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The Goonies: The Walshes' Attic

A dusty little attic that packs the whole movie into one shelf.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 40773 · 2025

Pieces179

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number40773

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The verdict

This one caught me off guard because it is so small and still manages to feel like a proper scene.

It is built as the companion piece to the huge One-Eyed Barnacle ship set, recreating the cluttered attic where the treasure hunt actually begins, and that context is what makes it sing. I would not buy it as a first Goonies set, but if you already love the theme or you grew up with the movie, it is a lovely little shelf addition that costs you almost nothing in space. Just go in knowing it is a companion piece and a promotional one at that, not a standalone showpiece.

Best for: Goonies fans who already own or want the One-Eyed Barnacle ship and want the attic origin scene to go with it

The full review

What it is

I love when a small set still manages to have a point of view, and this one does. The Walshes' Attic takes the opening beat of the movie, the moment Mikey goes digging through boxes and finds the map that kicks off the whole treasure hunt, and turns it into a little diorama you can actually hold in one hand. It is built to sit alongside the big One-Eyed Barnacle ship, and once you see the two together you get why LEGO paired them. The ship is the adventure. This is the spark that starts it.

The catch

I will be honest about the tradeoffs though. This came out as a gift-with-purchase promotional set tied to Goonies releases, which means it was never meant to be a simple retail buy, and tracking one down after the fact can mean paying well above what a 179 piece set would normally go for. On pure piece count and play value, it is a light build, more mood piece than model. If you are judging it purely on pieces per dollar the way you would a mainline set, it will not win that argument.

Who it's for

Get this one if you are already deep enough into the theme that you own or want the big ship, and you want the full story on your shelf rather than just the climax. Skip it if you are looking for your first Goonies set or you want something with real building substance, in which case the ship itself is the better first purchase and this attic scene is the treat you add once you are already in.

What works

Packs real storytelling into a tiny footprint, the attic clutter and trunk sell the treasure-hunt opening scene
Great companion piece for anyone who owns the larger One-Eyed Barnacle set, it fills in the part of the story the big set skips
Quick, satisfying build that a nostalgic fan can finish in one sitting without it feeling like filler

Worth knowing

It is a promotional gift-with-purchase set, not something you can just add to cart whenever you want, so getting one can be a hunt of its own
179 pieces for a single-room vignette means it will feel slight if you are expecting a full standalone display piece
Doesn't work as an entry point to the theme, you really want the ship set first for the scale and the payoff

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The parts story

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

The build itself is short and calm, more about texture than technique. You are stacking crates, boxes, and the kind of attic junk that reads instantly as forgotten storage, then working in the trunk and map elements that anchor the scene to the movie. There is no tricky engineering here, it is a display-first build, and it moves fast enough that you could finish it during a movie rewatch.

What stands out is how much the small parts selection does the storytelling work. The clutter pieces, the worn wood tones, and the little personal touches scattered through the scene are what sell it as an attic rather than a generic box of bricks, and for a 179 piece set that is a real achievement. It is not a set that hands you a rare new mold to brag about, it is a set where the whole is genuinely more charming than the sum of its parts.

Fun facts

01The set recreates the attic scene from The Goonies (1985) where Mikey Walsh first discovers the treasure map that sets off the entire film's plot.
02It was released as a companion piece to LEGO Ideas 21338, The Goonies: One-Eyed Barnacle, the large ship set built around the movie's climax.
03As a promotional gift-with-purchase set, it was distributed alongside qualifying Goonies purchases rather than sold as a standalone item at full retail.
04The Goonies has been a long-requested LEGO Ideas fan project for years before it finally reached shelves, so this attic scene closes a loop many adult fans had been asking for since the platform's early days.