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The Goonies

Hey you guys, the whole treasure hunt and One-Eyed Willy's ship in one box.

4.4/5

Set 21363 · 2025

Pieces2,914

Minifigs12

Year2025

Set number21363

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The verdict

If you grew up on The Goonies, this one's an easy yes, because it packs the booby-trapped caves and the Inferno pirate galleon into a single display-and-play diorama with all twelve characters.

It's a genuinely fun build with clever mechanisms, though at around $329.99 the price stings and a few reviewers grumbled about the boxy bow. Grab it if you love the film or want a big pirate ship with real play value, and skip it if you only want a flawless shelf piece with no fingerprints on it.

Best for: 80s kids who quote The Goonies and want a ship they can actually play with

The full review

What it is

Hey you guys, if that phrase just made you grin, this LEGO® set was basically built for you. 21363 The Goonies is the final LEGO Ideas release of 2025, a 2,914-piece love letter to the 1985 cult classic, and it crams the entire adventure into one box. You get the rocky, booby-trapped tunnel system where the kids dodge death traps, and you get the Inferno, One-Eyed Willy's full pirate galleon, tucked into its own cavern with treasure glinting in the hold. It's essentially two display pieces in one, and it lands twelve minifigures to fill out the whole gang.

The catch

Now the honest part. At around $329.99 (or 269.99 pounds / 299.99 euros), the price is where most people wince, and even reviewers who loved it admitted it feels high for the contents. It's a competitive number for a licensed Ideas set with twelve figures, but nobody's calling it cheap. The other knock is finish. To pack in all those play features, LEGO leaned into playability over a flawless museum look, so a few reviewers felt the display sections lacked polish and coherence. And the ship's bow silhouette reads a little boxy, which one reviewer said pretty much ruined it for them. Your mileage depends on whether you are a shelf purist or someone who wants to actually push the boulder trap.

Who it's for

So who should pull the trigger? If you're a Goonies fan of any stripe, this is a no-brainer, because the nostalgia and the character lineup carry it hard. It's also a great pick if you want a big pirate ship with genuine play value rather than another look-but-don't-touch centerpiece. The whole thing measures a shelf-friendly 62cm long and 36cm high, so it won't eat your entire display. Who should skip it? If you only care about a spotless, screen-accurate exhibition model and the film means nothing to you, your money goes further elsewhere. But for the right person, this one hits every note it's aiming for, and the Brickset community rating of 4.4 out of 5 backs that up.

The parts story

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

The build is genuinely satisfying structurally, and it's smartly split so the cave system and the ship's starboard hull go up side by side. You start with the rocky tunnels, wiring in all the hidden mechanisms as you go: the boulder-dropping trap, the Copper Bones Skeleton Key that pops a trapdoor, and the skeleton organ whose keys break the floor and drop you down a slide toward the octopus from the film's deleted scene. Then the payoff lands, the full pirate galleon revealed in its cavern. There's proper technique on show here, with hinges, reverse builds and plenty of SNOT (studs not on top) work for the hull shaping, so it stays engaging start to finish rather than turning into a repetitive slog.

For parts nerds there's real meat. The set brings five new molds, including Mama Fratelli's beret and hair and Sloth's pirate hat and bandana headpiece, plus the vehicle chassis piece in reddish brown for the first time ever. The figurehead on the bow uses a long wavy hair element that's only appeared in reddish brown twice before, on Scarlet Witch in 76051 and Carina Smyth in 71042, so it's a genuinely rare recolor with a fresh element ID. All twelve figures wear new printed torsos, and most have alternate faces. At roughly 11 cents per piece, it's decent value for a licensed set this loaded with figures.

Fun facts

01The set is based on a fan design by Vaggelis Ntezes (aka Delusion Brick), one of two winners of the LEGO Ideas 'If We Could Turn Back Time' challenge.
02The vehicle chassis piece appears in reddish brown for the very first time here, and the bow figurehead's wavy hair is a recolor last seen back in 2017.
03It was the final LEGO Ideas set of 2025, launching November 1 for Insiders and November 4 for everyone else.
04One trap drops you down a slide to an octopus, a nod to a scene that was actually cut from the theatrical release of the film.