839 pieces, $54.99, and a buildable Gru figure with a face that will either delight you or unsettle you. There’s no in-between with this one. Set 75582 skips minifigures entirely and goes for something weirder: a display piece with real personality.
What you’re getting
Gru stands static in the center while five Minions spin around him on a rainbow-colored base, a genuinely fun display mechanic that makes this feel like more than a static shelf piece. The build itself is solid, clearly designed to be displayed rather than played with.
Gru’s face is the headline, and it’s a strange one. New printed pieces for his eyebrows, eyes, and mouth do a decent job of capturing his expression, and a repurposed Technic tooth piece (recolored) forms his nose, which can actually be nudged to adjust the angle. It’s an odd, slightly uncanny build, flattening a human face into LEGO form rarely looks fully right, but there’s real charm in how far LEGO pushed it. His arms are articulated at the shoulder and elbow, with individually posable fingers, more detail than a set this size really needed, and that’s a compliment.
The Minions
Five Minions, each in a different outfit (Hawaiian shirt, siren-head, two in classic overalls, and one in an AVL uniform), rotate around Gru’s base. Faces and mouths are stickered rather than printed, a reasonable trade-off to keep the price down at this piece count. A few parts stand out: a new recolored fruit piece with sprout details that’s genuinely useful for custom builds, and a bar piece borrowed from a recent Marvel collectible minifig, both nice pulls for anyone who collects parts as much as sets.
The Reseller’s Take
- Retail: $54.99. 839 pieces. Released May 2024. No minifigures, buildable display model only.
- Secondary market: up around +10% since release, with annualized growth near +11%.
My call: SKIP for investment, fine for fans. No minifigures caps this one’s ceiling with collectors, most of the resale demand in this theme is chasing the minifig-scale sets, not display builds. This is a set to buy because you like weird, characterful LEGO models, not because you expect it to appreciate meaningfully.
Invest score: 4/10. Fun and cheap, but a soft flip.
Bottom line
This is a genuinely fun, oddball display piece at a fair price, and I mean that as a real compliment. It won’t be for everyone (that face is a lot), but if you’re into strange, characterful LEGO builds, this is one of the more interesting ones LEGO has put out. Buy it because you’ll enjoy having it, not because you expect it to pay you back.
Prices and resale figures from public sources (LEGO, BrickEconomy). ROI is an estimate based on historical trends, not a guarantee.