Brickheadz

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures

Four turtles, four shades of green, and a pizza hidden in every belly.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 40878 · 2026

Pieces567

Minifigsn/a

Year2026

Set number40878

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The verdict

This is the TMNT return a lot of us had been waiting years for, and getting all four turtles in one Brickheadz box is exactly the right call.

Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello each land as their own little character instead of four repaints, which is harder to pull off than it sounds when the silhouette is basically a cube with feet. It is not a deep engineering build and the skin tones will spark a fight among purists, but as a shelf lineup it makes me grin every time. If you grew up with the turtles, this one is very easy to say yes to.

Best for: TMNT fans who want the whole team lined up on a shelf

The full review

What it is

The turtles are finally back in LEGO form, and rather than a big playset LEGO went with a Brickheadz four-pack: Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello, all in one box for 39.99 dollars. My first reaction was worry, because four Brickheadz that all start as the same green cube could easily feel like one build you do four times over. What actually happens is more charming than that. Each turtle gets his own shade (dark green for Leo, bright green for Raph, turquoise for Mikey and lime-green for Donatello), his own bandana colour, his own belt knot, and a monogrammed buckle with his initial on it. Those little touches, straight out of the 1987 series, do the heavy lifting of making four near-identical figures read as four distinct brothers. The weapons seal it: katana for Leo, twin sai for Raph, nunchucks for Mikey and Donnie's bo staff, each one holstered or held in a way that fits the character.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the caveats. Brickheadz are static by nature. One pose, one blocky silhouette, no articulation, so the only room a designer has to play is in colour and surface detail, and that means the fourth turtle build holds few surprises once you have done the first three. The colour choices are the other flashpoint. LEGO leaned on the 2003 promotional-art skin tones rather than the punchy 1987 cartoon greens, and plenty of older fans said out loud that they would have preferred the brighter classic look. It is also a LEGO exclusive, so you are paying full retail with no third-party discount to chase. None of this is a dealbreaker, but if you came hoping for a clever engineering puzzle, this is not that kind of set.

Who it's for

So who is this for. If you grew up with the turtles, or you just love a complete team lined up together, this is a genuinely easy purchase and the display payoff is instant. It is aimed at ages 10 and up, and it makes a great shared build for a parent and kid to split the four figures between them. The one hidden gem is that pizza tucked inside each turtle's belly, which is exactly the sort of detail that rewards the people who actually open these up. If you are a hardcore technique builder chasing new parts usage, or you specifically want the 1987 colours, you can probably let this one pass. Everyone else who ever loved Cowabunga is going to want the whole shell-shocked quartet.

The parts story

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

Building this is quick, cheerful and very Brickheadz. You work one turtle at a time, stacking the boxy body, clipping on the shell plate, adding the bandana and the belt, then finishing with the weapon and the eyes. At 567 pieces across four figures that is a comfortable evening, and because each turtle is a self-contained mini-build it is a lovely thing to hand out around a table. The genuine fun is in spotting how the designer, Leonard Bahro, varied the belt knots and holstered each weapon differently so no two turtles are assembled quite the same way.

There are no minifigures here, since the turtles themselves are the brick-built stars, each standing a little over three inches tall. The standout parts are the four different greens LEGO committed to, which is not something you see stocked together often, plus the printed belt buckles carrying each turtle's initial and those correctly coloured eye masks. The weapon elements (katana, sai, nunchucks and bo staff) are handy accessory pieces for anyone building a parts collection, and the hidden pizza tile is the detail everyone photographs. For the price it is a fair haul of useful colours and small printed and accessory pieces.

Fun facts

01The set was designed by Leonard Bahro and released as a LEGO exclusive on April 1, 2026 at 39.99 dollars.
02Each of the four turtles hides a small pizza inside its belly, a nod to the team's famous obsession.
03The monogrammed belt buckles and four-colour bandanas both trace back to the original 1987 animated series, though LEGO used the 2003 promo-art skin tones for the greens.
04Every turtle stands over three inches (8 cm) tall, and the four use four separate shades of green to tell the brothers apart.