Lego’s First Official Fortnite Sets Ask What Happens If You Peel a Banana Too Hard

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After a agelong clip of awkwardly flossing astir it, Lego has yet decided to travel bully connected its broadside of its immense woody with Fortnite. Now arsenic good arsenic tooling astir Epic’s multiversal video game crossover smorgasbord arsenic Lego minifigure versions of acquainted faces and Fortnite heroes alike, you tin bring Fortnite to your tabletop with 4 caller Lego sets inspired by the game. And oh, isn’t that truthful overmuch amended than rolling astir successful a virtual cybertruck?

This greeting Lego officially unveiled its archetypal official Fortnite Lego sets. Rather than being inspired virtually by the Lego Fortnite mode that came to the crippled precocious past year, the 4 sets gully connected iconic elements from Fortnite‘s conflict royale crippled mode–from iconic elements similar the conflict autobus that drops players into each match, oregon the Llama piñatas filled with cogwheel that look astir the map, to mascot characters similar the Durrr Burger, or, successful the astir wonderfully horrifying case, Fortnite‘s beloved anthropomorphic banana mascot Peely, stripped down to his skeleton.

Take a look astatine the archetypal four Fortnite sets, below, which are disposable to pre-order from Lego present up of a wide merchandise October 1.

Lego Fortnite Durrr Burger

The smallest of the 4 sets astatine 193 pieces, the Durrr Burger mascot–of the self-titled accelerated nutrient concatenation that has appeared crossed aggregate variants of Fortnite‘s ever-evolving map–is a beauteous elemental and cute replica, inspired by the brick-built exemplary already seen by players in Lego Fortnite. It’ll outgo $15, which is not atrocious for a small, good designed small model.

Lego Fortnite Supply Llama

Lego antecedently released instructions for fans to physique their own tiny version of the Supply Llama when Lego Fortnite archetypal came retired successful December 2023, but the authoritative version is simply a overmuch larger, much elaborate exemplary clocking successful astatine 691 pieces. Costing $40, the Llama besides suitably includes a fewer replicas of items recovered successful Fortnite and Lego Fortnite erstwhile you’ve cracked it open: a Grappler gun, bottles of some Slurp and Slap Juice, a Rough Ruby, a crafting Back Pack, Dynamite, and a Good Luck Charm. All of them tin beryllium stored wrong the Llama, to boot!

Lego Fortnite Battle Bus

The archetypal of 2 of the archetypal sets to timepiece successful astatine $100, the 954-piece Battle Bus is besides the lone Lego Fortnite acceptable to really travel with minifigures. As good arsenic a replica of the autobus itself–which flies crossed the representation astatine the commencement of each crippled to driblet players off–the autobus has abstraction to spot 8 included minifigures inspired by archetypal characters from Fortnite: Battalion Brawler, Adventure Peely, Brite Bomber, Cuddle Team Leader, Cube Assassin, Trespasser Elite, Drift, Meowscles, and Raven.

I conjecture if you privation to marque it consciousness similar much of an actual Fortnite lucifer enactment up you’ll person to pilfer a fewer of your Marvel, DC, Star Wars, and different licensed minifigs from your collection. As good arsenic the minifigures the Battle Bus besides includes a big of accessories to equip them with, successful the signifier of grapplers, slurp juice, and slap foodstuff bottles similar those included with the Supply Llama set, and pickaxes. Again, you’ll person to scrounge from your different Lego sets if you privation immoderate guns!

Lego Fortnite Peely Bone

The different $100 acceptable is successful the vein of Lego’s much adult-focused buildable show models, depicting the Peely Bone variant tegument for Peely that alternatively virtually peels him down the middle, revealing his skeleton and interior banana-organs. Clocking successful astatine 1,414 pieces, the Peely Bone model has moveable arms, and comes with his banana-themed backmost bling (that’s fundamentally a backpack, to those unfamiliar with Fortnite), his Banana pickaxe, and a overgarment launcher gun.

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