Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory LEGO Set Announced

LEGO has announced a caller acceptable based connected the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The acceptable depicts the candy wonderland of Wonka’s factory, implicit with the cocoa waterfall and the Wonkatania boat. The acceptable is aimed astatine the 18+ property radical and consists of 2,025 pieces, with 9 minifigures.

The Willy Wonka LEGO acceptable volition beryllium disposable exclusively astatine the LEGO Store starting September 18, for $219.99. It’s not disposable for preorder.

It’s a big, colorful acceptable befitting the root material. It has candy trees, a span implicit the cocoa river, the vessel (the passageway of panic is not included, unfortunately), and the cocoa waterfall. Turning a dial hidden connected the backmost of the acceptable makes the waterfall flow. There’s besides a concealed doorway that opens to Wonka’s office.

The 9 minifigures included are arsenic follows:

• Willy Wonka
• Charlie Bucket
• Grandpa Joe
• Augustus Gloop
• Mike Teavee
• Veruca Salt
• Violet Beauregarde
• 2 Oompa Loompas

This acceptable is portion of the LEGO Ideas program, which allows fans to physique sets of their ain design, and taxable them for voting. Sets that person 10,000 votes moves connected for information to go existent sets. You tin cheque retired our picks for the champion LEGO Ideas sets released truthful far.

This Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory acceptable looks large and would beryllium cleanable for immoderate LEGO adults who person fond memories of watching the movie arsenic a kid. It joins different LEGO sets based connected movies, similar Jaws, Home Alone, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

For much akin coverage, you tin cheque retired each the champion LEGO sets released successful August, arsenic good arsenic our gathering acquisition with the LEGO Arcade Machine, a rumored $1,000 Death Star set, caller LEGO advent calendars for 2025, and tons more.

LEGO Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory acceptable announced, retired September 18. https://t.co/v2SLgrMC0b pic.twitter.com/9QAu9iu92B

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