January 2025 LEGO® sets and their best new parts

I'm sure none of us are truly ready for 2025... so let's take it day by day! Is your LEGO® shopping list ready for 1 January? We've heard estimates of the number of new products going online at midnight that range from 150 to 225 SKUs! So New Year's Eve is a great day to research your first-day purchases.

The New Elementary team have been wildly busy over the last few weeks – months actually! –  reviewing 2025's themes, sets, and more importantly: the gorgeous new parts within. Here is our handy summary of what we have covered so far, highlighting some of the best new parts coming on New Year's Day. 

Parts review: January 2025 LEGO® Chinese Traditional Festival sets

Two new LEGO® Spring Festival sets, 80116 Trotting Lantern and 80117 Good Fortune are now available worldwide along with a Gift with Purchase (GwP), 40756 Lucky Knots from 1 to 7 January 2025. Let's take a look at the new and interesting elements which occur in this wave of sets.

Review: 42670 Heartlake City Apartments and Stores from LEGO® Friends

We start off the reviews for the LEGO® Friends January 2025 wave with the biggest set in the line-up. Together, let's hop on our bike and inline skates to potter some clay and wash out any resulting stains in the laundromat, before enjoying a cup of tea with locally sourced honey while watching the cats play with yarn. Oh, and look at the new baby!

Parts review: January 2025 LEGO® DREAMZzz™ sets

January 2025 brings a new wave of LEGO® DREAMZzz™ sets, a theme that is known to often supply new moulds and printed and recoloured parts. With 7 sets in this wave ranging from a poly paper-based bag set with 53 parts to the largest set with 1006 parts,  there's plenty of new element-spotting to get on with.

Promo code: 40586 Moving Truck gift with purchase – Australia only

[This promotion has now ended]
New Elementary can offer our Australian readers set 40586 Moving Truck as a Gift with Purchase (GwP) until end New Year's Eve Tuesday 31 December 2024 when making purchases from LEGO.com Australia of $300 or more. This is on top of the other GwP currently available, 40689 Firework Celebrations at the $140 threshold. 

Originally available in February 2023, GwP 40586 Moving Truck is an adorable 300-piece set featuring a retro moving truck and various items of household furniture with a musical theme. Read on to find out more about the set and to grab your individual exclusive promo code while the supply lasts!

Set review: 10355 Blacktron Renegade remake by LEGO® Icons

Black and yellow designs and patterns have great visual impact. They're used effectively on hazard tape, warning signs and all manner of things that we should be wary of. That was part of the instant appeal of the original LEGO® Space Blacktron sets. They captured the eye and the imagination, and hinted at some unseen danger. Wild styling was also a feature of those first five sets back in 1987, and the wildest was arguably 6954 Renegade. 

Like a queen space wasp, the redesigned LEGO® Icons 10355 Blacktron Renegade has flown in rapidly on a stealthy mission, and hit me with a surprise attack! Those Blacktron spies have returned and I did not see them coming – they're obviously doing their job, so I guess it's time I did mine and inspected their new tech.

Parts review: January 2025 LEGO® Friends sets

The first wave of 2025 LEGO® Friends contains 20 sets in total, including 2 only-partly-poly-but-mostly-paper bags. Across these, I’ve counted 222 new elements for us to enjoy, and so before I review the individual sets, I’ve put the most prominent, fresh molds in an overview for you.

Parts review: 10355 Blacktron Renegade from LEGO® Icons

In 1987, LEGO® Space turned to the dark side. Blacktron was introduced, and suddenly we had villains in the void. They had the same enigmatic smiling faces that our good guys did, but that obviously made their scheming and spying all the more concerning.

The combination of black, yellow, trans-yellow and trans-red parts was highly effective in creating visual impact in the design of the original Blacktron sets. In 2025, the theme returns for a one-off LEGO® Icons nostalgic recreation – we're Back in Blacktron! – and almost all of the new parts in 10355 Blacktron Renegade come in that established colour palette.

Designer reveal: 10355 Blacktron Renegade from LEGO® Icons

They're back, they're bigger and they're more powerful than ever. Those pesky Blacktron folk have been playing a long game, and on 1 January 2025, it all comes to fruition as LEGO® Icons set 10355 Blacktron Renegade invades stores! 

Who better to introduce it than Jae Won Lee, Senior Designer at The LEGO Group, who has brought his own swoosh factor to this 1987 classic LEGO® Space set?

Review: 10343 Mini Orchid and 10344 Lucky Bamboo from LEGO® Botanicals

In July, I reviewed LEGO® Botanicals sets 10368 Chrysanthemum & 10369 Plum Blossom. They were pronounced to be two of the Four Gentlemen: a set of traditional plants in East Asian culture. The remaining two are bamboo and orchid. Those flowers are less straightforward to make into LEGO sets: orchid because it already appeared in sets 10311 Orchid and 43237 Isabela's Flowerpot (review of 43237 by me, again), and bamboo because it's basically some sticks, and thus not interesting… or so we thought. 

On 1 January 2025, sets 10343 Mini Orchid and 10344 Lucky Bamboo will be available, and today I am going to see if they are worthy successors to the first pair – both of which got good marks from me.