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LEGO March 2026 Shopping Guide

February 24, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

March is almost here and here’s a guide of the upcoming LEGO sets that will be releasing in the month. It’ll be a fairly large list as LEGO has pretty much bunched up a lot of sets to drop in less than a week. A lot of the sets you can already pre-order but they will be available starting on March 1. As far as promotions go, there’s been no information yet on what will be available.

LEGO Ideas Challenge for LEGO Concept/Model Design Internship

February 23, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you’re a student and have desires to become a LEGO designer, LEGO Ideas is offering a challenge and the winner will become an intern for LEGO. In the job offering, the internship will be from September-December for Concept/Model Design. In the the challenge, LEGO wants you to design something truly original and something not based on my existing IPs. The challenge will end on March 18.

LEGO Up-Scaled Blue Astronaut Minifigure (40921) Review

February 22, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The latest addition of the up-scaled minifigures line is the Up-Scaled Blue Astronaut Minifigure (40921). Releasing in March, the set has 793 pieces and retails for $59.99.

LEGO Ideas February 22 Update – Two More Football Stadiums Join Review

February 22, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

In what has essentially turned into a weekly update for us, there are four more projects that have qualified for the LEGO Ideas First 2026 Review Stage. In this update, we have two more football stadiums added to the list for Arsenal and Ajax. This will be the third football stadiums in review this round joining Liverpool.

Emirates Stadium – Arsenal F.C. – PetaS

Hunters Hut – villa_brick_7

Johan Cruijff ArenA, Amsterdam Soccer Stadium – 2Studs

Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus Barbatus) – Jacker76

Building the LEGO Dream Documentary Now Live

February 21, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has dropped a new documentary called Building the LEGO Dream that showcases five fan designers who became LEGO designers. It’s 46 minutes long and there’s also a behind the scenes short as well as a director interview with Ethan Vincent. Unfortunately, yhe documentary is not hosted on YouTube but you can watch it on the LEGO Shop in the link above.

• Josh Bretz – BTS Dynamite (21339)
• Ivan Guerrero – Sesame Street (21324), Family Tree (21346), Cosmic Cardboard Adventures (40533)
• Thomas Lajon – BrickLink Designer Program Series 3 Lost City, The Orient Express Train (21344)
• Sandro Quattrini – Motorised Lighthouse (21335)
• Alex Storozhuk – Home Alone (21330)

Building the LEGO® Dream

What is it like to be a LEGO® designer? How do you become one?

Building the LEGO® Dream follows five people from different walks of life and different corners of the planet as they answer those questions and settle into the reality of being a LEGO designer.

Having unknowingly changed the course of their lives when they took on the challenge of submitting a LEGO Ideas project, their journeys speak to the power of making space for your passion.

Get Ready for Pokemon 30th Anniversary with LEGO Pokemon

February 21, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The Pokemon 30th Anniversary is next week and it is also the official release date of the LEGO Pokemon sets. As we know by now, there are three sets that you can purchase as well as a gift with purchase set and a LEGO Insiders reward item. At least they’re not as hard to get as the actual cards.

Eevee (72151) and Pikachu and Poke Ball (72152) are still available for pre-order while the flagship Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise (72153) has stopped taking pre-orders. The latter should be available again on February 27.

This also goes for the Kanto Region Badge Collection (40892) GWP which was intially available when pre-orders went up in January. The Mini Pokemon Center (40911) Insiders Reward will also drop on February 27 for 2,500 Insiders points.

Although these are just the intial launch items for LEGO Pokemon, we should see sets release regularly in the upcoming months/years.

Eevee (72151) – 587 pieces/$59.99

Pikachu and Poke Ball (72152) – 2,050 pieces/$199.99

Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise (72153) – 6,838 pieces/$649.99

Kanto Region Badge Collection (40892) – 312 pieces/GWP

Mini Pokemon Center (40911) – 233 pieces/2,500 Insiders Points

LEGO Animal Crossing Tom Nook and Flying Present (30731) Revealed

February 20, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

A new LEGO Animal Crossing recruitment bag has been recently revealed with Tom Nook and Flying Present (30731). Releasing at various retailers, it features Tom Nook chasing the treasure-filled balloons. Note that the Tom Nook minifigure is the same one as in Nook’s Cranny & Rosie’s House (77050). You should be able to find it at various retailers that carry polybags/recruitment bags.

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