Horizon Forbidden West: Tallneck — C- · The Brick Drop Score
C-
The Drop Score
Horizon Forbidden West: Tallneck
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Based on 7 reviews · thin
The Tallneck is one of gaming's most iconic creature designs, and LEGO® pulled it off — but $90 for 1222 pieces in 2022 was already a stretch, and the set never quite shook that feeling of paying a licensing premium for a world most LEGO® buyers hadn't visited.
Is the price fair?FNinety dollars for a mid-tier build in a niche game license — the premium is real and you feel it.
Will you love it?CGame fans will get a genuine smile out of it; everyone else will wonder what the fuss is about.
Holds its value?CMiddling demand means middling resale — don't expect this one to age into a trophy.
True ValueF
$120
Street price
$101
Parts value
84%
Ratio
The parts alone are worth about 84% of the street price — the basis for this F price read.
What you get
Plain bricks
$75
Functional piecescalc
$15
Figures (×2)
$11
Premium you pay
Premium over parts
$19
FairParts are worth about 84% of the price — close to what the set is worth.
The Full Take
Horizon Forbidden West is a stunning game, and the Tallneck is its most visually arresting creature — a walking communications tower the size of a skyscraper. LEGO® captured the silhouette well enough that fans of the game will feel something when they see it on a shelf. The problem is that this set never found its footing with the broader LEGO® audience: the game's fanbase skews older and PlayStation-specific, which kept this from becoming a crossover hit. At $90, there's a licensing surcharge baked in that's hard to ignore when the build itself — while competent — doesn't deliver the kind of jaw-dropping techniques or density you'd want at that spend. The two minifigs are fine but feel like an afterthought next to a model that's clearly meant to be displayed, not played with. It's a C- for a reason: not broken, not brilliant, just a set that asked you to love a thing a little more than the market did.
