As I mentioned a few days ago, products that LEGO reserves as temporary exclusives for its official online store end up being available elsewhere. The LEGO Star Wars set. 75419 UCS Death Star (€999,99) is now available at Amazon, and the retailer specifies that this is an exclusive offer reserved for them (outside of the Disney Store).
The product is currently listed at its full retail price in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, but it should soon benefit from various discounts that will make it more affordable. If you haven't yet bought it because this washer seemed too expensive for what it offers, there's now a chance to get it at a more attractive price.
From a logistical standpoint, there's nothing to worry about with Amazon regarding this product, which is packaged in dedicated packaging. There's no risk of receiving it poorly packaged or even unpackaged with just a label stuck on the box.
We're ending 2025 on a high note with a LEGO ICONS set up for grabs! 10356 Star Trek: USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D a box of 3600 pieces currently available on the official online store at the public price of €379,99.
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LEGO has launched a new promotional product on its official store, which will soon be offered with purchase: it is reference number 40905 Birthday CupcakeA 174-piece set, presented as a "limited edition," will allow you to assemble a pastry topped with a few candles. It will also include a minifigure of a (mini) chef and eight candles.
It is not yet known when and how much it will be necessary to spend to receive this new promotional product, nor even if it will be a product reserved for members of the LEGO Insiders program.
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Today we're taking a quick look back at 2025, a year that was once again overflowing with products unabashedly and openly targeting an adult clientele who can afford plastic toys. Like everyone else, I've been charmed, excited, annoyed, or disappointed by some of these products, but tastes vary, and the sets I consider successful or unsuccessful will likely not be so for everyone.
I say this so as not to appear to be obsessed only by overpriced products, I am an adult fan generally seduced by sets which have a little more to offer than simple fun functionalities and my gaze is therefore turned logically towards the boxes at the high public price that LEGO tries to sell me all year round.
Among my favorites of the year are products licensed from Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and Pirates of the Caribbean. LEGO offers a wide variety of licenses, and I'm generally very drawn to these interpretations from comics, TV series, or movies. The LEGO Star Wars set is a prime example. 75434K-2SO (€89,99) was a pleasant surprise for me in the LEGO Star Wars range, featuring a secondary character from the series. Star Wars: Andor and a little more central in the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story which has been given a very polished version, living up to expectations. Add to that a relatively reasonable price, and this product has everything to please and appeal to Star Wars fans who are a bit tired of endless re-releases and who aren't closed to content available alongside the regular films.
At Marvel, it's the spaceship of the set 76325 Avengers Age of Ultron Quinjet (€119,99) which this year finds favor in my eyes with (finally) a nice display model that isn't cluttered with unnecessary features and remains sufficiently detailed for the chosen scale. LEGO often gets lost in its obsession with marketing display products aimed at an adult clientele; this set remains, in my opinion, the exception amidst a plethora of uninteresting products released in the LEGO Marvel range in 2025.
It's hard not to add the LEGO ICONS set to my list of top picks. 10365 Captain Jack Sparrow's Pirate Ship (€349,99), a highly anticipated product that hasn't disappointed many and has lived up to the expectations of even the most demanding fans. Everything is there, from the technology to the aesthetics and the features, and in my opinion, it's one of the best sets of 2025 because it respects both the universe it's based on and the expectations of its fans.
I'm also adding the LEGO DC set 76300 Batman: Arkham Asylum (€299,99) on my list of top picks, even though the product itself isn't particularly flashy. However, it offers a nice comic-book-style interpretation of the setting, with a compact version that still captures the LEGO spirit, using the same concept as the... Modulars and a very cartoon which appeals to me.
Finally, and even though the product is far from perfect, I'm including the LEGO ICONS set. 10356 Star Trek: USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D (€379,99) in my top list. It's more for the arrival of the Star Trek license at LEGO than for the level of the product that I'm enthusiastic about, and the availability of an Enterprise ship at LEGO, even if it's a version that I consider really secondary, brings a real breath of fresh air to the "science fiction ships" section of the manufacturer's offering, which is cluttered with Star Wars licensed products.
Special mention goes to the two logos of the LEGO Star Wars sets. 75407 Star Wars Logo (€59,99) and LEGO Marvel 76313 Marvel Logo & Minifigures (€99,99) These are beautiful creations with obvious decorative potential, and this is the only exception I'm making this year regarding products with a specific purpose. lifestyleThe two logos are well executed and allow you to show your affinity with both the LEGO brand and the licenses in question without having to clutter your life with indigestible playsets.
On the flop side, there is really a lot to choose from this year, given that LEGO has explored many avenues, sometimes botching its approach and often shamelessly taking advantage of customers' insatiable appetite for exhibition products of little interest.
At the top of the list is the partnership between LEGO and Nike, which only resulted in a few disappointing concept products. I could have been satisfied with the set. 43008 NIKE Dunk x LEGO (€99,99) which at least had the merit of trying something, if LEGO hadn't then followed up with two more sloppy and messy sets of the same ilk. We suspected that LEGO would struggle to make anything other than brick sneakers for this collaboration, and this is confirmed with the disastrous set. 43010 NIKE Slam Dunk (€69,99) which, in my opinion, is a visually uninteresting and uncreative mishmash. LEGO is hiding behind a questionable artistic approach to sell us decorations destined for Foot Locker, and it's a failure.
Another disappointment for me was the LEGO ICONS set. 10354 The Lord of the Rings: The Shire (€269,99) which had the mission of succeeding with panache the very successful set 10316 The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell as well as the passable but ultimately acceptable set 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-Dûr (€459,99). It's a failure. The Shire is just a pile of green pieces, too crude to deserve taking over from the other two products in the range. The subject matter was difficult to tackle, and the result is a luxury playset for spoiled children, definitely not up to par in a range that has been very demanding since the elegant and detailed Rivendell version.
Still on the same topic, I'd include LEGO's interpretation of the Book Nook phenomenon in my list of flops, with the disastrous LEGO ICONS set at the top. 10367 The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook (€119,99) which makes absolutely no effort. It's not a Book Nook in terms of design, with its empty walls and ridiculous sparks, nor is it a credible display model with a sloppy Balrog and an extremely simplified setting that fails to do justice to what it's meant to represent. LEGO is milking The Lord of the Rings license dry, and it's starting to show with these lackluster products.
I'm taking the risk of adding the LEGO Star Wars set 75419 UCS Death Star (€999,99) to my list of flops, I really wanted to like this product with its very questionable bias, but the general push from influencers of all stripes coupled with the arrogance of the product designer who clumsily defended his idea even in the face of the disappointment it caused among a large part of the fans seems to me to be counterproductive.
The marketing ploy was a success; everyone talked about this set for weeks, but it came at the expense of fans who were expecting something else, something different and probably impossible without further inflating the retail price. Marketing companies always seem to disregard customer disappointment, and that's a hard truth for LEGO and Star Wars fans to swallow.
In the category of major industrial accidents this year, I would add the LEGO IDEAS set 21360 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (€219,99) which demonstrates once again that just because 10.000 people click for free on a platform while they're bored, it doesn't guarantee the success of the idea in question, in any form. In my opinion, this product is completely incomprehensible; it addresses the wrong version of the idea and, in doing so, excludes far more interesting ideas from the LEGO IDEAS universe.
Finally, how could we not include the LEGO ICONS set? 10366 Tropical Aquarium (€449,99) This set adds to this list of flops, as it is a blatant symbol of LEGO's current overabundance of pointless lifestyle products, with everything and anything being converted into bricks. There's undoubtedly a market for these products, but I wonder who these people are who hoard these plastic constructions representing everyday objects, sold for more than their actual value.
I say it again like every year: there will be as many opinions as there are fans and the LEGO offer was in any case so varied again this year that everyone will have found at least one product considered to tick all the boxes. My selection of successful or failed products is therefore far from exhaustive, I base myself mainly on the impressions that these different sets leave me several months after their marketing. Other sets will have simply left me indifferent, it doesn't matter, they will inevitably have found their audience among other fans who will have been sensitive to the proposition.
Feel free to mention your favorite sets of 2025 in the comments; this article is really just a pretext for everyone to express their opinion and read what others think. Also, let us know about any products that left you wanting more. There was plenty to choose from this year, and that's the good news: LEGO's offerings for its adult customers are still incredibly diverse, so everyone is sure to find something they like, even on a budget. And Chloé completely disagrees with me; I think she'll explain why on Instagram soon.
The final stretch for 2025 is here and LEGO is offering some promotional deals valid from December 26 to 31 that may interest some of you while waiting for the launch of the new products expected from January 1, 2026 with the associated offers.
The offers below can obviously be combined with each other; note the return of the GWP offered during the launch of the LEGO Star Wars set. 75419 Death Star :
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Insider points are doubled (X2) on two items:
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Insider points are still quadrupled (X4) on a benchmark since the November Insider weekend:
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