Toruk Makto & Tree of Souls

The build splits cleanly into three jobs. The four minifigs and the Direhorse come first as a warm-up, then you tackle the Tree of Souls, and finally the Toruk, which is the meat of the box. The tree is fairly straightforward foliage work, lots of clipping trans-pink and lavender leaves onto a branching frame. The Toruk is where the fun lives, a proper studs-everywhere creature build with a segmented body, articulated neck and those enormous wings that use large plastic foil sheets stretched over brick armatures. It's satisfying, though the finished bird can be tippy when you pose it, so expect a little fiddling to get it balanced on the stand.

For parts, the wing and tail foil sheets are the headline oddity, glossy and a bit divisive since some folks wanted fabric instead. Beyond that it's a recolor lover's box: trans-pink rods and antennas, mint-colored spiky plant vines making an early appearance in that shade, medium lavender leaves, and a scattering of glow-in-the-dark white elements. The sticker sheet is refreshingly tiny at just five stickers, so nearly everything decorative is printed. On value, 1,212 pieces for $149.99 works out rough for the price-per-part crowd, and a lot of the count goes into small leaf and rod elements. You're paying for that big creature and the parts haul, not a bargain, but the Toruk pieces alone make it interesting to raid later.