Unikitty!

Unikingdom Fairground Fun

The whole Unikingdom cast, a working coaster, and more pink than most collections see in a decade.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 41456 · 2018

Pieces515

Minifigs6

Year2018

Set number41456

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The verdict

This was the flagship of the short-lived Unikitty!

range, and honestly it is the one I would grab if I only kept one. You get the entire core cast as brick-built figures plus three rides that actually move, which is rare at this price. It leans very young and very pink, so if that is not your world you can keep scrolling, but for a Unikitty fan it is a genuine little joy.

Best for: Unikitty! fans and younger builders who want the full cast in one box

The full review

What it is

Unikingdom Fairground Fun was the big one in LEGO's 2018 Unikitty! wave, a 515-piece fairground packed with the entire cast of the Cartoon Network show. What got me is how much LEGO fit into a $39.99 box. You build an entrance gate, a spinning chairs ride, two dodgems, a roller coaster with two little cars, and then a whole row of stands (popcorn, cotton candy, ice cream) plus a shop and a restroom. It is busy in the best way, and when it is all laid out it genuinely looks like a tiny carnival that the characters could run around in. For a set aimed squarely at kids and Unikitty fans, it punches above its weight on play value.

The catch

I will be straight with you about who this is not for. The color palette is loud, bright pink, lavender, teal, and it splits the LEGO crowd right down the middle. Some people adore it and some want to set it on fire, and I think you already know which camp you are in. Beyond the color, the rides are charming but mechanically simple. The coaster cars roll, the chairs spin, the dodgems slide, and once you have played with each one a few times there is not a lot of depth for an adult builder. At a bit over $40 the value is fair rather than amazing, and the set retired in December 2019, so sealed copies now run well above retail on the aftermarket if you are hunting one down.

Who it's for

So who should actually get this. If you or a kid in your life loves the show, this is the set, full stop, because it is the only one that hands you the complete core cast in a single box. Younger builders (LEGO says 7 to 12) will get real mileage out of the moving rides and the roleplay. If you are an adult builder chasing clever engineering or a display piece, this is not your set and I would not pretend otherwise. But as a bright, cheerful, character-stuffed play set, it holds up, and it is easily the highlight of the whole Unikitty range.

The parts story

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

Building this is a fast, breezy afternoon rather than a marathon. The rides are the heart of it and each one has a genuinely satisfying little mechanism, the spinning chairs, the rolling dodgems, and the roller coaster with its four track pieces and two motion cars. In between you are snapping together the food stands and the brick-built figures, which keeps the pace varied so it never feels repetitive. It is a good confidence-builder for a younger fan, and even as an adult I found the figure assembly more interesting than I expected.

The figures are where the real parts interest lives. Dr. Fox has the most going on, with new arm pieces, a fresh head element, and double slope wedges standing in for her ears. LEGO also introduced a sturdier head-to-body connection here using an inverted 1x3 plate paired with a small shaft-and-hole plate, a small tweak that makes the characters far less prone to popping apart. And then there is Richard, or Rick to his friends, who is quite literally a printed 1x3 brick floating on clear pieces, exactly like the show. For a heavily printed, color-rich licensed set, the piece count stretches a long way.

Fun facts

01The set includes enough spare parts to build two Unikitty figures with different facial expressions, so you actually get one more figure than LEGO's official photos show.
02Richard the brick is built as a printed 1x3 LEGO brick resting on transparent pieces, recreating the way he hovers in the Cartoon Network show.
03Unikingdom Fairground Fun was the largest set in the entire 2018 Unikitty! retail range and retired in December 2019, after which sealed copies climbed well above the original $39.99 price.