Vibe City Concert
A loud, glittery part pack in disguise, if you can stomach the price.
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Verdict
The colors are what got me here, teal and lavender and transparent purple all crammed onto one stage, and honestly it looks like a candy store threw up in the best possible way.
Five figures for a set this size is generous, and the water slides and star tiles are lovely things to have in a parts drawer. I'll be straight with you though, the sixty dollar price tag stung at retail, and the soundbooth half of the build is a bit flat next to the flashy stage. Get it if the Trolls colors make your heart do something. Skip it if you want a build that challenges you.
Best forcolor-hungry parts hoarders and Trolls-loving young builders
The build and parts
What it is
This is the big showpiece of the Trolls: World Tour wave, a concert stage in the middle of Vibe City, and the first time I saw it built I genuinely grinned. It is unashamedly loud. Rotating platforms, slides, glittery flora, and a color palette that runs from bright yellow through teal to transparent purple, all fighting for your attention at once. There is a soundbooth to one side, a stage with instruments on the other, and five little Trolls to fill it with, and the whole thing reads more like a toy playset than a display piece, which is exactly what it is meant to be.
The catch
Now for the part that gave me pause. At its sixty dollar launch price this was never cheap for roughly five hundred pieces, and the value really lived in the figures and the color selection rather than the structure itself. The build leans on straightforward brick stacking with the odd sideways technique, so a seasoned builder will breeze through it without ever feeling stretched. The soundbooth in particular comes out a little bland compared to the fussed-over stage, and a few reviewers grumbled that the shiny new water slides only turn up in tiny numbers. If you were hoping for engineering to chew on, this is not that set.
Who it's for
So who ends up happy here. If you are buying for a young Trolls fan, or you are one yourself, this is a joy, the accessories alone (keyboard, two guitars, tuba, trumpet, microphones) turn it into an afternoon of role play. And if you are a parts person who lives for unusual colors, the teal and lavender and transparent bits are genuinely worth the outlay, especially now it has retired and settled into secondhand pricing. The one person I would steer away is the builder who wants a clever, satisfying assembly. This set wants to be played with, not admired for its techniques.
The parts story
What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.
Building it is quick and cheerful rather than taxing. You stack bright bricks, clip on the occasional sideways panel, and the stage takes shape fast, with rotating platforms and slides that give little hands something to fiddle with. The stickers are the glittery kind that are weirdly hypnotic to apply, and the instruments come together as satisfying little sub-builds. It is the sort of set you finish with a smile rather than a sense of accomplishment, and that is completely fine for what it is trying to be.
The real reason to hunt this one down is the color pile. There are new-for-2020 recolors in teal, including round tubes and star tiles, plus medium lavender corner bricks in surprising quantity for a set this size, and both transparent and solid purple elements. The curved and straight water slide tubes in transparent light blue debuted in 2020 too, though only a handful appear. Poppy's angular short skirt in bright yellow is a reusable hip piece, Branch comes in a magenta vest with silver sunglasses, and there is even a printed tile borrowed from a 2019 Minecraft set. As a parts pack for anyone building in bright candy colors, it punches above its structure.
Fun facts
- 01Cooper in this set is a Funk Troll, and the transparent purple lightning accessory represents the Funk string, one of the six magical guitar strings that power each Troll tribe's music in the film.
- 02All five minifigures are unique to this set, making it the most efficient single box for collecting the World Tour cast.
- 03Released in August 2020 and retired by July 2021, it had one of the shorter shelf lives in the theme, and secondhand values have since climbed above its original RRP.
