Fortnite

Supply Llama

The wide-eyed Fortnite piñata, brick-built with all its loot tucked inside.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 77071 · 2024

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Year2024

Set number77071

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The verdict

This is the goofy blue-and-purple llama piñata from Fortnite, and its terrified little face got me the second the head clicked on.

It works as a display piece and as a toy, because you pour the eight loot items in through a hatch on its back and the side flaps drop them out again. The catch is that no minifigures come in the box and a big chunk of the build is the same fiddly cheese slopes over and over. If you play Fortnite or you just want a cheerful, chunky animal on the shelf, it delivers, but pure engineering fans may find the repetition a slog.

Best for: Fortnite players and anyone who loves a characterful brick-built animal

The full review

What it is

The Supply Llama is the loot piñata everyone who has touched Fortnite knows on sight, and LEGO rebuilt it at a proper display scale of roughly 24cm tall. The first thing that got me was the face. Those terrified round eyes and the wide toothy grin are so silly and so on-model that I actually laughed when I finished the head. It is colourful in exactly the way the in-game llama is, layered blue and medium lavender with saddle detailing, and the texture across the body reads as real piñata fringe rather than a flat brick wall. On top of the looks, there is a genuine play function baked in. You open a hatch on the llama's back, pour the eight loot items inside, and two trap doors on the flanks swing open to spill everything back out. It is a small idea, but it makes the model do something instead of just sitting there.

The catch

I will be straight with you about where it wears thin. The build is around three and a half hours across six numbered bags, and a large portion of that time is spent placing the same small cheese slopes to get the fringed texture. That repetition is the number one thing reviewers and builders flag, and by the third stretch of it your fingertips will agree. Because so many of those parts are repeating cheese wedges and small bows used purely as fill, the part-count value is a touch lower than 691 pieces suggests at 39.99 dollars. And then there is the elephant, or rather the missing llama rider: the set includes no minifigures at all, which feels like a real miss when the whole appeal of Fortnite is the characters. The side flaps also spring open more readily than I would like until the two little locks hold them shut.

Who it's for

Get this one if you play Fortnite, or if you are simply the kind of person who loves a big, characterful animal build with a bit of personality on the shelf. It photographs well, it has a fun party trick, and kids who know the game will light up at it. I would think twice if you build mainly for clever mechanisms and engineering, because the loot-drop is the only real trick here and the rest is patient texture work. And if minifigures are what make a set for you, know going in that there are none.

The parts story

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

Building the Supply Llama is a texture marathon more than a technical puzzle. The frame goes together quickly and cleanly, and then you spend the bulk of your time laying down small sloped tiles in colour bands to build up that shaggy piñata look. When it is done the layering genuinely looks lovely, but getting there asks for patience and steady fingertips, because you are placing a lot of tiny wedges in tight rows. It is relaxing if you enjoy repetitive, meditative building, and a grind if you do not.

The standout for parts fans is the medium lavender. This set delivers a pile of elements recolored into that shade, including 1x1 plates with handle, a 1x2 plate with handle, a 2x2 inverted curve and a 2x2 45-degree slope, which are useful pickups for anyone building in purples. None of the colours are brand new, but the recolor haul is the real draw. The eight printed and moulded loot accessories (the Grappler, Slurp and Slap Juice, Rough Ruby, Back Pack, Good Luck Charm and Dynamite) are a fun bonus, though a fair share of the piece count is repeating cheese slopes and baby bows used as fill, which is why the raw value lands a little softer than the number implies.

Fun facts

01The Supply Llama arrived on 1 October 2024 as part of LEGO's first wave of Fortnite sets, launched alongside the theme's debut.
02Every one of the eight loot accessories stores inside the model, so you can seal the llama up and it becomes a self-contained display piece.
03LEGO designers looked back at their previous brick-built piñatas to work out what to do differently for this llama's fringed texture.
04The colours were matched to the in-game Supply Llama exactly, and none of them are new LEGO colours, though several existing parts appear in fresh medium lavender.