On the hunt for the best new Lego sets, here in space year 2026? You’re in the right place. And because there are so many Lego releases to keep up with, I’ve taken the liberty of hand-picking some favourites to help make life that little bit easier.
From cracking Transformers and art sets to brick-based foliage and a Lego pub, there’s a whole host of shiny new blocky goodness to sink your teeth into and make your thumbs mad at.
So without further ado, here are some of the best new Lego sets available in 2026.
Transformers Soundwave
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.
Game Boy
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. And, yes, someone has even made a working version, so you can play Tetris for real. Bonkers.
Time Machine from Back to the Future
Proof indeed that not every licensed Lego car needs to cost a small fortune! This famous car, which Lego mysteriously refuses to call a DeLorean, includes all the warranty-voiding Doc Brown modifications required to hurl it through time. Minifig Doc and Marty come along for the ride, and you get parts to make the car’s flying form. Just don’t roll it along the desk at 88mph, or who knows when it’ll end up? (This is best Lego sets of 2026, not 2015, 1985, 1955 or 1885!)
Up-scaled blue astronaut
Sick of losing minifigs down the back of the sofa? Then try this posable astronaut figure, which is blown up to ridiculous proportions. You can even yoink off the top of the helmet, so the tiny robot can pilot the figure like a gigantic mech. Alas, there’s no Benny cracked visor option. Modders over at Rebrickable are surely on that.
Japanese Cherry Blossom Landscape
Lego attempts to recreate real-world paintings land somewhere between tastefully abstract and blocky horror. But when designers are given total freedom, you get little marvels like this. The shadow box is packed full of ingenious techniques, from brick-built birds to water that looks like it’s escaped from a 1980s video game. The waterfall’s superb too, refusing to stay inside the frame. Yet it’s hinged so it works whether you hang this Lego art on a wall or place it on a table.
WALL-E and EVE
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.
Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D
Trekkies might wail at the prospect of beaming up all their cash to Lego. But in return, they get a brick-built Enterprise that rivals anything Lego’s made for a certain other series with ‘Star’ in the title. Along with the ship, you get nine crew members. And the ship can be displayed on a stand, so you can fiddle with the shuttlebay to free its two tiny shuttlepods. Just resist the urge to separate the command saucer and re-enact a Borg attack. Otherwise the only thing you’ll be engaging is your ability to clean up a massive pile of grey pieces.
Rocking Plants
A quick way to spot a grump: show them Happy Plants. No smile = no hope. Doubly so with this wallet-friendly follow-up that’s even more adorable, and one of my favourite Lego sets of 2026 so far, due to the little plant pots rocking on their little plant pot bottoms. Neatly, the flowery bits can be mixed and matched. Or swap them out for sad brown stick pieces, to ironically point out you can’t even keep Lego flora alive.
Ford Model T
“You want a classic car? Fine! Have the classic car!” someone at Lego probably said before offering up this replica of the 1910 original’s spindly elegance. Everything’s here from the crank handle to the fold-back fabric roof. And while it won’t outpace your Lego Lambo, it’s pure class as a display piece. Now give us a Speed Champions version, Lego.
Tudor Corner
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.
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