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.
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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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.
Lightning McQueen ($27.99/£22.99 • 270 pieces): The star of no one’s favourite Pixar movie (Cars) screeches into Lego form as a garish red motor with gigantic eyes and a daft grin. And honestly? It’s not half bad. True to the source, you’ll be slapping stickers everywhere. But the design’s solid and there’s even a detailed undercarriage. No minifigure with this one, mind. Then again, there are no humans in Cars. Maybe the grinning automobiles ate them.
November 2025 Lego sets
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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.
The best Lego sets of 2025 so far…
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?
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.
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.
More great Lego sets from 2025…
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.
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!
Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook ($129.99/£109.99 • 1359 pieces): If there’s not already enough Lego on your shelves, this set’s aiming to infiltrate your books. Folded, it offers a forced-perspective glimpse of Baker Street, where you can pose Sherlock Holmes in hot pursuit of Irene Adler, while Dr Watson trips over Professor Moriarty’s ego. Or open the set up to potter around a detailed diorama, packed with Easter eggs galore.
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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.
The Simpsons: Krusty Burger ($209.99/£179.99 • 1635 pieces): Fortunately, this set doesn’t come with 700 Krusty burgers, because that would be a desperately dull build. Instead, you get a lovingly grubby fast-food joint you’d be ‘brave’ to frequent, complete with kitchen, dining area, and lack of toilet paper in the restroom. Compared to previous Simpsons sets, it’s spendy, but the build looks tasty. Unlike an actual Krusty burger.
