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 DREAMZZz 71514 Dino Jet, as in Dino-Soar [review]

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LEGO set 71514 Dino Jet featuring a large dinosaur model with orange and gray colors alongside a flying craft, set against a white background.

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 raptors (74) and T-rexes (85) and various other theropods (two-legged dinosaurs, ancestors of birds).

Far less common are sauropods such as brachiosaurus, for which only 23 sets can be found and Stegosaurus for which we can only see 16 sets! Introducing 71514 Dino Jet, offering you both a stegosaurus and a sauropod in a two-in-one package! With 1007 pieces this set is the second smallest(!) set in the January 2026 Dreamzzz range and retails for AU$149.99/£89.99/US$99.99/€99.99.

A colorful LEGO dinosaur model with a mechanical design, featuring a long neck, a dinosaur-like head with sharp teeth, and a segmented body in orange and gray colors. The model stands upright with its arms and legs positioned to give a dynamic appearance.

LEGO generously gifted this set so we could share our own opinion on it with you. It is cool. It is dinosaur.

Read on if you would like some more details…

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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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Is that you Eris? 71512 Crocodile Submarine review

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A LEGO set featuring a crocodile submarine with a large head and bright colors, accompanied by a purple character wielding a bow and black creatures with pink claws.

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 box; the eagle. There is quite a lot to see in this set before we get to that point, so join me while I share my opinion on this set, and highlight several references and associations this set conjures.

A vibrant LEGO set featuring a blue and yellow eagle-themed robot with intricate details and an additional smaller black and purple figure, surrounded by several small spider-like creatures.

For example, is Logan the dreamworld manifestation of Marvel’s Rocket Raccoon? Does this mean Dreamzzz may become a licensed series after all, or does it still qualify as a story theme (read my essay on that here)? How does Eris the eagle tie into all of this?

This set was gifted by LEGO but all opinions are our own. 71512 Crocodile Submarine comes in with 1107pieces as the second largest and the second cheapest set in the Dreamzzz 2026 line for AU$109.99/£59.99/$69.99/€69.99

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71508 Fox Guardian Mech (or could it be a flying fox?) [review]

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Image of the LEGO set '71508 Fox Guardian Mech' featuring a green mech with a fox-like design, holding translucent green swords, with two minifigures in front.

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 pieces for AU$129.99/£69.99/US$79.99/€79.99. As I mentioned before, these sets are not small or cheap, but they are good!

The official name of this set it ‘Fox Guardian Mech’ and I typically associate the word ‘Mech’ with a large robot occupied by a pilot (like a Jaeger in Pacific Rim, or powered armor like in Avatar). LEGO is partially to blame for this, with so many sets labelled ‘Mech’ containing piloted robots. Ninjago in particular has been releasing mechs with someone driving them. Coming back to this set; this fox does NOT contain a set for someone to drive it so it almost deserves a different qualification. Also, the alternative build could equaly qualify as a Fox Guardian, so should the name perhaps just be Fox Guardian?

LEGO gifted one of these guardians for use to review, so join me as we present our own opinion on this set, and explore what it has to offer.

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42220 Monster Jam Sparkle Smash: Is a Unicorn a Monster? [review]

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A colorful unicorn-themed monster truck with glittery decorations, showcasing large wheels and a playful design.

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, anything-but-subtle destruction and mayhem they can cause.

Does this mean, perhaps, I should reconsider my understanding of unicorns? After all, Unikitty is not known to be the most stable and coherent entities in the LEGO universe; perhaps unicorns like a bit of roar and thunder? I still do not know, but I can say that I don’t mind this style of Monster Truck.

LEGO gifted us a copy of 42220 Monster Jam™ Sparkle Smash™, one of the new Monster trucks to be released in January 2026. The set contains 243 pieces and retails for AU$44.99/£24.99/US$34.99/€29.99.

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Nightmare Scorpion Digger 71513, an issue with construction [review]

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LEGO set featuring the Nightmare Scorpion Digger 71513 with mini-figures, a crystal, and spiders, highlighted with colorful pieces.

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 between ‘dream’ and ‘nightmare’ seems solidly to have swung towards ‘Dream’. There is only 1 set out of 5 in the wave that is considered a nightmare, and it is the smallest of the lot at that. Cue “Nightmare Scorpion Digger 71513”, coming in at 505 pieces for AU$79.99/£44.99/US$49.99/€49.99. This is not a small set, it’s just the smallest of the lot (read more on that here).

The sets in this series are all associated with animals, and some machinery, but it struck me that this particular one is very strongly related to construction equipment. In recent years fans of Technic have been complaining a bit about a reduction of the number of construction equipment sets, so this left me wondering. Has construction gotten into bad books? Is digging holes no longer considered cool?

Join me as we have a quick look to see if Technic fans are objectively correct in their gripe, and then we will cheerfully ignore that and have a look at how construction equipment is used to create this particular nightmare creature.

This set was generously gifted by LEGO, but the expressed opinions are my own.

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