Tsssss-Boom – Reviewing The LEGO Minecraft The Creeper (21276)

As the LEGO themes go, Minecraft has been a staple in the LEGO brands catalog since 2013. It’s one of mine and my Sons favourite themes to build together, they go hand-in-hand with each other as both are based on blocks and building structures.

Over the last couple of years the sets on offer have slowed slightly, there have been a handful of A Minecraft Movie tie-in sets, with other game-based sets dropping once or twice a year since the theme began. Today we have something slightly different from the world of LEGO, a buildable figure of the infamous Creeper!

The box is in keeping with previous LEGO Minecraft sets, with the blocky green texture and the Minecraft logo. The Creeper is front and centre and looks great hiding in a dark cave entrance. On the back of the box you The Creeper in a different pose along with a few of the play features. Also pictured is a freaky looking Pig, which does have some relevance to The Creeper – as die-hard fans will already know, the Pig model in-game glitched and looked like the one pictured. This in turn spawned the design of The Creeper, and what we know and love (or hate) today.

Inside the box is an instruction manual and 6 numbered bags. Thankfully no stickers as The Creeper is fully brick-built from a ton of tiles and plates.

The Build process is very samey, as in you are constantly placing small 1×1 tiles to create the mosaic-style panels that make up The Creeper. There’s not a great deal to mention in this review as it’s basically a giant mosaic, placing similar sized tiles in varying shades of green.

Overall though it’s an enjoyablr build if you like the sometimes therapeutic placing of small LEGO pieces. I can see why the set has a 10+ age rating as younger fans won’t necessarily struggle with the build but will tire of the repetition. It’s most certainly more for older fans and perhaps should have been an 18+ set, like the LEGO Minecraft The Crafting Table (21265).

Inside The Creeper there is a very basic skeleton, made up of stacked bricks, long plates and a few Technic pins and rods, to give it a somewhat sturdy structure. This is then covered by the plates and tiles we built throughout the set. Inside the head cavity is where you store the smaller brick-built TNT and deformed Pig model, simply pop The Creeper‘s face panel off and you’ll see them tucked away inside the head.

Looking at The Creeper from all sides it does look awesome and it was definitely a LEGO set I wanted to get and make, it will slot into my Son’s LEGO Minecraft display, perhaps even on his gaming desk along side his other LEGO gaming related sets, such as the Piranha Plant, Fortnite Llama and soon Peely Bone.

It’s a great set and for the cost of £34.99 its not too bad. A large percentage of the 664 pieces are 1×1 tiles, although this does make it look like a lot to get through, the way the instructions are laid out the build is flowing and goes by quickly. I think in total it took me around an hour to make, this includes stopping to take photos. I really hope LEGO make more Minecraft Mobs in this buildable style, an Ender Man would be epic!

Thank you for reading our short but sweet, we hope you enjoyed it. Please ask us any questions you may have about the set and we’ll do our best to answer them.