Wicked

Welcome to Emerald City

A tower of trans-green spires that glows on a shelf and hollows out the moment you look inside.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 75684 · 2024

Pieces945

Minifigs5

Year2024

Set number75684

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The verdict

When this thing is finished and catching the light, it really does earn its name, all those trans-green spires and pearl-gold trim glowing like the movie poster.

I fell for it as a display piece before I ever registered the caveats. But it is a play set at heart, the sticker sheet is a proper test of patience, and once you take the food props out the interior sits surprisingly bare. It is for Wicked fans who want Elphaba, Glinda and that green skyline on a shelf, not for builders chasing clever engineering.

Best for: Wicked and Oz superfans who want the green skyline and the five characters together

The full review

What it is

Welcome to Emerald City is the showstopper of LEGO's first Wicked wave, and I understand why it got picked as the flagship. It stands about 39cm tall, a cluster of trans-green spires that LEGO built with a joyfully liberal hand, then dotted with pearl-gold to catch the light. The first time I had it fully assembled and turned it toward a lamp, the whole thing lit up like the film's marketing shots, and I stopped fussing over the little niggles and just enjoyed looking at it. Around the base you get the play features: a tea room, a beauty shop and a toffee apple stand, all the little touches that make it read as a proper Oz destination rather than a plain tower. Add the five characters and it delivers the complete Wicked experience in a single box, which is exactly what a lot of fans of the musical and the movie are after.

The catch

Now for the parts I have to be straight about. This is, at its core, a 9+ play set, and it wears that on its sleeve. The sticker sheet is the first hurdle, because it is transparent, and applying transparent stickers cleanly is fiddly even for grown-up hands. The centrepiece stained-glass window is itself a sticker rather than a printed or built element, and I can picture a nine-year-old getting genuinely annoyed lining that up. The bigger issue only landed for me once I stepped back and really looked: pull the food and props out and the interior sits oddly empty. For 945 pieces there is less actual building substance than the box suggests, because so much of the height comes from open trans-green spires rather than detailed rooms. It looks brilliant, but it does not give you a lot to sink your teeth into.

Who it's for

So who should get it. If you love Wicked or the world of Oz and you want Elphaba, Glinda and that green skyline sitting together on a shelf, this is the set, and honestly the display value alone carries it. It is also a great pick for a younger builder who wants to act out the story, since the play features and five characters are the whole point. If you live for engineering, tricky techniques or a build that keeps surprising you, I would steer you elsewhere, because this one is more about the finished silhouette than the journey there. Buy it for the glow and the characters, go in knowing the interior is thin, and you will be happy with it.

The parts story

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

The build runs about two hours and it is a relaxed one, never technical, mostly stacking and angling all those trans-green spire sections to get the height and the layered skyline shape. It is the kind of session you can do with a drink and a movie on, right up until the sticker sheet, which is where the mood shifts. Those transparent stickers, especially the large stained-glass window, need a steady hand and good patience, and they are the one part of the process I would not call fun.

Where this set earns its keep for parts hunters is the trans-green, which shows up in real quantity here and is exactly the sort of element people buy sets to harvest. The pearl-gold trim scattered through the spires is a nice accent too. The headline piece, though, is Elphaba's brand-new moulded hat-and-wig combo, which captures her uniquely contoured hat and the long braids from the film, paired with a soft cape that billows behind her. It is so specific to the character that it will not migrate into your Harry Potter witches, but as a one-off it is gorgeous. With a part-out value well above the retail price, the pieces stack up better than the sparse interior first suggests.

Fun facts

01The set was designed by LEGO's Wes Talbott and released on 1 October 2024, timed to the first Wicked film.
02All five mini-dolls, Elphaba, Glinda, Fiyero, Madame Morrible and the Wizard, are unique to this set and appear nowhere else in the wave.
03Elphaba's hat here uses a brand-new mould rather than the standard pointy witch's hat LEGO reused for years, including the old LEGO Dimensions version of the character.
04The big central stained-glass window that anchors the tower is not a printed or built element at all, it is a single transparent sticker.