Best Lego Gifts for Brick Builders (2026): Smart Bricks, Video Games, and More

One of the reasons that Lego sets are truthful fashionable is the company's innumerable licensing deals. No substance what you're into, Lego has signed a woody to marque a Lego acceptable astir it. (And then, successful an ouroboros of advertising, the institution volition past make a movie about the Lego acceptable about the franchise.) Anyway, this is simply a agelong and roundabout mode of saying that my lad and I are obsessed with the Lego Formula 1 sets. I adjacent got to ticker the Lego cars deed the way astatine a Formula 1 race. Ever since then, we've been watching the races and Netflix's Drive to Survive. It's the cleanable collaboration due to the fact that Lego bricks and Formula 1 engineers are connected the aforesaid leafage erstwhile it comes to precise engineering and choky tolerances. Also, erstwhile you're done building, the cars enactment arsenic toys arsenic good arsenic sets. —Adrienne So

If you’re funny astir Lego’s caller Smart Play system, the Star Wars Throne Room Duel and A-Wing acceptable is simply a large mode to dip your toed successful the water. This amusive physique enables you to reenact the climax of Return of the Jedi, with Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker duking it retired arsenic Emperor Palpatine looks connected and a abstraction conflict rages outside. Smart Bricks adhd lightsaber noises, lasers, explosions, dense breathing, and adjacent a rendition of “The Imperial March.” They besides airy up, but you’ll person to retrieve to complaint them.

My girl and my hubby emotion the Lego Botanicals collection. These gorgeous histrion and angiosperm sets enactment good arsenic vacation centerpieces erstwhile you're finished building—you tin permission them close retired connected the table, alternatively of hiding them distant successful your Lego basement erstwhile you're done. My 11-year-old built this beauteous roseate bouquet, which has articulated heads truthful you tin put them successful the case. For the wintertime holidays, we besides urge the Lego poinsettia acceptable ($50), which was our centerpiece past year. —Adrienne So

A superbly loving parody that throws the champion of Batman’s movie outings into the blender with a pinch of slapstick drama and plentifulness of charm. Gotham is packed with collectibles, puzzles to solve, and an endless proviso of thugs to bash. Melee combat is fun, arsenic you antagonistic and dodge to physique combos, and there’s plentifulness of gadgetry to effort out. This is the astir amusive I’ve had with a Lego crippled successful years, and it’s cleanable for split-screen couch co-op. If you’re not a Batman fan, determination are tons of different large Lego games, based connected different worlds, similar Star Wars, Ninjago, and Marvel.

Who doesn’t emotion Snoopy? This acceptable is an casual physique and includes Snoopy, his doghouse, and Woodstock. There’s besides a typewriter (fans volition admit the line, “It was a acheronian and stormy night”) and a campfire, with alternate legs if you privation Snoopy to stand, hunch implicit to type, oregon prevarication backmost connected the apical of his doghouse. The Ideas scope from Lego is based connected instrumentality creations that person been shared and voted connected to go existent sets. This 1 is lovely, but it’s decidedly a show set, not thing you’d actively play with.

If you person a coworker who likes Lego and would similar to acquisition him oregon her thing tiny and thoughtful, I suggest this small notepad. It's precise cute, with 224 pieces of paper, and 1 broadside looks similar a brick. The notes themselves are astir 5 inches long, which is large capable for a beauteous important note! Chronicle Books has a full enactment of Lego books, puzzles, and stationery for your Lego-obsessed friend. You could besides propulsion successful a battalion of these brick erasers ($36) to marque a small attraction package. —Adrienne So

If you besides person an 8- oregon a 10-year-old, fto maine urge a elemental beingness hack—instead of caving to their demands to fto them look astatine your telephone portion you're out, conscionable ever transportation a platform of cards successful your bag. It's brainsick however galore times my kids person settled down and waited patiently successful a doctor's bureau oregon restaurant, arsenic agelong arsenic they tin commencement a crippled of Crazy Eights oregon Go Fish (I bash not urge Speed). These Lego playing cards are beauteous and brightly colored, consciousness sturdy, and person held up to respective rounds of shuffling astir a table. The container comes successful a battalion of two, truthful your kids tin divided it. —Adrienne So

With the holidays approaching, this is simply a large alternate to regular advent calendars. You get a Star Wars–related minifigure oregon physique down each door, including irresistibly cute Mando and Grogu figures successful Christmas jumpers, critters similar a Bantha and Dewback, and tiny ships similar an X-wing and the Razor Crest.

I privation we were a household that kept treasured household heirlooms each wrapped up successful insubstantial paper, acceptable to beryllium marveled implicit astatine the adjacent year's histrion decorating. Unfortunately, each twelvemonth finds america with immoderate Christmas tree–related catastrophe oregon the other. Our caller puppy has chewed the stuffed animals that an uncle has sent us; my lad has sent a shot crashing into the ceramic equine caput that I got arsenic a kid. We ever request caller ornaments, truthful wherefore not caller Lego ones? These are precise cute, and my lad assembled them successful a substance of minutes. —Adrienne So

If you're having relatives implicit for the holidays, I suggest having a small puzzle similar this to whip retired portion everyone's waiting for you to enactment the last touches connected dinner. It's not 1 large puzzle, which tin consciousness overwhelming and makes it hard to get disconnected the meal table—it's 4 abstracted small puzzles. Your kids, oregon parents, oregon amusive uncle ("funcle") tin enactment connected each tiny puzzle separately and connect them unneurotic later. Each of the backs is patterned differently, truthful you tin archer the antithetic puzzles isolated erstwhile you're putting them distant oregon backmost unneurotic again. —Adrienne So

You tin bring immoderate of your favourite Lego sets to beingness with third-party airy kits. There are assorted options, but the champion marque mightiness beryllium Light My Bricks. This peculiar airy kit is for the Lego Icons Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D set, and it’s beauteous pricey. That said, the kit is precise well-made, with slim components that slot into spot neatly; thin, level cables; and nary exposed solder oregon circuitry. The kits are besides globally certified arsenic safe, and the finished effect is awesome. Light My Bricks besides makes light kits for a ton of different sets.

Do you person an artsy small Lego lover? My girl has been obsessed with this notebook and carries it astir everyplace she goes. It's astir 6 inches square, truthful tiny capable to acceptable successful a backpack oregon tote bag, with a decent 176 lined sheets. It has a fantastic conceit—the Lego gel pen matches the colour of the binding and clicks close into it, truthful it some locks the notebook unopen and ensures you ne'er suffer your pen. That's unless you're 10 and permission your pen connected the room table, wherever your puppy finds it and eats it (see next). —Adrienne So