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2025 LEGO Advent Calendar Spoilers: Day 5 [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!

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LEGO Icons Modular 11371 Shopping Street: This one’s for the geometry sickos [Review]

Cafe Corner is the set that pulled me out of my LEGO Dark Age. It kindled a joy for building by showing how versatile LEGO bricks can be, recontextualizing parts in fun new ways in service of an immersive display to admire and play with. Since then, the annual modular releases continue to set the bar for innovative techniques and whimsical detail. 2026 marks 20 years of modulars, and as with any long-running tradition, it can be a challenge to satisfy old and new fans and keep things fresh. This year’s modular is the Shopping Street, two angular buildings separated by an alley. Hoang Dang said, “If you can imagine Assembly Square and Boutique Hotel having a child, this is it.” Those sets are both beloved modulars. How does their love child measure up? Let’s find out!

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

Grab a chair and put on some music, we’re going shopping!

These ripping good Chainsaw Man MOCs are a cut above

Chainsaw Man is the latest global anime hit to prove that no concept is too weird to break out. Pochita, a diminished devil who takes the form of an orange pooch with a chainsaw nose and ripcord tail, is an adorable mascot and makes the transition to brick with charm thanks to builder Agung Syam. In bright orange with googly eyes, he would make a perfect Creator 3-in-1 set!

When Pochita merges with human host Denji, they become the titular Chainsaw Man. Mexican builder Brayan Xavier is the latest AFOL to give the character the LEGO treatment. Brayan strikes the perfect balance between shaping and articulation, with a highly poseable body and a gruesomely detailed head. The builder gets an editing assist from David Ainza for a cinematic touch.

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]

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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!