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The Simpsons: Krusty Burger

Springfield's greasiest landmark, stuffed with jokes and, sadly, stickers.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 10352 · 2025

Pieces1,635

Minifigs7

Year2025

Set number10352

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The verdict

The interior is where this one earned its keep with me, because the ball pit, the broken bathroom mirror, and the little Buzz Cola dispenser had me grinning like an idiot.

Seven minifigs, three of them brand new to LEGO, is a genuinely strong lineup for a Simpsons fan. The problem is the price, because at over 200 dollars this is smaller than both the old Kwik-E-Mart and the Simpson House yet costs more, and it leans hard on stickers to sell the gags. If you're building out a Springfield block you'll want it anyway, but go in with clear eyes.

Best for: die-hard Simpsons fans building a Springfield display shelf

The full review

What it is

Krusty Burger is the fast-food joint The Simpsons has been serving up cheerfully undercooked burgers at for decades, and this LEGO® set finally builds it in brick. It's a big deal for two reasons. One, it's only the third proper Springfield building LEGO has ever made, arriving a full ten years after the 2015 Kwik-E-Mart and the 2014 Simpson House. Two, it folds The Simpsons into the grown-up Icons lineup for the first time, so this is aimed squarely at adult fans who grew up quoting the show. At 1,635 pieces you get the restaurant, a drive-thru window, that tall roadside sign, and Homer's clown car parked out front, plus seven minifigs to populate the whole scene.

The catch

Here's where I have to be straight with you, because the value math is genuinely awkward. This set costs a little over 200 dollars, and yet it's physically smaller than both older Springfield builds while asking more money. That stings. The bigger frustration for a lot of builders, me included, is the stickers. So many of the jokes and details that make Krusty Burger feel alive (the menu boards, the signage, the little touches) are printed on stickers rather than proper printed tiles, and stickers age badly and never quite sit straight. The exterior is also a bit flat compared to the wonderfully busy Kwik-E-Mart, and there are some head-scratcher choices, like why Krusty is dressed as a farmer and why Homer's clown car is here at all. None of it ruins the set, but at this price you feel every miss.

Who it's for

So who should actually grab this. If you're a Simpsons person, the kind who already owns the Simpson House and has been waiting a decade for Springfield to grow, this is an easy yes, because it slots right into that shelf and the minifig lineup alone is worth a lot to you. If you're a more general LEGO builder chasing the best value or the most clever engineering for your money, this probably isn't the one, and you'd get more brick and more wow from something else at this price. My honest take is that this set runs on love. Bring the nostalgia and you'll adore it. Come looking for a bargain and you'll leave a little grumpy.

The parts story

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

The build runs around four to five hours across a 268-page manual, and it plays out like assembling a real restaurant one department at a time. You start with the footprint and the dining room, then work through the kitchen with its deep-fat fryer, ice cream machine, and Buzz Cola dispenser, before moving to the counter with cash registers and the overhead menu, the drive-thru window, and finally that cheeky little bathroom with a toilet, sink, hand-drier, and a cracked mirror. The whole building opens from the side and the roof lifts clean off, so nothing you build gets sealed away where you can't enjoy it. It's a friendly, steady build rather than a technical puzzle, more about packing in gags than mastering tricky techniques.

On the parts front the headline is the minifigs. Krusty gets a newly molded head in bright light yellow and a new torso print, and Officer Lou debuts with a fresh medium nougat head and a printed blue torso, while Sideshow Bob and the Squeaky Voiced Teen make their first-ever physical LEGO appearances. Lisa even gets a subtly new red skirt with two center holes instead of one. The roadside sign pole uses the long Technic connector first seen in the 21356 River Steamboat, a nice modern part. The rub, again, is that the printed-piece love mostly went to the figures, leaving the building itself relying on stickers, so the part-count value here is carried by those seven characters more than by the elements.

Fun facts

01This is only the third large-scale Springfield building LEGO has made, landing roughly ten years after the 2015 Kwik-E-Mart and the 2014 Simpson House, and it's the first Simpsons set to join the adult-focused Icons line.
02Sideshow Bob, Officer Lou, and the Squeaky Voiced Teen all make their very first physical LEGO minifigure appearances in this set.
03The kitchen packs in real fast-food gear like a deep-fat fryer, an ice cream machine, and a Buzz Cola dispenser, while the dining side hides a ball pit and a bathroom with a deliberately broken mirror.
04Homer's clown car, a callback to a running gag from the show, is included and parks right out front of the restaurant.