07 February 2025
Review: 10362 French Cafe from LEGO® Icons, with designer insight from Hoang Huy Dang
28 January 2025
International LEGO® Day 2025: moulding knowledge quiz
28 January marks the "birthday" of the LEGO® brick — the anniversary of the day in 1958 when the patent of the LEGO System 2x4 brick was submitted to the trademark office in Denmark. This is celebrated today as International LEGO Day.
As a way to celebrate as only New Elementary can, we decided to test your LEGO moulding knowledgeby posing a series of questions on our social media asking you to identify items in an image. Here are the questions and also the answers, so let's see how many you have right.
Vincent Van Gogh – Sunflowers from LEGO® Art: designer reveal
Available to pre-order now, and released on 1 March 2025, the LEGO® Art theme returns to Vincent Van Gogh's work with a Sunflowers LEGO set.
LEGO Art 31215 Sunflowers was revealed to us last year at Fan Media Days by Fiorella Lee Groves, creative lead and Stijn Oom, the set's lead designer. The following coverage of the set reveal has been edited for readability and narrative flow.
14 January 2025
Designer reveal: 21062 Trevi Fountain from LEGO® Architecture
The Trevi Fountain, one of Rome’s most renowned landmarks, is coming to LEGO® Architecture... again!
Set 21062 Trevi Fountain is available to pre-order now in advance of its 1 March 2025 release, but was revealed to a select few at last year’s Fan Media Days in Denmark, where we joined our fellow fan media The Brothers Brick and Tips & Bricks for an exclusive chat with Mary Wilson, designer of this bellissimo new set. The transcript we share with you below has been edited for narrative flow and brevity.
03 December 2024
Designer interview: 10350 Tudor Corner with François Zapf and Ashwin Visser
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.
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.
26 November 2024
Interview: 10363 Leonardo Da Vinci's Flying Machine from LEGO® Icons
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!
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.
07 November 2024
Pick a Brick update: How to download your cart
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.
22 October 2024
Revealed: 21353 The Botanical Garden from LEGO® Ideas
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 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!
14 October 2024
Moulding LEGO® mini-doll legs
We recently came across a new LEGO® element. They look somewhat macabre and perhaps more akin to something from John Carpenter's The Thing than LEGO.
The elements in question appears to be mini-doll legs that are moulded in pairs. The double-ended legs started a discussion here at New Elementary about mini-doll leg moulding processes and the timing of printing. Read on to hear our theories.
17 June 2024
LEGO® Icons 10337 Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV: review & designer interview

04 March 2024
LEGO® House Exclusive set review and interview: 40505 LEGO Building Systems
Recently I was lucky enough to attend an online reveal of the latest LEGO® House exclusive set, 40505 LEGO Building Systems, with the opportunity to ask some questions to the set's designers, Stuart Harris (LEGO House Master Builder) and Markus Rollbüller (Senior Designer at The LEGO Group).
08 February 2024
Temporary changes to LEGO® Pick a Brick in 2024
Many of you have been asking here on the site and across our social channels about the delays in adding new elements to the LEGO® Pick a Brick (PaB) online service. We have an update from LEGO, and it is not good news in the short term.
In early January 2024 we received a list of new elements that were to be added later that month to PaB, but this didn't happen. Furthermore, readers say some 5000 existing elements have now been removed from the PaB "Standard" assortment. These elements will return, and the new parts will be added - but the estimated date for this is now March.
25 January 2024
LEGO® Icons review and interview: 10331 Kingfisher Bird
31 December 2023
LEGO® Friends build review and interview: 42639 Andrea's Modern Mansion
With 2275 parts, 42639 Andrea’s Modern Mansion is the largest LEGO® Friends set to date. These parts include a lot of interesting new elements which we’ve already taken a look at, but now it’s time to start building!
21 December 2023
LEGO® NINJAGO® review: mech sets 71806, 71807 & 71808
Over the years we've seen many mechs in the LEGO® NINJAGO® line-up and their builds have increasingly evolved through time. In 2024 the designers are introducing new elements to bring even more build options and play features.
Today we’ll be taking a look at 3 mechs from the first wave of 2024 sets; 71806 Cole's Earth Mech, 71807 Sora's Tech Mech and 71808 Kai's Fire Mech.
18 December 2023
LEGO® Friends parts review: 42639 Andrea's Modern Mansion
LEGO® Friends celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2022, and in 2023 we saw a relaunch of the theme. The Heartlake City Universe made a time jump, introducing a new generation of characters. But the old friends were not forgotten! The original group is meeting up in 42639 Andrea's Modern Mansion for a reunion and catching up on adventures since their ‘split’. We’ll join the party soon, but first we’ll be taking a look at all the new elements found in the set. And there is a new color!
14 December 2023
LEGO® DREAMZzz™ 2024 new parts and minifigures, and design team interview
The LEGO® DREAMZzz™ sets for January 2024 maintain the eclectic, fantastical nature of the theme with five new sets made up of bright shades, sinister baddies and wild mash-ups.
30 November 2023
LEGO® Monkie Kid™ 80054 Megapolis City: interview with designer Wen Xiaodong
Want to see more of the thrilling 2024 LEGO® Monkie Kid™ set, 80054 Megapolis City 5th Anniversary? Senior Designer/ Show Producer 温笑冬 (Wēn Xiàodōng) told us more about the set and its Easter eggs when I met him at the Recognised LEGO® Fan Media Days in Billund, Denmark in September. In advance of our set review next week, here are the highlights of our interview, with photography by Boris Vanrillaer of Stuck in Plastic.
28 November 2023
LEGO® part 4042: Curved Bar with Axle End and 1 x 1 Round Plate
Thomas Jenkins thought it was time to take a closer look at an interesting new element that has been appearing in more and more sets since its release earlier this year.
06 November 2023
LEGO® 80113 Family Reunion Celebration: interview with designer Niels Frederiksen
We had the opportunity to talk to Niels Mølgård Frederiksen (above right), Associate Creative Lead for LEGO® Monkie Kid and designer of the latest LEGO® Spring Festival release, 80113 Family Reunion Celebration.