness, not for rare or highly sought after elements, so parts hunters will not find much of note here beyond the color combination itself.

Fun facts

01This set continues LEGO's yearly tradition of releasing a Lunar New Year themed Disney BrickHeadz, usually featuring Mickey or Minnie Mouse in a festival outfit tied to the coming zodiac year.
02BrickHeadz sets use an intentionally simplified, oversized head and body style meant to evoke chibi style collectible figures rather than screen accurate proportions.
03Seasonal Disney BrickHeadz like this one tend to have shorter shelf lives than mainline sets, since they are timed to the Lunar New Year retail window each year.