11 June 2026

Review: 11505 Woodland Mushrooms from LEGO® Botanicals

Posted by Eero

I think LEGO® Botanicals is the best theme for MOC builders, although I don't have any specific affinity to flowers. However, I have an affinity to mushrooms, which are obviously not plants and thus unsuitable for a theme called "Botanicals". Except that they are not unsuitable, as 11505 Woodland Mushrooms proves. To be honest, it includes plenty of plants too, so maybe we can let that slide. 


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11505 Woodland Mushroom

  • Release date: 1 June 2026 
  • Pieces: 806
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Lego Botanicals 11505 Woodland Mushrooms

 

Interesting parts

Recolours

  • 3x Plate Special 1 x 2 w. [Open O] Top Clip in Reddish Brown (6608792 | 44861) 
  • 4x Brick Round 1 x 1 with 3 Bars in Lavender (6613560 | 6331) 
  • Plate 6 x 8 in Dark Green (6605068 | 3036) 

It's amazing that 6x8 plate has not appeared in dark green before, considering how common dark green plates were in "Fantasy Era" LEGO® Castle sets, for example. The reddish-brown clip plate is a similarly surprising recolour, but less striking.

  • 3x Cone 3 x 3 x 3 (Elliptic Paraboloid) with Internal Axle Hole in Dark Orange (6613551 | 1744)
  • 2x Brick Round 3 x 3 Dome with Center Stud in Dark Tan (6613559 | 49308)

These pieces have pleasant shapes, and they're great for architecture. I'll look forward to capping some domes and tower roofs with the dark orange cone: the colour is simply perfect for tile-clad roofs.

  • 5x Hat Gnome - Pointing Backwards in Medium Nougat (6613562 | 5320)
  • 10x Technic Axle Connector Hub with 4 Bars at 90°, Reinforced Axle Hole in Bright Green (6613556 | 68888)

This is not the first time a minifigure hat appears in a LEGO Botanicals set, but this time the hat is relatively rare, and especially useful for castle builders. The bright green connector looks useful for building, unsurprisingly, plants.

 

  • 12x Plant, Leaf 2 x 6 x 1 with 2 Studs in Blue Violet (6614067 | 3565) 

This piece is always a pleasure to photograph, and to use. It's lenient for non-botanical usage due to its simple, universal shape.

When I reviewed 11502 Sunflower Bouquet earlier this year, some commentators complained that rather than introducing specific new moulds for petals like this one, the LEGO Botanicals theme should find new uses for old parts. However, I'd like to point out that this was introduced in LEGO® Donkey Kong and LEGO® DREAMZzz sets in minifigure scale. Its reuse as petals for 1:1 scale flowers feels inventive enough for me. 

New prints

  • 2x Dish 10 x 10 Inverted [Radar], Solid Studs, Rounded Anti-stud Underside with White Spots Print in Reddish Orange (6623716)
  • Dish 6 x 6 Inverted (Radar) with Solid Studs with White Spots Print in Reddish Orange (6623717)
  • Dome Hemisphere 4 x 4 with White Spots Print in Reddish Orange (6623718)

The 10x10 dishes and the 4x4 dome are also recolours.

When I first saw this set, I thought the fly agaric mushroom hats would be regular red, as seen before in Jonas Kramm's BrickLink Designer Program set 910037 Mushroom House. However, fly agaric mushrooms vary from (in LEGO colour terms) bright light orange to red, so reddish-orange is a perfect choice for them. More on this later.

Rare parts

  • 2+1x Pneumatic T-Piece (T Bar) [New Style] in Bright Green (6527026 | 4697) – in 2 other sets
  • 6+1x Technic Pin Connector Round 1L [Beam] in Bright Green (6573946 | 18654) – in 2 other sets

I'm always happy seeing new colours of the T-bar, one of the most important pieces when building joints for figures. This one was introduced in January in 11504 Peace Lily (see Thomas' review of the LEGO Peace Lily). The piece was limited to light grey and then light bluish grey for years, and was introduced in black in 2014, to my eternal gratitude. The pace is currently accelerating, with tan and reddish-orange introduced in 2024 and medium nougat in 2025.

 

It's striking that the classic small leaf piece was introduced in dark green this year – the larger cousin has been around for ages. The large fern remains relatively rare. It's a wonderfully robust, solid piece. 

These pieces bring a touch of warm vibrance to the composition.

 

Another sweet piece. It would be interesting to get a bunch of these to create some wild shapes, but 3 is a start.

 

Odds and ends. It's nice to get a modern version of the Technic ball socket in dark green.

The model

A pretty piece of forest floor

Having grown up in the middle of Eastern Finnish forest, I naturally picked mushrooms as a kid. However, I began picking them as a more serious hobby some five years ago, during the pandemic. I like how it gives a certain purpose for aimlessly wandering in the woods; it makes me notice the subtle changes of seasons more clearly; and it rewards with delicious, free food.

In contrast to the houseplants or displayed bouquets in most LEGO Botanicals sets, 11505 Woodland Mushrooms features a block of forest floor that uses up the majority of the 806 pieces. This emphasises the nature aspect, which is unique among the theme. I really like the idea, as separate mushroom mini-builds wouldn't have captured the richness of the subject. As a result, this almost feels like a playset – which is not a bad thing.


The landscape has been masked with a layer of plant pieces. The combination of bright green over dark green captures the vibrance of the living forest floor excellently. I think these could be Sphagnum mosses.


The scene is dominated by four fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria), familiar to everybody from cartoons and comics and a common sight in the northern forest: easy to notice from its warning colour, promoting its poisonous nature: Don't eat me or else! 

The reddish orange is a perfect colour, harmonising with the bright green and lime pieces nearby. Red would have made the fly agarics more cartoony, and the subtle colour difference makes this feel more like an educational display found in a museum. Colours matter.


These strikingly shaped ones are collared earthstars (Geastrum triplex) – what a cool name. They release a cloud of spores on impact. It's very rare in Finland and I've never seen it in the wild but, based on photos, these don't quite capture the originals. The collar is rarely that white, clean-cut or planar. The structure is nice though, with the traffic signs layering over the shields beautifully.

Next up, the golden chanterelle, or kantarelli (Cantharellus cibarius). I'm very familiar with this one; it's among the earliest autumn mushrooms, and easy to spot before yellow leaves fall off the trees. It's delicious. 

The smooth combination of clam and boat stud capture the look very well, but the effect is weakened by there being four almost-identical ones. Chanterelles come in a variety of bulbous shapes, and there are never two alike. Two different designs would have been an improvement. The yellow spot of colour works nicely in the composition, though.

The left flank features a tree stump with two mushroom species growing on wood: On the right, oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) and to the left, common bonnet (Mycena galericulata). While the other mushrooms are on a 1:1 scale, the oyster mushroom is very small: Wikipedia gives it a size of 2 to 30 centimetres, and so these 3-module-wides are at the small end. 

Furthermore, the stump is very small too, so it must have been a very young tree. The stump is well built, but the dark brown top feels weird, as tree trunk tops are generally of lighter hue than the bark.


Another English name for common bonnet is rosy-gill fairy helmet, which makes the LEGO gnome hats an amusing choice. However, the real common bonnets generally have a symmetrical hat. Furthermore, these are on the small side, too, though less radically than the oyster mushrooms. Fortunately, the composition of these two is very nice, though, and the tree stump brings nice variety to the scene, demonstrating the variety of mushroom types.


Finally, there are three marzipan fibrecaps (Inocybe hirtella). They look fantastic with their twisting stems and tall, proud caps. However, they don't look like marzipan fibrecaps, which almost never have this vertical cap or this dark colour. Honestly, I believe it would have been easier to leave them as they are and find a better mushroom to match the design. Accuracy aside, they're lovely.


To match the theme name and bring variety to the composition, there are two major plant species included. The autumn crocuses (Colchium autumnale) are a spot-on rendition of the bluer variant. They are beautiful. 


On the back, there are two fronds of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum). They're quite small for bracken, but fit the scale of the model very well. Basically, they are ferns made of ferns. I wasn't sold on this approach when I initially saw the model, but having built them, I really like the design. Lime is a great colour choice. Overall, the colours of this model are lovely: fresh and lively.


The back of the model is not that finished, which is okay. I like how the raised area forms a hole for the secret stashing of your most prized (small) belongings.

Conclusion

In this review I've complained about the inaccuracy of the mushrooms to their designated species, as well as the obscurity of the scale. Nonetheless, it should be clear that I really like this set, its subject, composition and colour harmony. The LEGO Botanicals team have also made clear in the past that their designs are interpretations, not direct representations.

Furthermore, I think there is plenty of potential for future similar sets. I'd love to see a future LEGO Botanicals-Fungi set with Boletus edulis, the wonderfully rounded king of Finnish mushrooms. Mushrooms come in an endless variety of forms!

The value of 806 parts and no minifigures for US$79.99/ £69.99/ 79,99€/ AU$129.99 is quite average, while the quantity of recolours and rare parts is pretty good. The parts serve both more traditional landscape builders and adventurers looking for weird part uses. However, leaving the set built is not a bad idea either, at least until autumn comes and the quest for the real ones begins.


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