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11371 Shopping Street is our Next Modular Building – January 1 2026 for LEGO® Insiders

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It’s an annual highlight in the LEGO Fan’s calendar: the reveal of the Modular Building. Once part of Creator Expert, and now ICONS, Modular buildings were my gateway drug, deranging me down a slippery slope into accepting life as an Adult Fan of a Children’s toy, over 15 years ago.

This year’s model does not disappoint me.

We have two buildings-!- music shop and a furniture store (with an upstairs workshop), separated by an angled alleyway. They are joined by connecting walkways at the first and second floors.

LEGO ICONS SET 11371 Shopping Street will be priced at $AUD399.99/ $USD249.99 / 249,99 EUR / £229.99 The set will be released on January 1 2026 has 3456 pieces and seven minifigures- two of whom are twins.

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LEGO® Art, Icons and Architecture are aiming to decorate your home in 2026

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A collage image featuring three LEGO sets: a Japanese Cherry Blossom landscape scene on the left, an Autumn Cottage Garden in the center, and a Paris architectural model on the right. Text overlay reads 'Art, Icons and Architecture: Dominating Your Home Decor in 2026'.
LEGO Art set featuring a Japanese Cherry Blossom Landscape with Mount Fuji, a teahouse, a bridge, and waterfalls crafted from colorful bricks, framed in a black lacquer shadow box.
LEGO Art set depicting the Eiffel Tower and iconic Parisian architecture against a dark blue background, labeled 'City of Love'.
A colorful LEGO set featuring a quaint cottage surrounded by autumn trees, a river, and garden elements. The scene includes a weeping willow, orange and yellow trees, flowers, and decorative details like a cart and a garden gnome.

LEGO® Art, Icons and Architecture are themes that are transforming LEGO Bricks from a construction toy to a decorative medium, and each theme has just revealed a new piece for January 2026. Let’s take a wander around these upcoming sets, set for a January 2026 release:

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10360 Shuttle Carrying Aircraft: Rambling Review

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A person holding a LEGO model of the Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, featuring the Shuttle on top, against a clear blue sky. The image includes text overlaying the model with the title '10360 LEGO ICONS Shuttle Carrier Aircraft: Rambling Review' and the word 'SWOOSH!'

After the conclusion of the Apollo Moon Landing, the public’s interest in Space exploration waned. Then we saw our first images of the next phase of NASA’s manned Space Program: the Prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise being transported on the back of a modified 747, before being released to glide independently for a landing. We knew something exciting was happening.

The 747 subsequently received a a new paint job and was involved in transporting the Space Shuttles from their landing site in California across the country to Florida, in time for the next launch, through to the end of the program in 2011.

While we have seen many sets depicting a space shuttle at this scale or larger, in varying detail ( at least 20 at the most recent count), this is the first time we have seen a LEGO set depicting any variant of the 747 jumbo jet.

So, will this new model inspire us like the Saturn V from LEGO Ideas in 2017 did? Let’s take a closer look. Along the way, we will include some insights from Andy Grubb, one of the design team members who worked on this set.

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10362Parisian Cafe: Hands On Review/Designer Insights

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Today we look at the 10362 Parisian Cafe, first in the latest ICONS subtheme, Restaurants of the World. This set raised some controversy when it was revealed because of its low profile and closed back, in a world where so many sets either occupy a full 32×32 plate or open up at the back like a doll house. So, is this an exciting new direction for LEGO sets – reaching for a new casual audience, with limited display space? Or is there something for the established AFOL as well? Thanks to the LEGO Group for sending this set out for review: all opinions are my own.

Let’s take a closer look. Along the way, we will gain a few insights from Designer Hoang Huy Dang, who I had the chance to talk with at a round table discussion about the set.

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10355 Blacktron Renegade Reborn!

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After a seemingly endless parade of Spaceships in 2024, throughout City, Technic, Friends, Classic and Dulplo, it seems that ICONs is trying to scrape through before the 2025 Formula One dominance kicks in. And what a way to go, with a reimagining of the 1987 classic, 6954 Blacktron Renegade. The original version cemented Blacktron’s Bad boy image by its blatant disregard for the symmetrical spaceship design that was the norm in LEGO Space to that date. The new one doubles down and embraces the legacy of the first iteration of Blacktron.

The set will be released on January 1 2025, and comes with 3 minifigures, a droid and 1151 pieces. It will be priced at $AUD179.99/USD99.99/€99.99/£89.99

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10363 Leonardo Da Vinci’s Flying Machine Revealed

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Among the many creative ideas that Leonardo Da Vinci Experimented with was the idea of human flight. Taking inspiration from seeds and birds, he developed his ideas in over 500 sketches. Today, the LEGO Group has revealed 10363, Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine. With 493 pieces, this set also features a minifigure of the man himself.

The set was previewed at the Fan Media Days this year, and we saw the model and minifigure close up.

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Gaga with 10334 Retro Radio

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Let me be blunt; when I saw images of this set I was entirely uninterested and some famous words of Lord Rambling Brick rang through my ears “If I liked every set LEGO makes, they are not doing their job right.” Although I admire that the principles of radio created by Marconi still underpin much of modern day society, and I remember using devices like this in ‘the olden days’, I just could not feel a connection with this build.

That said, recently, I was given the opportunity to investigate this display model closely courtesy of the LEGO-certified store in Castle Hill (NSW, Australia). Given my utter lack of desire to buy the set, I felt this was a great way to see if I was correct in my assessment.

This set is available from the 1st of June for AU$169.99/£89.99/US$99.99/€99.99, and it contains 906 (!) parts.

As I am writing this, my wife expressed her concern that I may now want to buy one of these radios for myself. What happened? What did this display model do to make me reconsider its merit? Read on to find out.

Let’s be clear: This will not be a thorough review but rather a rapid look at this set.

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The LEGO Group Launches New Range of Racing Vehicles with McLaren Racing & Senna Brand, the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula 1 Team and BMW

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Just as we are seeing Space spread across major themes this year, we are also seeing a range of new racing vehicles being represented across Technic, Icons and Speed Champion ranges. this brings similar vehicles across different scales and parts families…just right for different members of the family to share the joy of racing cars together.

We see the arrival of four different Formula 1 cars, including a tribute to Ayrton Senna in the LEGO Icons range.

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LEGO® ICONS 10328 Bouquet of Roses revealed

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After the release of the LEGO® Icons 10329 Tiny Plants earlier this month, today, we see the second major Botanical set for 2024 revealed:10328 Bouquet of Roses. Arriving just in time for Valentines day, the set promises a while slew of intriguing recolours and neat parts usage. This 822 part set will be released on January 1, costing $99.99AUD/59.99 EUR / 54.99 GBP / 59.99 USD /24990 HUF / 499 CNY / 79.99 CAD.

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71462 LEGO Super Mario Piranha Plant Revealed

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Every year, around this time, we see an adult focussed set drawing inspiration from LEGO Super Mario: be it the Retro TV, the Mario 64 Question Mark Cube or the Mighty Bowser. These sets have drawn heavily on nostalgic aspects of the Super Mario games, to present an artefact that has certainly been a talking point in many households around the wolrd. Each of these sets has had a suitably impressive price tag attached, too (priced from 300-400AUD This year, perhaps as a sign of the times, with cost of living being what it has become in 2023, the scale has been somewhat reduced. This year’s adult focussed LEGO Super Mario set is a shelf sized model of the Pirhana Plant. With 540 pieces, the set will be released on November 6th and priced at $AUD94.99/$USD59.99 / €64.99 / £57.99.

Over recent years, the LEGO Group have been responsive to the cries of adult fans – Give us more, give us bigger – and now it has become apparent that the major problems that these large LEGO sets have give AFOLS are related to two major factors:

  • one is cost with the previous adult focussed Super Mario sets, we have seen prices starting at $USD199.99
  • another is display space. I love the look of the new Concorde, but at over 1m in length, there is no doubt that I have nowhere to reasonably build it or display it without causing major disruption to the family living spaces.
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