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.
June 2025 Lego sets
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Baby Dinosaur Dolores: Aquilops ($24.99/£19.99 • 339 pieces): Lego’s baby Ankylosaurus and T. rex must have sold well, because here’s a third pint-sized entry stomping in to help you fashion your very own Jurassic Park Babies. Or something. Look: it’s a dinosaur. It’s Lego. And it’s absurdly cute. If you’re resisting the urge to add this adorable critter to your desk because you’re ‘too adult’ or ‘too serious’, then you are the monster.
May 2025 Lego sets
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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!
April 2025 Lego sets
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River Steamboat ($329.99/£289.99 • 4090 pieces): Ahoy there! If you’ve a thing for the rhythmic chug of paddle steamers and clicking together Lego bricks, this set will whisk you away into a state of pure nautical bliss. At 40cm tall and 69cm long, the complete set demands attention and provides plenty of details, including working engine parts, a turning rudder, and a bunch of rooms to poke around in. It’s almost as grand and captivating as the real thing – but with the distinct advantage of being significantly less likely to leave you seasick.
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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.
Ninjago City Workshops ($249.99/£219.99 • 3242 pieces): If you’re a Lego city builder with a taste for the zany, Ninjago City delivers in spades. This latest entry in the series gives you an inverted corner with four-storey buildings packed with removable rooms, a working crane, and a chunky mech to speed along remaining building work. It’s modular-compatible too, although may look a mite weird plonked next to Tudor Corner.
Vincent van Gogh – Sunflowers ($199.99/£169.99• 2615 pieces): Lego art is a mixed bag. On one hand, there’s a surprisingly lovely ‘pixelated’ take on The Great Wave, as seemingly depicted by an 8-bit micro. And then there’s Mona Lisa, which looks like the subject’s face has been ironed. Fortunately, van Gogh’s classic shines in Lego form, with smartly designed 3D sections. And, despite being Lego, it’s still marginally cheaper than the original.
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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.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine ($49.99/£54.99 • 493 pieces): There have been various efforts to recreate da Vinci’s ahead-of-its-time ornithopter. This is the first in Lego bricks. The model can be perched on a stand, or you can use the trigger to flap its wings, while Lego Leonardo looks on approvingly. While also using his genius to figure out why this one’s oddly expensive outside of the USA.
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McLaren P1 ($449.99/£389.99 • 3893 pieces): Another Lego Technic set arrives that’s only marginally less complicated than building the real-world car it represents. This time, it’s a very yellow supercar that looks, well, super. Coo over the 7-speed gearbox! Play with the dihedral doors! Zoom it along your kitchen table when no-one’s looking!
Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi ($129.99/£114.99 • 1215 pieces): It feels like Nintendo’s going to comical lengths to avoid giving us Mario minifigs. We already have dead-eyed computer Mario, and now there’s gigantic pixel-art Mario riding gigantic pixel-art Yoshi. They’re animated too – like the Lego NES, this set has a hand crank. And you can twiddle a dial so Yoshi pokes his tongue out at anyone who remarks you just spent over a hundred bucks on a Lego version of a SNES sprite.
Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale ($359.99/£314.99 • 3745 pieces): Celebrating 50 years of D&D, this set is quite the monster. And suitably, it includes some brick-built monsters too. The biggest is Cinderhorn, a gigantic posable dragon, braced to set fire to the included minifigs. Or just sit atop the castle. All depending on whether it rolls a 6 or a 20. Or something.
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Notre-Dame de Paris ($229.99/£199.99 • 4383 pieces): Five years after a devastating fire, this Paris landmark’s reconstruction is almost complete. This Lego set, packed as it is with 1×1 tiles, may take you almost as long to build. But when you’re done, you’ll have a gorgeous brick-built model showing how the building looked before that fateful day.
NASA Artemis Space Launch System ($259.99/£219.99 • 3601 pieces): If your idea of space Lego is more grounded in reality, you’ll love the latest NASA set. As ever, there’s plenty of detail, including retractable launch tower umbilicals and separating rocket stages. There’s even a dinky Orion module with foldout solar panels. Space fans will be over the moon building a rocket that’s intended to once again take people there.
Batman: The Classic TV Series Batmobile ($149.99/£129.99 • 1822 pieces): Holy oversized cars, Batman! Yes, the included 1966-style Batman minifig won’t be driving this gigantic take on the classic TV show’s car. (And 1960s Robin is sadly absent. Bah.) But you will be able to happily yell BOFF! and ZWAPP! while vrooming this beauty across your desk. All while mulling that they really don’t make ’em like they used to. This Batmobile even has a dash of vibrant colour. Imagine!
