Best upcoming Lego sets 2025: this year’s top new Lego releases
Prepare for a block party with these superb sets coming soon from Lego
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 2025 lego sets
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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.
The Evolution of STEM ($79.99/£69.99 • 879 pieces): Inspired by a fan design, this set depicts science bursting forth from a book. Budding Brian Coxes can gawp at a space shuttle, admire a brick-built atom, donk Lego Isaac Newton with a Lego apple, raise an eyebrow at Lego Marie Curie holding a glowing ‘radium’ piece (that’s dark, Lego!), and gripe that the DNA helix is the wrong way round. Maybe there’s still a place for actual science books, eh, Lego designers?
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Trevi Fountain ($159.99/£139.99 • 1880 pieces): We’ve not been bombarded with Architecture sets of late, and so we’re glad to see Lego hasn’t abandoned the idea of rethinking famous landmarks in miniaturised brick-built form. This time, Rome’s famous fountain is recreated with a raft of details, including the intricate facade of the Palazzo Poli, statues cunningly rethought as minifigs, and the water of the fountain itself. Just be mindful while that all might look tranquil, your thumbs will hate you on placing all those teeny tiny pieces.
Wild Animals: Pink Flamingo ($24.99/£19.99 • 288 pieces): For a long time, Creator 3-in-1 animal sets have impressed in providing you with multiple detailed builds, including Majestic Tiger, Wild Safari Animals, Exotic Parrot, T. rex, Red Fox, Panda Family and Medieval Dragon. All of which come highly recommended. But none of them have something Pink Flamingo has: pieces and instructions to build an adorable axolotl. Yes, that’s very specific. No, we don’t care. Axolotls FTW, etc.
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!
Craig Grannell
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