LEGO Ideas has announced its 71st set – 21363 The Goonies, based on the beloved 1985 adventure movie starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin and Ke Huy Quan.
The LEGO Group has unveiled the final design for 21363 The Goonies, the next LEGO Ideas set that will offer a model suited to both play and display. A whopping 12 minifigures offer all of the core characters and, if you want even more action from the 1980s classic, there’s a free bonus set if you buy it early.
LEGO Ideas 21363 The Goonies contains 2,912 pieces, is priced at £269.99 / $329.99 / €299.99 and will launch on November 1 on LEGO.com. If you buy it in the first few days of release, you will get 40773 The Walshes’ Attic for free, which includes an exclusive printed tile featuring The Goonies logo.
The original build was submitted by Vaggelis Ntezes as an entry to the If We Could Turn Back Time challenge, which was centred around 1980s nostalgia. The Goonies was selected as one of two grand prize winners following a fan vote (the recently released 21361 Gremlins: Gizmo was the other selection).
The final set is similar to the proposed project, taking the façade of One-Eyed Willy’s infamous ship, the Inferno, and using the cross sectioned interior to house vignettes of the Goonie’s quest for treasure. There are tons of iconic scenes built into the ship, including the Fratellis’ hideaway, the caves, and One-Eyed Willy’s treasure room waiting at the end.
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Despite being an 18+ set, there are numerous play features that are built into the scenes for the young at heart to join the Goonies on their adventure. The characters can go through the secret fireplace and plunge into the caves; the hanging boulders can drop down on unsuspecting minifigures; Sloth can go sliding down the sails and the Copper Bones Skeleton Key can release the trapdoor. The skeleton organ’s breaking floor and octopus lurking below even make an appearance, having only featured in a deleted scene.
The opposite side of the ship, depicting the façade of the actual vessel, has its fair share of cannon hatches, some gold decoration and a mix of smooth and tiled surfaces for a varied texture. Some light rockwork helps to create a frame for the display and represent the grotto where the Goonies discover the long-lost ship.
The set’s 12 minifigures of course include minifigure versions of the Goonies crew along with the Fratellis and others. While Sean Astin is no stranger to minifigure form thanks to Samwise Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings, this will be Josh Brolin’s first time appearing as a minifigure that isn’t a purple Thanos, and the first appearance of Ke Huy Quan since Shortround came in 7199 The Temple of Doom in 2009. Sloth is the only character from The Goonies to have previously appeared as a minifigure, having featured in a 2017 Level Pack from LEGO Dimensions, and he gets an updated version here complete with a dual moulded element for his bandana and pirate hat.
That means the full crew are Sloth, Chunk, Mikey, Mouth, Brand, Data, Andy, Stef, Mama Fratelli, Francis Fratelli, Jake Fratelli and One-Eyed Willy.
When the set is shown at LEGO Fan Media Days 2025, Senior Model Designer Marina Stampoli leans into the nostalgic feelings that it evokes: “I’m here to take you back to a time when there was no Internet, there were no cell phones. We did our own mixtapes from the radio and some of the coolest movies came out.
“This is One Eyed Willy’s Pirate Ship, aka the Inferno. It’s The Goonies, the movie from 1985. We had our own Goonies team here working on the model. We worked on this together with Markus Rollbühler and Tom Gerardin. Thanks to Vaggelis’ amazing layout, 90% of the movie is spoiled in this set.
“It was mostly based on Vaggelis’s idea, which was very, very clever to kind of have half of it be the ship and then half of it be the caves in front,” Marina says. “But exactly because Vaggelis’ was so good and so solid, it was hard to change the layout. But the layout made sense because it follows the sequence of the movie.
“We had to downscale it, of course, because his submission was huge. We built the base when we started working on it. And it was really, really big. But you know, sometimes when you work digitally, you cannot get the full scale of things, even we can’t. So it was a challenge because we also wanted to add the treasure room, which wasn’t in Vaggelis’ original submission. So it was a challenge to set up the rooms in a way that all the levels and the heights were correct, then you could pass the minifigures through them. But we had a good base to start from.”
She tells Blocks about the trickiest part of the set to create: “Markus helped a lot on that was this front part of the ship. The ship, the side of it, is built on plates, then it’s clicked into place at an angle. So this part was combining curves and angles, it needed to be thin enough so that it had left more room for the caves at the front side. So this was the trickiest part of the build.”
Over the years, these movie sets have inclued more and more minifigures. When you look at early sets in the licensing era of the LEGO Group, they often included just a handful of characters, rarely delivering the full group. Now though, sets like 21363 The Goonies pack out the minifigure roster.
“I mean, the size of the set obviously helps, but with The Goonies, there’s no one that we can really remove,” says LEGO Ideas Design Manager Jordan Scott. “They’re all on the adventure together. So it would be a little weird if we removed one of the cast. So we just had to make it work. So that was the challenge for Marina is like, here’s all the characters. So 12 minifigures, two new elements, plus all the sails and everything you need to make that work. That that was part of the design challenge, to get them in.”
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