Interview: LEGO® 10353 Williams Racing FW14B with designer Gus McLaren

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.

Designer interview: LEGO® Ideas 21356 River Steamboat

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.

LEGO® House: the LEGO® Botanicals takeover

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. 

Revealed: 40506 LEGO® Fabuland® Tribute exclusive set from LEGO® House

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. 

LEGO® House: new-for-2025 LEGO® FABULAND® exhibit

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!

Review: 10362 French Cafe from LEGO® Icons, with designer insight from Hoang Huy Dang

We have landed a reservation at 10362 French Cafe, the newest set from LEGO® Icons! With some tasty recolours and novel building techniques on the menu, it looks like we're in for a treat.

Our review features designer insight from Hoang Huy Dang, lead designer on the set. His comments have been edited for readability and clarity.

International LEGO® Day 2025: moulding knowledge quiz

28 January marks the "birthday" of the LEGO® brick — the anniversary of the day in 1958 when the patent of the LEGO System 2x4 brick was submitted to the trademark office in Denmark. This is celebrated today as International LEGO Day.

As a way to celebrate as only New Elementary can, we decided to test your LEGO moulding knowledgeby posing a series of questions on our social media asking you to identify items in an image. Here are the questions and also the answers, so let's see how many you have right.

Vincent Van Gogh – Sunflowers from LEGO® Art: designer reveal

Available to pre-order now, and released on 1 March 2025, the LEGO® Art theme returns to Vincent Van Gogh's work with a Sunflowers LEGO set. 

LEGO Art 31215 Sunflowers was revealed to us last year at Fan Media Days by Fiorella Lee Groves, creative lead and Stijn Oom, the set's lead designer. The following coverage of the set reveal has been edited for readability and narrative flow.

Designer reveal: 21062 Trevi Fountain from LEGO® Architecture

The Trevi Fountain, one of Rome’s most renowned landmarks, is coming to LEGO® Architecture... again! 

Set 21062 Trevi Fountain is available to pre-order now in advance of its 1 March 2025 release, but was revealed to a select few at last year’s Fan Media Days in Denmark, where we joined our fellow fan media The Brothers Brick and Tips & Bricks for an exclusive chat with Mary Wilson, designer of this bellissimo new set. The transcript we share with you below has been edited for narrative flow and brevity.

Designer interview: 10350 Tudor Corner with François Zapf and Ashwin Visser

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.

At Fan Media Days in Denmark in September 2024, I joined Andrew Becraft from The Brothers Brick to have the lead designer François Zapf (above right) and graphic designer Ashwin Visser (above left) talk us through the new Modular's features and development.

Interview: 10363 Leonardo Da Vinci's Flying Machine from LEGO® Icons

Coming 1 January 2025, LEGO® Icons set 10363 Leonardo Da Vinci's Flying Machine is quite unlike anything you've seen before from The LEGO Group! 

We were present at the reveal of the set at Fan Media Days in Denmark in September 2024, where Antica Bracanov, Senior Designer (above) and Nathan Davis, Graphic Designer spoke about the product they helped develop.

Pick a Brick update: How to download your cart

The development team at LEGO® Pick a Brick have released another awesome update to the service that LEGO builders have been asking for: you can now download a list of the elements in your shopping cart.

Revealed: 21353 The Botanical Garden from LEGO® Ideas

On 1 November 2024, LEGO is releasing the next fan-inspired LEGO® Ideas set: The Botanical Garden! This set is based on a fan design by Valentina Bima (Goannas89), which reached the required 10,000 supporter milestone back on 9 January 2023, and was announced as a future set in the results of the First 2023 Review last December. 

21353 The Botanical Garden will undoubtedly appeal to a lot of builders not only for its stately display presence and detailed construction, but also for its outstanding variety of useful plant-building elements. Without further ado, let’s put on our gardening gloves and dig in!

Moulding LEGO® mini-doll legs

We recently came across a new LEGO® element. They look somewhat macabre and perhaps more akin to something from John Carpenter's The Thing than LEGO.

The elements in question appears to be mini-doll legs that are moulded in pairs. The double-ended legs started a discussion here at New Elementary about mini-doll leg moulding processes and the timing of printing. Read on to hear our theories.

LEGO® Icons 10337 Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV: review & designer interview

I've stripped down the parts in the LEGO® Icons set 10337 Lamborghini Countach 5000 Quattrovalvole, got myself revved up, and built it. Today I'm taking a look its clever construction, and speaking with its lead designer, Sven Franic. I even took it for a bit of a respray in the 'shop!

LEGO® House Exclusive set review and interview: 40505 LEGO Building Systems

Recently I was lucky enough to attend an online reveal of the latest LEGO® House exclusive set, 40505 LEGO Building Systems, with the opportunity to ask some questions to the set's designers, Stuart Harris (LEGO House Master Builder) and Markus Rollbüller (Senior Designer at The LEGO Group). 

Temporary changes to LEGO® Pick a Brick in 2024

Many of you have been asking here on the site and across our social channels about the delays in adding new elements to the LEGO®  Pick a Brick (PaB) online service. We have an update from LEGO, and it is not good news in the short term.

In early January 2024 we received a list of new elements that were to be added later that month to PaB, but this didn't happen. Furthermore, readers say some 5000 existing elements have now been removed from the PaB "Standard" assortment. These elements will return, and the new parts will be added - but the estimated date for this is now March. 

LEGO® Icons review and interview: 10331 Kingfisher Bird

LEGO® Icons is testing the waters with new subject matter. 10331 Kingfisher Bird is the latest black-boxed 18+ set and hopes to entice new builders with its entry-level pricing. Can it succeed? Let's dive in...

Our review features excerpts from our roundtable discussion with Senior Designer Sven Franic, who was responsible for this set's design. Some text has been edited for readability.

LEGO® Friends build review and interview: 42639 Andrea's Modern Mansion

With 2275 parts, 42639 Andrea’s Modern Mansion is the largest LEGO® Friends set to date. These parts include a lot of interesting new elements which we’ve already taken a look at, but now it’s time to start building!

LEGO® NINJAGO® review: mech sets 71806, 71807 & 71808

Over the years we've seen many mechs in the LEGO® NINJAGO® line-up and their builds have increasingly evolved through time. In 2024 the designers are introducing new elements to bring even more build options and play features.

Today we’ll be taking a look at 3 mechs from the first wave of 2024 sets; 71806 Cole's Earth Mech, 71807 Sora's Tech Mech and 71808 Kai's Fire Mech.