LEGO’s video game tie-ins are usually hit or miss, but the Horizon Forbidden West Tallneck is one of the better ones: 1,222 pieces, $89.99 at launch, built around one of the game’s signature machines rather than a generic scene from it.
The build
The Tallneck itself is the whole point here: a tall, genuinely poseable machine model that captures the game’s design language well, standing 34 cm tall on its display stand at 23 x 17 cm footprint. It comes with brick-built animal and tree elements around the base, which do a lot of the work making this look like a diorama rather than just a robot on a stand. Two minifigures are included, Aloy and a Watcher, so you’re not just buying the machine, you get a small scene to go with it.
This is listed as an 18+ set, and it builds like one: the posing mechanism is the technical centerpiece, and it holds its stance well once assembled rather than sagging under its own weight, which is the thing that tends to ruin poseable model kits like this.
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Who this is actually for
This is a narrow-audience set by design. If you haven’t played Horizon Forbidden West, the appeal here is mostly “cool robot animal model,” which is still a legitimate reason to buy it, but the real pull is for people who know exactly what a Tallneck is in the game’s world and want one on a shelf.
The reseller’s take
This set ran from May 2022 through the end of 2023, so it’s already retired. Current secondary market pricing sits around $127 new and roughly $90 used, meaning new-in-box copies have picked up close to 40% over the original $89.99 MSRP, while used copies are holding close to even.
That’s a solid, unspectacular result for a licensed gaming set. It’s not a runaway flip, but the new-condition appreciation is real and the demand comes from two directions: PlayStation/Horizon fans and LEGO Icons Gaming-line collectors, which gives it a broader base than a lot of single-fandom tie-ins. If you already have one sealed, there’s no rush to sell. If you’re hunting one down now, expect to pay closer to that $127 mark than the original retail price.