On April 7, 2022, Epic Games and The Lego Group announced they were partnering to create a shared world aimed at young audiences. This came to fruition on December 7, 2023, when Fortnite launched a new game mode, Lego Fortnite, "the ultimate survival crafting videogame adventure" (later renamed LEGO® Fortnite® Odyssey when a second mode was introduced).
Players explore diverse ecosystems where creativity and mischief click - from the relaxing Dry Valley oasis, to the Frostlands' snowy peaks, to the enchanted jungle of Lost Isles. They'll push the limits of physics by building surreal contraptions and homesteads. But while recruiting villagers, taming animals and playing with up to seven friends - beware! Dark forces may be roaming the land too...
It took a while, but Lego Fortnite eventually led to Lego Fortnite sets. There are several different styles: large character models, locations from the real game, or Odyssey sets. Set 77075, Peely & Sparkplug's Camp, is one of the latter. It's one of the smaller sets available, with only one set being cheaper. Per the marketing copy, "the playset replicates the first challenges that players face in the LEGO® Fortnite® Odyssey video game." Accurate!
It's been years since I've played with Legos, so it was a surprise to find the numbered bags inside the box are now paper rather than plastic.
How nice! Anyway, we begin with the Crafting Bench, the first thing you build after starting your world. (See, Lego Fortnite is basically just Minecraft, with you running around the map to harvest materials and then building various things with them - which, to be fair, was already a preexisting Fortnite mechanic, so it's not like the idea was purely stolen from another popular game.) The Crafting Bench can be upgraded into different forms, but this is the starting version. Sort of.
The point of Lego Fortnite is, obviously, that everything is built out of Lego. So with that in mind, it should be super easy
for real-life Lego sets to match what's seen in the game, right? It's the same thing The Lego Movie did, making all its cinematic models out of regularly available bricks, so then when there were toys, they could just copy that easily. So why is the physical workbench not the same as the digital workbench? This is about half the size it should be. It's a cute bench, made of light tan and green pieces, with some different shades of grey and a few bright yellow bricks. It's designed like a table saw, with a spinning gear and a hinged blade guard. The toy is recognizable as what it is, but it's not fully accurate to the game.
In addition to the Crafting Bench, Bag #1 contains the parts to build two minifigures.
A banana of few words and countless adventures. Peely is a loyal
and flavorful friend who can whip up excitement but always keep things smooth.
Peely! Yes, this set includes Peely! Okay, it's called "Peely & Sparkplug's Camp," so it would be weirder if he wasn't included, but it's not like I read the name on the box. Peely is done as a regular minifig body, with a large new piece that slips over the torso in lieu of a standard head. His big, beautiful eyes and smiling mouth are printed on the front, and a blue sticker on the back. They even did some white where his peel is coming down! The tip of the banana is painted brown, as are his toes and knees.
Skeletons come out when the sun goes down in your LEGO
Fortnite Odyssey world. They're a step up in difficulty from the lowly spider.
The Skeleton minifig is the same basic thing they've been making for years, because there's no reason to go back to scratch for this. Also, that's the model they use in the game. For the same reason. According to the instruction booklet, the skeleton is armed with a pickaxe, while Peely got a sword and a bundle of dynamite. All told, building everything in Bag #1 took about 15 minutes, and so now we move on to Bag #2. Which has a smaller bag also labelled #2 inside it. Two-ception. BWONG!
Loot Llama! Probably the iconic symbol of Fortnite, Loot Llamas are pinatas full of goodies. They're usually just objects... except for that season when they were alive and would run away from you.
They serve the same purpose in Lego Fortnite, and are just as cute there as they are in the real game.
The llama is built enitrely from regular Lego blocks - well, special blocks, but nothing bespoke, no minifigure parts, nothing like that. At more than 3" tall, it absolutely dwarfs the characters in the set, but that's accurate to game mode. It's done in really nice shades of purple and blue, and actually gets a little bit of articulation thanks to the way it's built: all four legs, the neck, head, ears, and mouth. Neat! Technically the tan blocks on the rear sides, which stand in for the saddlebags, should be pieces that attach to the hinges directly above them, rather than being built in place, ar at the very least should be the piece that Bricklink identifies as "Modified 1 x 2 with Door Rail" (32028).
As you explore your Lego Fotnite world, you'll find that you're not the first person to live there. You're able to discover
various abandonned houses and ancient ruins, so we get to build a pile of decaying old stones barely stacked on top of one another. It's a quick build, since the lighter green bit of grass is all one tiered plate, and the arch in the back is a single piece as well. There's a sprig of light green grass growing on one side, and the remnants of a collapsed wall on the other. Fittingly, several of the pieces are only held together by one or two studs, meaning these ruins can fall apart much more easily than you'd expect from a Lego set.
Sitting up on top of the arch is a spider, which is probably the first enemy you'll meet when playing the game.
Spiders are a pesky, leaping menace that you'll first encounter in the very earliest hours of your adventure. They're weak, but so are you when you start, so they require some defense mixed with offense.
There's one more build here in Bag #2, a campfire. Lego Odyssey
has a day/night cycle, and night is more dangerous, so having a fire can help keep you alive. This is a basic build, a circular base with some flat 1x1 round "stones." There's a black octagonal frame to which the "wood" clips. The flames are created by translucent orange and yellow cones, and a pair of feathers in translucent orange to finish the look. The fire and the ruins each took about five minutes to put together, while the llama took longer than both of them combined.
Bag #3 begins with our third minifig in this set, Sparkplug.
If it ain't broke, she ain't interested. Sparkplug is a dedicated tinkerer, a thoughtful engineer, and a lover of impossible challenges. No matter
what rolls into the shop, she's geared up find a fix and make things right.
Sparkplug may not be as iconic a skin as Peely, but she's been in the game even longer than he has. She's a cute mechanic girl wearing sleeveless blue overalls, an orange shirt, and a backwards red baseball cap over her slightly shaggy hair. When Lego Fortnite launched, over 1,200 skins had Lego styles, with hundreds more added since, and it's always cool to see new pieces like that hair/hat block show up on the models. The front and back of her outfit are printed with plenty of details, and they even did the tattoo on her left shoulder! So, wait,
they can do a tattoo on a curved piece like an arm, but they can't do the caution tape wrapped around her thigh on the outside of a flat leg? That seems counterintuitive. Sparkplug is armed with an axe (the first tool you build in the game) and carrying a torch, which will keep you safe(r) at night even when you can't get back to your campfire. Plus, the mini gets a double-sided head, with one happy face and one angry face.
The rest of Bag #3 only takes a couple minutes to build, because it's only part of the final thing - you have to move over to Bag #4 to complete building the wolf.
Wolves are cunning, stalking creatures that
circle and pounce on you and your friends.
Why is the wolf split into "torso" and "everything else" parts when it comes to divvying up the bags? Don't know. You'd think it would make more sense to have it be all in one, but with all the little 1x1 pyramid bricks used to create the shaggy fur on its back, maybe there's some kind of piece-count limit Lego uses to decide these things? Still, it would have made more sense to us if, say, the campfire was moved from Bag #2 to #3 with Sparkplug, and then the entire wolf could be in Bag #4.
First you'll fight spiders while trying to gather materials, then skeletons will appear at night, and finally as you venture farther
from your basecamp, you'll come across wolves roaming the wilderness. This one has a very skinny body, made of black and grey bricks, and has glowing yellow eyes thanks to the inclusion of a translucent yellow 1x1. It's surprisingly well-articulated, with hinges for the knees and elbows, and balljoints for the hips, shoulders, head, and all four feet. Even the tail and the mouth can move up and down, which is great! It took about 15 minutes to build the full wolf, with the majority of that time being the Bag #4 parts.
Buying the Lego Fortnite sets also gets you free skins in-game. In this case, follow the QR code on the front of the instruction booklet,
link your Lego account with your Epic Games account, and you'll receive Sparkplug. And not just her, her and her backpack and their extra edit styles! Not too shabby! Especially when you consider buying the skin in the Item Shop would cost 1,200 V-Bucks, or about $10.
I only ever play Odyssey when there's some specific reward for it, which isn't often - I just enjoy the story of the main game better. But I still like the Lego sets, not because they're Lego Fortnite but because they're Fortnite Legos. I'd really have been happiest if they'd released the Loot Llama by itself as a polybag or other small set, because that was what I wanted the most (as a perfect representation of the brand as a whole), but getting it, plus a cool wolf, plus a free skin, plus Peely, made this set worth getting. Since the Lego Group has money invested in Epic Games, hopefully we'll continue to see more sets of this quality.
-- 09/12/25
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