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The Goat Boat

Two goofy brick-built goats towing a Viking longship, with the best Marvel minifigure lineup of the year.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 76208 · 2022

Pieces564

Minifigs5

Year2022

Set number76208

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The verdict

This is the rare licensed Marvel set where I loved the minifigures before I even cared about the vehicle.

All five main characters from Thor: Love and Thunder are in the box, and Jane Foster shows up as a physical minifigure for the very first time. The longship itself is a simple two-hour build and the two goats have famously floppy legs, but for under fifty dollars at retail this was one of the easiest sets of 2022 to recommend. It is retired now, so the value case has shifted, but I still smile every time I look at those silly goat faces.

Best for: Marvel minifigure collectors who want the whole Thor: Love and Thunder cast in one box

The full review

What it is

The Goat Boat is a Viking-inspired longship pulled by two brick-built goats named Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder, loosely lifted from the mythological pair Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjostr that draw Thor's chariot. I will be straight with you: I opened this box for the minifigures, and they did not let me down. Getting all five main characters from Thor: Love and Thunder in a single sub-fifty-dollar set is unusual, and the fact that Jane Foster finally exists as a minifigure here, after being part of the MCU since 2011, made this one feel special. Her winged helm is brand new, she wields Mjolnir, and Thor's gold and blue armour reads beautifully against that red cape.

The catch

The caveats are real, though. The longship is a straightforward vehicle build that takes roughly two to three hours and never tries to be more than it is. If you live for clever engineering and unexpected techniques, there is not much here to keep your hands busy. The goats are the personality of the set, and they are packed with charm thanks to printed faces on curved slopes and heads that turn and tilt, but their legs are floppy and dangly, and that got old for me after the fourth or fifth time I nudged one and watched it collapse into a shrug. It is a real complaint that shows up in nearly every review, so go in expecting it.

Who it's for

If you collect Marvel minifigures, this was close to an automatic yes at retail, and even on the secondary market the fig lineup carries the whole thing. Fans of medieval and Viking LEGO scenes will find the longship makes a decent display prop too, especially away from its Marvel branding. Who should skip it? If you want a technically meaty build or you already have a shelf of Thor figures, the boat alone will not move you. But as a character-first set with a genuinely fun sense of humour, it earns its place, and I would grab a copy now that it has retired if the fig collection matters to you.

The parts story

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

Building this is a relaxed, low-stress afternoon. The longship comes together in recognizable stages, hull first, then the mast and rigging, and it never demands the kind of focus where you are afraid to look away. The goats are the most interesting part of the assembly by far, and watching two piles of ordinary bricks turn into recognizable, individually detailed animals with their own ears and horns is the moment the set won me over, floppy legs and all.

The standout pieces are all about print rather than new molds. LEGO went brick-built on the goats instead of using a molded animal, which was the right call for their scale and expression, and the printed faces on curved slope elements give each goat its own goofy character. Jane Foster's winged helm is the genuinely new element collectors will chase, and the minifigure prints across Thor, King Valkyrie, and Korg are excellent. Part-count value is the quiet win here: 564 pieces at the original price point meant the part-out value alone comfortably exceeded what you paid, which is part of why it has held up so well since retiring.

Fun facts

01Jane Foster had been part of the MCU since 2011, but this 2022 set marked the very first time she appeared as an actual LEGO minifigure.
02The two goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder, are loosely based on Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjostr, the goats that pull Thor's chariot in Norse mythology.
03Including all five main characters from a film in one licensed Marvel set is rare, and reviewers specifically praised LEGO for pulling it off here.
04Both goats are entirely brick-built rather than molded, yet feature printed faces on curved slopes and heads that can turn side to side and lift at the neck.