New: Piranha Plant (71426)
Lego pulled off a great surprise with the new Lego Piranha Plant. It didn’t surface in any leaks and just all of the sudden popped up in Piranha Plant fashion. This set looks so great! It has 540 pieces and comes in at $60. That comes out to $0.11 per piece. That’s a little bit on the higher side of price. This set is going to look amazing with the Bowser set and it makes me really excited to see what will come next! A Yoshi build? Shy Guy? Goomba? Toad? So many options!! This is going to be an awesome series of sets.
Some things I really love about this set is that I’m drawn to that super deadly mouth with the sharp teeth and I love that they added in the tongue. Since that is where the eyes are drawn you wouldn’t want it to just be plain inside! When I look at this build I feel like I can see it moving like the Piranha Plants in the games with the mouth kind of opening and closing and the body moving back and forth.
Something that could have been really cool but kind of hard to do would be to make it so that it can retract into the pipe. That would have been awesome! But overall it’s a great looking set and I’m excited to see it in real life!
