Best upcoming Lego sets 2025 and 2026: this and next year’s top new Lego releases
Prepare for a block party with these superb sets coming soon from Lego
When Lego founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen pivoted his business to plastic bricks, we wonder if he had any idea of the global phenomenon Lego would become. Today, there are many themes, for kids and adult collectors alike. It’s hard to keep track. So we’re doing it for you, with the Stuff guide to the best upcoming Lego sets.
Note: this list covers officially announced Lego sets. There are no rumours, leaks, nor models the writer ham-fistedly pieced together from a pile of random bricks.
January 2025 Lego sets
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Lightning McQueen ($27.99/£22.99 • 270 pieces): The star of no one’s favourite Pixar movie (Cars) screeches into Lego form as a garish red motor with gigantic eyes and a daft grin. And honestly? It’s not half bad. True to the source, you’ll be slapping stickers everywhere. But the design’s solid and there’s even a detailed undercarriage. Even better, it bodes well for the upcoming Back to the Future DeLorean, which is also supposed to be zooming on to store shelves in early 2026.
October 2025 Lego sets
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Game Boy ($59.99/£54.99 • 421 pieces): Lego’s latest tribute to gaming hardware is eerily accurate – a brick-built Game Boy that’s almost the exact size of the real thing. The controls are spot-on too, and you even get swappable lenticular screens and a couple of chunky Game Paks. But surely it’s only a matter of time before someone jams a Raspberry Pi and working screen inside one, so you can play Tetris for real?
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Gingerbread AT-AT™ Walker ($59.99/£54.99 • 697 pieces): Use the fork, Luke? Forget Snowspeeders – the only way to bring down this festive stomper is with a sugar high and a strong jaw. And once you’re through the tasty armour, you’ll be able to do battle with Gingerbread Darth Vader, in a candy cane duel to the death. Or at least a light snooze. The perfect set for making people question just how much mulled wine they’ve had, and infinitely better value than Lego’s ludicrously expensive Death Star slice.
Gremlins Gizmo ($109.99/£89.99 • 1125 pieces): ’80s kids finally have the cash to buy all the things they couldn’t back then. Not that you could get an adorable Lego Gizmo at the time. But you can now, and the cute and cuddly guy (OK, maybe not cuddly – plastic!) can be posed and built in standing or sitting form. Maybe avoid clipping that Lego water splash to his back, though, unless you want a swarm of malevolent Lego Gremlins to take over your house by morning.
Bouquet of Pink Roses ($59.99/£54.99 • 789 pieces):The Botanicals line continues to be a surprise hit for Lego, with plastic flowers flying off the shelves. Most sets offer building techniques and parts usage that’ll make long-time Lego fans repeatedly double-take. And this particular set is just the thing to ‘say it with flowers’, apologising to your long-suffering other half for you having bought everything else on this page and filling your home with Lego. No, hang on. That’s not going to work, is it?
The best Lego sets of 2025 so far…
Transformers Soundwave ($189.99/£159.99 • 1505 pieces): Lego Optimus was a triumph. Lego Bumblebee? Not so much. Fortunately, Soundwave superior. His blocky form translates perfectly to plastic bricks, making this the best Lego Transformer to date. Huge bonus points also to the designers for somehow getting two of Soundwave’s cassette tape minions working at this scale. Still not convinced? You will be on prodding ‘play’, whereupon Soundwave will emit some of his memorably dulcet tones and – in rather more unlikely fashion – a sting from the original 1980s cartoon.
WALL-E and EVE ($69.99/£59.99 • 811 pieces): If you missed the superb WALL-E set back in 2015, this redo scales things down but dials up everything else. You get WALL-E’s gloriously blocky form, now with his trademark sliding arms. But now EVE (“if Jony Ive designed robots”) and perpetually miffed cleaning droid M-O too. For once, Lego’s even nailed the price. A relative bargain, then, and a set you’ll want to display proudly, not mash into a cube of garbage like WALL-E does in his day job.
Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook ($129.99/£109.99 • 1359 pieces): If there’s not already enough Lego on your shelves, this set’s aiming to infiltrate your books. Folded, it offers a forced-perspective glimpse of Baker Street, where you can pose Sherlock Holmes in hot pursuit of Irene Adler, while Dr Watson trips over Professor Moriarty’s ego. Or open the set up to potter around a detailed diorama, packed with Easter eggs galore.
More great Lego sets from 2025…
Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell ($79.99/£69.99 • 799 pieces): Our current favourite from approximately three billion F1 Lego sets speeding your way in 2025. This one features a little Lego Nigel Mansell with his little Lego moustache thinking there’s no way he’s going to get that 31cm long car around Silverstone when he can’t even see over the steering wheel.
Mario Kart – Mario & Standard Kart ($169.99/£149.99 • 1972 pieces): Let’s-a-go! In their ongoing quest to do everything other than sell you Mario minifigs, Lego and Nintendo have collaborated on this giant-sized take on the moustachioed hero and his fancy go-kart. A stand adds dynamism when the build is on display, and you can fiddle with steering and pose Mario’s head and arms. No telling if you’ll be able to zoom the set along a desk, and it’s a bit of a missed opportunity to not provide pieces that’d make Mario work in standalone fashion, so he could play the Lego NES during his downtime. Oh-ho, no!
The Simpsons: Krusty Burger ($209.99/£179.99 • 1635 pieces): Fortunately, this set doesn’t come with 700 Krusty burgers, because that would be a desperately dull build. Instead, you get a lovingly grubby fast-food joint you’d be ‘brave’ to frequent, complete with kitchen, dining area, and lack of toilet paper in the restroom. Compared to previous Simpsons sets, it’s spendy, but the build looks tasty. Unlike an actual Krusty burger.
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Tudor Corner ($229.99/£199.99 • 3266 pieces): Lego’s annual modular building is always a bit special. But this latest entry is like nothing Lego’s released before. Drawing from British architecture, it features a restaurant and haberdashery, with a clockmaker’s above. Alas, no little Lego pints (despite this being an 18+ set), but then you can always make them yourself.
Ducati Panigale V4 S Motorcycle ($199.99/£169.99 • 1603 pieces): Oh yes! If you’re someone who reckons four wheels is two too many, this Technic effort should appeal. Once complete, you can gawp at the shiny red bodywork, mess around with the 3-speed gearbox, and blaze this take on Ducati’s high-performance motorbike along your dining table, making VVRRRRMMMMMM noises when everyone else is out of earshot. Or not.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine ($49.99/£54.99 • 493 pieces): There have been various efforts to recreate da Vinci’s ahead-of-its-time ornithopter. This is the first in Lego bricks. The model can be perched on a stand, or you can use the trigger to flap its wings, while Lego Leonardo looks on approvingly. While also using his genius to figure out why this one’s oddly expensive outside of the USA.
Craig Grannell
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