LEGO® Botanicals are retreading old ground and breaking fresh ground with their latest two sets to be revealed, and while both share Japanese influences, they couldn't be more different: a big new bonsai tree, and tiny little kawaii-style potted plants who are best buddies and love you very much.
With double loyalty points starting today on selected sets at LEGO.com, we've updated this page of the promotional offers available.
Also, 40783 Coral Reef Diorama is the current global Gift with Purchase (GwP), and Japan are the first country to get the gorgeous GwP 40763 Children's Day Teddy Bear.
If you bought a ticket at
the booth you may board the Amelia, LEGO® Ideas latest and
biggest set. But now you’ll hopefully enjoy your ride on the “Ghost ship of the Mississippi” – we’ll get to that naming later.
The LEGO® Pick a Brick team challenged New Elementary to transform an ordinary set into something new with the help of some extra pieces from Pick a Brick online. Jonas Kramm stepped up by reimagining iconic LEGO® Botanicals set 10329 Tiny Plants as a series of Flower Pot Pals! Here's what he came up with – and you can try one for yourself by studying his breakdown.
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Continuing today's reflected wedge extravaganza, Arno Knobbe challenged me to dream up something swooshable using some of the geometric delights we saw in his technique article about building off the LEGO grid with reflected wedges. Let's escape the grid in a spaceship!
After the popularity of his first guest post for us, Arno Knobbe (@legoarno on Instagram) returns today to explain more core building techniques for sending your models off the rectilinear grid.
The biggest LEGO® Ideas set to date, 21356 River Steamboat, is now available to LEGO® Insiders and will be available to all from midnight Thursday 10 April 2025. In addition, until 13 April or while stocks last, those who buy it from LEGO Stores or LEGO.com will receive the Gift with Purchase (GwP) 5009157 Amelia Ticket Booth. Let's see what this 152-piece model has to offer!
We just published Zach's review of LEGO® Icons 10353 Williams Racing FW14B and Nigel Mansell but the set was actually revealed to us in September 2024 during Fan Media Days, where Tim Johnson sat down with designer Gus McLaren to talk about the set.
I've created a list showing all 110 new LEGO® elements added in April 2025, with links to which sets they come in so you can check for the ones you might be interested in. The list now includes 21356 River Steamboat, which was released on 7 April. Stay tuned for our review of this massive LEGO® Ideas set!
For those of you who prefer it, here is our list of April 2025 sets showing which contain the most new elements.
The turn of the 1990s brought immense technological innovation to Formula 1 racing, and with it fierce rivalry as teams competed for race car construction and driving dominance. 10353 Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell is the second historic F1 LEGO® Icons set from this era, showcasing an engineering marvel which finally put Team McLaren-Honda in Williams' mirrors again.
LEGO® Classic set 11040 Magical Transparent Box is loaded with 228 translucent pieces (plus 12 spares!), comprising 43 unique clear parts. At first glance, the set looks like a box of basic bricks but a closer look reveals a few surprises – including a few new moulds!
The latest LEGO® Icons Lord of the Rings set is here, accompanied by a very precious Gift with Purchase: 40761 Sméagol and Déagol. Those who purchase 10354 The Shire between 2 and 8 April (while stocks last) will be eligible to receive this éagoly awaited GwP. We received an early copy for review, so let's go on a lovely family fishing adventure.
LEGO® have tested many projects behind closed doors and usually we only see the results when the item makes it into production.
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We have a treat for you today, as we have obtained a couple of rare prototype LEGO® DUPLO® figures with synthetic hair that escaped the test room in Billund. We are not certain, however, of the date these were explored.
It’s been 34 years (pause to realize my age…) since Beauty and the Beast was released by Disney™, blowing audiences away with the vibrant story and visuals. The movie and its characters have become icons, and many LEGO® sets have been inspired by it. So far, all of these sets are either aimed at children in the LEGO® Disney Princess theme, LEGO® Brickheadz, or references in other sets like 43226 Disney Duos.
Now, for the first time, an 18+ set fully dedicated to the movie is being released: 43263 Beauty and the Beast Castle. Will it be as impressive as the original? Be our guest, and join us in exploring the mysterious castle and all its secrets.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, but a hobbit hole made of LEGO® bricks! Today we journey back to Middle-earth to recreate Bilbo Baggins' famous abode, Bag End, in set 10354 The Shire.
The latest LEGO® Icons The Lord Of The Rings set, 10354 The Shire has been officially revealed. My through set review is coming soon, but here is a taster!
Recently we gave you a sneak preview of an exciting new web app on the LEGO.com Pick a Brick site: Create a Minifigure. As of today, the beta version has gone live in the UK! Unfortunately it is not available elsewhere.
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What were the LEGO® Gifts with Purchase (GwP) in March 2025? We've retained this page for historical records.
You can view April 2025 GwPs here.
One of the most colourful sets released earlier this month is LEGO® Disney 43272 Heihei, a brick-built version of the idiotic rooster from the Moana movies.
LEGO® Art has been a polarising theme among the generally praised 18+ sets. So far, only a small minority of the theme's 20 sets have been versions of well-known works of art – and of those, most have been pop art pieces or logos easily transferred into the plastic material and the well-defined colour charts of LEGO bricks. The most interesting departure so far has been 31213 Mona Lisa, reviewed by Jonas Kramm last September and, outside the LEGO Art theme, LEGO® Ideas 21333 Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night which I had pleasure to review in 2022. It's still my favourite set.
Whereas the bold blues of van Gogh's palette transformed delightfully into bricks, da Vinci's Renaissance idiom of thin, light layers resulted in a larger divergence from the original. The project was ambitious but the reception was mixed. 
I wonder if the good performance of the Starry Night made the designers look back to van Gogh and produce 31215 Vincent van Gogh – Sunflowers: he sure is an admired artist, but getting two among the very small number of painting-in-LEGO sets is not a small feat. With a quick look, the set seems to be very close to the original painting – but we'll have more than a quick one.
The March 2025 wave of LEGO® Technic sets consists of 5 vehicles. I’ve already looked at the 2 large F1 cars, and now I turn to the 3 smaller sets, where we find 2 fast cars and a dump truck.
LEGO® Botanicals just keep on... growing! But in a way, they are also shrinking.
Just revealed now on LEGO.com, 10347 Petite Sunny Bouquet is a smaller floral arrangement being released on 1 May 2025. It's great to see LEGO Botanicals sets at different price points as the larger bouquets are often too expensive as gifts for all occasions. But do you think this one is good value?
At LEGO® Fan Media Days in Denmark in September 2024, I was lucky enough to meet some of the design team behind the biggest LEGO® Ideas set to date.
Design Lead Jordan David Scott and Product Designer Marina Stampoli talked me through the absolutely massive LEGO Ideas set 21356 River Steamboat, which comes in at 16" (40cm) x 28" (69cm), contains over 4000 pieces and weighs 3 kilograms. "I did some exercise," says Marina as she lifts the model.
We have reached my final blog post covering the LEGO® Friends sets from the January 2025 wave. The last three sets have us building a treehouse, stylin' a new coif, and setting out on a camping trip. And of course, all these adventures will provide us with new elements.
Throughout 2025, The LEGO Group is releasing sets based on the Formula 1 races, which kick off in Australia this weekend. LEGO® Technic joins in with (among others) two large scale F1 cars: 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car and 42207 Ferrari SF-24 F1 Car. In part 1 of this review I showed you all the new elements found in sets 42206 & 42207, and now I’ll start building the two speedy vehicles – at the same time, for comparison!
With the 2025 Formula 1 season finally getting underway with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, we'll take a New Elementary view on F1 over the next couple of days!
Suspension Mount with Fender, Formula 1 (6813) is a new element that was introduced in the most recent wave of LEGO® Speed Champions sets. This new specialised part grants the cars an even higher degree of accuracy, but is it useful for anything else? Let's investigate...
The LEGO® Pick a Brick service have re-opened their "Standard" service in North America and over 12,000 elements have returned. Only "Bestseller" elements have been available since the service was closed in December 2024.
With 14 recoloured elements and parts ranging from butterflies to umbrellas, the latest LEGO® Botanicals set, 10345 Flower Arrangement makes for a pretty good parts pack. I recently reviewed set 10345, and now here are 2 of my own creations using parts from the set.
It's proving to be quite the year for LEGO® Botanicals! They've become their own line with their own logo, released some stunning sets with new moulds, taken over LEGO® House and had their first ever Gift with Purchase (GwP) – and now, here is their second already.
Happy MAR10 Day everyone! What better day to reveal that, on top of the LEGO® Super Mario™ offers available, you can also pre-order a new set coming in May 2025!
43262 Maleficent's and Cruella De Vil's Dresses from LEGO® Disney is the second of the two dress sets that will be released 1 March 2025.
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We have already taken a look at 43266 Cinderella's Dress and now it's time for the slightly larger and more expensive set with two dresses. While both of these sets may not be of interest to everyone from a theme point of view, they do contain some nice new elements.
Today we are excited to publish a guest article from Arno Knobbe (@legoarno on Instagram), an Associate Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands who attended our building workshop at Skærbæk Fan Weekend 2024. As a fan of both numbers and LEGO® bricks, he is perfectly qualified to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about building “off-grid” with LEGO parts, but were too afraid to ask because it would probably involve math... Fear not! With Arno’s beginners’ introduction to LEGO building at angles and diagonals, it's easy.
I am building the sets in the January 2025 wave of LEGO® Friends sets, and for this blog post I’ve selected the ones that primarily focus on animals. It’s a cuteness overload!
The LEGO Friends theme is responsible for the introduction of many new animals, whose more curvy, realistic features stand out from the more blocky classic versions found in themes like LEGO® City. This latest wave brings us many new cute creatures to go ‘aaaaaaaah’ over; both brand new molds and existing molds with new prints. Most of these can be found in the 4 sets that we will be taking a look at today, going from the smallest to the largest.
With the latest film in the franchise, Jurassic World Rebirth coming in July 2025, so too the LEGO® Jurassic World theme continues, with 6 tie-in sets launching on 1 June. Read on to see them all and their prices, plus some new parts we spotted!
NEWSFLASH: Micro Space Command Centre available for 2,250 Insiders points
I've created a list showing all 516 new LEGO® elements added on 1 March 2025, with links to which sets they come in so you can check for the ones you might be interested in. And for those of you who instead prefer our list of March 2025 sets showing which contain the most new elements, click here.
The LEGO Group and BBC Studios have unveiled the upcoming LEGO® BLUEY™ playsets at Toy Fair® 2025 in New York City. This is the first time Bluey and her family will be depicted in LEGO form, within six new sets for builders aged 2 to 5: two are LEGO® DUPLO® sets and four are LEGO® System sets with the 4+ age mark.
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Let's take a closer look at all six products due to launch on 1 June 2025, as we imagine the interest in these sets will expand well beyond the intended age group.
It's no secret that New Elementary has a soft spot for the LEGO® FABULAND® theme. We've covered it on many occasions, examining its colours, exclusive elements, discontinued moulds and legacy.
Evidently, we're not the only ones with a fondness for Fabuland, as it is the subject of this year's LEGO® House exclusive set, 40506 LEGO Fabuland Tribute. This will be the sixth LEGO House exclusive set to be released and you can read more about the design process in our article covering the reveal of the LEGO Fabuland Tribute set.
There’s never a bad time for some botanical building! That is clearly the ethos at LEGO® House in Denmark in 2025, because when they were closed over January, the LEGO florists moved in.
I visited recently to discover their new displays, and was met in LEGO Square at a new big flower wall by none other than the blooming LEGO House Master Builder himself, Stuart Harris who personally guided me around the areas where the the LEGO® Botanicals have taken root.
The tires have been warmed up, the lights are turning on one by one, and the grid is ready to speed off.
In March 2025, LEGO® Technic will release 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car and 42207 Ferrari SF-24 F1 Car: two sets depicting large scale replicas of the cars that these two teams used in the 2024 F1 season. It’s a race to the finish line to see which brings the best new elements for us.
This weekend, the huge LEGO® fan event Bricktastic takes place in Manchester, UK (not too late to get tickets!) and among the many attendees, the LEGO.com Pick a Brick team are in attendance all weekend.
Read on for the details, as well as some good news: information from the Pick a Brick presentation they gave today detailing exciting enhancements to the service for 2025!
Some of us may still be in the depths of winter, but the flowers in the LEGO® Botanicals collection are always in full bloom, ready to cheer anyone up, whatever the time of year!
10345 Flower Arrangement is the theme's latest and largest offering featuring a spectacular display of camellia, peonies, hydrangea, and lillies to name but a few. And what's more, they come in their own LEGO vase!
Abundant recolours and plentiful nice parts usage are a matter of course for this theme, so let's take a look at what 10345 Flower Arrangement has to offer the casual or dedicated LEGO builder.
LEGO® House have just released details of their 2025 exclusive set, 40506 LEGO® Fabuland® Tribute, available only in their shop in Billund, Denmark from March 2025. This children's theme that ran from 1979 to 1989 is greatly loved by LEGO fans of all ages, so we expect this exclusive set will prove popular.
We saw the set in September 2024 at Fan Media Days and finally we can show you those pictures! Edward Elephant, Joe Crow, Dr Lucy Lamb and Clive Crocodile have formed a band and are playing by a tree.
For the 2025 LEGO House Exclusive #6 LEGO Fabuland Tribute set 40506 click here
LEGO® House in Billund, Denmark has reopened for 2025, and I went to see what's new! Who better to show it to me than Stuart Harris, the Master Builder at LEGO House. He and the team have been busily refreshing exhibits and play experiences throughout January, including a takeover of LEGO House by the LEGO® Botanicals theme – which I will show you in my second article.
Today, I'm exclusively revealing the new LEGO® FABULAND® displays situated in the History Collection (the official LEGO museum in the basement). Read on to join me in a happy place!
71489 Cooper's Gaming Controller Jet is one of the sets released on 1 January 2025 as part of LEGO® DREAMZzz™ season 3.
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This is the last of my individual LEGO DREAMZzz set reviews, and 71489 Cooper's Gaming Controller Jet is definitely worth a closer look.
For March 2025 GwPs, click here
Which Gifts with Purchase (GwP) were available in February 2025, and were there any other offers or deals available at LEGO.com?
