Growing up in the 1970s and ‘80s meant that sitcoms from the 1960s were standard after school fare in Australia, and among these was the Addams Family. Occasionally it would alternate with the 1973 Cartoon, and eventually the inevitable slew of reunion specials that littered the prime time of the off seasons of the early 1980s television. There was something about the on screen chemistry between John Astin and Caroline Jones, to say nothing of her deadpan delivery of concepts that would shatter the sensibilities of a dormitory suburbia. 

Or perhaps it is just nostalgia calling.

It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the remakes, reboots, new Addams Family, New Addams Family Reunion Special or the New – new Addams Family (1998) or any of the movies. They just didn’t seem necessary. The stories were perfect in scary Black and White: the arrival of colour didn’t seem to add anything other than the need for a greater special effects budget. 

Suffice to say, I was intrigued when I saw Netflix launching a series following the life of Wednesday Addams as she heads off to a boarding school for ‘Outcasts’ – Nevermore Academy, where Gomez and Morticia originally met. It’s the Addams Family meets Tom Brown’s School Days in the American backwoods. Wednesday’s characterization as a cynical teenager with a morbid curiousity, forced to make friends she has no interest in, and accompanied by the disembodied hand and household helper, Thing, the first season worked for me. Meanwhile, the underlying mystery of the second series felt a little disjointed, as B and C plots Lurched backwards and forwards through the story. Still, All’s well that ends.

Among other things, Wednesday’s second season also brings us a little of Thing’s life beyond that of faithful retainer to the Addams Family. It is in this context that Wednesday’s roommate, Enid Sinclair, and her friends welcome Thing to their friendship group, and present him with an apartment in an old trunk. Certainly a glow up from the small box he lived in back in the 60s. It is this ’apartment’ that set 76785 Thing’s Apartment is seeking to replicate.  

With 828 pieces and priced at $AUD129.99/€79.99/$USD89.99/ £74.99, this set will be released in October 2025, just in time to prepare for Halloween.

This set was provided by the LEGO Group for Review purposes, but all opinions are my own.

Let’s take a closer look at the Elements

The major highlight of this set for me is the the 1×2 rounded plate with bar. This is an extension of the 1×1 rounded plate with bar (element 26047) – first seen in 2016. Transparent violet elements are always welcome. There are two sets of six printed 1×1 tiles with half circle. One is printed with dark tan finger nails, while another set is printed with a black version.

We also have rounded 2×2 plates with corner cutouts in tan and dark blue-ish grey. We have some of the new 2×2 round, curved slopes/arch as a quarter circle, having seen them first appear earlier this year

There are 6 larger arched elements – 6x5x 3 1/3 Arched/quarter circle panels in reddish brown, as well as a number of 6×10 plates in dark brown. These arched elements started life as windows in the LEGO IDEAS Botanical Gardens, before taking on a new lease of life as opaque versions have rolled out.

While the majority of decorations on bricks are in fact stickers, there is a solitary printed 1×1 round tile with a decorated motif.

Regarding the sticker sheet, there are some neat designs – particularly those used to decorate walls and bed linen, to say nothing of some general decorations inside: a mirror, ‘photographs’ on the wall, as well as a product label for a bottle of nail polish. To say nothing of the scars on the back of Thing’s hands.  However, the stickers them selves appeared to have an incomplete cut, as they were not easy to remove from the sticker sheet. I found they could all peel off, but not necessarily in the same direction as each other. I have heard this has been an issue for other reviewers of the set.

The Figures

Let’s look at the minidoll: Enid Sinclair is, for the first time, wearing her school uniform: purple blazer with golden trim, as well as a midlength skirt, over black stockings/white socks and black shoes.

She has a bright light yellow, touseled hairpiece with blue and violet streaks. Unlike the majority of hairpieces seen with minidolls in LEGO Friends, this hairpiece is rigid plastic.

Thing is, while neither minifigure or minidoll, a key character in the series, and is, indeed the focus of this set. 

We have two versions of him: one is the minifigure/minidoll scaled version that came out last year. It can sit happily on a single stud, but the grip is not wide enough to hold a simple bar. The bar attachment on the other side of the hand is the standard bar thickness, and can be held by the minidoll/figure.

The other is brick built.

Built up from a 4×4 disk, the fingers are built up in such a way that interaction between round stuck and square plates allow a degree of wiggle room, allowing the fingers to spread. The distal part of the fingers is based on the new 1×2 rounded plate with a bar. A rounded tile, printed with a fingernail decoration enhances the effect, while the scars that make up part of Thing’s identity are achieved using stickers. A spare set of fingernails, with black nail polish, is included to mix it up a bit.

A clear 2×2 round brick is fastened underneath to help keep things balanced

Let’s move on to the build.

The main build, Thing’s Apartment, tucked away inside a trunk, is broken up, periodically, by builds of other real world items at a larger scale.

These builds include include a small handheld video game, a pen and notebook, a ring and a jar of black nail polish.

The nail polish bottle and ring are close to life size – certainly life size for a 9 year old. I appreciate the form of the nail polish bottle, but I was surprised that the brush inside was dark brown, rather than black. The black broom element has only appeared in Maleficent’s Dragon Form and Aurora’s castle – perhaps it is locked into the Disney ecosystem for the time being? 

Possibly my greatest joy came from a fidget spinner build. Built around a technic y-connector, the design is appealing, with transparent violet dishes and pied around a silver centre.  I may or may not be using this to focus my mind while working on this review…

The main part of the build is the trunk, which opens up to reveal a two story apartment. We start with the lower level, building in a bed with a dark red quilt: the stickers add a lovely gold brocade, while a golden turndown implies a significant level of luxury. The small fireplace is framed with a stone grey fireplace, with floral plates adding an appropriately realistic level of detail. 

A luxuriant purple chair  fills the other side of the floor. The level is completed with the addition of a string of fairy lights across the back.

The outer sides of the floor are covered in studs at this stage, an issue that will be rectified later.

The second floor is built up separately, again using dark brown plates to make up the floor. We add the left wall, a ring box with a poorly reflective mirror and a rounded, sand green bubble bath. As we fill the space in, we add a turning (non functional) latch and another side panel, decorated with family pictures, a clock and a couple of coloured bottles.  Again, the use of stickers on the rear panels here gives the impression of a luxuriant wallpaper, and is something that might be worth pursuing if looking to build a MOC of a house from a certain time and place. Finally, we add a small table, looking like it is constructed from a cotton reel.  

The outer panels on both sides flip open, to give you more space to play. 

We link the floors using hinges attached to the exposed studs, while we fill in the naked studs with reddish brown tiles, with black trim. 

A small, easily detachable latch fastens over an offset plate at the front of the model, allowing the chest to be closed securely.

We finish up with an arched lid. With black arches breaking up the curved brown panels, I feel as if we are embarking on the construction of a steampunk airship

The internals of the lid show a different story, providing storage space for the figure (s) as well as all of the other builds from the set. Most of the elements in this space are, when the lid is closed, studs down. However, a single brick mounted on an axle is inverted relative to these, to provide a chance for the lid to have a secure attachment point

Conclusions

Overall, this is a fun build, providing a model of an in show miniature build. The details are nicely executed, and eminently playworthy. Ultimately, the apartment is probably better scaled to a minidoll or minifigure than to model of Thing, and I don’t necessarily think this is a bad thing. The details are elegant, and may serve to provide an template to a more opulent dwelling from times gone past. Particularly, I love the sticker design for the wall paper and the quilt, despite issues with the sticker sheet itself. (If you have a problem with the sticker sheet, I suggest you get in touch with LEGO Customer service)

I enjoy the way that the set opens from a sealed chest to the miniature apartment, and the panels that open out certainly enhance the sense of openess. 

My criticisms of this set are limited to the cut of the sticker sheet (and others had it far worse than I did) and the different scales used. For the price, another minidoll might be expected, but I am uncertain as to who would be appropriate to include, without overloading us with Wednesday Addams Minidolls. Perhaps one of the boys, so we could get the Nevermore Academy uniform on a male minidoll.

 A more functional model of Thing – with all of the appropriate finger joints, would be great, but I suspect would be close to impossible at this scale with the LEGO elements we have available today. Certainly if it was going to be robust enough to include in a playset. 

I’m happy to give this set 3.5 out of 5 Arbitrary Praise units. It might not be for everyone, but I suspect Wednesday fans will be looking at this as an opportunity to pick up a minidoll of Enid in her school uniform.

Set 76785 LEGO Wednesday – Thing’s Apartment goes on sale on October 1st 2025. It come with 828 pieces and priced at $AUD129.99/€79.99/$USD89.99/ £74.99.

Did you watch Wednesday? Did you feel the scenes in the show featuring the apartment justified its production as a LEGO Set? (To be fair, we have seen other sets produced in the past with less reference in the source material!)

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