D&D General Official Lego Set for Dungeons & Dragons Coming Soon

Lego announced the release of the officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons build set Dragon’s Keep: Journey’s End.

The 3,745 piece set includes a partially collapsed tower, a castle wall, and a tavern with removable roof. For characters, the set has six minifigures for a Dwarf Cleric, Gnome Fighter, Orc Rogue, Elf Wizard, and an NPC Dragonborn and Innkeeper. You’ll also build models of Cinderhowl the Red Dragon (who can also be perched on top of the tower) plus a beholder, a displacer beast, and an owlbear.

A free adventure will also be available from D&D Beyond and the Lego website on April 1st as a digital download making use of the terrain. To celebrate the release, Lego will host a live stream of the adventure with Anjali Bhimani (Ms. Marvel, Overwatch 2), Ginny Di (YouTuber and cosplayer), Luis Carazo (Candela Obscura, Outbreak: Undead Rag & Bone), Jordon Scott (LEGO Designer), and Lucas Bolt (designer of this set, see below) on April 6, 2024, at 12 noon Eastern.

The set was designed by Lucas Bolt aka BoltBuildz as part of the Lego Ideas program in a contest launched in 2022. The winner was announced in January 2023 with a preview of the set. As part of the contest, Bolt will receive 1% of net sales of the product, complimentary copies, a D&D prize package, and other considerations.

The set will be available for sale starting on April 4, 2024, for a retail price of $359.99.

 

[wedgeski]

This doesn't look like my kind of build, and the cost is about what I'd expect. The cost of Lego, for me, is what I pay on the day less what I'll get for it on eBay about a year later, when the set has had its time in the sun and needs to make way for something new. Lego keeps its value extraordinarily well, especially if you keep the box and manual in good condition. I always expect to get around half my money back.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

As mentioned, even with the expense, Lego is good value.

I feel like we're kind of gaslighting ourselves on this.

Lego can be good value, if you pass it on generationally (because it does last - and mostly the new blocks seem to be similar quality/hardness to older ones), and especially when we're talking about the more generic sets, which are less overpriced, but the prices for special themed or merchandised sets are still far, far higher than makes sense, especially if they're going to be used as display pieces, rather than actually played with and reused generationally.

But it's what the market will bear, and Lego's primary market is now middle-middle-through-upper-middle-class families with significant disposable income, rather than the broader market it aimed at in say, the 1980s. It's also now aimed heavily at adults who grew up with Lego, rather than kids. Even this set is listed as "18+" (I'm told the age ratings above about 6 are pure marketing though, which makes sense - I was working with Technic models claiming they were for like 14+ or 16+ when I was 8 with no issues, and the rating definitely made me want them more).

All that said, it is a pretty fantastic set, and interestingly displays better colour-sense than a lot of merchandised/branded Lego. The beholder is precious and the dragonborn is hilarious.

 

[Yaarel]

Ages 18+ ??? now thats hilarious

For real? How?

I grew up playing Lego, since the age of 6.

 

[Yaarel]

Lego is an educational toy, teaching spacial relationships, structural engineering, puzzle solving, art, and creativity.

I can see many parents making an effort for their kids to have Legos.

 

[Cadence]

Feels like they really should have split it into three sets. A mini-fig set with the adventurers called the PHB, the one with the buildings and a few townsfolk called the DMG, and the one with the dragon and any villain mini figs called the MM.

Edit: Or maybe just had a cheap poster of it called TTRPG and call the big huge actual set VTT. ;-)

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

$350+ LLLLLOOOOOOLLLLLL

We had a collector's edition of Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer at the toy store where I worked and we sold it for $1500

It's over 4 feet long when assembled. I forget how many pieces it was - probably around 4k.

 

[GrimCo]

There are some pretty expensive sets. Millenium Falcon is 850 euros, Venator is 650. Death star was 700 euros back in 2016-17. So yeah, big lego sets tend to be pretty expensive if you use them as display pieces. But as generational toys, they hold their value. Personally, most of my friends still have their old chilhood sets, but now their kids are playing with them.

 

[Parmandur]

Feels like they really should have split it into three sets. A mini-fig set with the adventurers called the PHB, the one with the buildings and a few townsfolk called the DMG, and the one with the dragon and any villain mini figs called the MM.

Edit: Or maybe just had a cheap poster of it called TTRPG and call the big huge actual set VTT. ;-)

They actually do have a seperate group of D&D mini figs coming out this year, too.

 

[Cadence]

They actually do have a seperate group of D&D mini figs coming out this year, too.

Saw that. We will probably get those to use as minis when appropriate for our weekly game.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

But as generational toys, they hold their value. Personally, most of my friends still have their old chilhood sets, but now their kids are playing with them.

Colour me skeptical of this.

I certainly believe your friends still have their old childhood Lego blocks, and I believe their kids are playing with them, but I don't really believe they'll have successfully maintained them as "sets". Creative kids playing with Lego extremely rapidly destroy any attempt to keep something as a "set". A Lego set is either a collector's piece which is not played with meaningfully, or becomes "real Lego" and is broken down into its constituent parts. And for the latter, the pricing on this sort of thing isn't really reasonable for anyone outside of the top 10-15% of earners in the US, and a smaller percentage in other countries. I'm not suggesting Lego need to lower the price on a clear luxury item like this, but if you're purchasing merchandised/branded Lego sets on the basis of "generational toys", especially if you're trying to keep them together as sets, rather than letting them become blocks, I think you're kind of gaslighting yourself.