DCBHZ-1: Wonder Woman

I’d like to introduce you to a special figure, because so far it’s the only BrickHeadz that could be built during an organised event and, at the same time, unlike for example these figures, it’s a set marked with the BrickHeadz logo.

The whole event took place in July 2017 and wasn’t limited to any single store but ran in many LEGO Stores. This is where a certain inconsistency appears, because in one place (see the link and look for “Reviews” at the bottom of the page) I came across information that the event was available in stores in the northern USA, while elsewhere there’s no information about geographical restrictions. So it isn’t known in how many stores the event ran, which ones exactly, and whether it happened across the whole USA or only in a selected part. I’m not looking into it more closely, though, because it doesn’t matter much to me.

Between 1 and 16 July you had to make purchases of at least $75. The first 80 people who registered such a purchase and signed up for the figure building event had the chance to build it themselves and so get it. The building events themselves ran between 17 and 31 July. If I understood correctly, each store chose its own event date, as long as it fell within that date range, there could even be several dates and the hours weren’t fixed, so you could come at any time and build your figure or even take the loose pieces home with you. There was an age limit of 18 and over, which is actually quite unusual. I also came across unconfirmed information that you needed LEGO VIP to take part in the event, which wasn’t a hard condition to meet, but I wanted to note it.

The figure was made exclusively of common LEGO pieces. There are no printed pieces here at all, not even stickers. I’m not sure myself whether that’s good or bad news, but the fact is that it lets each of us build this figure ourselves and consider it part of our collection. And that’s exactly what I did.

According to reports from fans, the pieces needed to build the figure had been prepared in advance and there was no need to “fight” the other participants for them. That didn’t have to be the rule, though, since the whole thing took place in many LEGO Stores, and it surely looked a little different in each of them. For example, I came across one account in which the author claims that instead of the typical BrickHeadz eyes, only these were available.

The figure came with instructions printed on ordinary A4 paper. They’re available as a PDF and I’m attaching them below. I should mention, however, that three versions of these instructions circulated online. Two are scans (one of lower quality and the other better), and the third is the PDF file that the stores received directly from LEGO. I very nearly gave up searching for that last one, as all the links I found were already dead, but fortunately I finally managed to track the file down and now I can share it with you.

Wonder Woman instructionsDownload

It’s also worth mentioning that at the moment BrickHeadz already has three Wonder Woman figures. The first figure was included in the exclusive set number 41490, together with Superman. It’s a very rare and expensive set, one of the first ever to appear on the market, available at Comic-Con 2016. The next set was the one described in this article, and on 1 January 2018 set number 41599 was released, in which Wonder Woman was already a standalone figure. I have no idea where LEGO’s fondness for this particular character comes from 😉

Finally, a short review of this set and of the event in general. There’s also a broader comparison with the figure from set 41490.