It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 6 years since the last minifig-scale Stranger Things set, but patiently waiting has become a core part of participating in this fandom. To celebrate the long-awaited release of the final season, LEGO Icons 11370 The Creel House will be hitting shelves in Hawkins and elsewhere on January 1st, 2026 – exactly one day after the release of the series finale. Releasing as a Gift With Purchase alongside the set is LEGO Icons 40891 WSQK “The Squawk” Radio Station, ensuring that the majority of the main cast is represented here to mark the special occasion. We braved the Upside Down, shadow governments, D&D monsters, and angsty teen drama to get our hands on these sets and tell you all about them!
LEGO Icons 11370 Stranger Things: The Creel House| 2,593 Pieces | Available January 1, 2026 | US $299.99 | CAN $399.99 | UK £249.99
The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.
The Box and Contents
The Creel House is predominantly featured in Stranger Things Seasons 4 and 5, and the different depictions of this mysterious house in both seasons are the entire focus of this build. Our box is pretty standard for these larger Icons sets, and we don’t see much on the outside beyond the build and minfiigures. The retro Stranger Things logo does look pretty great on an all-black box.
The interior, however, was a bit of a surprise. I opened the box to find 22 paper bags (each containing smaller paper bags inside), a first for me in a larger set! In my last TBB review (the two Nike sets released earlier this fall), I mentioned being disappointed that there was still so much disposable plastic in these sets – so this was great to see. Beyond the bags, we have our hefty instructions package and two loose Technic pieces that will be very important later on.
Inside of the instructions package are 3 booklets and two sticker sheets that contain a total of 26 stickers that will need to be applied. It’s not an egregious amount, but a few of them are a bit tricky to apply evenly. With that said, there is one exceptionally printed piece that makes it all worth it. We’ll talk about that in a bit.
The first instructions booklet contains 10 pages of trivia, timelines, behind-the-scenes info, and comments from the design team.
One page in particular shows the three different version of The Creel House that can be depicted with this set: The original dream house that Victor Creel purchased in 1959, the Creel House in the Upside Down, and the shattered version that exists only in Vecna’s Mind Lair.
These intro pages are always very enjoyable for me, and this one specifically really helps to set the tone for your build. I also highly recommend turning on Season 4 or 5 while you build to lean further into the vibes. The soundtrack is essential.
The Build
We begin our build with The Creel House itself, and Bag 1 beings with a mailbox, a lamp post, and the mysterious Mr. Whatsit. We’ll save the rest of the minifigs for later, as they are plentiful and very evenly distributed throughout the entire build.
Over the first three bags, we start to build the foundation of the house. From the outside it looks like a pretty standard LEGO house, but it’s immediately clear that we are beginning to build the mechanisms that will allow the house to transform right from the beginning. These different mechanisms are featured in nearly every part of this build, and it honestly feels great alternating between building these fairly complex mechanisms and more traditional rooms and furniture.
Speaking of furniture, there are some really nice miniature builds tucked away in each of these rooms – various forms of lamps, dressers, tables, and everything else you’d expect to see in Henry Creel’s vintage house. Bag 4 features a couch that I thought was particularly great, as we build the first room on the ground floor.
I mentioned a printed piece earlier, and we find it here in Bag 5. Arguably the most iconic visual queue from the house is the stained glass window in the door, as evidenced by Nancy and Max both distinctly remembering it in Season 4. This piece looks absolutely fantastic, and I’m so glad it wasn’t a transparent sticker. I’ll gladly take the 26 sticker tradeoff if this is the one that we don’t have to apply and risk messing up. Though it may not matter, because there’s also a loose brick accompanying a minifig in this set that looks like it would smash right through this glass if someone desperately needed a way inside.
Bags 6 and 7 focus on building the front porch and finishing off the entry room and living room. It rarely feels like we are ever building anything twice throughout this build, which makes each bag a pretty fresh experience. Bag 7 also features a bicycle, which I believe is its first appearance in this color.
In Bag 8, we build the key rotating feature on the backside of the build that will allow for a minifig transformation. This is of course built into the rest of the sliding mechanisms we’ve been building, which connects here with a gear plate that will rotate the minifigs when we’re all finished. Here’s a close look at the two sides of this room we’ll see in the end, and you may recognize one of them from the Upside Down. You might also notice another similar sticker hidden within the wall to the bottom left. As this house is built, we are applying haunting Upside Down stickers that are not completely visible at this point in the build. When the house is transformed later, we’ll see them in all of their full glory.
Our next bag contains an all-in-one dining room kit, and I really enjoyed this one, The chairs are all fixed to the base by a single stud, and the entire room feels very smooth. This dining room might be a nice place to sit and talk with Henry, though his family would disagree.
Bags 10-11 finish off this side of the ground floor with the porch and another tree. In Bag 12 and 13 we build Henry’s room and the attic, which is as gently haunting as the man himself. There’s a cool little bed build here, a spider book (black widows, of course), a jar, and Henry’s super creepy child drawing of what would eventually become the Mind Flayer. A perfectly normal kid’s room. Above is a portion of the attic, where the spider theme continues alongside an unsafe amount of candles.
Bags 14-16 focus on the last two remaining rooms – Henry’s sister’s (and eventually Holly Wheeler’s) room and the remainder of the attic. This room features another nice little bed build, what appears to be a pink stereo gift for Holly, and a fire poker that may come in hand later. The remaining portion of the attic features lights, a tape, and Max’s final drawing of her and Lucas on their movie date.
The last 3 bags of the Creel House build finish off the top portion of the house, which features even more Technic and moving mechanisms than the rest of the house. We also attach our two loose Technic parts from the box, and build out the rest of the trees (which, surprise, also move and transform).
In fitting fashion, one of the final things we build for the house is the eery grandfather clock that chimes throughout Season 4. With that, our house is complete.
Now that the entire house is finished, we can test out our functions. As seen earlier in the instructions, with a simple pull of the trees we can transform this once-described “fairytale” dream house into a shattered version from Vecna’s Mind Lair. As the different areas of the house separate, we can see the Mind Lair and Upside Down stickers that we applied earlier be revealed as the house is transformed.
It works very smoothly and much easier than I was anticipating, and it’s incredibly impressive to me how everything separates and fits back together so seamlessly. I’ve done this countless times and have yet to encounter a single snag. This is the defining feature of this entire set, and it’s a real treat.
We’ve now finished the house build, and it looks awesome. Time to build our vehicles.
Steve’s car is all in one bag, and it’s a great build at a nice scale. It’s a shame that two minifigs can’t be seated side by side, but I think it’s a fair compromise to keep the vehicles at scale with each other and the house.
The WSQK van is the final two bags of this set, and I love this build. It has some fun little details, like the license plate being set into the back of the van. It also features a new color of part 7276, the round window that was introduced earlier this year in 10354 The Shire. You can sit two minifigs next to each other up front, and there’s plenty of room in the back for someone to control the antenna (preferably Dustin, as long as he’s not running late).
We also heard that the antenna can be mounted atop Steve’s car, which would probably involve some drilling (sorry, Steve), but could come in handy.
The Minifigures
Set 75810 The Upside Down is the only other Stranger Things set to feature minifigures (we’re not counting Barb), and it featured 8. These figures have been celebrated and highly sought after, but so many new characters have been featured in the show since that set released that we were overdue for a minifig overhaul.
This set features an astonishing 13 minifigures (not counting the GWP), and I love how inclusive it is with the main cast of characters. We get the core kids group/party, the older kids (let’s be honest, they’re all adults at this point), and Mr. Whatsit alongside Vecna. They are all featured here in their Season 5 forms, and each look fantastic and capture the character’s expressions and attire well. The torso printing is particularly great, and the level of detail on Dustin, Holly, Mike, and Max’s outfits in particular feels very high quality.
Almost all of the minfigures contain alternate expressions, with the exception being Vecna (who has printing on the back of his head) and Jonathan, who appears to have the same head as a number of Imperial and Resistance troops in my collection.
Eleven has dual-molded legs, but only Vecna features arm and leg printing. Bad guys always get the cool stuff. Interestingly, Jonathan was shown in my instructions with arm printing that isn’t reflected in the minifigure I received or in any of the photography represented on the box or in the instructions. I imagine this will be corrected at some point.
The Finished Model
The final set is a sight to behold. The house looks great on a shelf or a table, and the spread of minifigs and accompanying builds really fills out the entire display. The transforming function works so well, and feels like a feature you want to show off to everyone that walks by the build.
Even with the amount of different movement functions in this build, it looks great from the backside. The rooms are small, but they show off just enough and each feel very unique. There’s also still ample space to display minifigs in the various scenes within, if that’s your style.
The only thing I would have liked to see included is a minifig stand similar to the one featured in the first Stranger Things set, but I realize that’s a tough ask with this many minifigs. I’m sure nobody will have any trouble building their own.
LEGO Icons 40891 WSQK “The Squawk” Radio Station | 234 Pieces | Available January 1 | Gift With Purchase
Releasing alongside The Creel House is the WSQK “The Squawk” Radio Station. Given recent discussions about GWPs feeling like “extensions” of the set they’re attached to, I was surprised and relieved to see that this GWP was an entirely different location and featured its own minifigures.
The GWP features two new minifigs – Joyce and Hopper, as well as a nice little build for the WSQK station. There are 3 bags, and it really does feel like its own little set. 6 stickers might be a lot for a GWP, but they contain some nice references to the fifth season.
Similar to the Creel House, there are some great miniature builds throughout this set. Steve’s sound effects tapes, a record player, rotating microphone, and mini soundboard were a few of the highlights for me.
There’s also a really nice looking floor hidden underneath, which isn’t even fully visible in the final model. It really makes you feel like you’re building an actual set rather than a free add-on.
Joyce and Hopper are the featured minifigs in this build, which is a bit interesting. It feels like Steve and Robin might have been a more appropriate duo to be featured in this set, but I actually prefer it this way given that this is a GWP. Locking Steve and Robin behind a time-exclusive GWP and separating them from the rest of the ensemble wouldn’t have been ideal, and if you’re getting this GWP you’ll have them already and can set them up right in the studio. I think it works itself out perfectly.
Joyce and Hopper both look great, and are a fry cry from their last appearance in The Upside Down set (as are their characters). Joyce has an alternate expression, while Hopper doesn’t as the back of his head is exposed. There’s a printed rubber chicken in this set that would work great as a show intro.
Final Thoughts
This GWP is fantastic. It doesn’t feel like part of the set that was removed to be a GWP, but it still fits the bill as something that can be displayed alongside The Creel House and WSQK van and fit right in. It offers two more main characters in minifig form that don’t feel like they are necessarily missing from The Creel House, but are great to have here as an addition.
I was really happy with both of these sets, and thoroughly enjoyed the build process. If you’re interested in picking The Creel House up, I think it’ll be worth it to get it while the GWP is available because it really does feel like its own standalone set. Friends don’t lie: These two sets are a must have for any Stranger Things fan.
