09 December 2024

LEGO® parts 77845 & 77850: rounded plates

Posted by Kev Levell

Occasionally, a new LEGO® part will present opportunities that I haven't encountered before. The family of rounded plates received two further wonderful new additions in 2023, and although they’re not quite so new anymore I felt that they were worthy of some exploration.

lego plates with rounded ends, in various sizes and colours

06 December 2024

Review: 10342 Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet from LEGO® Botanicals

Posted by Eero

2025 is not here yet, but we're having an early start with the new element mega-party pack, LEGO® Botanicals 10342 Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet. The "Botanical Collection" no longer sits under the LEGO® Icons branding and instead becomes its own theme, so are these plant sets still worthy of adult hobbyists?

close up of set 10342 Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet from Lego Botanicals

05 December 2024

Review: 40701 Ballerina & Nutcracker Scene gift with purchase

Posted by tobymac

Starting midnight Friday December 6 2024, a new Gift with Purchase (GwP) becomes available to LEGO® Insiders... plus, LEGO® Insiders 2x Points are back too! 

lego model 40701 Ballerina & Nutcracker Scene. 2x Insiders points are also available.

So let's get into the spirit of the holidays with 40701 Ballerina & Nutcracker Scene.


04 December 2024

Review: 10350 Tudor Corner from LEGO® Icons Modular Buildings Collection

Posted by Elspeth De Montes

The latest set in the LEGO® Modular Buildings Collection was announced yesterday as 10350 Tudor Corner.  The set is a corner building which houses a restaurant, a haberdashery, a clockmaker’s workshop and an attic apartment.

Lego Tudor Corner modular building surrounded by new parts from the set

Let's take a look at the new elements and the eight minifigures first, before groundwork starts on the pub.

03 December 2024

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

Posted by Tim Johnson

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.

Lego Designers Ashwin Visser & François Zapf hold a model of 10350 Tudor Corner

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.

02 December 2024

Contest entry gallery: Mind that Banana

Posted by Admin

Our building contest – where you had to use a LEGO® banana, but were not allowed to make a banana – has finally split. Entries closed earlier today, and now it is up to our three judges to pick the most apeeling creations. In the meantime, you can enjoy all 103 entries yourself, thanks to all the wonderful participants who joined in and showed off their creative skills!

Contest entries revealed in Mind that Banana, a New Elementary building contest


After-Party Fest: Nathan Don's MOCs

Posted by Admin

3 extreme close ups of lego models by nathan 'woomy world' don, teasing what is to come in this article

Today we welcome guest Nathan Don (woomy_world), who is our final builder in After-Party Fest, our LEGO® building challenge using seed parts of interesting moulds released by LEGO over the last 12 months. Nathan's stunning work was selected for display until September 2025 at the prestigious LEGO House Masterpiece Gallery in Denmark, where Tim and Jonas met him at the time of installation. He then attended our Skaerbaek Fan Weekend building workshop, where these seed parts came from, and we sent him home to the US with a baggie to experiment with further!

01 December 2024

What are the new LEGO® parts in December 2024 sets?

Posted by tobymac

I've created a list showing all 43 new LEGO® elements added in late November and early December 2024, with links to which sets they come in so you can check for the ones you might be interested in. For those of you who instead prefer our list of sets showing which contain the most new elements, click here.

Parts review: LEGO® Friends, LEGO® City and LEGO® Disney Advent Calendars

Posted by Elspeth De Montes

Welcome to December already! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, although the 2024 LEGO® advent calendars were actually revealed back in August. Stop reading now if you want to keep every aspect of your LEGO® City, LEGO® Friends or LEGO® Disney Advent calendars a surprise. Although we won't be spoiling the final mini-builds here, we have collected the new elements, new prints and rare elements from each of the three advent calendars to show you. 

various lego pieces, mostly christmas themed

There's some fun new elements amongst the usual fires with marshmallows toasting, ice hockey and Christmas trees!

30 November 2024

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

Posted by tobymac

Humankind has been dreaming of taking to the skies ever since we saw birds and insects soaring. Many flying machines have been designed in the past, usually unsuccessful, and one of the most famous was sketched in the 15th century by all-round Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci. Today, we’ll build a LEGO interpretation of his designs with LEGO® Icons set 10363 Leonardo Da Vinci’s Flying Machine.

LEGO Leonardo Da Vinci minifig looking at his plans for building his flying machine, which is all around him in pieces

28 November 2024

Pick a Brick: Black Friday 2024 price cuts

Posted by Admin

To everyone’s surprise, the biggest discounts on LEGO.com this Black Friday are on Pick a Brick! And only New Elementary has the list of what is discounted – you can’t even find this info on Pick a Brick itself. They don't show their sale prices, they simply change the price.

up to 77% off Lego Pick a Brick

In addition to some discounts of up to 77% that already went live earlier in November, LEGO® Pick a Brick are also reduced their prices on Black Friday on a few hundred more popular elements from the “Last Chance” list of pieces, which are due to be deleted from the service on 3 December 2024.

The price changes are now live worldwide. Continue reading to see the lists.


LEGO® Black Friday Toy Deals

Posted by Admin

LEGO® Black Friday Toy Deals are underway, with even new sets like Christmas Table Decoration and the LEGO® Botanical Collection Wreath discounted. However the biggest discounts can be found in the Pick a Brick aisle!

Review: 40729 Shackleton's Lifeboat GwP for LEGO® Black Friday

Posted by Kevin J. Walter

Lego minifigs of Ernest Shackleton and photographer Frank Hurley with lifeboat James Caird making camp on the polar ice

A tie-in gift with purchase (GwP) of the Brick Friday 2024 release 10335 The Endurance, which I reviewed earlier this week, LEGO® Icons 40729 Shackleton’s Lifeboat is a minifigure-scale replica of the James Caird – which is the lifeboat that Shackleton used to save his crew, as we will see in the second half of this review.

Unlike the LEGO Endurance it comes with minifigures, making it a highly desirable gift with purchase for LEGO Insiders purchasing set 10335 from Friday 28 November to Monday 2 December... if stocks last that long!

27 November 2024

Review: 40668 Captain America & Red Hulk from LEGO® BrickHeadz™ Super Heroes

Posted by Elspeth De Montes

LEGO® BrickHeadz™ 40668 Super Heroes Captain America & Red Hulk are tie-ins with the new Captain America: Brave New World movie due for release in February 2025.

lego brickheads red hullk and some loose pieces from the set

These LEGO Brickheadz characters represent the Sam Wilson version of Captain America, portrayed by Anthony Mackie in the movies, and U.S. President Thaddeus Ross in his Red Hulk form, to be portrayed by Harrison Ford.

Best new LEGO® parts of 2024

Posted by Thomas Jenkins
Heading: New Elementary's best new LEGO elements of 2024

The end of the year is typically a time for reflection, and for us New Elementarians, that means looking back at some of the coolest new LEGO® elements that were released in 2024!

26 November 2024

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

Posted by Tim Johnson

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! 

Antica Bracanov, Senior Designer at The LEGO Group, holds the LEGO Leonardo Da Vinci Flying Machine she led design of.

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.


25 November 2024

Set review: 10335 The Endurance from LEGO® Icons

Posted by Kevin J. Walter

10335, The Endurance Lego set, surrounded by some additional Lego pieces representing ice

Black Friday falls this week, and the big release on the day is LEGO® Icons set 10335 The Endurance; a recreation of the ship used by Ernest Shackleton in his attempted expedition to cross the Antarctic. 

After I examined what the LEGO Endurance is made of last week, let us now look at how she is built. In addition to that, I have a short historical overview about Ernest Shackleton and the real Endurance.

24 November 2024

After-Party Fest: Caz Mockett's MOCs

Posted by Caz Mockett

When my allocation of the eclectic mix of  LEGO® elements from the New Elementary Skærbæk Fan Weekend workshop arrived through my letterbox, I was immediately inspired by some of the seed parts, and perplexed by others. But I do love a parts fest, so I started by noodling around with a couple of tablescraps, which is usually a good way to get the creative juices flowing. Let's see what happened.

22 November 2024

Review: 40699 Retro Record Player GwP for Black Friday/Cyber Monday

Posted by Elspeth De Montes

As well as 40700 Winter Holiday Train which I reviewed earlier, the Black Friday/ Cyber Monday weekend includes a second Gift with Purchase (GwP) with a higher threshold. 40699 Retro Record Player is available to LEGO Insiders from midnight 29 November to 2 December 2024.

Pick a Brick: Christmas cutoff dates, and List Upload rollout

Posted by Admin

The exciting updates from the LEGO® Pick a Brick (PaB) team keep coming thick and fast! Read on for further country rollouts of their recent platform updates in time for LEGO Insiders Weekend on 23 and 24 November 2024, as well as the Christmas cutoff dates for receiving Bestseller elements. 


21 November 2024

Revealed: Formula 1® joins multiple LEGO® themes in 2025

Posted by Admin

LEGO® Speed Champions, LEGO® City, LEGO® DUPLO® and LEGO® Collectables are teaming up with Formula 1® to drive the excitement of the racetrack to your home. In January, March and May 2025, new waves of LEGO sets will launch that feature all ten F1 teams.

2025 Lego Formula 1 supertheme revealed across many lines


Review: 21350 Jaws from LEGO® Ideas

Posted by Ben Davies
Many lego pieces loose on a table, including printed pieces related to the Jaws movie

Growing up near many of the Massachusetts shooting locations for 1975's Jaws, my interest was understandably piqued when The LEGO Group announced development of a set based on the film. Now, just a year-and-a-half after that announcement, I'm excited to examine the final set and the parts it contains. Fortunately, almost all of these elements are now available for purchase via the LEGO® Pick a Brick service, if desired in quantity.

20 November 2024

Parts review: 10335 Endurance from LEGO® Icons

Posted by Kevin J. Walter

Various loose lego pieces including some printed with "The Endurance" text

Set sail and head towards the South Pole with LEGO® Icons 10335 Endurance. After the massive Titanic LEGO set in 2021, this is the next historical ship to release on a Black Friday. While significantly smaller and with fewer parts than its predecessor, it is a worthy contender for LEGO set of the year. In this first article, we are investigating the parts from which the Endurance is made.

19 November 2024

After-Party Fest: Kev Levell's MOCs

Posted by Kev Levell
One of my favourite LEGO® activities is a good old New Elementary parts festival. I love taking part, for a number of reasons. A bundle of lovely new parts arrive, supplied in the kind of quantities that would be prohibitively expensive for me to acquire in any of the normal ways. There are elements I perhaps might not gravitate to buying, and that's a nice challenge to face. There's a shared experience with fellow builders in the creation of MOCs that generally surprise and delight, both from my own build table and those of my co-contributors. They have become rarer in recent years and that too makes them a sweet experience. In short, even as a regular contributor to New Elementary, it's a privilege and an honour to be included.

Review: 40700 Winter Holiday Train GwP for Black Friday LEGO® Toy Deals 2024

Posted by Elspeth De Montes

Several Christmas-themed LEGO® trains, both big and small, have appeared over the years and this coming holiday season brings us 40700 Winter Holiday Train, a Gift with Purchase (GwP) available to LEGO® Insiders from midnight 29 November to 2 December 2024.

A mini scale green Christmas train with red and pearl gold accents appearing on a red background


18 November 2024

Revealed: 77037 Aloy & Varl vs. Shell-Walker & Sawtooth from LEGO® Horizon Adventures™

Posted by Tim Johnson

The LEGO Group have revealed set 77037 Aloy & Varl vs. Shell-Walker & Sawtooth, a tie-in with the LEGO® Horizon Adventures™video game that released 4 days ago. We also have some pictures of it from Fan Media Days in Billund in September, including new moulds created for the set! 

Illustration of 77037 Aloy & Varl vs. Shell-Walker & Sawtooth set from Lego Horizon Adventures

16 November 2024

Pick a Brick: Germany and UK get upload option plus more new features

Posted by Admin

Yet more exciting news from the LEGO® Pick a Brick online development team! The ability to upload a wish list, which premiered in North America recently, has now been rolled out to the UK and Germany... with even more new features included than before.

15 November 2024

2024 Skærbæk workshop and After-Party Fest: introducing the elements

Posted by Tom Loftus

New Elementary ran a building workshop at Skærbæk Fan Weekend in September 2024. During the event, attendees were tasked with making something using 10 elements released in the last 12 months as seed parts; we will show you some of the results in due course, but first up, it's our turn! We rounded up some of the reclaimed seed parts from the workshop to run one of our "parts festivals", and dispatched them to a couple of our regular contributors: Kev Levell and Caz Mockett, and one of the workshop attendees, Nathan Don as a guest builder.

10 different lego parts released in 2024

So, welcome to After-PartyFest! For our first instalment, Tom Loftus introduces all 10 elements and to take a closer look at those that have escaped New Elementary's analytical eye so far. 

13 November 2024

Review: 71485 Mateo and Z-Blob the Knight Battle Mech from LEGO® DREAMZzz™

Posted by Eero

A big mech calls for a big name and 71485 Mateo and Z-Blob the Knight Battle Mech is certainly a long one for this 1333-piece set. Though I can't help but think simply going with Mateo and Z-Blob the Knight Mech would have been enough. Surely 'Knight' and 'Mech' suggests battling is a given, right? We might never know, but by reading this article you will know if this LEGO® DREAMZzz™ set is worthy of the Round Table of New Elementarian Knights. 

closeup of Knight Battle Mech from lego set 71485

12 November 2024

Pick a Brick: surprise early release of December elements

Posted by Admin

Christmas comes early! LEGO® Pick a Brick have added hundreds of new elements to the service today – taking us all by surprise! These are new elements from August 2024 sets, which were going to be added next week.

LEGO pieces on pick a brick website

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10 November 2024

New parts: January 2025 LEGO® Monkie Kid and LEGO® Chinese Traditional Festival sets

Posted by Skye Barnick

Earlier this week at the China International Import Expo, the LEGO Group unveiled three new LEGO® Lunar New Year/ Spring Festival sets – some launching on 25 December 2024 in most countries in the Asia Pacific region and worldwide on 1 January 2025 – and two new LEGO® Monkie Kid sets launching 1 January.

closeups of 6 new moulds in 2025 Lego sets

As is usual for these themes, these sets feature a wealth of interesting new molds, recolored parts, and printed elements. Let’s take a peek at 80065 Erlang’s Celestial Mech, 80066 Mythical Creature Qilin, 80116 Trotting Lantern, 80117 Good Fortune, and 40813 Lucky Cat to see what the new year has in store!

07 November 2024

Pick a Brick update: How to download your cart

Posted by Admin

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.

Screengrab showing the Lego pick a brick new download function as well as an example csv file

Review: 71814 Tournament Temple City from LEGO® NINJAGO®

Posted by Caz Mockett
Various loose pieces from the Tournament Temple City lego ninjago set

71814 Temple Tournament City is the largest set in the 2024 LEGO® NINJAGO® lineup, and as a substantial set of 3489 pieces, it has plenty of interesting parts to talk about. Many of them are now available from LEGO® Pick a Brick (PaB), where you can buy them in bulk.

04 November 2024

Review: 76289 Thor vs. Surtur Construction Figure from LEGO® Marvel

Posted by Kev Levell
Various loose pieces from Thor vs. Surtur Construction Figure Lego set

76289 Thor vs. Surtur Construction Figure takes its cues from 2017's Thor: Ragnarok. The giant fire demon, Surtur was predicted to destroy Asgard and is depicted here as a large-ish construction figure.

From an initial look, the parts are pretty, but I'm not sure everything about this set is going to Ragna-rock my world!

01 November 2024

What are the new LEGO® parts in November 2024 sets?

Posted by tobymac

I've created a list showing all 43 new LEGO® elements appearing in new sets in November 2024, with links to which sets they come in so you can check for the ones you might be interested in. And for those of you who instead prefer our list of sets showing which contain the most new elements, click here.

24 different lego pieces

31 October 2024

Review: Cerebro Gift with Purchase from LEGO® Marvel

Posted by Tim Johnson

From midnight Friday 1 November 2024, two new LEGO® sets come with their own Gifts with Purchase (GwP) only for LEGO® Insiders: set 21353 The Botanical Garden comes with 5009005 Entrance Gate, and set 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion comes with the subject of today's review, 5009015 Cerebro.  

completed model of Cerebro Gift with Purchase from LEGO® Marvel with Professor X minfig

Let's roll with Professor Charles Francis Xavier to find out if his mind-enhancing machine is a big ball of fun, or sends us into a coma.

30 October 2024

Review: 42177 Mercedes-Benz G 500 PROFESSIONAL Line from LEGO® Technic

Posted by tobymac

LEGO® Technic is having a strong year, with loads and loads of cars to enjoy. We’ve had sportscars, racecars, supercars and F1 cars in various scales. All of these have one thing in common: they need tarmac to drive on. To go off trail, we need something special, and that’s where today’s set comes in. Set 42177 Mercedes-Benz G 500 PROFESSIONAL Line sure seems to have the right look, so let's take it for a drive.

Many loose lego pieces, most are reddish orange

28 October 2024

LEGO® Pick a Brick: element removal and addition for November/December 2024

Posted by Admin

It's coming to that time of year when LEGO® Pick a Brick remove thousands of elements from the service, and today we have that list – as well as a very small list of new elements added on Tuesday 29 October 2024.

Gift with Purchase update for late October and early November

Posted by Admin

A new Gift with Purchase, Books Are My Passion, begins Monday 28 October 2024 and there are more GwP offers from Friday 1 November.

View the Black Friday 2024 LEGO® gifts with purchase here

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 Lego entrance gate garden model Marvel Celebro Lego set in its box

27 October 2024

Review + MOC: 71481 Izzie's Dream Animals & 71483 The Never Witch's Nightmare Creatures from LEGO® DREAMZzz™

Posted by Eero

The first wave of LEGO® DREAMZzz™ underlined the building toy component of the theme by having different builds achieved through partial deconstruction of the first build and then adding to it with an alternate set of instructions. This idea is taken to the next level in the August 2024 wave with sets 71481 Izzie's Dream Animals and 71483 The Never Witch's Nightmare Creatures

4 images of unusual colourful lego pieces

With these sets only a minor part of the structure is shared between the alternative builds. Like in LEGO® Creator sets, 3 designs are offered for the price of 1 (at least in theory). How do these designs fare, what interesting parts do they consist of and what did they inspire me to build?

25 October 2024

Contest: Mind that Banana

Posted by Admin

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In celebration of the awesome elements in the Peely Bone set, we are running a building contest with 7 great LEGO® Fortnite prizes!

Mind That Banana! Build with bananas - but don't build a banana. A New Elementary building contest with Lego Fortnite prizes

23 October 2024

Review: 10370 Poinsettia from LEGO® Icons Botanical Collection

Posted by Tom Loftus

Charming festive display piece or stunning parts pack? LEGO® Icons Botanical Collection 10370 Poinsettia is both! One third of its 608 parts are rare or exclusive, all of which are integral to the plant's striking bracts, plentiful foliage and sturdy woven-basket flowerpot.

A wide variety of loose Lego pieces, mostly red and green

22 October 2024

Revealed: 21353 The Botanical Garden from LEGO® Ideas

Posted by Skye Barnick

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 Lego set on display in a greenhouse

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!

19 October 2024

Review: 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion from LEGO® Marvel

Posted by Thomas Jenkins
A range of loose lego pieces including a printed tile reading "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters"

LEGO® Marvel is taking us back to school in the next 18+ set 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion. This highly anticipated set contains 3093 pieces and a host of new mutant minifigures. Read on to see if this LEGO version of Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters makes the grade...

17 October 2024

Revealed: Cerebro GwP and 76294 X-Men: X-Mansion set from LEGO® Marvel

Posted by Tim Johnson

On 1 November 2024, LEGO® Marvel are releasing a huge X-Mansion set with 10 minifigures and over 3,000 pieces! Five of the 10 characters are new in LEGO form, although not all necessarily made from new elements. We've spotted a few new recoloured pieces in the set as well.

2 lego sets: The X-Mansion set and the Cerebro Gift with purchase

Also available to LEGO Insiders from 1 to 7 November (while stocks last) is a Gift with Purchase (GwP) of the movie version of Professor Charles Xavier inside the Cerebro machine. Read on to see both models, or check out our more detailed review of the X-Mansion's LEGO construction and new pieces!

Pick a Brick: new upload feature now live in North America

Posted by Tim Johnson

LEGO® Pick a Brick have added a wonderful new feature to the platform today, only in the USA and Canada as a beta test. You can now upload a file with the IDs and quantities of your desired pieces, then add them to your cart in one click!

Review: 76290 The Avengers vs. The Leviathan from LEGO® Marvel

Posted by Kev Levell
various pieces from Lego Marvel set 76290 The Avengers vs. The Leviathan

We are reviewing another August LEGO® Marvel release today, 76290 The Avengers vs. The Leviathan. The set features a foe of furiously fantastic proportions to fight, and of course a couple of superheroes from the Marvel universe ready to do battle!

14 October 2024

Bakery GwP and LEGO® Insiders double points from 15 October 2024

Posted by Admin

Starting from midnight tonight Tuesday 15 October 2024, LEGO® Insiders get double points on purchases until end Sunday 20 October! There are also new Gifts with Purchase (GwPs) until 25 October, including some for all shoppers.

2x Lego Insiders October promotions