At last. The LEGO Great Deku Tree, available exclusively at the
The second miniature is of the pedestal in Breath of the Wild, where Link finds the Master Sword in Korok Forest. You also build Hestu (complete with his maracas) and Korok creatures that dot the forest floor.
The Great Deku Tree set comes with a total of four minifigures. You get a Breath of the Wild Link and a Breath of the Wild Zelda in their signature teal tunics, and you get two iterations of Ocarina Link – Young Link, whose tunic comes with a skirt piece around its waist, and Adult Link, who you can display with the titular Ocarina.
The minifigures come with numerous weapon accessories. In addition to the supplies in the various trunks and boxes, you have three options for swords – a short sword, the Kokiri sword, and the Master Sword – and three options for shields – the Traveler’s Shield, the Deku Shield, and the Hylian Shield with its signature crest.
After the first nine bags, you’re directed to branch off and choose either the Breath of the Wild build or the Ocarina build. If you decide to go with the former, you proceed right on to Bag 10, and you continue building up through Bag 19, in linear order. The final Breath of the Wild tree contains two remote Bomb Rune and a Sheikah Slate in hidden compartments along the tree’s base. There’s a tribute to the Riddles of Hyrule sidequest in the tree’s head. At the bottom of the tree is the Navel, which includes the General Shoppe, Spore Store, and Inn. The tree itself is rigged so that when you push down on a lever at the back, its eyebrows and mouth move. Lastly, you build four smaller trees that decorate the surrounding area.
If you decide on the Ocarina build, you take a more circuitous route to the end result. After Bag 19, you open Bags 10, 14, and 23 at the same time. Then Bag 13. Then Bag 16. Then Bags 17, 20, and 21. And then lastly, Bag 22.
The Ocarina tree comes with its own set of game-specific Easter eggs. The tree’s hidden compartments contain a fairy bow and a staff notes musical representation of “Saria’s Song.” The bottom of the tree is a dungeon, with a treasure chest that holds a Fairy Slingshot and a massive Skulltula that drops from the ceiling via a catch-and-release mechanism.
Outside, instead of additional trees, there’s a Gossip Stone and two carnivorous Deku Babas to eat Link if he gets too close. Lastly, the tree’s mouth opens into a doorway so that Link can crawl inside and explore.
If there is a drawback to this set, it’s that once you build one version of the set, you will feel hard-pressed to build the other. For the sake of this review, I managed it, but it required me to exercise foresight; I got a bunch of Zip-Loc bags and address labels to keep track of what went where.
So right now, I have the leftover pieces from Bags 10, 14, and 23 in a single bag. If I take apart the current tree, I’ll have to match up my tree with the instruction booklet’s tree to figure out what went there, and then rebag and regroup them. But even that doesn’t completely solve the problem, unless I separate everything into three piles, piece by piece. It’ll be a slow go, and that’s if I don’t lose a couple of pieces in the transition. So I probably won’t. Doing it once was enough.
If I had to choose which was the “better” build, it’s the Breath of the Wild tree. It’s more colorful and detailed, and its facial expressions are more animated. But that said, both trees are an impressive sight. And if you grew up with Ocarina of Time, then that’s the tree you’re building. Your nostalgia will make the final decision for you.
LEGO Great Deku Tree 2-in-1, Set #77092, retails for $299.99, and it is composed of 2500 pieces. It is available exclusively at the LEGO Store. For more, check out our picks for the best Nintendo LEGO sets, as well as the best Marvel LEGO sets.
Kevin Wong is a contributing freelancer for IGN, specializing in LEGO. He’s also been published in Complex, Engadget, Gamespot, Kotaku, and more. Follow him on Twitter at @kevinjameswong.
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