75442 UCS The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter Revealed in Time for May the Fourth With the cinematic release of The Mandalorian and Grogu just around the corner, this year's May the Fourth release is the Ultimate Collector just around the corner, we are seeing the Mandalorian's Naboo N1 Star Fighter…

71052 Collectible Minifigures Series 29: Early Review It's been a couple of years since we have had a set of collectable minifigures to review here on the blog. In CMF series 29, we have have a set of 12 different minifigures. The LEGO Group sent a couple of sets over for early review. This is not…

New LEGO® Builder Virtual: new digital platform development accelerated to offset looming raw material crisis. Geopolitical instability in the Middle East is threatening the supply chain of the petrochemical precursors to Acetyle-Butyl-Styrene, the primary plastic used in the creation of LEGO®…

LEGO ICONS 11378 DC-3 Pan American Airliner LEGO ICONs appears to be on a roll with its collection of large-scale aircraft. In 2023 we saw the 10318 Concorde, and last year we gained the 10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft - a combination 747 and Space Shuttle. This April, athe 11378 DC-3 Pan American…

Survey from The LEGO Group: The LEGO® Fan Compass- Helping Us Navigate Together The LEGO Group's Deep Fandom Team is calling on the wider LEGO® community provide some opinions about the role LEGO Plays in you life, and how you engage with the company and the bricks! "At the LEGO Group, the best…

43025 Nike Air Max 95 x LEGO® Set revealed It's been a few months since the last Nike release, and today the classic Nike Air Max 95 has been officially revealed in brick-built form. With 1213 pieces and one minifigfure and priced at $AUD149.99 / $USD99.99 / 99.99€ / £89.99, the set will be…

LEGO Ideas 21367 Tintin Moon Rocket: Hands-on Review I mentioned in the post announcing the upcoming release of LEGO IDEAS set 21367 Tintin Moon Rocket that this set represents a key factor in one of the earliest fandoms I was part of: I first read Destination Moon in January 1977, during the…

Destination Home! Tinitin’s Iconic Moon Rocket Arrives, thanks to LEGO Ideas. It's January 1977 and 8 year old me is on holiday in New Zealand with my family and I am needing something to read. One day we are looking around in some local specialty stores (I seem to remember beeswax candles being…

LEGO® Mario Kart™ levels up Super Mario line-up with Luigi and the first-ever large-scale Mach 8 Kart set This year, to celebrate Mario 10th day, the LEGO Group has upped the ante on last year's 72037 Mario and Standard Kart with a brick-built Luigi with the Mach 8 Kart. This new set, 72050 LEGO®…

40921 Upscaled Blue Spaceman SpaceMan SPACEMAN!!! This is the fourth in the LEGO Scaled Up Minifigure series, and the first spaceman. Last year, I had the chance to put together the ultra-cute red Baby Spaceman, which had been available as a gift with purchase. This year, we have a blue spaceman.…

LEGO® House Exclusive set for2026 has been revealed: “I ❤️ Billund” I'm not going to lie. I have probably enjoyed visiting Billund more than any other town in the world. When I first visited back in 2016, the LEGO house was in the process of moving from being a hole in the ground, and taking shape…

The Evolution of LEGO Dragons: Part 2 the Legacy of Galidor.

40955 Maersk Dual Fuel Container Vessel The partnership with Maersk is one of the oldest that the LEGO Group has in its portfolio. The announcement of 40955 Maersk Duel Fuel Container Vessel was greeted with excitement (back after 12 years), apprehension (will there be more or fewer stickers than…

LEGO Botanicals 11510 Magnolia Branches Review The Magnolia branches are the second botanical set we have to look at, scheduled for March 2026. You can checkout our review of 11502 Sunflower Bouquet here. This set brings us relatively sparsely decorated reddish brown branches, with a magnolia…

LEGO® ICONS 11376 Model T Ford: A Classic Car, Over a Century in the Making More than 100 years ago when cars were an uncommon sight on roads, decades before Ole Kirk Kristiansen started making wooden toys, and long before the name LEGO was chosen, Henry Ford caused ripples in history with this…

Set sail with 40955 Maersk Dual Fuel Container Vessel Ships of the Danish logistics giant, Maersk have been represented in LEGO sets for over fifty years. It is now more than 10 years since the last Maersk ship was released (Creator Expert 10241 in 2014). It must be about time for a new one. The…

LEGO Botanicals 11502 Bouquet of Sunflowers [Review] Botanical sets continue to thrive in the LEGO ecosystem. We have two new bouquet-style sets being released in March 2026: the first we will look at is 11502, Bouquet of Sunflowers. These bright blooms always seem to lift the mood of any room…

Any Colour the Customer Wants – So long as its painted black. LEGO ICONS 11376 Model T Ford revealed The LEGO Group have revealed their latest LEGO ICONs Classic car, and they don't get asny more classic than the original production line vehicle, the Ford Model T. The set will be available on the…

Project Hail Mary: coming in March 2025 I love a good spaceship. I love LEGO Spaceships more. With the first manned Artemis ship set to fly to the moon any day now we are entering a new era of manned spaceflight, bound to spark imaginations around the world, looking outward with an enthusiasm…

Happy 10th Birthday Rambling Brick! Hi Folks, just a quick post to acknowledge that this weekend, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our first post. What started as a whim one Saturday afternoon blew out over the following 10 years to over 1300 posts on WordPress (including this one), more than…

11503 Flower Wall: Provoking Creativity.[Review] Having used up all of my available bench space last year to display my Botanical sets - gaining respite only by packing them up during the course of some renovations. I'm sure they will come back someday. that said, to take stress of the benches,…

One Helmet to Rule them All: 11373 The Lord of the Rings: Sauron’s Helmet revealed. Things have been a little quiet on the Star Wars and Super Heros helmet cowl and bust collection lately. With 14 Star wars helmets released between 2020 and 2025; six marvel masks released between 2020 and 2025 and…

Botanicals Review and Interview IV: 11509 Flowering Cactus Sorry about the interruption to this series: Our local major event intervened. Brickvention 2026 was great fun, and just a little bit exhausting. Today, we complete our reviews of the January 2026 Botanicals releases, and present the final…

42218 John Deere 1670H Wheeled Harvester, or pretzel deliverer In our review of 71513Nightmare Scorpion Digger we briefly explored how a smaller portion of Technic sets are for something other than cars. Here we can celebrate such a not-a-car set, with 42218 John Deere 1670H Wheeled Harvester, a…

LEGO® Botanicals 11503 Flower Wall Revealed Run out of bench space to place your bouquets of LEGO Botanicals on? The latest lattice design from LEGO Botanicals is designed to hang on your wall, displaying a whole new collection of flowers, or, if you like mixing up with some of the previous…

LEGO® Education at Home: Four problem solving sets revealed. LEGO® Education has revealed 4 sets designed to encourage creative problem-solving for kids aged 7+. These sets are the first LEGO Education sets to be marketed at the home market, rather than directly to schools. The box has been…

Ninjago Turned 15 This Week: Here’s a preview of whats going on! LEGO Ninjago was released back in January 2011, and continues to go strong, with the occasional reboot and narrative refocus, Ninjago embraces a combination of the source materials that might have once occupied both LEGO Space and…

Three 18+ Pokemon sets revealed If you are a person of a certain age, then Pokemon might have been an integral part of your upbringing. I wasn't. But my kids were - they grew up with the mid-noughties version. As such, Passionate, old school Pokémon fans now have the opportunity catch them all...…

31380 Retro Gaming Console: Quick Creator Reviews Time to get another Creator 3-in1 review out. While the majority of sets in the current wave are creature builds, a couple are based on real-world objects. Lets take a look at the 31380 Retro Video Game Console. This set is one of 2 sets in the…

LEGO DREAMZZz 71514 Dino Jet, as in Dino-Soar [review] Dinosaurs are cool. Dinosaurs keep appearing in LEGO sets from time to time for that exact reason. Over time 305 sets have appeared with an association to the word 'Dino', of which 102 for Jurassic world! The most popular dinos in LEGO are…

LEGO Smart Brick officially unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show 2026 After months of rumor and speculation, LEGO® SMART Play™, an I tegrated Smart Brick and minifigure system has been revealed at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The first sets to include this technology will be in the LEGO…

Is that you Eris? 71512 Crocodile Submarine review Branko continues his reviews of the latest LEGO Dreamzzz Sets, and finds the 'B' on this one strangely familiar. In many different ways! When LEGO gifted this set for review my eye was immediately drawn to the alternate build on the back of the…

71508 Fox Guardian Mech (or could it be a flying fox?) [review] Green and gold, favourite national colours in Australia, but I think my appreciation for this set has little to do with that. 71508 Fox Guardian Mech is the second smallest set released in the new Dreamzzz wave, coming in at 883…

42220 Monster Jam Sparkle Smash: Is a Unicorn a Monster? [review] A sparkling unicorn-themed monster truck. I know that the word 'monster' in this name refers to the truck, not the theme of the decorations, but I am just used to monster trucks having appearances that match the loud, powerful,…

Nightmare Scorpion Digger 71513, an issue with construction [review] Branko woke up from a dream wondering if Construction Equipment was on the way out. He couldn't get back to sleep until he came up with the answer... In January 2026 LEGO will release another wave of Dreamzzz sets and the balance…

Botanicals Interview and Review III: 11504 Daisies Its time for the third part of our interview with Thoe Bonner. If you have missed out on the previous parts, you can catch up with them in our review for the 11501 Tulip Bouquet and the 11504 Peace Lily. Before taking a look at the 11508 Daisies,…

Botanicals Interview and Review II: 11503 Peace Lily Earlier in the month I was visiting Denmark, and had the opportunity to visit the LEGO Campus and have a conversation with LEGO Botanicals senior designer, Theo Bonner. In part one, we discussed recolours and the rationale behind new elements…

Tiger! Shark! Tank! – 71515 [review] Branko's been thinking a lot about Dreamzzz lately. Here is his first formal review for the wave: I imagine the brainstorm sessions for the latest wave of Dreamzzz sets went something like this. Get a group of children in a room as ask them what they like. They…

Dreamzzz 2026 Collector’s Guide The next wave of LEGO® Dreamzzz contains a collectable aspect, as such themes often do. In the past we've had spinners, golden weapons, shields... and in the 2026 Dreamzzz sets, we have two collectables; HUGE swords, and crystal creatures. The boxes seem fairly…

Botanical Insights: Interview and Review – 11501 Tulip Bouquet Theo Bonner, Senior Designer, LEGO Botanicals In December, 2025 I had the good fortune to visit LEGO Campus in Billund, Denmark. While there, I had the chance to talk with Theo Bonner - One of the Senior Designers working on LEGO's…

It’s a matter of torque – 42219 Monster Jam Grave Digger [review] Since 2021 LEGO has released 10 small Technic monster trucks, linked to Monster Jam. LEGO generously sent us the latest pair to be released in January so we can share our own opinion on them. Monster Trucks are unusual vehicles that…

Are Our Dreamzzz Getting Bigger? I was quite excited when I saw the announcement of season 4 of LEGO Dreamzzz (as in: the 5 sets that are to be released in January 2026); they are all animals, reminding me much of Legends of Chima! And then it struck me; these are all LARGE sets! When I was…

It's 20 years since Santa first appeared in a LEGO Advent Calendar - let's see how he has changed!

WE start our 2026 Creator 3in1 reviews with 31376 Cute Hamster with Flower. We also have insights from the set's designer into the 3in1 process.

Go Off the Grid with LEGO ICONS 11371 Shopping Street. [Review]

11371Shopping Street is our Next Modular Building - January 1 2026

The Great LEGO Puzzle Book [Review] The folks over at No Starch Press have sent a new book over for review. Jacob Berg’s The Great LEGO Puzzle book does just what it says on the cover: It brings 120 building challenges using just a handful of basic bricks. Is this the perfect way to while away…

New 2026 Botanicals Revealed. After last week's reveal of the 11501 Bunch of Tulips at the Chinese International Import Expo, another three Botanical sets in the 2026 lineup have been revealed. These sets will be released on January 1, 2026, and cover the range of sets we are becoming accustomed…

LEGO® ICONS Prepares to Boldly Go. 10365 Normally a picture release of a large grey spaceship heralds the arrival of something from the LEGO Star Wars team. But this is much more exciting. After moving around a series of alternative toy brick companies over the years, the Star Trek License has…

LEGO® Spring Festival, Ninjago and Botanical sets revealed at Chinese International Import Expo. Monkie Kid Absent from the Announcement. The 2025 Chinese International Import Expo is now underway, and we have seen several sets across a range of themes revealed. These include Chinese New Year…