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.
- Read: The best large Lego sets you should buy
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.
March 2026 Lego sets
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Batman Logo ($79.99/£69.99 • 678 pieces): You have to be a… special type of fan to drop serious cash on a brick-built logo. But there’s something about this chunky Bat-signal, which can perch on a stand or be mounted on a wall, so you can admire its brooding glory. You get two figures as well – a standard Batman and a golden one that’s either for an anniversary or just Bruce showing off his absurd wealth. And you never know your luck: shine a torch behind the set and into the night sky and the caped crusader might just make an appearance for real.
January 2026 Lego sets
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Stranger Things: The Creel House ($299.99/£249.99 • 2593 pieces): Lego proportions lend themselves more to cute than horror (deeply unsettling and possibly rabid Rocket Raccoon excepted), but this take on the famous house from Stranger Things has a go. At first, it looks like a dilapidated Gothic manor, which around back becomes a dollhouse of detailed scenes. But ‘stretch’ the set horizontally and the whole thing mutates into a twisted form that reveals the big bad’s interdimensional Mind Lair. All while frying your mind when you think about how Lego’s designers engineered this.
Japanese Cherry Blossom Landscape ($139.99/£99.99 • 1892 pieces): 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 and yet hinged so it works whether you hang this Lego art on a wall or place it on a table.
Time Machine from Back to the Future ($27.99/£22.99 • 357 pieces): Proof indeed that not every licensed Lego car needs to cost a small fortune. (*cough* Batmobiles *cough*) 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 the parts to convert the car into its flying form. Just don’t roll it along the desk at 88mph, or who knows when it’ll end up?
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Mini Biomes ($59.99/£54.99 • 797 pieces): If any video game lends itself to plastic bricks, it’s Minecraft. Loads of sets are due in January, but this smart display stands out, packing five biomes and an equal number of microfigures into a teeny tiny space. The backdrop is reversible too, although if you do flip it around, do a quick double check that the tiny creeper and pillager haven’t started rampaging around your living room.
Shopping Street ($249.99/£229.99 • 3456 pieces): Honestly, the latest modular doesn’t reach the dizzy heights of last year’s Tudor Corner. Although, to be fair, that was essentially a pub. This year, a Lego designer has gone properly off-grid, though, with buildings that are all weird angles of the sort you don’t usually get in a Lego set. The interiors of the shops are squished and the set feels more ‘Slice of Shopping Street’ than anything. Still, it’s novel and adds something new to any rigid row of modulars.
Tiger Shark Tank ($139.99/£129.99 • 1548 pieces): Sometimes you want to satisfy your inner geek by constructing a Lego kit that replicates a real-world object. And sometimes you want to unleash your inner child with a Tiger Shark Tank. It’s a shark. With tiger stripes. It’s also a tank. YASSSS! Not enough? An alternative build lets you quickly transform it into a massive, terrifying flying boat thing, with tank tread sails. It’s like something out of Mad Max: Aquatic Fury and the perfect answer to anyone who claims modern Lego lacks imagination.
The best Lego sets of 2025
Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D ($399.99/£349.99 • 3600 pieces): 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. The ship can be proudly displayed on a stand, allowing you to 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.
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?
The Goonies ($329.99/£269.99 • 2912 pieces): “Hey, you guys!” It’s another massive box of bricks, precision-engineered to part children of the 1980s from their cash. This time, The Goonies gets immortalised in plastic. From one side, you get a gorgeous and detailed take on the exterior of the Inferno pirate ship ruins. (Lego Death Star, take note.) Flip the set 180 degrees and the ship’s interior is packed with enough interactive vignettes, booby traps and minifigs for you to recreate the movie yourself. Plus it’s big enough to shelter behind if you share such creativity online and Warner Bros. lawyers burst in, ready to throw cease-and-desist orders at your head.
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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.
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.
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!
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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.
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.
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