Which Gifts with Purchase (GwP) are available on 1 January 2025? Information has not been quite as forthcoming as usual, no doubt because of the holiday break, but now that the new year is beginning to break around the world, we can confirm the 3 GwPs definitely being made available!
I'm sure none of us are truly ready for 2025... so let's take it day by day! Is your LEGO® shopping list ready for 1 January? We've heard estimates of the number of new products going online at midnight that range from 150 to 225 SKUs! So New Year's Eve is a great day to research your first-day purchases.
Two new LEGO® Spring Festival sets, 80116 Trotting Lantern and 80117 Good Fortune were released on 25 December 2024 in the Asia-Pacific region and on 1 January 2025, they become available worldwide. Also coming is a Gift with Purchase (GwP), 40756 Lucky Knots. Let's take a look at the new and interesting elements which occur in this wave of sets.
We start off the reviews for the LEGO® Friends January 2025 wave with the biggest set in the line-up. Together, let's hop on our bike and inline skates to potter some clay and wash out any resulting stains in the laundromat, before enjoying a cup of tea with locally sourced honey while watching the cats play with yarn. Oh, and look at the new baby!
January 2025 brings a new wave of LEGO® DREAMZzz™ sets, a theme that is known to often supply new moulds and printed and recoloured parts. With 7 sets in this wave ranging from a poly paper-based bag set with 53 parts to the largest set with 1006 parts, there's plenty of new element-spotting to get on with.
[Posting this again following some miscommunication about the threshold.]
New Elementary can offer our Australian readers set 40586 Moving Truck as a Gift with Purchase (GwP) until end New Year's Eve Tuesday 31 December 2024 when making purchases from LEGO.com Australia of $300 or more. This is on top of the other GwP currently available, 40689 Firework Celebrations at the $140 threshold.
The first wave of 2025 LEGO® Friends contains 20 sets in total, including 2 only-partly-poly-but-mostly-paper bags. Across these, I’ve counted 222 new elements for us to enjoy, and so before I review the individual sets, I’ve put the most prominent, fresh molds in an overview for you.
In July, I reviewed LEGO® Botanicals sets 10368 Chrysanthemum & 10369 Plum Blossom. They were pronounced to be two of the Four Gentlemen: a set of traditional plants in East Asian culture. The remaining two are bamboo and orchid. Those flowers are less straightforward to make into LEGO sets: orchid because it already appeared in sets 10311 Orchid and 43237 Isabela's Flowerpot (review of 43237 by me, again), and bamboo because it's basically some sticks, and thus not interesting… or so we thought.
On 1 January 2025, sets 10343 Mini Orchid and 10344 Lucky Bamboo will be available, and today I am going to see if they are worthy successors to the first pair – both of which got good marks from me.
August 2023 saw the introduction of LEGO® Icons 10315 Tranquil Garden, a Japanese-inspired model which is a little bit larger than minifigure scale and features modular components to vary the garden layout. At the time, we assumed that this was a one-off.
However, set 10359 Fountain Garden, led by senior designer Henrik Saaby, will be released on 1 January 2025 under the new LEGO Icons sub-theme "Gardens of the World". Let's take a look at the parts and construction of the Fountain Garden to see what delights await.
The last 2024 LEGO® DREAMZzz™ set we're reviewing is another great example of the quirky set design of this original theme: a witch's hut nested atop a gigantic raven. So far, I've been critical towards many sets of this wave due to unfocused and messy set design. I've associated this with the alternative builds. I like how these sets offer different designs using the same parts, emphasising the nature of this medium – but so far, it has deemed sacrifices on the design coherence.
Still doing your Christmas shopping – or just starting? After midnight Friday 13 December 2024, the 40701 Ballerina & Nutcracker Scene is gone from LEGO.com, but a new Gift with Purchase (GwP) becomes available that isn't limited to LEGO® Insiders and has a lower threshold. Let's pull out those holiday snaps in readiness for 40702 Christmas Picture Frame.
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In what is surely our final update on LEGO® Pick a Brick for 2024, we have been informed that the service has temporarily paused "Standard" elements in the US and Canada over the holiday period as usual. However, "Bestseller" elements remain fully operational, with over 4000 elements available with fast delivery.
Canada: note that they are temporarily unable to ship orders to certain rural areas due to the ongoing disruptions with Canada Post.
In Europe, Australia and New Zealand, there’s no change because everything is now available through the Bestseller service! There is one change though: you will see that the site has been updated to completely remove this Bestseller/Standard distinction. Hooray! A great and symbolic end to an incredible year of improvements from the Pick a Brick team. Can't wait to see what 2025 brings!
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With the new LEGO® Fortnite Odyssey social roleplay experience Brick Life launching today, 12 December 2024, now's the perfect moment to announce the winners of our Mind that Banana contest and find out which original creations won the prizes of LEGO Fortnite sets!
Occasionally, a new LEGO® part will present opportunities that I haven't encountered before. The family of rounded plates received two further wonderful new additions in 2023, and although they’re not quite so new anymore I felt that they were worthy of some exploration.
2025 is not here yet, but we're having an early start with the new element mega-party pack, LEGO® Botanicals 10342 Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet. The "Botanical Collection" no longer sits under the LEGO® Icons branding and instead becomes its own theme, so are these plant sets still worthy of adult hobbyists?
Starting midnight Friday December 6 2024, a new Gift with Purchase (GwP) becomes available to LEGO® Insiders... plus, LEGO® Insiders 2x Points are back too!
The latest set in the LEGO® Modular Buildings Collection was announced yesterday as 10350 Tudor Corner. The set is a corner building which houses a restaurant, a haberdashery, a clockmaker’s workshop and an attic apartment.
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Let's take a look at the new elements and the eight minifigures first, before groundwork starts on the pub.
Just revealed, the 2025 LEGO® Icons Modular Buildings Collection set is 10350 Tudor Corner! Our review is coming tomorrow, but first we have a rather special introduction with exclusive photos.
Our building contest – where you had to use a LEGO® banana, but were not allowed to make a banana – has finally split. Entries closed earlier today, and now it is up to our three judges to pick the most apeeling creations. In the meantime, you can enjoy all 103 entries yourself, thanks to all the wonderful participants who joined in and showed off their creative skills!
I've created a list showing all 43 new LEGO® elements added in late November and early December 2024, with links to which sets they come in so you can check for the ones you might be interested in. For those of you who instead prefer our list of sets showing which contain the most new elements, click here.
Welcome to December already! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, although the 2024 LEGO® advent calendars were actually revealed back in August. Stop reading now if you want to keep every aspect of your LEGO® City, LEGO® Friends or LEGO® Disney Advent calendars a surprise. Although we won't be spoiling the final mini-builds here, we have collected the new elements, new prints and rare elements from each of the three advent calendars to show you.
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There's some fun new elements amongst the usual fires with marshmallows toasting, ice hockey and Christmas trees!
