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Shop ’til you drop at LEGO’s newest modular: 11371 Shopping Street [News]

Done your Christmas shopping yet, folks? Not me – I’d forgotten until pretty much just now that I should probably get on that. My reminder came courtesy of LEGO’s latest set announcement: a new shopping destination in the ever-growing and ever-popular Modular Buildings series. 11371 Shopping Street includes, as the name suggests, small-s LEGO stores selling furniture and musical instruments. The distinctive design features two buildings, connected on the second floor, with an alley between. Its 3,456 pieces will set you back US $249.99 | CAN $349.99 | UK £229.99 in your next shopping spree. Jake will be back shortly with our full review.

During the first few days the set goes on sale, a Vintage Parade Car gift with purchase is also included. The accompanying banner describes the “Annual Silly Hats Parade”, which s0unds fun! Sometimes the Modular GWPs come back in other promotions, but to secure a copy, your best bet is to purchase the set at release.

LEGO Icons 11371 Shopping Street| 3,456 Pieces | Available January 4, 2026 | US $249.99 | CAN $349.99 | UK £229.99

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2025 LEGO Advent Calendar Spoilers: Day 4 [Feature]

Our favorite holiday tradition is opening all six LEGO Advent Calendars, one day at a time, with you, our readers! Along with spoiler pics of the daily gifts, we include commentary and alternate builds to celebrate the season and creativity.

We have an all-star cast of custom minifig creators leading our Advent adventure this year. Fool’s Figures is wizarding his way through Harry Potter and Frozen calendars. ExpansionBricks is launching Star Wars and Friends. And beyondb0nes is digging into Minecraft and City. Now let’s open some doors and see what gifts are in store for today!

Click here for spoilers of today’s builds!

NovHENber hatched a new challenge, now let’s count the LEGO chickens! [Feature]

This November saw a new LEGO challenge: NovHENber. Participants were invited to build chickens during the month, and many AFOLs answered the call. With the last chickens hatched, we checked in with builders behind the challenge – Syrdarian and Carson Lacy – and cooped up all the hens from the inaugural event.

See the full roundup of egg-celent birds below

This Zelda vignette takes our breath (of the wild) away

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been rightfully lauded for its incredible scenery and visuals, and Martin brings the wild of Hyrule to life in this scene. Built for the Swebrick autumn challenge, this colorful build is absolutely brimming with the wildlife and character that we see throughout Hyrule in these games. The variety of techniques used to craft the trees (I spy a white carrot serving as part of a trunk), the terrain, and the intentional color choices to make the stream appear as if it is breaking over the rocks really brings this journey to life. Accompanying Link and Epona is a cast of birds, butterflies, frogs, mushrooms, and the usual hiding Koroks – how many can you find?

Knights of the Mineral Collection

When approaching new minifigure designs, I’ve always found myself drawn to the dark fantasy aesthetic and take a lot of inspiration from the Dark Souls series. When that can be paired with a little bit of whimsy, that’s even better! I started imagining these six characters as soon as I saw the new Mineral Collection from LEGO. I loved the idea of an order of knights who could be paired with each of the crystals in the set. As lore is also important to me, I had a really fun time writing little poems and such to go along with my builds. I hope you’ll enjoy!

Rhodochrosite:

Should you find yourself
Unsure
Let not your wariness of spirit become all-consuming.
Many fears are born out of reluctance to question
Be at peace with yourself
Knowing
That things unfold as they should.

Pyrite:

Foolish to think that
Things of gold might be
Best.
I swear to you I’ve seen more
Beauty trapped beneath
Grit.

the Knights of the Mineral Collection continue after the break

2025 LEGO Advent Calendar Spoilers: Day 3 [Feature]

Our favorite holiday tradition is opening all six LEGO Advent Calendars, one day at a time with you, our readers! Along with spoiler pics of the daily gifts, we include commentary and alternate builds to celebrate the season and creativity.

Click here for spoilers of today’s builds!

LEGO announces “Editions” imprint and kicks off new partnership with FIFA ahead of 2026 World Cup [News]

In 2025, the LEGO Group’s biggest play for audience expansion was a partnership with F1 that led to a range of sets and even a real-world racing team with F1: Academy. In 2026, LEGO begins a partnership with FIFA around the biggest sport in the world: football (soccer to you Americans). The collaboration begins with a 2,842-piece brick-built version of the World Cup trophy, which goes up for pre-order today. Football fans can admire this iconic replica as a display piece, but MOC builders will likely be more attracted to the plethora of gold elements – the most ever contained in a single set. We have mixed feelings about this collaboration, as while it’s amazing to see LEGO connecting with the world’s biggest fandom, FIFA is an organization beset by corruption and human rights violations. Is this the sort of partnership we want from our favorite brick-maker?

LEGO Editions 43020 FIFA World Cup Official Trophy| 2,842 Pieces | Available March 1, 2026 | US $199.99 | CAN $249.99 | UK £159.99

Hidden in this announcement is the creation of a new LEGO imprint: Editions. LEGO describes it as “a new platform that will connect young people with their icons and passions.” Following partnerships with Nike, F1, and now FIFA, we can assume LEGO will continue to expand beyond pop culture into other sports and entertainment collaborations using this new imprint.

LEGO’s press release and additional details follow

Final Iron Builder challenge of 2025 pits defender Miscellanabuilds against challenger CRCT Productions

The Iron Builder competition, finishing its seventh season, pairs two LEGO artists in a battle of builds featuring a “seed part” that must be highlighted in each build. In this round, returning champion Eann “Miscellanabuilds” McCurdy (who previously reigned supreme against Geneva Durand) takes on challenger Drew “CRCT Productions” Cazenave-Tapie with the seed part of flower bell in light blue.

Eann opens with a magical scene of a witch’s home in the woods. “Mrs. Cheeseman’s Sanctuary” is built into a beautiful grey trunk topped with pink and white leaves and peppered with toadstools on hot dog stems with caps using the seed part. Another flower bell is used for the sanctuary’s lamp, for a total of 5 uses.

Drew starts strong with the microscale blue bell monastery. The seed part is used three times – for the titular bell and, cleverly, for the fountains in the plaza. The build is perfectly scaled around the bell. I’m also smitten by the wanderful windows in the monastery.

Be sure to follow both builders or the Iron Builder page to follow the builds as they come. We’ll be back with the results next month!

6,000 LEGO bricks. 4 years of building. 3 months of coding. One seriously cool life-size Halo rifle

One thing that’s easy to forget about the protagonists and antagonists: they are big. Master Chief is just over 7 foot tall in his armour, whereas Elites can reach 8’6″ according to Halopedia. Enter Bryce Dempsey with a reminder in LEGO form. A big reminder! This shock rifle has been built according to its appearance in the latest series instalment, Halo Infinite. It’s been a proper labour of love, too: four years in the making, with 6,000 pieces adding up to a replica as accurate as it is heavy. 20lbs, apparently!

It’s not just a screen-accurate replica, though. Bryce has managed to pack in a bunch of working features, perhaps most impressively incorporating LEGO Mindstorms into the moving panels from the weapon’s overheating animation. There’s some pretty clever engineering behind it, not least of which is the code in the EV3 module. It only took, oh, you know, THREE MONTHS to write?! Be sure to check out Bryce’s excellent video talking about the trials and tribulations behind this epic replica!

Takuya Fukugawa’s chilly pixel penguins warm the heart

When Takuya Fukugawa first started building pixel art models in LEGO, he took inspiration from video games, often with stunning results. More recently, the builder has been turning to nature as muse. Last year, it was a blue whale that took our breath away. The builder’s latest features an Emperor penguin and chick.

The build is actually a remake of the artist’s previous take on the subject, swapping “realistic” colors for impressionist ones. It’s a beautiful evolution of style that shows how much vitality there is in pixel art as an aesthetic. The wider range of colors have an emotive quality – a warmth that captures the truth of the moment.

Later this month, “Pixel sculptor” Takuya is receiving his first public exhibition in Tokyo at the America Bashi Gallery.

LEGO Icons 11370 The Creel House and 40891 WSQK “The Squawk” Radio Station: We’re going back to Hawkins [Review]

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 6 years since the last minifig-scale Stranger Things set, but patiently waiting has become a core part of participating in this fandom. To celebrate the long-awaited release of the final season, LEGO Icons 11370 The Creel House will be hitting shelves in Hawkins and elsewhere on January 1st, 2026 – exactly one day after the release of the series finale. Releasing as a Gift With Purchase alongside the set is LEGO Icons 40891 WSQK “The Squawk” Radio Station, ensuring that the majority of the main cast is represented here to mark the special occasion. We braved the Upside Down, shadow governments, D&D monsters, and angsty teen drama to get our hands on these sets and tell you all about them!

LEGO Icons 11370 Stranger Things: The Creel House| 2,593 Pieces | Available January 1, 2026 | US $299.99 | CAN $399.99 | UK £249.99

The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

Venture into the Upside Down and read our review of this strange house

Stranger Things returns with 2593-piece transforming Creel House set [News]

The last time Netflix teamed up with LEGO for a Stranger Things Icons set, we got the incredible Upside Down, one of the all-time great display sets with an incredible gimmick befitting the name. On January 1, the day after the series finale airs, LEGO returns to Hawkins with LEGO Icons 11370 Stranger Things: The Creel House. Befitting a grand finale, the set features a whopping 13 minifigures as well as two vehicles – the WSQK van and Steve’s car.

It’s a perfect companion to the first set – another iconic location with a mind-bending twist. Designed by LEGO legend Mike Psiaki, the house transforms when you pull the corners to reveal Vecna’s Mind Lair. I had a chance to try it in Billund, and it’s a brilliant trick! But is it enough to justify the $300 price tag? We’ll be back shortly with our hands-on review from Jarrett to see if the build lives up to the show’s legacy.

LEGO Icons 11370 Stranger Things: The Creel House| 2,593 Pieces | Available January 1, 2026 | US $299.99 | CAN $399.99 | UK £249.99

See more pics of the Creel House below!