Best upcoming Lego sets 2024: this year’s top new Lego releases
Prepare for a block party with these superb Lego sets, due out later this year
When Lego founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen pivoted his business to plastic bricks, we wonder if he had any idea of the global phenomenon Lego would become. Today, there are many themes, for kids and adult collectors alike. It’s hard to keep track. So we’re doing it for you, with the Stuff guide to the best upcoming Lego sets.
Note: this list covers officially announced Lego sets. There are no rumours, leaks, nor models the writer ham-fistedly pieced together from a pile of random bricks.
August 2024 Lego sets
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NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle – LRV ($219.99/£189.99 • 1913 pieces): The last time humans set foot on the moon, they also tootled around in a Lunar Roving Vehicle. This Technic LRV does more than you’d expect. It’s got the usual steering and suspension, along with finer details – including moon rocks. But it also folds up, like the real thing, and adds three equipment displays, each with its own information plaque.
Imperial Star Destroyer ($159.99/£149.99 • 1555 pieces): There have been grumbles about the scale and shape of this minifig playset take on the massive Empire ship. But it’s still packed with details and even has a carry handle for ‘flight play’. Also – and importantly – unlike the discontinued UCS set it won’t take over your home – or choke-hold your wallet, Vader style, until it begs for mercy.
Guardians of the Galaxy: The Milano ($179.99/£159.99 • 2090 pieces): How many versions of the Milano do we need? One more, according to Lego. And, to be fair, this one’s a beaut – a great display set for fans, but with enough swoopability to whoosh through the air when no-one’s looking. Just don’t drop the thing, unless you want a Lego version of the ship before the Nova Corps repaired it.
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The Avengers Assemble: Age of Ultron ($99.99/£89.99 • 613 pieces): In Stuff’s view, the scene this set was based on was more Age of Ultra-Bad CGI than Age of Ultron. But this Lego set looks much better. On display, it’s suitably leapy and dynamic. And in play, Lego Avengers can smash the trio of enemy minifigs in the most one-sided Marvel battle since Galactus accidentally sat on Baby Groot.
The Never Witch’s Nightmare Creatures ($44.99/£39.99 • 457 pieces): The DREAMZzz range might be based on a rubbish cartoon, but the sets are superb – all suitably dream-like and nightmarish constructions. This one’s in the latter camp, and gives you the means to build a bird that would make Hitchcock yelp, a wolf, or a stompy gigantic biped with a ridiculously massive sword.
The Bowser Express Train ($119.99/£104.99 • 1392 pieces): Our favourite of the upcoming Lego Super Mario sets has plenty of characters and features. It’s ideal for kids still making brick-built levels to tackle. But it’s also the closest thing we’ve had to a Lego Super Mario display set. And even though Lego Mario’s dead eyes still look terrifying when he’s switched off, you can distract everyone from the horror by rolling the train along and watching the spoke puff bob up and down. Choo-choo!
Also coming in 2025: Lego Super Mario Kart. Vrrrrmmm!
June 2024 Lego sets
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Batman with the Batmobile vs. Harley Quinn and Mr. Freeze ($59.99/£54.99 • 435 pieces): Finally, the Batmobile from Batman: The Animated Series joins the 1960s and 1980s incarnations in Lego form. It’s a bit spendy, and apparently this Batman doesn’t only work in black or very, very dark grey. But whether or not you can tap into Bruce Waynesque funds, let’s face it: if you’re a fan of the show, you’re buying this one.
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T. rex ($59.99/£54.99 • 626 pieces): This feels like Lego’s taken the phenomenally popular Mighty Dinosaurs and given it the detail of Wild Safari Animals, Majestic Tiger and Forest Animals. We’re here for that. The stompy main build looks great and is infinitely more interesting than the moulded dinos found in most Jurassic World sets.
The Lord of the Rings: Barad-dûr ($459.99/£399.99 • 5471 pieces): The evil counter to Lego Rivendell, this ominous tower features the Eye of Sauron – and it even lights up, so the ten included minifigs can cower in its terrifying glory. Spin the tower around and there are vignettes to discover. And if the set’s 83cm height isn’t enough, Lego says you can stack multiples. Although you’d need more than a gold ring to fund that endeavour.
Notre-Dame de Paris ($229.99/£199.99 • 4383 pieces): Five years after a devastating fire, this Paris landmark’s reconstruction is almost complete. This Lego set, packed as it is with 1×1 tiles, may take you almost as long to build. But when you’re done, you’ll have a gorgeous brick-built model showing how the building looked before that fateful day.
Note: if you’re in the US, the Batmobile and T. rex won’t arrive until 1 August. We have no idea why. Still, if you buy Barad-dûr, that’ll probably take you two months to build anyway.
Recent highlights – the best of 2024 so far…
Retro Camera ($19.99/£17.99 • 261 pieces): Lego’s recreations of old kit (console; typewriter; grand piano) are usually wallet-thumpingly expensive. Not here. This brick-built snapper – complete with film, strap and moving lens – is pocket-money friendly. And the retro TV ‘b’ build is adorable.
Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City ($299.99/£259.99 • 4210 pieces): A suitably flat set for the most 2D Batman, which you can wall-mount or place on a shelf. It’s packed full of details. You get brick-built takes on Arkham Asylum, Gotham City Court and the Bat Signal, along with the odd interactive element, such as the world’s tiniest Lego Batmobile. Which makes us want the rumoured Animated minifig-scale one all the more.
NASA Artemis Space Launch System ($259.99/£219.99 • 3601 pieces): If your idea of space Lego is more grounded in reality, you’ll love the latest NASA set. As ever, there’s plenty of detail, including retractable launch tower umbilicals, separating rocket stages, and a dinky Orion module with foldout solar panels. In all, it should have space fans over the moon as they brick-build a rocket that’s part of a program to finally once again take people there.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale ($359.99/£314.99 • 3745 pieces): Celebrating 50 years of D&D, this set is quite the monster. And suitably, it includes some brick-built monsters too. The biggest is Cinderhorn, a gigantic posable dragon, braced to set fire to the included minifigs – or just sit atop the castle. All depending on whether it rolls a 6 or a 20. Or something.
TIE Interceptor ($229.99/£199.99 • 1931 pieces): This one has history – the TIE Interceptor was part of the very first Ultimate Collector Series line, back in 2000. But mostly, it’s about a massive swooshy spaceship of evil, ready to blast lasers at your UCS X-Wing. Or, you know, just sit there on a shelf, looking menacing – and infinitely more sleek than the comparatively gigantic UCS TIE Fighter.
Avengers Tower ($499.99/£429.99 • 5201 pieces): “Avengers Assemble… this massive Lego tower” is what you’ll want to shout when confronted by this whopper of a Lego set. It recreates the famous Marvel building in fine style, with a 90cm tall build that you can fill with 31 figures, ready to partake in the inevitable CGI-fuelled battle.
And even more cracking Lego sets from 2023…
Corvette ($149.99/£129.99 • 1210 pieces): Car enthusiasts rejoice – and wallets cower: another large-scale Lego car’s ready to zoom your way. This time, it’s a fancy red 1961 Corvette. As ever, it’s packed full of details, including a detailed engine and working steering. You also get to choose between a hard top or an open top, if you’re the kind of Corvette fan who wants the wind in their face rather than a roof over your bonce.
Concorde ($199.99/£169.99 • 2083 pieces): An engineering masterpiece becomes a Lego masterpiece, complete with tiltable nose and realistically cramped seating. Probably don’t try swooshing this metre-long model around, though, or you’ll have an aviation disaster on your hands. Or, rather, in pieces on the floor.
Natural History Museum ($299.99/£259.99 • 4014 pieces): The largest modular building to date gets educational, with tiny Lego exhibits depicting geology, space, fossils, and – sneakily – Lego themes (by way of a cunning collection of hats). Star of the show is a brick-built brachiosaur skeleton that towers over visitors and can be removed to go on tour, just like its British cousin, Dippy.
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Craig Grannell
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