With Wicked: For Good preparing to fly into theaters this November, LEGO is dropping a few different Wicked-themed LEGO sets in September for musical theater fans to get their hands on before the film’s release. One of these sets is the Emerald City Wall Art, which is now available. As a big Wicked fan myself, I was excited to piece this set together. Not only is it filled with bright pinks and greens in honor of the show’s leading ladies, but there are plenty of smaller details throughout it that are a joy to find.
LEGO Wicked Emerald City Wall Art
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In total, there are 1,518 pieces in this LEGO set that come together to create this incredibly detailed piece of wall art. It’s recommended for adults, which I do agree with since there are a lot of smaller pieces that go into the complex layering of this set. However, if you have a younger Wicked fan in your life who’s dying to build it, just give them a closely-supervised hand and they’ll be golden.
This set comes with 14 bags (plus an additional bag filled with some larger pieces) and a full-color instruction manual, which features some little blurbs and shots from the film in the first few pages. In these initial pages you’ll also find an image that points to some of the different easter eggs that can be found throughout this set, from the yellow brick road, to the train leading to the Emerald City, to a hidden compartment that will soon hold some very familiar faces about to journey through Oz in Wicked: For Good.
The first few bags of this set focus on piecing together the backdrop portion of this wall art. A lot of pieces layer together to create a sturdy structure, which is good news for those hoping to hang it up when they’re all done. There are even two mounting holes in the back that are perfectly placed for that purpose. The first bag also sees you putting together Dorothy with little Toto, and they get placed on a white platform that will fill up with some other friends from later bags.
By the time you get to bag four, you’ll get to start filling in more of the background for the wall art, which is mostly vibrant pinks and a little touch of green in the corner. You also get the Scarecrow minifigure to place next to Dorothy on the white platform, and your first little easter egg of a flying monkey below the green. Don’t worry, he’ll have a little place to hide behind later.
Bags five and six focus on building out the frame edges around the wall art, alongside a little cut-out in the top right corner for where Elphaba will be attached later, and building up the base of what will soon become the Emerald City. From bag six you’ll also start to construct the first tower in the Emerald City, which houses The Wizard’s mechanical face. The cool part about this is you also create a little cover to go over him, so it’s a nice surprise to take off later and reveal him underneath.
Also in bag six are some nice little touches for around the tower, alongside a little cloud build to cover the flying monkey from earlier. Most importantly, though, the top right corner of the wall art is built out into a beautiful display for Elphaba to be in (who you will also put together from this bag), surrounded by golden details that frame the green background.
Bags seven and eight build out even more buildings in the Emerald City, including another fun little easter egg of Glinda and Elphaba in the center tower, alongside the start of Shiz University on the far left. Bag eight also sees the Tin Man join our merry band of travelers who are off to see The Wizard (but stuck on the white platform for now).
Bag nine focuses on adding more details around the Emerald City, including little tulips popping up around its base, while bag 10 moves you down to the lower part of the wall art. Here, you’ll get to build up more of the bottom part of the piece and add in some fun details. One of these is a very small track on the right side that’ll hold the train to the Emerald City later on.
There are plenty more small details to add to this wall art, and bag 11 is packed with pink tulips to build out the fields near Munchkinland alongside more pieces to create a river flowing from Shiz University and part of the yellow brick road. And with bag 12, you’ll create a little compartment at the bottom that can hold our minifigure friends against a yellow brick backdrop. Speaking of minifigures, you also get the Cowardly Lion from bag 12, completing the line-up of new characters from Wicked: For Good (or familiar favorites from The Wizard of Oz).
But this Wicked wall art wouldn’t be complete without Glinda. She’s the last (though certainly not least) minifigure to be pieced together from bag thirteen. This bag also comes with pieces to build out her little bubble in the bottom left hand corner, placing her at the opposite end of the set from Elphaba, and comes with the Emerald City train to put on the tracks you built earlier.
And finally, with bag 14, you piece together the cover for the hidden compartment housing Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. On this cover, you build up Munchkinland and continue the path of the yellow brick road and the river to connect with the main piece of the wall art. There’s also a little Wicked logo you can place on it, which is a nice touch to finish everything off with.
But that’s not all. There are more clouds to piece together and place on the set alongside the Wizard’s hot air balloon towards the top. And with that, the completed set looks like this:
And here’s how the hidden compartment looks with Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion on the inside:
The Emerald City Wall Art Lego set is a fairly decent size once it’s fully pieced together, coming to just over 12.5 inches (32 cm) high, 10 inches (25 cm) wide and 3 inches (8 cm) deep. It’s one I’d definitely recommend if you’re a big fan of Wicked and The Wizard of Oz. It took me a few days to finish completely, so if you’re looking for a lengthy, detailed LEGO set to dig into, this is a great pick.
Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.
