The LEGO Group Reveals Full Lineup of Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 Products Featuring New Mega Minions

• THE LEGO® DESPICABLE ME 4 SETS WILL BE AVAILABLE BEGINNING MAY 1, 2024
• ILLUMINATION’S DESPICABLE ME 4 ARRIVES IN THEATERS WORLDWIDE JULY 3, 2024

Billund, 22nd April 2024: The LEGO Group, Illumination and Universal Products & Experiences are revealing the full lineup of LEGO Despicable Me 4 products. All the new sets will be available from 1st May 2024. Illumination’s newest chapter in the biggest global animated franchise in history, Despicable Me 4, will arrive in theaters worldwide 3rd of July 2024.

The new sets capture special moments of Illumination’s ‘Despicable Me’ franchise featuring Gru, his family and the beloved Minions. The sets are packed with exciting details, functions, and new characters including Mega Minions and Anti-Villain League (AVL) Minions, as seen for the first time in Despicable Me 4. The AVL Minions, who look like secret agents in their suits, help capture and arrest villains. Mega Minions are not only larger versions of the well-known Minions, but, they also have secret superpowers, including the ability to stretch to surprising lengths or fly through the sky. Fans will get to know more of Mega Minions as they build the sets.

The four new sets for ages 6-9 and up are: The Minions and Banana Car, a 136-piece set featuring a banana car, with a driver seat, removeable engine as well as tools, gadgets and a bunch of beloved Minions. Fans can also get the Minions’ Music Party Bus, a 379-piece model including functions such as a push-along bus that can turn into a Minion Party Playset once opened, featuring a hot tub and DJ station. In addition, the Brick-Built Gru and Minions set made of 839 bricks shows a large Gru figure with jointed and moveable arms, hands and fingers, surrounded by five Minions and their accessories. The set also include rotating features and brand-new characters. Additionally, the 868-piece Minions and Gru's Family Mansion set includes the growing family of six with Gru, Lucy, Gru Jr. and the girls: Margo, Edith and Agnes alongside the iconic house, a gadget-filled laboratory and three Mega Minions.

The new LEGO Despicable Me 4 sets will be available to purchase from 1st May 2024, via LEGO Stores, www.lego.com/themes/minions and retailers around the world.

About Despicable Me 4
In Despicable Me 4, the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem as Gru (Oscar® nominee Steve Carrell) and Lucy (Oscar® nominee Kristen Wiig) and their girls —Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Madison Polan)—welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad.

Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal (Emmy winner Will Ferrell) and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina (Emmy nominee Sofia Vergara), and the family is forced to go on the run.

The film features fresh new characters voiced by Joey King (Bullet Train), Emmy winner Stephen Colbert (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live). Pierre Coffin returns as the iconic voice of the Minions and Oscar® nominee Steve Coogan returns as Silas Ramsbottom.

Packed with non-stop action and filled with Illumination’s signature subversive humor, Despicable Me 4 is directed by a co-creator of the Minions, Oscar® nominee Chris Renaud (Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets), and is produced by Illumination’s visionary founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Brett Hoffman (executive producer, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Minions: The Rise of Gru). The film is co-directed by Patrick Delage (animation director Sing 2 and The Secret Life of Pets 2), and the screenplay is by the Emmy winning creator of White Lotus, Mike White, and the veteran writer of every Despicable Me film, Ken Daurio.

About Illumination
Illumination, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007, is one of the entertainment industry's leading producers of event-animated films, including Despicable Me —the most successful animated franchise in cinematic history—as well as the record breaking The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Dr. Seuss' The Grinch and The Secret Life of Pets and Sing films. Illumination's library includes three of the top 10 animated films of all time. Illumination's iconic, beloved franchises—infused with memorable and distinct characters, global appeal and cultural relevance—have grossed more than $9 billion worldwide. Illumination has an exclusive financing and distribution partnership with Universal Pictures. Illumination's next film is Despicable Me 4, which will be released in theaters on July 3, 2024.

About Universal Products & Experiences  
Universal Products & Experiences (UP&E) globally drives the expansion and elevation of NBCUniversal’s iconic collection of brands, intellectual properties, characters, and stories based on the company’s extensive portfolio of properties created by Universal Pictures, Illumination, DreamWorks Animation and NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. The division executes this through innovative physical and digital products, as well as engaging retail and product experiences across our expansive global theme park destinations (for both owned and third-party IP), location-based venues, e-commerce product platforms, and retailers around the world. Along with global brand strategy and creative, UP&E’s lines of business include Consumer Products and Games, along with Theme Parks Products & Retail. UP&E is a division of Universal Destinations & Experiences, part of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. More information is available at universalproductsexperiences.com.

About the LEGO Group
The LEGO Group’s mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow through the power of play. The LEGO System in Play, with its foundation in LEGO bricks, allows children and fans to build and rebuild anything they can imagine. The LEGO Group was founded in Billund, Denmark in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, its name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”.

Today, the LEGO Group remains a family-owned company headquartered in Billund. Its products are now sold in more than 130 countries worldwide. For more information: www.LEGO.com