Happy new year; happy new elements!
Earlier this month Tim provided us with a tantalizing preview of all the new elements coming in the January 2026 LEGO® City sets along with insight from Design Manager, Christopher Leslie Stamp. We now have the entire wave of 17 core sets for a hands-on review (excluding the somewhat incongruous Rides subtheme). We'll examine the new moulds more closely in a future article, but in the meantime, there are plenty of recoloured parts to explore.
The LEGO Group (TLG) are introducing two new colours for 2026. It's always exciting to see a new colour in the LEGO palette, although it does make us wonder if the 'one in and one out' rule introduced in the mid-2000s has been relaxed somehow in recent years?
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TLG are calling the two new colours 430 Warm Pink and 431 Blue Violet, so let's take a closer look at these new tones and see where to find them in the new January 2026 releases.
In part 1 we analysed all the new moulds found in 11501 Tulip Bouquet and 11509 Flowering Cactus; now it's time to tackle the mountain of recolours they contain, plus those found in 11504 Peace Lily and 11508 Daisies... not forgetting the beautiful builds themselves of course!
Many LEGO® Super Heroes sets have relatively little to offer for hobbyists not interested in elaborate minifigures. Action figures are a staple in the super hero merchandise, and the recent efforts in this field have been varying in quality. 76344 Iron Man Mark 3 Collectors' Edition takes a more statuesque approach, but presents a whole Iron Man instead of mere bust or a helmet. As a human character build, it looks like one of the best so far.
2026 is almost here and that means new moulds are on the way! Today we take a look at five exciting new elements found in the upcoming LEGO® Botanicals sets 11501 Tulip Bouquet and 11509 Flowering Cactus.
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LEGO® Minifigures 71051 Series 28 fully embraces the joy of animal costumes. There are 12 different ones to collect, adding to the host of minifigures dressed as animals from previous years. Since this is a theme-based collection, I imagine it will be a "Marmite" series: love it or hate it, depending on whether minifigure costumes are your thing or not!
The end of the year is always a chance to look back – and at New Elementary, that means digging through the parts bins of 2025 to find the highlights. This year The LEGO Group gave us no shortage of interesting new moulds: just over 400 by our reckoning; or about 340 if you exclude foils, cloth and electronics.
And so, in no particular order, let’s celebrate the ones that caught our eye (and our builds), with links for you to learn a bit more about each of them via the awesome New Elementary team, who have invested so much time investigating them for you in 2025!
Today, I conclude my look at the August 2025 LEGO® Speed Champions wave with 77240 Bugatti Centodieci Hyper Sports Car and 77238 Lamborghini Revuelto & Huracán STO. Or, as I call them: the white one™, the orange one™ and the dark azure one™!
