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.
The New Elementary team have been wildly busy over the last few weeks – months actually! – reviewing 2025's themes, sets, and more importantly: the gorgeous new parts within. Here is our handy summary of what we have covered so far, highlighting some of the best new parts coming on New Year's Day.
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LEGO® Icons January parts
There are scant new moulds showing up in January LEGO Icons sets, but the decorated elements certainly shine – along with the set designs.
10350 Tudor Corner
No new moulds feature, but there are some great recolours, and the standout elements are the printed pieces.
READ MORE: Elspeth's review of the LEGO Tudor Corner Modular
The blackboard-style menu and special tiles are fun, and the printed signs are fantastic in this set; highly decorative. The restaurant's sign, The Old Guarded Inn seems to be embracing the AFOL love of goats. The name is a fun nod to the LEGO® Castle Lion Knights set 6067 Guarded Inn from 1986. The 2x2 white tile decorated with a dangling lanyard refers to the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower; a discreet way to show a hidden disability for those who may need additional support.
10355 Blacktron Renegade
1987 is back with a vengeance! The remake of this Classic Space era is bound to be a first-day purchase for many fans – not just those who were around when the original came out, but also younger fans with nostalgia for this classic set. As with Tudor Corner, it releases on 4 January but LEGO® Insiders early access is from 1 January.
There is actually one new mould – can you spot the black Slope Inverted 45° 6 x 8 Double with Pin Holes on Sides, Cutout Center (6534030 | 5119) in the picture above?
However, the undisputed stars of this universe are the printed pieces, including these new designs that give enough attention to what came before but also offer something new, for us to use in our own potential new Blacktron MOCs.
10359 Fountain Garden
This successor to 10315 Tranquil Garden moves from Japan to the region of southern Europe and northern Africa.
The recolours to dark green are impressive, but once again its the printing that steals the element limelight.
These delightful and useful prints are exclusive to this set, and come in pleasing quantities. They really help to set the mood of the build! Designed by Kenza Faten Statoua, they are inspired by zellij, an Arabic style. The lime butterfly is a Spanish moon moth (Graellsia isabellae), native to the cooler, mountainous regions of Spain where they have remained relatively unchanged since the Ice Age.
READ MORE: Caz's review of the LEGO Fountain Garden
10363 Leonardo Da Vinci's Flying Machine
Given that it feels like a more suitable subject for the LEGO® Technic theme, this is a set that divides opinion, but you really cannot judge its worth until you've had a go at flapping it!
Many useful recolours to shades of brown are included, but there are three new "moulds" as well.
They are the three fabric wings, which have the right look and subtle print for their purpose when viewing the flying machine from above or the back. Like everything else in this set, they'll be perfect for Steampunk creations, as well as mythical beasts.
READ MORE: Toby's review of the LEGO Leonardo Flying Machine set
LEGO® Botanicals January parts
The LEGO Icons Botanical Collection has become so popular, it has branched off to become its own line: LEGO Botanicals. One thing that is certain not to change is the popularity, so get in quick if you want these before stock lowers.
10342 Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet
Many new floral moulds debut in this set – a sunflower, 3-stemmed grass, and a white cup-shaped bud that is actually an unprinted Z-Blob from LEGO® DREAMZzz™ – but one you cannot fail to notice is the beautiful giant magenta petal.
Plant, Leaf 4 x 6 x 1⅓ (7096) is clearly related to Plant, Leaf 2 x 6 x 1 with 2 Studs (3565) in design. To have 15 is a great quantity to start with, and the colour is elegant. The measurements are beautifully in-System: 6 modules long, 4 modules wide; the tip arcs downward for the height of 2 plates, and the sides rise up by 1 plate.
READ MORE: Eero's review of the LEGO Pink Flower Bouquet
The series of "Four Gentlemen" plants in vases continues with the second orchid to grace the Botanical Collection, and it is incredibly elegant.
A magnificent parts pack, the best element is hard to judge – with new mould Brick Round Corner, Curved 2 x 2 x 2/3 Quarter Circle in Dark Green (6526949 | 5852) on the tips of the smaller leaves coming a close second.
However the presence of 10 of the new Plate, Round 1 x 1 with Clip On the Underside in Pearl Gold (6529802 | 5264) – with 1 extra – is what really has every LEGO builder excited. We daresay that this will be one of, if not the most influential new part of 2025. A plate with a clip on the underside has been on many an AFOL's parts wishlist, and will send folks scurrying back to their old models to be able to rebuild them better.
For example, if several of these are connected on a bar facing different ways, they'll align with the studs on a "Travis" brick with studs on the sides (
4733), as shown above. The piece has the same measurements as the Plate Round 1 x 1 with Hollow Stud and Bar on Underside - Long Space (
79194, the more modern of the two available moulds). Combined together, they have a small range of mobility, but function as a
1x1x1 module stud inverter.
READ MORE: Eero's review of the LEGO Mini Orchid and its many new parts
10344 Lucky Bamboo
Completing the Four Gentlemen is a set without any flowers. Three stalks of bamboo grow from trans-clear water among some pebbles. The pot is wider than on the other Gentlemen, in order to fit all of these elements.
A very surprising recolour is the tan Wheel Wheelchair with Fixed Hard Rubber Tire, with Pin Hole (6527050 | 80441), and if you are a fan of bright green, this has useful recolours for you.
There is a new mould though, appearing in many sets but this has 16 in dark tan; Brick Curved 1 x 2 x 1 with Curved Top (6536597 | 5841).
Basically, this is Brick Curved 1 x 2 x 1 1/3 with Curved Top (6091) with its bottommost plate layer chipped off. As shown above, this has the same curve radius of 1 module and fits Brick Arch 1 x 3 x 2 Curved Top (6005, 92903).
READ MORE: Eero's LEGO Lucky Bamboo review
LEGO® DREAMZzz™ January parts
January 2025 brings a new wave from a theme that often supplies exciting new moulds and wacky printed and recoloured parts. With 7 sets in this wave, there's plenty of new elements to check out.
The little trans-green Z-Blob is raising a few eyeballs, those flexible bent cables already have us feeling all wiggly, and the trans-pink and white 'Cyber Brain' is certainly living rent-free in our heads... it's more in-System than you think!
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Here, though, we'll call out a matching corner piece for the aforementioned truncated curved brick. Corner Brick Curved 2 x 2 x 1 with Curved Top (5846) comes in white (6519991) and dark azure (5846) in set
71490 Izzie and Bunchurro the Gaming Bunny, and you get 4 of each. This will likely replace the existing Corner Brick Curved 2 x 2 x 1 1/3 with Curved Top (
67810).
Set 71490 on LEGO.com
Set 71491 on LEGO.com
Set 71497 on LEGO.com
Set 71487 on LEGO.com
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Set 71489 on LEGO.com
LEGO® Friends January parts
The first wave of 2025 LEGO® Friends contains 20 sets in total, including 2 only-partly-poly-but-mostly-paper bags. Across these, Toby counted 222 new elements for us to enjoy!
It's simply too hard to pick a favourite among these, although the wee little Dome 1 x 1 x 2/3 in both trans-orange (6509776) and trans-bright green (6527409) was certainly popular with the team. There are 2 with 1 spare of each colour in set
42649 Heartlake City Candy Store. Tasty!
42670 Heartlake City Apartments and Stores
Having completed his mammoth mould analysis, Toby has now commenced the mammoth task of reviewing the wave of LEGO Friends sets!
Top of his list – and of many people – is the exciting Heartlake City Apartments and Stores. There are so many moulds to get excited about, like the new baby-doll figure, the inline skates and the yarn ball, but it seems the excitememnt of our readers has mostly been reserved for a very simple frame...
Window 1 x 3 x 2 can be found 5x in white (6525959 | 6798), along with matching glass in trans-clear (6508985 | 7157). As you can see above, the new window fills a gap in the array of available sizes, although a similar window of this size was introduced 70 years ago and discontinued in 1980!
READ MORE: Read Toby's review of the Heartlake City Apartments and Stores
LEGO® Spring Festival January parts
Chinese New Year 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. Gift with Purchase 40756 Lucky Knots is available 1 to 7 January in Australia and New Zealand, so perhaps the rest of the world will be the same.
What we can reveal are these stunning pieces found across the three sets! As you would expect from this range, the decorated pieces are a highlight, and only the GwP uses stickers.
These are the new moulds, one of which appears in all three sets: Chain with Bars in Pearl Gold (6512378 | 6891). As well as being unusually short, it also stands out by vitrue of having bar connections at both ends. It's bound to have a host of uses!
READ MORE: Caz explores the chain in her review of new parts in the Chinese Traditional Festival 2025 sets
Set 80116 on LEGO.com
Set 80117 on LEGO.com
Set 40756 on LEGO.com
LEGO® Monkie Kid January 2025
We don't have these for advance review, but Skye took a close look at the new parts in
2025 LEGO Monkie Kid sets in her reveal analysis article alongside the Chinese traditional Festival sets.
Other themes
As mentioned, there are hundreds of new sets coming, and a few more interesting ones are pictured below, but you can check all new sets in your local country by using one of our links:
Happy New Year!
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