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11503 Flower Wall: Provoking Creativity.[Review]

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Colourful LEGO flower arrangement with various flower designs, including pink, purple, and blue flowers, showcasing creativity and playfulness.

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, the LEGO Engagement team kindly sent over a copy of their Flower Wall to check out. Now the idea of a lattice with a collection of flowers designed to be attached on the wall is appealing. And the system is designed to be expandable by attaching multiple lattices together – and don’t just decorate them with the included flowers, but also add in those from another set. To encourage this creativity, they actually sent me two copies of the set to play with. But more on that soon.

The set has 879 pieces and is priced at priced at AUD149.99 / 89.99 USD / 89.99 EUR / 79.99 GBP, the 11503 Flower wall is due for release on February 1 2026.

The set comes with 9 numbered bags, and an instruction book which gave a quick run over the flowers depicted in the set.

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One Helmet to Rule them All: 11373 The Lord of the Rings: Sauron’s Helmet revealed.

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A detailed model of Sauron's helmet from The Lord of the Rings displayed on a pedestal in a modern interior setting.
LEGO Icons set featuring a model of Sauron's helmet from The Lord of the Rings, with 538 pieces, targeted at ages 18 and up.
Box packaging of LEGO Lord of the Rings Sauron set featuring the iconic helmet of Sauron, with artwork and images on the sides.

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 two Batman Cowls released in 2021, it has been a bit of a drip feed: a couple a year, with a small name plaque. Limited enough to be able to collect them all, and all imminently displayable.

Today, we get our first Helmet from The Lord Of The Rings – the Sauron’s Helmet. The set will released on March 1 and have 538 pieces, and unlike any Helmet series set before, it also comes with a Sauron minfigure. the set is priced at 129.99AUD / 69,99 USD / 74,99 EUR / 64,99 GBP .

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Botanicals Review and Interview IV: 11509 Flowering Cactus

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A LEGO set featuring the 11509 Flowering Cactus on a wooden shelf, showcasing two cacti with flowers in a blue pot.

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 installment of our interview with Senior Designer Theo Bonner, in which we take a moment to discuss the pink roses bouquet, and why it wasn’t just a clone of the red roses; see what made a collection of designers get up and take a look at what their colleague had achieved, and ponder whether the Botanicals sets just don’t feature enough Spinjitsu. Or do they?

Then we will take a closer look at the Flowering Cactus, another of the 2026 Botanical selection. This set has 482 parts and is aimed at builders aged 9 and up. It is priced at $AUD99.99 / $USD49.99 / 59.99 € / £54.99.

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LEGO® Botanicals 11503 Flower Wall Revealed

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A decorative display featuring the LEGO® Botanicals 11503 Flower Wall on a neutral wall, accompanied by a round hanging framed botanical artwork and a glass vase with flowers.

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 bouquets.

LEGO Botanical Flower Wall set box featuring a vibrant arrangement of various flowers in shades of pink, blue, and yellow, showcasing artistic design suitable for ages 18 and up.
LEGO flower arrangement set packaging, showcasing a decorative piece on a wall with floral designs in various colours and shapes.

Built from 879 pieces and priced at AUD149.99 / 89.99 USD / 89.99 EUR / 79.99 GBP, the 11503 Flower wall is due for release on February 1 2026.

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LEGO® Education at Home: Four problem solving sets revealed.

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LEGO Education promotional image showcasing four problem-solving sets with brightly coloured packaging and sets included.

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 cunningly disguised to look like some sort of a board game, with most of the “LEGOness” hidden behind beautiful printed artwork depicting luscious retro-futuristic space-scapes and polar vistas, and a smattering of bricks tucked in for good measure. To say nothing of the Build-Solve-Invent Mantra tucked in the upper right-hand corner.

LEGO Education Moon Mission Science Kit box featuring a space-themed design, suitable for ages 8 and above, containing 519 pieces for two science experiments.
Box of LEGO Education Antarctic Animals Science Kit, containing 461 pieces, featuring illustrations of a whale, a penguin, and education-themed characters.
LEGO Education Mars Mission Science Kit box featuring vibrant graphics, designed for ages 9 and up, containing 933 pieces for four science experiments.
LEGO Education Arctic Animals Science Kit packaging featuring a polar bear, a seal, and a miniature figure, alongside vibrant graphics and details about the kit.

There is, of course, another path to sales success: two of the sets are space-themed and bring us a new range of City-style Space Explorer Minifigures, with an exciting new colour scheme! These figures build on the aesthetic last seen in the LEGO CITY 60446 Galactic Spaceship- itself presenting as an update of vintage space theme FUTURON.

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Ninjago Turned 15 This Week: Here’s a preview of whats going on!

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Image celebrating the 15th anniversary of Ninjago, featuring the Ninjago logo and the number 15 within a gold circle, with text indicating a global celebration.

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 Castle, albeit with its own special twist.

To celebrate this milestone, there is a lot going on this weekend: from an Activation at Brickvention 2026 in Melbourne, where there will be a display of EVERY NINJAGO MINIFIGURE EVER, to stores and themeparks around the world. Read on for more…

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Three 18+ Pokemon sets revealed

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Image featuring three LEGO Pokémon sets: Eevee, Pikachu with a Poké Ball, and Venusaur with Charizard and Blastoise, showcasing their box art along with LEGO and Pokémon logos.

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… or at least the first wave of LEGO Sets. Three sets for Adult Builders have been revealed ahead of the range’s launchat the end of February.

LEGO® Pokémon™ Eevee set box featuring the character Eevee, showcasing its playful design, with 'Eevee' and 'Pokémon' branding at the top.
LEGO® Pokémon™ Eevee box showcasing the assembled figure and detailed images, featuring the playful character with movable parts.
LEGO set featuring Pikachu and a Poké Ball, showcasing Pikachu in a dynamic pose with lightning effects.
Box design for the LEGO® Pokémon™ Pikachu set featuring a detailed build of Pikachu alongside a Poké Ball.
Image of the LEGO set box featuring Pokémon characters Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise, showcasing vibrant designs and detailed elements.
Box packaging for the LEGO® Pokémon™ set featuring Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise, showcasing detailed images of the Pokémon figures and set dimensions.

Are you gonna Catch ’em All?

Our Starter Sets include:

72151 Eevee, 587 pieces, 59,99€ / 59,99$ / 54,99£

72152 Pikachu 2050 pieces, 199,99€ / 199,99$ / 179,99£

72153 LEGO® Pokémon™ Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise 6836 Pieces; Price: AUD999.99 649,99€ / 649,99$ / 579,99£

There is a set for every sized desk and budget, by the looks of it.I have to admit, I really like the look of these sets. But at the end of the day, Pokemon are for other people. you gan read on for the press release:

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31380 Retro Gaming Console: Quick Creator Reviews

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Image of the 31380 Retro Gaming Console LEGO set, showcasing various models including a handheld console, a keyboard, and an arcade machine, all designed with dark blue and bright colored elements against a purple background.

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 current wave that tie into real-world objects, with the hero model setting out to mirror handheld consoles of the nineties and early noughties. The set is aimed at audiences from age 8 and up, has 268 pieces and is priced at $AUD29.99 / $USD19.99 / £17.99 / 19.99€

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LEGO Smart Brick officially unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show 2026

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A LEGO Smart Brick emitting colorful lights, with a LEGO minifigure and a charging tag in the background, showcased during the CES 2026 event.

After months of rumor and speculation, LEGO® SMART Play™, an Integrated 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 STAR WARS range, and are due for release in March. This Press release has dropped just as I am getting started on a normal work day: I will probably post again about known knowns and known unknowns later in the week. But in short, this is a way to enhance the way trhat kids play with their bricks and Minifigures.

I have always been intrigued by the ways in which LEGO has worked to combine technology with play, from the first ‘Stop signal’ that I owned with my childhood trainset through Life of George, Boost, Vidiyo, and Super Mario. Some have been hits, some misses, but ways of enhancing play are constantly under investigation by the research teams at LEGO.

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Botanicals Interview and Review III: 11508 Daisies

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A bouquet of LEGO flowers including daisies and lavender displayed in a round glass vase on a wooden shelf, with text overlay featuring the title '11508 Daisies Review' and a promotional note about Theo Bonner.

Its time for the third part of our interview with Theo 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, one of the 9-plus sets in the latest Botanical wave, Theo and I talk about the new colours to be found in the January Releases as well as the importance of Storytelling, even in sets that might not have an obvious narrative.

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