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LEGO®ICONS 11374 Arcade Pinball Game [Part 1: The review]

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LEGO Icons 11274 Arcade Pinball Game model, showcased in various colours with a space theme, featuring details like flippers and targets, set against a grey background.

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.

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LEGO® Icons Arcade Pinball Machine revealed: Pale Blue Spaceman and Baby Spaceman Included

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A LEGO Icons 11374 Arcade Pinball Machine displayed on a blue storage box, surrounded by craft materials and a skateboard.

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.

LEGO Icons Arcade Pinball Machine box featuring a detailed design with vibrant colours and elements related to space.
LEGO Space Mission building set box featuring a detailed design of a space scene with various spaceships and planets, alongside images and specifications on the side.

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! ).

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