The Mannequin kit, built, on its stand

Mannequin kit

Show how you feel today.

A jointed artist's mannequin you build yourself from 252 original LEGO® parts. It holds the pose you give it.

EUR 75.99

Shipping and VAT included.

Charged when you order. The checkout sets the final price from your delivery address.

Ships by 15 December, from Budapest with FedEx or GLS.

Opens 10 November, 00:00 CET. Open until 22 November, 23:59 CET.

The live count appears here when the drop opens. At most 500 kits.

Does it hold a pose?

Our biggest design concern was structure: would it carry its own weight, and would the joints keep their positions? After several test versions, with parts availability weighing in too, we settled on this one: a large Technic ball joint in the middle.

  1. Take it off the pole. It stands.
  2. Pose today's mood. Change it tomorrow.
  3. Leave it a pose for someone to find.

The figure in the film is our colour-blind test build: we prove the structure with whatever parts are at hand and choose the colours last, which is how we design everything. The kit you get is the tan one.

The kit

The kit's parts laid out beside the finished figure on its stand, with a mug for scale
Object
A jointed artist's mannequin, a kit you build
Parts
252 original LEGO® parts
Joints
14 ball joints: neck, waist, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles
Height
about 28.8 cm on its base
Colour
Tan, Dark Bluish Gray joints, black pole
Instructions
Downloadable
In the box
252 parts, base and pole
Numbered
Every kit gets a card, No. NNNN, written by hand when we pack it, from your order number
Edition
At most 500 kits. Not repeated in this run.
Age
14+. Contains small parts.
Design
WLWYB, Budapest
It is not
An anatomy model. Simple block hands without fingers, each on its own wrist joint: they rest on a hip, point and wave; the proportions are a lay figure's.
Heritage
The jointed lay figure has stood on artists' tables since the Renaissance, standing in for a model who could not hold a pose for days. Painters, sculptors and later animators learned the body from it, and it is still in studios today. This one keeps the old tool and changes only the material: it is made to be built, not just bought.

Poses

The mannequin posed: victory v

Victory V

The mannequin posed: hands on hips

Hands on hips

The mannequin posed: surrender

Surrender

The mannequin posed: accusing arm

Accusing arm

The mannequin posed: polite bow

Polite bow

The mannequin posed: glance back

Glance back

Off the pole

The mannequin standing on its own feet, its empty stand beside it

Take it off the pole and it stands on its own feet. It sits, leans and lies down too.

The mannequin lying on its back, arms out

Lying down

The mannequin on its front, propped on its forearms, one leg up

On its front

The mannequin sitting on the floor, leaning back on its arms

Leaning back

The mannequin sitting with its knees up, arms resting on them

Knees up

The mannequin sitting on the edge of a block, legs hanging

On the edge

The mannequin leaning against a wall

Against the wall

You build it

A half-built figure in grey beside the finished one

252 parts, downloadable instructions, about 30 to 90 minutes, timed on real builds. Every step is drawn.

When it arrives

  1. 10 NovemberThe drop opens at 00:00 CET.
  2. 22 NovemberThe drop closes at 23:59 CET, or earlier if all 500 are gone.
  3. ThenWe pack every kit by hand in Budapest and write its number card.
  4. By 15 DecemberShipped with FedEx or GLS in the EU, FedEx everywhere else. You get tracking by email when it leaves.

Transit time is the carrier's, on top. Outside the EU, customs can add time. More on the shipping and returns page.

The rules

  1. When you orderYour card is charged at checkout, like any shop order.
  2. 500The ceiling. At 500 the drop is sold out, even before the close date. We do not make more in this run.
  3. 200The drop ships when 200 kits are ordered. If it stays under 200 by the close, we refund every order in full.
  4. The close22 November, 23:59 CET. After that, the drop is closed.
  5. Changed your mindReply to your order confirmation email. Until your kit ships, we cancel and refund in full. In the EU you can also withdraw within 14 days of delivery.

From the workshop

WLWYB stands for WE LOVE WHAT YOU BUILD. For more than fifteen years we have built things from LEGO® bricks for other people: business gifts, custom models, kits made to order. Some of it went well, some of it did not, and we learned from both.

Since 2020 we have published the Periodic Table of the LEGO® Colors, which is how many of you first found us.

This one is our own. Artists have posed jointed wooden figures for more than five hundred years. We rebuilt that figure in bricks, over several test versions, until it held.

We make at most 500. Questions go to a real inbox, wlwyb@wlwyb.com, and a person answers.

WLWYB, Budapest

Our workbench in Budapest: a wall of labelled parts boxes, open boxes of bricks on the desk

Questions

Is it a LEGO product?

No. It is built from original LEGO® parts, designed and sold by WLWYB. The LEGO Group does not make, sponsor or endorse it.

Why this price, when a wooden figure costs much less?

A wooden lay figure is fine for sketching. This is 252 original LEGO® parts you build yourself, with joints that stay where you put them, and one of at most 500.

How hard is the build?

About 30 to 90 minutes, every step drawn in the downloadable instructions. If you can follow a recipe, you can build it. 14+; contains small parts.

I live outside the EU. What will it cost?

EUR 59.99, plus shipping: EUR 15.95 to the US, Canada, the UK, Switzerland and Norway, EUR 25.18 everywhere else. Duties and import taxes are added at checkout, all in euro, so nothing more is due on delivery.

Can I order two, or send it to someone else?

Each order is one kit; for a second one, order again. You can set any delivery address at checkout.

Can I cancel?

Yes. Reply to your order confirmation email. Until your kit ships, we cancel and refund in full. In the EU you can also withdraw within 14 days of delivery; see our refund policy.

What if a part is missing?

We send the replacement immediately: write to wlwyb@wlwyb.com with your order number and a photo of the instruction step. Every kit passes three strict quality gates before it leaves us, so this should not happen. But, as the airlines say: in the unlikely event of a missing part, we have you covered.

What does the number card mean?

Every kit gets a card, No. NNNN, written by hand when we pack it. The number comes from your order number.

EUR 75.99. Shipping and VAT included.