On Monday 27 April 2026, LEGO® Pick a Brick made their Create a Minifigure online service available throughout European and North American LEGO.com sites, and it is almost identical to the UK beta version.
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Unfortunately there are no plans to expand further in 2026 to include Australia and New Zealand, but there may be in future.
The service was available as a beta in the UK for just over a year now, and is optimised for mobile use.
There is one important difference though: rather than charging a service fee, instead there will be a minimum order of 5 minifigures in order to checkout. The maximum is 40 minifigures in one order. Currently there are no exclusive parts or flesh-toned pieces; effectively the service is an interface to build minifigures using existing Pick a Brick stock.
If you want to know more or have other questions about the service, first check out our article announcing the UK beta version going live a year ago.
Advance notice about new elements on Pick a Brick in May 2026
A very exciting update is coming to the Pick a Brick loose pieces service in May – over 900 new elements from January 2026 sets will be added for purchase! However, it is coming later than usual.
Because of the size of this drop, the team need more time to ensure stock is in place. Here are the key dates:
- Tuesday 5 May: We will share the list of new pieces so you can plan your purchases in advance
- Monday 11 May: LEGO Pick a Brick will commence adding the elements for purchase. This begins in the morning UK time and might take most of the day
Too excited? Can't wait? You can peruse our list of every new LEGO piece released in January 2026, but be aware that about 500 of them will not be added, certainly not any "IP-locked" pieces made for specific intellectual properties like Star Wars etc.
All LEGO® sets releasing on 1 May 2026
- 71052 LEGO® Minifigures Series 29 Read our review
- 11506 LEGO® Botanicals Rocking Plants Read our review
- 43011 Lionel Messi - Soccer Highlights Pre-order available now
- 43012 Cristiano Ronaldo - Soccer Highlights
- 43013 Kylian Mbappe - Soccer Highlights Pre-order available now
- 43014 F1 Scuderia Ferrari HP Charles Leclerc Helmet
- 43015 Lionel Messi - Soccer Legend Pre-order available now
- 43016 Cristiano Ronaldo - Soccer Legend Pre-order available now
- 43022 F1 Scuderia Ferrari HP Lewis Hamilton Helmet
- 43027 Vini Jr. - Soccer Highlights Pre-order available now
- 43032 FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Emblem Pre-order available now
- 43033 2026 U.S. Soccer National Team Jersey Pre-order available now
- 43301 LEGO® Toy Story Slinky Dog Bookends Pre-order available now
- 43306 LEGO® Toy Story Lotso
- 43307 LEGO® Toy Story Alien With Pizza Planet Rocket Ride Pre-order available now
READ MORE: LEGO® Razor Crest landing on Sunday 26 April! Read our review
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Epic, I've wanted some of the band members from Shopping street in time for June show, Thanks for the heads up!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for the new PAB pieces. But IP-locked is a bit wonky now since they added the Motti/Tagge/Krennic heads from the Death Slice to PAB in February. Also, some minifig parts from the Onyx Cinder set were available in 2024. I hope the new Build-A-Minifig thing will not affect the availability of flesh coloured heads in general on PAB?
ReplyDeleteIt's not totally uncommon for faces in licensed themes (in particular human characters without IP-specific makeup or props) to not be IP-locked, as can be seen when the occasional face is reused between unrelated licensed themes. Just as an example, Peter Parker and Mary Jane from last year's set 76317 Peter Parker's Apartment use faces that debuted back in 2017 in a Pirates of the Caribbean set, and have gone on to be reused in Harry Potter, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and more.
DeleteThat makes sense… Thank you! Now I hope that the more "normal" heads from the Stranger Things Creel House come to PAB in May. Although I wouldn't say no to Vecna, the one I want/need most is Max's.
DeleteIt requires buying 5 minigifs instead of simply adding the parts to your B&P cart? Most likely because they will charge more than the B&P total price?
ReplyDeleteThe pricing seems to be the same, and the parts would be delivered loose in the same way. The service seems to be largely aimed at kids and army builders, who would like a bunch of similar Space or Castle minifigs, and such...
DeleteI just tried it out, and yeah, if you want to add your minifigs to your bag you have to build at least five. While I get the need to have a separate service fee if one is buying only a bunch of minifigs this way, there really should be an alternative option to just dump the parts from one or two minifigs into your PAB order if you're there primarily for parts and also need a minifig or two.
DeleteAs it is, if I'm doing that, the service could be potentially useful for quickly checking my options and brainstorming what to put together, but then I'll have to go into PAB and find all the parts again myself to add them to that order. It doesn't even give you part numbers for what you've selected: I even tried hovering over the various elements in both the menu and the minifig preview; no dice.
Gotta say, this aspect of the service is a bit frustrating. Maybe it's a good start, but being primarily a parts guy frankly I'm not likely to use it if it can't talk directly to my PAB order. I'm not sure if I'll ever need five minifigs at once.
Does 900 new elements and 500 IP locked elements hint at Lego becoming too specialist?
ReplyDeleteHave we ever gotten an official explanation about why so many Ninjago elements no longer appear on Pick a Brick? I can’t imagine they’re IP-locked, and other in-house themes get their minifigure elements added to the service, even for desirable space and castle designs.
ReplyDeleteOne idea is that alternate versions of the main characters would sell sets, while collectors wouldn't have any interest of army-building like Space and Castle fans...
DeleteWhy can't Aus & NZ be included? It's just shipping parts to an address further away...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't get the need to localize this service at all. Maybe they have to manually re-render all the preview images upside-down for the Southern Hemisphere?
DeleteNo flesh-toned heads in the new Create a Minifigure feature? That's unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteWhen more flesh-toned heads appear on the service, I'm willing to give it a more serious shot...
DeleteThere are about 40 currently on PAB. Seems like plenty to work with.
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