Review: 21354 Twilight The Cullen House from LEGO® Ideas

Stephenie Meyer started her writing career by breaking the mould, not realizing publishers expect shorter teenage novels than the author's debut manuscript. That didn't stop the voracious hordes of 2000s teen readers; once they had a taste of blood they wanted more of Twilight's supernatural love triangle. Five books, five movies, and twenty years later, the fandom lives on like some kind of immortal vampire, prompting fans around the world to support the LEGO® Ideas 21354 Twilight The Cullen House into production.

Review: sets 42652, 42662 & 42663 from LEGO® Friends

We have reached my final blog post covering the LEGO® Friends sets from the January 2025 wave. The last three sets have us building a treehouse, stylin' a new coif, and setting out on a camping trip. And of course, all these adventures will provide us with new elements.

Set review: 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 and 42207 Ferrari SF-24 from LEGO® Technic

Throughout 2025, The LEGO Group is releasing sets based on the Formula 1 races, which kick off in Australia this weekend. LEGO® Technic joins in with (among others) two large scale F1 cars: 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car and 42207 Ferrari SF-24 F1 Car. In part 1 of this review I showed you all the new elements found in sets 42206 & 42207, and now I’ll start building the two speedy vehicles – at the same time, for comparison!

F1 Suspension Mount with Fender (part 6813) from LEGO® Speed Champions

With the 2025 Formula 1 season finally getting underway with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, we'll take a New Elementary view on F1 over the next couple of days!

Suspension Mount with Fender, Formula 1 (6813) is a new element that was introduced in the most recent wave of LEGO® Speed Champions sets. This new specialised part grants the cars an even higher degree of accuracy, but is it useful for anything else? Let's investigate... 

Pick a Brick USA & Canada: Standard elements are back

The LEGO® Pick a Brick service have re-opened their "Standard" service in North America and over 12,000 elements have returned. Only "Bestseller" elements have been available since the service was closed in December 2024.

This is a step towards things getting back to normal with Pick a Brick, what with the ongoing warehouse issues and poor customer communication on late 2024 orders that have left many customers frustrated and angry. However, in a new development for 2025, maximum order quantities have been placed on many items – read on for details.

March 2025 LEGO® Gifts with Purchase

What are the LEGO Gifts with Purchase (GwP) in March 2025? With the LEGO® Botanicals GwP 40762 Mixed Flowerpot now available worldwide and LEGO® Jurassic World 76968 Dinosaur Fossils - Tyrannosaurus rex now available to purchase, we've updated this page.

MOCs with parts from 10345 Flower Arrangement from LEGO® Botanicals

With 14 recoloured elements and parts ranging from butterflies to umbrellas, the latest LEGO® Botanicals set, 10345 Flower Arrangement makes for a pretty good parts pack. I recently reviewed set 10345, and now here are 2 of my own creations using parts from the set.

Review: 40762 Mixed Flowerpot GwP from LEGO® Botanicals

It's proving to be quite the year for LEGO® Botanicals! They've become their own line with their own logo, released some stunning sets with new moulds, taken over LEGO® House and had their first ever Gift with Purchase (GwP) – and now, here is their second already.

40762 Mixed Flowerpot, now available worldwide, is a gorgeous model featuring a range of stunning LEGO flowers. If you are a fan of the LEGO Botanicals theme, you simply cannot miss out from adding this to your collection. If you have never built one, this is the perfect taster set to find out what all the fuss is about! 

Reveal: 72037 Mario Kart™– Mario & Standard Kart from LEGO® Super Mario™

Happy MAR10 Day everyone! What better day to reveal that, on top of the LEGO® Super Mario™ offers available, you can also pre-order a new set coming in May 2025! 

Just revealed, 72037 Mario Kart™– Mario & Standard Kart is a nearly 2000-piece model of Mario bouncing around in his kart. It looks like a really interesting model to build, so let's take a closer look.

Review: 43262 Maleficent's and Cruella De Vil's Dresses from LEGO® Disney

43262 Maleficent's and Cruella De Vil's Dresses from LEGO® Disney is the second of the two dress sets that will be released 1 March 2025.

We have already taken a look at 43266 Cinderella's Dress and now it's time for the slightly larger and more expensive set with two dresses.  While both of these sets may not be of interest to everyone from a theme point of view, they do contain some nice new elements.

LEGO® building at angles: Escaping the grid

Today we are excited to publish a guest article from Arno Knobbe (@legoarno on Instagram), an Associate Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands who attended our building workshop at Skærbæk Fan Weekend 2024. As a fan of both numbers and LEGO® bricks, he is perfectly qualified to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about building “off-grid” with LEGO parts, but were too afraid to ask because it would probably involve math... Fear not! With Arno’s beginners’ introduction to LEGO building at angles and diagonals, it's easy.

When building with LEGO, we usually adhere to the familiar structure of the standard square grid, where everything aligns neatly and predictably. This grid system provides stability and order. However, there are moments when creativity takes over, and we decide to break free from the constraints of this rigid structure. Either because some angled part needs to be matched, or simply because the diagonal bit breaks the monotony of building in “the Matrix”. The LEGO universe offers several techniques for escaping the LEGO grid by building at an angle, which I will be taking you through today.

Review: sets 42640, 42641, 42650 & 42651 from LEGO® Friends

I am building the sets in the January 2025 wave of LEGO® Friends sets, and for this blog post I’ve selected the ones that primarily focus on animals. It’s a cuteness overload!

The LEGO Friends theme is responsible for the introduction of many new animals, whose more curvy, realistic features stand out from the more blocky classic versions found in themes like LEGO® City. This latest wave brings us many new cute creatures to go ‘aaaaaaaah’ over; both brand new molds and existing molds with new prints. Most of these can be found in the 4 sets that we will be taking a look at today, going from the smallest to the largest.

Reveal: LEGO® Jurassic World Rebirth sets coming June 2025

With the latest film in the franchise, Jurassic World Rebirth coming in July 2025, so too the LEGO® Jurassic World theme continues, with 6 tie-in sets launching on 1 June. Read on to see them all and their prices, plus some new parts we spotted!

Parts review: 71048 LEGO® Minifigures Series 27

I might be a bit late in saying, but LEGO® Minifigures are a bit of a phenomenon. Fifteen years, 47 actual series when including licensed themes, and 727 figures – many of which it would be difficult to imagine ever existing outside of this theme.

There have been hundreds of unique parts introduced, some of which have made it into standard sets by virtue of their usefulness. The posing stand, aka Bar 1L with Angled Hollow Stud (65578) would definitely be a candidate for that. Will Series 27 contain a game-changer of similar importance?

What are the new LEGO® parts in March 2025 sets?

NEWSFLASH: Micro Space Command Centre available for 2,250 Insiders points

I've created a list showing all 516 new LEGO® elements added on 1 March 2025, 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 March 2025 sets showing which contain the most new elements, click here.

Review: 76968 Dinosaur Fossils - Tyrannosaurus rex from LEGO® Jurassic World

We're going to build old bones! Massive Tyrannosaurus rex fossil bones from LEGO® bricks, to be exact. First though, we're going to dig into the new parts buried in LEGO® Jurassic World 76968 Dinosaur Fossils.

LEGO® BLUEY™ June 2025 sets revealed

The LEGO Group and BBC Studios have unveiled the upcoming LEGO® BLUEY™ playsets at Toy Fair® 2025 in New York City. This is the first time Bluey and her family will be depicted in LEGO form, within six new sets for builders aged 2 to 5: two are LEGO® DUPLO® sets and four are LEGO® System sets with the 4+ age mark.

Let's take a closer look at all six products due to launch on 1 June 2025, as we imagine the interest in these sets will expand well beyond the intended age group.