Is Wednesday Just Goth Barbie?

A Danish toymaker’s unique, studded take on the macabre and grotesque…

Attila Vágó
Bricks n’ Brackets
8 min readOct 13, 2024

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Enid, Wednesday and Thing. Photo by author

Wednesday and Thing practically single-handedly — there has to be a pun in there somewhere — revived the Addams Family. That, if they were ever truly alive. 😄 I have been an Addams Family fan since childhood, and I remember watching it with the neighbour girl while munching on cakes and drinking cheap soda. Good times. And speaking of good times, I guess they never really end when you’re a LEGO fan and the Danish toymaker keeps releasing crazy fun sets, like the latest Wednesday set based on Netflix’s spinoff of the 1964 series.

The truth of the matter is, there isn’t much in the LEGO Group’s portfolio that speaks to the goths, the emos, the fans of the grotesque and the macabre. There are no Chucky dolls with bloody knives — for obvious reasons — on the store shelves, and for the most part, the scariest were always the Halloween-themed sets and the skeletons in the occasional pirate sets. It’s a fairly new development to see LEGO expand its horizons into more bold themes like horror or horror-adjacent, like the Disney Hocus Pocus set. Even dark or sinister details like in “Batman, the Animated Series” set are few and far between.

It was time for LEGO to acknowledge that “Everything is awesome”…

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Attila Vágó
Bricks n’ Brackets

Staff software engineer, tech writer, author and opinionated human. LEGO and Apple fan. Accessibility advocate. Life enthusiast. Living in Dublin, Ireland. ☘️