Snoopy and the Peanuts gang have been around for over 75 years now. I probably first met his special brand of homespun philosophy, and flights of imagination through the comic strips in the newspapers in the mid 70s. Towards the end of the decade, we started to pick up the books (paperback, novel format) containing collected strips anytime we went on holiday.

There have been many Snoopy submissions to LEGO Ideas, but Snoopy – Campfire by @bossofdos64 reach the full 1000 supporters. He has submitted multiple Snoopy MOCs based on many of the characters Snoopy has adopted over the years: the Novelist, sleeping on the doghouse, hockey player, Joe Cool and surfer. Fortunately, two additional versions: Asleep on the doghouse and the Novelist were able to be included in the final model.

The LEGO Group sent 21368 LEGO Ideas PEANUTS: Snoopy’s Doghouse over for early review, but all opinions are my own. I also had the chance to join a conversation with the design team, and fan designed

In the box are 10 paper bags and an instruction manual. The first few pages bring us the fan designer’s story, as well as some insights from the Ideas team, and some background history about Snoopy. Robert is a passionate peanuts fan, who has but forward several Ideas submissions based on Snoopy and Woodstock. This set includes the campfire version that gained 10000 supporters on IDEAS, as well as models based on a couple of his other submissions.

The Elements

Thanks to the Knoller in chief for once again laying the elements out for our inspection. Looking across the elements in the set, we see a relatively tidy colour palette: white, black, light and dark grey, yellow, red, blue, dark green, and the sole concession to the contemporary colour palette: bright green.
There are a recolours including the 2×3 curved slope element in white, and Mysterio’s helmet element in black for the first time.

There are a few printed elements: the white windscreen with Snoopy’s eyes (apparently, it was a special challenge to get the eyes to be the ideal shape for Snoopy lying down and sitting up), a red 2×6 tile with ‘Snoopy’ printed on it in a similar font to that (rarely) seen in the comics, as well as 2×4 tile featuring the words, “It was a dark and stormy night”, and the date June 30 (apparently, a nod to the fan designer, being his birthday).

The 4×6 panel, appears in green for only the second time.

There are a few particularly interesting elements in this set, but only one new mould: the 1×1 ‘Woodstock hair’: after extensive explorations of the LEGO Parts palette, the ideas team were unable to find anything that was just the right shape to form the shape of Woodstock’s feathers, and a new element was commisioned.  It appears in this set in bright yellow and bright green. This element has the advantage of appearing more cartoon-like than the ‘claw’ that is often used for grass.
It plugs happily onto a stud, and is slightly convex on one side, and concave on the other.

The white elements in this set are, as far as I can tell, all ‘classic white’ and not the White V-3 that we looked at 12 months ago. More on those in the next week or so…

The Build

Oddly enough for a set of this type, we being with the hero build: Snoopy.

We start with his torso, built around a core of bricks and brackets, with a technic brick, with an axle down the middle. A loose fitting life-ring makes a collar, while clips and curved slopes for form the arms. A technic ball element caps off the neck.
Plates and brackets form the legs and lower torso, and they attach to the upper body, with the studs facing backwards.
The feet are wrapped up with curved slopes. Rounded belly and back (with a tail) are built around plates, and add ached to the torso and leg components.

We move onto the head, starting with a SNOT core. Curved panels attach on either side, and on top, while a 6×6 dish forms the back of his head.

Snoopy’s snout has some curved panels on the bottom half – minimizing the number of of gaps you might see if curved bricks alone were used. The white 4×6 windscreen element provides the flare from nose to brow. Ultimately, it was the ‘Mysterio’s helmet’ element – recoloured in black – used as Snoopy’s nose that defined the final scale of this model.  Finally, we add the ears -4×6 studs, curved at the lower end, and tapering at the upper end. They attach to 2×2 turntables on the side of the head, allowing easy positioning according to Snoopy’s posture.

We move onto Woodstock: built around a core of two 1x1x1 bricks with studs on four sides, the new hair element, with simple clips serving as wings/arms. A dome element, placed over a black minifigure head forms the beak(with a couple of printed lines to bring up his eyes (His? I’ve always presumed Woodstock to be male. Is this the case? If you have definitive evidence, let me know. I shall continue in the style to which I have become accustomed over the past 50 years or so.)

Bag four is basically all green, with the exception of a couple of rounded 1×2 bricks with bars, the provide a couple of attachment points for a couple of clips in the future. The green bricks are surrounded by brackets, and there are a couple of Snot elements, providing attachment points for the new grass elemements. There is a small area featuring some anti studs, which will come into play later. Ultimately, we end up with a rectangular green patch, with rounded corners and a few studs around the edges. I was a little surprised by the inconsistency of the green pigments in this part of the build, under normal lighting.

This is followed up by a multilayer black backdrop – clips attach into the grassy base, and two side panels. A scatter of 1×1 black tiles with eye dots form the star field. The panels fold in to form a three sided box. I’m sure there is a reason for this that will become apparent shortly.

Our next bag is chock full of red elements: We start with the front and rear walls of the doghouse. The angles for the roofline are achieved using layer slope bricks and ‘stafford slipper’ plate/slopes, while the rear walls is made of a collection of plates and panels. The space above the arched door is made remarkably complicated, using brackets wrapped around a 1x6brick to support the printed tile reading ‘Snoopy’. 
The walls consist of a collections of tiled panels, seperated thanks to a couple of offset plates. This gives a great effect on what would otherwise be a Great Wall of red bricks.
The cut of roof uses a nifty stud reversal technicque to have a 2×16 plate resting upside down across the top of the house: this ensures a stud free surface, but also provides plenty of connection points.

The angled panels of the roof consist of a frame of plates, covered over by groups of tiles, giving the impression of three boards, with a subtle gap.

The doghouse sits comfortably over the night sky, and we could easily leave our model here. But we have options.

Option one:

Stop now, and leave Snoopy standing up next to the doghouse

Option two:

Have Snoopy lie down on the roof of the doghouse. Now, this is all very well, but when Snoopy lies down, we see that his neck is possibly a lot further back than we might achieve using the build as it is. While we have a mobile neck. The designers have taken this into account: there is a technic axle hole behind the ball joint: we remove the axle from the ball and move it into the posterior hole: the head moves forward, but leaves a gaping hole in the chin: a quick plate/inverse bow fill the gap.

  Next we remove the tail, and place Snoopy in place: he has studs on the back of his head, and one on his back. They line up nicely and he can lie securely on the roof of the doghouse.

And Woodstock can sit on his belly.

Option 3: The Novelist.

It was a dark and stormy night… and so the story starts.
We build a small, relatively simple and effective blue framed typewriter, with studs going in most directions: there are two studs pointing downwards, to fix the typewriter in place. A white tile, featuring the opening line of Snoopy’s Great American Novel sits on the platen, waiting for the great author to expand on his idea.


Now, Snoopy’s legs do not flex at the hips: friction pins are only available in black or blue, and would detract from the smoothness of the lines somewhat. So, we build a new lower torso /leg module, with loose legs on white pins, and studs on the bottom. We replace the back and belly panels, and have Snoopy sitting in position.

Option 3: The Campfire

Now, this is what the ideas supporters voted for – we lift the doghouse off the grass, and open up the black backdrop. We build a small campfire, around the 6 way Ninjago weapons holder element, in brown.  A couple of brown poles with white round bricks on them become marshmallows for Snoopy and Woodstock to cook on the fire. We add a transparent clip/stud element to let snoopy hold his, while Woodstock can grip his in the wing.

Not only, but also: issues of colour and texture.

It has been a while since I scrutinized any set under ultraviolet light, but I was curious here, as bright red can be a challenging colour to deal with: there are many different shades seen over the years, some flouresce and others don’t. There were some differences in colour under UV, but they were subtle. Some tiles  demonstrated a swirl of slightly fluorescing pigment in them. I saw this effect in the nose cone of the TinTin rocket as well. Acouple of 1×1 bricks featured in the arch at the end demonstrated clear fluorescence under UV, but colours appeared fairly consistent with day light and warm LED lighting.  This is merely a curiousity, examining the nature of pigments used, and did not influence my perception of the model under normal lighting conditions. 

I have been reminded by a couple of readers about the White tiles that I left out in the sun 12 months ago – for science – and i shall take them down and write that up this week (TLDR: last year, there were two forms of white in play for some bricks – one (featured in the Shuttle carrier aircraft)  was decidedly more opaque than the other, more traditional white. Is it more resistant to yellowing under sunlight? We will take a look soon.)

The next is a common across white bow elements – in this case the 2x2x2/3 quarter circle elements: the plastic is so thin where the element joins with the studs underneath, that there is an inevitable dark shadow outlining the antistuds. It is not apparent from a distance, but is quite obvious to my middle aged eyes from 30-40cm. I looked at this in greater detail in my follow up article to the

Finally, I am a little bothered by the appearance of the underlying tubes of the tiles used on the roof. It is certainly obvious if there is any form of overhead light reflecting on their surface. This seems more obvious here than it has in any other models I have build in recent years, but this is perhaps

These latter two problems are intrinsic to smooth elements that are becoming increasing common across the LEGO system, where attempts to minimise the texture of elements result in underlying structural issues with the specific elements becoming more visible.

It’s not all gripes…

Despite these gripes, I found the build quite satisfying.

I appreciate the fact that the set went beyond the original Ideas submission, providing some of Snoopy’s most popular characters. I am looking forward to seeing how fans might approach characters such as the World War One Flying Ace and Joe Cool, some of my favorite strips from back in the day.

The colour palette is delightfully minimalistic, and fits in well with the colour panels drawn over the years, as well as the animated series. By some special coincidence, Charles Schulz tended to use the primary LEGO colours, whenever he coloured in his art work.

It is very satisfying to build Snoopy and Woodstock early in the process and have them watching the build processes. 
I like the use of the new ‘Woodstock feather’ element as grass (not to mention it use on Woodstock, himself) 
It was fun to fold up the starscape and and tuck it inside the house.  The doghouse itself was more complex in its construction than I expected it to be, but the layered board construction effect worked so well. That said, I don’t think it would be too complicated for a relative beginner, picking up this set because they are a Snoopy Fan rather than a LEGO Fan. 

Ultimately, this set is about the characters, and a bricks built snoopy and Woodstock is the big difference between this set and clone brick licensed Peanuts sets from 2025, where the characters appear to be non-posable figurines. 

I give this set four and a half out of five Arbitrary Praise units: is you are one of those people who loves Snoopy, you will love the final result. If you are a LEGO Fan, there are interesting techniques used in both the figures, and the  simple (at first glance) plain walls and roof of the doghouse. For myself, it will stay on display for the immediate future. With Tintin last month and now Snoopy, my childhood self is feeling the love from LEGO Ideas, this year.

Which is your favorite of Snoopy’s “characters?” leave your comments below. Are there any missing that you would like to see someone take on?

21368 Snoopy’s Doghouse goes on sale on June 1st 2026, but is available to preorder now. It has 964 pieces and will be priced at $AUD129.99 / $USD89.99 / €79.99 / £69.99.

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