This year, to celebrate Mario 10th day, the LEGO Group has upped the ante on last year’s 72037 Mario and Standard Kart with a brick-built Luigi with the Mach 8 Kart.
This new set, 72050 LEGO® Mario Kart™ – Luigi & Mach 8 has 2234 pieces and is priced at $AUD 279.99/ £159.99 / €179.99 / $USD179.99. It is available for preorder now, and will be on the shelves on April 1, 2026
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This is the fourth in the LEGO Scaled Up Minifigure series, and the first spaceman. Last year, I had the chance to put together the ultra-cute red Baby Spaceman, which had been available as a gift with purchase. This year, we have a blue spaceman. This may polarise some: he’s playing it straight. It’s not Benny with the broken chinstrap and idiot grin. It’s a classic smiley. And it’s blue. I mean, sure, its kind of acceptable: I was there in the beginning, when LEGO Spacemen were red or white. The set, 40921 Scaled Up Blue Astronaut Minifigure goes on sale on the first of March and will be priced at AUD99.99/ USD59.99/ EURO59.99 and £54.99
The box for this set is around 20% larger than that for the ‘regular’ 40649 upscaled minifigure, released in 2023, and it features the silver ‘Space’ sideband that was everywhere space-like in 2024.
I’m not going to lie. I have probably enjoyed visiting Billund more than any other town in the world. When I first visited back in 2016, the LEGO house was in the process of moving from being a hole in the ground, and taking shape as a building in the centre of town. When I visited nearly 12 months later, it was well on the way to being prepared for its opening in September.
With the LEGO house at its centre, the main campus, LEGOland park and the original Idea House all within a few hundred meters of each other, the time has come for the annual LEGO House exclusive set to celebrate the Town, highlighting different features and attractions that will appeal to many who make the trip to Billund each year.
The Magnolia branches are the second botanical set we have to look at, scheduled for March 2026. You can checkout our review of 11502 Sunflower Bouquet here. This set brings us relatively sparsely decorated reddish brown branches, with a magnolia flowers in different stages of bloom. Can such a minimalist set maintain the attention of an 18+ consumer base? Could it be one of the most striking botanical sets to date? Read on to find out.
LEGO Botanicals set 11510 Magnolia Branches has 435 pieces and is priced at $AUD99.99/ $USD49.99/49.99€/£44.99. It goes on sale on March 1st, 2026, but is available for pre-order now.
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Ships of the Danish logistics giant, Maersk have been represented in LEGO sets for over fifty years. It is now more than 10 years since the last Maersk ship was released (Creator Expert 10241 in 2014). It must be about time for a new one.
The LEGO Group has just revealed the 40955 Maersk Dual-Fuel Container vessel. The [real life] Ane Maersk, on which it is based is able to run on biofuel or methanol.
40955 Maesk Dual Fuel Container Vessel measures over 60cm long. It is priced at $AUD249.99 / £139.99 / €149.99 / $USD149.99, has 1516 pieces and will be released on March 1, as a LEGO Store Exclusive set.
I love a good spaceship. I love LEGO Spaceships more. With the first manned Artemis ship set to fly to the moon any day now [Update: delayed until March 2026] we are entering a new era of manned spaceflight, bound to spark imaginations around the world, looking outward with an enthusiasm unseen since the shuttle program. And in the background, sciece fiction continues to reach for the stars.
Author Andy Weir includes enough plausible science in his work to make you feel that what you are reading isn’t ‘What?’ so much as “When?” The Martian was a compelling story of Survival in a harsh, alien environment. His latest book, 2021’s Project Hail Mary was released to much acclaim and is due for release as a Motion Picture starring Ryan Gosling in March 2024.
Some how, it seems to be inevitable that would be a LEGO Set to go along with it.
Set 11389 LEGO ICONS: Project Hail Mary has 830 pieces and one minifigure. It will go on sale on the first of March 2026, priced at 179.99 AUD/ 99,99 USD / 109,99 EUR / 99,99 GBP.
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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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In our review of 71513Nightmare Scorpion Digger we briefly explored how a smaller portion of Technic sets are for something other than cars. Here we can celebrate such a not-a-car set, with 42218 John Deere 1670H Wheeled Harvester, a small set with 117 pieces for AU$14.99/£8.99/US$9.99/€9.99
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.
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 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.
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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