E.T. the Extra Terrestrial has not been seen in LEGO Form since 2016’s LEGO Dinmensions’ minifigure/Funpack. This Ideas submission has been long awaited since it was revealed to be approved in October 2025. Just how well does this set bring us a wrinkly potato of an alien, with a caring expression, and glowing check? The LEGO Group sent a copy of 21370 over for review, ahead of its August 1 release. The set has 1226 pieces and will be priced at $AUD229.99/ $USD139.99 / 129.99€ / £119.99. While this set was sent over by the LEGO Group, all opinions are my own.
There are no minifigures included: any you see in this review are purely coincidental…
For 80’s kids (and their kids, we have another appealing Cinematic Character from the studio of Steven Spielberg: Not Jaws, Not Indiana Jones but ET, the Extra Terrestrial.
Based on the LEGO Ideas Submission by French designer Lafabrick, LEGO Ideas Set 21370 E.T the Extra Terrestrial will be released on August 1 2026. The set has 1226 pieces and will be priced at $AUD229.99/ $USD139.99 / 129.99€ / £119.99.
Pinball machines can be fun. Full of challenges and, in my hands, just a little bit too unpredictable. The new LEGO ICONS 11374 Arcade Pinball Game sets out to bring us a playable pinball game, full of challenges and loaded with a heartwarming story: can you reunite the new pale blue LEGO Space Explorer with their baby?
Is this a brilliant exercise in construction, or is it an expensive alternative to a tabletop toy? The LEGO Group sent a copy over for early review. Somewhere along the way, something didn’t work the way it should – so I sat down to troubleshoot it. I may have been distracted while putting this review together, by wondering how to incorporate Smart Play. I will look at this in a future post.
Pick up a coffee and come on a journey. Let’s look at the set and put it together.
Pinball machines have always intrigued me – the challenge of keeping the ball in play, trying to workout the powerups and bonuses. When I was younger this was generally limited to the one of day a year that we had takeaway fish and chips while on a beach holiday. At 20 cents per play, they were worth almost a week’s pocket money at the time. Smaller versions were built to appeal to the home play market – often including the flashing lights and bumpers of the full size arcade versions – all painted up with some retro colour scheme or pattern. And it is these vintage toys of the 70s-to90s that the LEGO Group is trying to capture with this latest icons set – 11374 Arcade Pinball Machine.
The set has 2272 pieces, a classic spaceman and space baby in pale blue. It will go on sale on July 1 2026, priced at $AUD349.99/ £189.99/ €209.99 / $229.99.
By adopting a ‘Space’ theme, and bringing in a new pale blue Spaceman and Space Baby, this is sure to be a hit with Space fans, yearning for the nostalgia of old style toys: this is certainly not a substitute for a full size Pinball Machine, but rather a toy version, as was frequently seen around in the 70s and 80s, and can still be found today, fully featured for a lower cost of investment (to be fair, the torso, legs and tanks have existed previously, but this one unites them all! ).
The Sagrada Família has been under construction for over 140 years. Surely close to a record for contemporary cathedral construction. The church was the vision of architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí, who passed away 100 years ago this year.
Today, The LEGO Group reveal their largest set yet (by part count): a brick built version of the Sagreda Família. It will be released on November 1, but will be available for preorder from today.
Set 21065 LEGO Architecture: The Sagrada Família is priced at $AUD1299.99 / £649.99/ €749.99/ $USD799.99 and has 12060 pieces. It measures over 24 in. (62cm) high, 18.5 in. (47 cm) wide, and 15 in. (39 cm) deep
The Botanicals range continues to diversify in 2026 and 11505 Woodland Mushrooms is one of their most original display pieces yet. In the past we have seen bouquets, large and small potted plants, hanging arrangements, dried flower arrangements and bonsai trees. This set is a little different: imagine digging up an improbably diverse patch of soil from the woods. On it grows a collection of mushrooms, on a mossy bed, along with some Autumn Crocus, moss and bracken. This is the first botanical set to explore a biome rather than something manicured for domestic display.
The LEGO Group sent a copy over for early review ahead of its release on the 1st June, 2026. The set has 806 pieces and has a RRP at $AUD129.99/ £69.99 / $USD79.99 / €79.99.
Could this be the most satisfying Botanical set to date? Let’s take a closer look…
Snoopy and the Peanuts gang have been around for over 75 years now. I probably first met his special brand of homespun philosophy, and flights of imagination through the comic strips in the newspapers in the mid 70s. Towards the end of the decade, we started to pick up the books (paperback, novel format) containing collected strips anytime we went on holiday.
There have been many Snoopy submissions to LEGO Ideas, but Snoopy – Campfire by @bossofdos64 reach the full 10000 supporters. He has submitted multiple Snoopy MOCs based on many of the characters Snoopy has adopted over the years: the Novelist, sleeping on the doghouse, hockey player, Joe Cool and surfer. Fortunately, two additional versions: Asleep on the doghouse and the Novelist were able to be included in the final model.
The LEGO Group sent 21368 LEGO Ideas PEANUTS: Snoopy’s Doghouse over for early review, but all opinions are my own. I also had the chance to join a conversation with the design team, and fan designed
It was December 27, 2001. The Knoller in Chief and I went to the movies to celebrate our fourth wedding anniversary, as well as to enjoy a quiet night out with our two young children. It is hard to believe that this is now 25 years ago. Over the next few years, our wedding anniversary would be recognised as a chance to get out of the house together and catch up with the latest cinematic sage being released in the post Christmas period. We had both grown up with the Lord of the Rings and seeing the story translated into film was a defining moment in popculture for us both.
After the original run of sets based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit from over a decade ago, we have been getting a steady drip feed of related sets over the past few years: Starting with Rivendell, we have seen Barad-Dur and Bag End as ‘regular’ display sets, while we have also seen a selection of Brick Headz, a book nook, and more recently, Sauron’s Helmet. While our display spaces rapidly diminish, today, the LEGO Group are revealing their latest model: 11377 LEGO Icons The Lord of the Rings: Minas Tirith.
This latest set will be available at the start of June (1st for LEGO Insiders, 4th for everyone else). It comes with 8278 pieces – measures over 23.5 in. (59cm) high, 24.5 in. (62 cm) wide, and 14.5 in. (37 cm) deep, and comes with 10 minfigures. It will be priced at $AUD 999.99 / £579.99 / €649.99 / $649.99.
With the cinematic release of The Mandalorian and Grogu just around the corner, this year’s May the Fourth release brings us The Mandalorian’s Naboo N1 Star Fighter, with the Ultimate Collector Series Treatment.
With a load of Silver laquer elements, The LEGO Star Wars™ The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter™ (75442) set will be available for LEGO Insiders* Early Access from 1 May 2026, and available for all from 4 May, priced at $AUD429.99 / £229.99 / €249.99 / $249.99.
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 Airliner is being released. Introduced in the 1930s, the DC-3 was the first airliner to be able to cross the continental United States in only 18 hours, with 3 stops. Carrying up to 36 passengers, it had a top speed of 333km/h. The DC-3 was in production until 1942. While around 600 DC-3’s were built, its military equivalent, the C-47 Skytrain, was produced in the thousands.
The LEGO Group sent this set over for an early look, ahead of it’s April release – but all opinions are my own. Let’s take a look at the pieces, the minifigures, and the final build, and then consider reasons that might exist behind some of the design choices with this set.
