May 2025 LEGO® Gifts with Purchase: deals for LEGO® Star Wars™ Day

May has now arrived in North America, where LEGO.com are offering double and even quadruple loyalty points on some sets! The annual celebration of Star Wars™ Day, May the Fourth, is certainly underway, and there are 2 gifts with purchase available worldwide.

All LEGO sites are offering double points and discounts for members on some sets, as well as new LEGO® Insiders rewards. There is early access for LEGO Insiders to the LEGO® Star Wars™ promotions from 1 to 3 May 2025, so if you are not a member yet, be sure to sign up to LEGO Insiders. 

Tom Loftus' MOCs using May 2025 Pick a Brick parts

LEGO® Pick a Brick paused new uploads earlier this year, but they have just resumed the addition of new parts a month earlier than anticipated!

But what to do with them? I've explored the potential of some of the pieces in original LEGO build creations using my own collection.

Review + MOC: 10347 Petite Sunny Bouquet from LEGO® Botanicals

When I reviewed the LEGO® Botanicals "Four Gentlemen" sets, I was pleased to find that the company is able to release high-quality, adult-oriented sets with more affordable price tags. Available from this Thursday 1 May 2025, set 10347 Petite Sunny Bouquet continues the trend, taking the idea of a bunch of flowers without an included vessel and halving the usual price. What is the result?

LEGO® Pick a Brick: new elements added in May 2025

It's back! Having paused the addition of new elements in February 2025, today LEGO® Pick a Brick have resumed – and it's a mammoth haul of over 1,000 pieces.

Grab a cup of tea and have a delicious browse through the incredible offering. Our visual list of new PaB elements can be sorted by element category or by color, and now includes Element IDs too in case you're searching for something in particular. 

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Review: 76970 Baby Dinosaur Dolores Aquilops from LEGO® Jurassic World™ Rebirth

For me, a highlight of LEGO® sets over the last few years has been some of the brick-built creatures that would have been unthinkable in the past. As part of their LEGO® Creator 3-in-1 line, they have now made all manner of brick beasts; crocodiles, giraffes, pandas and more have all been depicted in impressive style.

The recent range of baby dinosaurs have naturally found favour with my kids, and myself. The newest addition to this group, LEGO® Jurassic World™ Rebirth 76970 Baby Dinosaur Dolores Aquilops looks super-cute in all the official imagery so far released, so let's take a look at what goes into making her.

Reveal: 31216 Keith Haring Dancing Figures from LEGO® Art

The next release from LEGO® Art is another exciting choice: the iconic work of 1980s artist Keith Haring. His energetic, symbolic figures have been part of pop culture for over 40 years now, and set 31216 Keith Haring – Dancing Figures translates them into LEGO form superbly.

Revealed: 10348 Japanese Red Maple Bonsai Tree and 10349 Happy Plants from LEGO® Botanicals

LEGO® Botanicals are retreading old ground and breaking fresh ground with their latest two sets to be revealed, and while both share Japanese influences, they couldn't be more different: a big new bonsai tree, and tiny little kawaii-style potted plants who are best buddies and love you very much.

There are two thrilling new moulds in set 10348 Japanese Red Maple Bonsai Tree, and both this and set 10349 Happy Plants feature many exciting recolours. So let's get started with our examination of these June sets!

April 2025 LEGO® Gifts with Purchase

Today, Tuesday 29 April 2025 is the final day of 40783 Coral Reef Diorama as the global Gift with Purchase (GwP). Then, LEGO® Star Wars™ deals and GwPs for May the Fourth will commence on Thursday 1 May.

Review: 21356 River Steamboat from LEGO® Ideas

Cast off! The steam engines are under fire! 

If you bought a ticket at the booth you may board the Amelia, LEGO® Ideas latest and biggest set. But now you’ll hopefully enjoy your ride on the “Ghost ship of the Mississippi” – we’ll get to that naming later. 

Flower Pot Pals: Jonas Kramm's Pick a Brick project

The LEGO® Pick a Brick team challenged New Elementary to transform an ordinary set into something new with the help of some extra pieces from Pick a Brick online. Jonas Kramm stepped up by reimagining iconic LEGO® Botanicals set 10329 Tiny Plants as a series of Flower Pot Pals! Here's what he came up with – and you can try one for yourself by studying his breakdown.

Tom Loftus' Fractal 45 spaceship MOC

Continuing today's reflected wedge extravaganza, Arno Knobbe challenged me to dream up something swooshable using some of the geometric delights we saw in his technique article about building off the LEGO grid with reflected wedges. Let's escape the grid in a spaceship!

LEGO® techniques with reflected wedges: Escaping the grid

After the popularity of his first guest post for us, Arno Knobbe (@legoarno on Instagram) returns today to explain more core building techniques for sending your models off the rectilinear grid. 

In my previous post, I discussed a classic LEGO® technique for building at an angle, the rectangle trick, and its relation to the "sugar grid", a concept recently introduced on the Brick Sculpt YouTube channel. In this article, we’ll look into another mainstay of LEGO building techniques, reflected wedges. I’ll investigate some parallels between this technique and the sugar grid as well.

Review: 5009157 Amelia Ticket Booth GwP from LEGO® Ideas

The biggest LEGO® Ideas set to date, 21356 River Steamboat, is now available to LEGO® Insiders and will be available to all from midnight Thursday 10 April 2025. In addition, until 13 April or while stocks last, those who buy it from LEGO Stores or LEGO.com will receive the Gift with Purchase (GwP) 5009157 Amelia Ticket Booth. Let's see what this 152-piece model has to offer!

Interview: LEGO® 10353 Williams Racing FW14B with designer Gus McLaren

We just published Zach's review of LEGO® Icons 10353 Williams Racing FW14B and Nigel Mansell but the set was actually revealed to us in September 2024 during Fan Media Days, where Tim Johnson sat down with designer Gus McLaren to talk about the set.

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

I've created a list showing all 110 new LEGO® elements added in April 2025, with links to which sets they come in so you can check for the ones you might be interested in.  The list now includes 21356 River Steamboat, which was released on 7 April. Stay tuned for our review of this massive LEGO® Ideas set!

For those of you who prefer it, here is our list of April 2025 sets showing which contain the most new elements.

Review: 10353 Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell from LEGO® Icons

The turn of the 1990s brought immense technological innovation to Formula 1 racing, and with it fierce rivalry as teams competed for race car construction and driving dominance. 10353 Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell is the second historic F1 LEGO® Icons set from this era, showcasing an engineering marvel which finally put Team McLaren-Honda in Williams' mirrors again.

Parts review: 11040 Magical Transparent Box from LEGO® Classic

LEGO® Classic set 11040 Magical Transparent Box is loaded with 228 translucent pieces (plus 12 spares!), comprising 43 unique clear parts. At first glance, the set looks like a box of basic bricks but a closer look reveals a few surprises – including a few new moulds! 

Review: 40761 Sméagol and Déagol GwP from LEGO® Icons Lord of the Rings

The latest LEGO® Icons Lord of the Rings set is here, accompanied by a very precious Gift with Purchase: 40761 Sméagol and Déagol. Those who purchase 10354 The Shire between 2 and 8 April (while stocks last) will be eligible to receive this éagoly awaited GwP. We received an early copy for review, so let's go on a lovely family fishing adventure.

LEGO® DUPLO® figures with hair: rare prototypes uncovered

LEGO® have tested many projects behind closed doors and usually we only see the results when the item makes it into production.  

We have a treat for you today,  as we have obtained a couple of rare prototype LEGO® DUPLO® figures with synthetic hair that escaped the test room in Billund. We are not certain, however, of the date these were explored.