Minecraft

The Pig House

A blocky pig with a Creeper hiding inside and a roof that blows the whole thing apart on command.

Brick Rated Score

4.1/5

Set 21170 · 2021

Pieces490

Minifigs2

Year2021

Set number21170

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The verdict

I love a set that has a joke built right into the engineering, and this one does.

You build a chunky pink pig, and the second you find the trigger, the whole structure detonates into a scattered pile of bricks with a satisfying clatter. That single mechanism turns a simple farmhouse build into something you actually want to hand a kid and say go on, try it. It is not a technical showpiece, it is a toy that happens to be made of LEGO, and once I stopped judging it against the big licensed sets, I appreciated it a lot more for what it is.

Best for: kids around 8 who want a Minecraft toy they can smash and rebuild, not display

The full review

What it is

The Pig House is exactly what it sounds like, a blocky pink pig you build brick by brick, and inside its belly sits a little house with a bed, some crops, and a Creeper waiting to cause trouble. Alex and two pig figures round out the cast, and for a set at this price point that is a genuinely good haul of characters. What sold me on it was the play pattern rather than the parts. This is a set built around a verb, blow it up, and that verb is fun every single time a kid pulls the lever and watches the whole pig collapse into a pile of bricks on the table.

The catch

I will be honest about what this is not. It is not a display piece, and if you are coming from AFOL sets with clever part usage and clean lines, you will find the build fast and the piece count padded with a lot of plain pink and green brick. The explosion mechanism is clever the first few times, but some builders have noted the connections get looser with repeated detonations, so do not expect it to snap back together with the same crisp click forever. At 490 pieces for fifty dollars it sits in fair territory, not a bargain, not a ripoff.

Who it's for

Get this one for a Minecraft-obsessed kid who wants a toy they can actually play rough with, not a shelf piece. If you are buying purely for build satisfaction or minifigure value beyond the theme, look elsewhere in the Minecraft line. For the intended audience, a kid who wants to build something and then gleefully destroy it, it does exactly what it promises.

The parts story

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

Building The Pig House is quick and straightforward, more assembly than puzzle. You are stacking plates and bricks into a rounded pig shape, snapping on ears and a curly tail, then tucking a tiny interior room with a bed and crop patch inside the belly. The head section detaches as its own module, which adds a little bit of engineering interest and gives kids a reason to rearrange the set after the first build.

The real standout is the explosion function tucked into the body, a spring-loaded release that sends the whole pig flying apart in one motion. There are no rare or printed pieces to hunt for here, the value is in the two pig figures and the Alex and Creeper minifigures rather than element rarity. It reads as a toy-first set where the piece count buys you play value and character count rather than clever new parts.

Fun facts

01The Pig House was released in January 2021 and officially retired in December 2023, giving it just under three years on shelves.
02It holds a 4.3 out of 5 average rating from more than 50 Brickset reviewers, a solid score for a lower-price Minecraft set.
03The set includes two separate pig figures alongside the human minifigures, giving it more distinct characters than many sets in its price bracket.
04Since retirement its secondhand value has climbed a bit above its original fifty dollar retail price, per BrickEconomy tracking.