Woodland Mansion Fighting Ring

Building this one moves fast because so much of it is mechanism rather than decoration. You are not laying down courses of brick to build a facade, you are assembling a ring with pivot points, a scoring gauge, and clip-on handles, so the satisfaction comes from watching the parts move rather than watching a wall go up. The Great Hog is the one section that slows you down in a good way, its body has real joints at the legs and head so it can be posed mid-charge, and the printed eye pieces give it more character than the flat sticker treatment a lot of Minecraft mobs get.

The standard minifigure heads on Steve, Garrett, and Henry are the detail that will make longtime Minecraft LEGO collectors sit up, since the theme has almost always used its own blocky head mold and this set breaks from that. The weapons rack and chest bring a couple of small printed accessory pieces that fans of the movie will recognize immediately. It is not a set that hands you rare new molds by the dozen, but what it does include, it uses well, and the fighting ring mechanism itself is genuinely something LEGO Minecraft has not done before.