Result: What are your favourite smaller sets of 2025?

The Happy Plants are great, although I kind of wish I hadn't recently replayed "The Binding of Isaac".

Not remotely surprised by the Spacebaby - I've yet to bricklink it but I'm definitely going to. I am surprised by the other one though, I didn't think that Happy Plants, good though it is, would be anywhere near the top. The Horizon set is incredible value (for Lego) and the Lambo twin-pack I also enjoyed (although admittedly the two cars do look pretty similar to the non-enthusiast!). The Panda family is a great set as well - in fact I've got it and the lucky bamboo sitting on my desk alongside 2024's CTF calendar.

This has made me rethink getting the Flying Machine too..

MyThe ones I voted for won the GWP poll and took second in the cheaper set poll. I'm liking the results so far!

I'm very pleased for Happy Plants getting the top spot, and for da Vinci's Flying Machine making second. Both of these I originally nominated.

No surprise about the Space Baby winning. I'm disappointed the Federation's Shuttlepod didn't get voted favorite GWP. Maybe that Space Baby can go terrorize some planet like at the end of "2001".

Both are cute sets that definitely deserved the win!

Of course the two sets I voted for are at the bottom...

I do like 10363, but 25% of it is the stand, which seems a disproportionate amount.

one of my choices won and I think it was actually the 1st time I voted for classic space in a brickset poll. though the star trek shuttle looks good too, I hesitated, but felt it was less special than the space baby. don't remember if I voted on the 2nd poll, but if I did, I guess it was the speed champions 2 pack

Happy Plants FTW!

@PDelahanty said:
"Speaking of GWP availability, the fiasco over GWPs in the US last week REALLY annoyed me. First the Creel House GWP sells out…but they don’t give you the Hat Parade GWP if you get the house so you get NOTHING. Then after the set sells out (and isn’t even backordered), the GWP comes back, but you can’t get it because it’s impossible to order the set.

Lego really needs to fix their supply issue to meet demand and stop running out of exclusive GWPs after mere hours! …and if they re-introduce a GWP, there needs to be a way for people who bought the set after it originally ran out to get it. (I’ve stopped buying if I missed out on the GWP in case it gets reintroduced again…like had happened multiple times now.)"

If the GWP came back, you should immediately contact them and ask for one to be sent to you gratis. And it _may_ happen anyways. I was trying to pick up another 40448 in mid-January a few years ago, and it was in my cart when I added my purchase, but I delayed actually placing the order by an hour or two. By the time I got ready to actually make the purchase, it was gone. They ended up sending me one attached to that order anyways, as a separate shipment.

Congratulations to the winners!

I wonder if the Star Trek Shuttle Pod would have gotten more votes if it was less trouble to require it. Going to build a classic Space version.

+1 for disliking that the cheaper set category has gotten a higher price. That's on Lego of course, not Brickset.

Oh just realized both top sets were designed by former BZPower members. Cool stuff!

I voted for Upscaled Space Baby, Happy Plants, Medieval Dragon and teal Classic Spaceman, though I doubt the latter two will win their categories. I reckon Tudor Corner and Wolfpack Beastmaster will. After coming to that conclusion, I fed the nominations thread into an AI engine and it predicted Tudor Corner and Wolfpack Beastmaster, too.

All hail giant space baby.

At my place, artificial plants are a big no-no. But those two were allowed to pass. The colours are non-aggressive and very subdued; yet they appear very clearly in a see of green and even if the design is minimalist, you can tell from afar those pot-plants are smiling. I build it with my mom during the recent holidays - she enjoyed that quite a lot for such a small set. (my first ever Botanicals, I liked it as well)

I have a good sample of both groups. Generally top heavy for the below 50 sets and mostly bottom heavy for the GWPs. The only one missing I'd like to have is the shuttle pod - I'll get the parts and eventually, someone (some company) will make the stickers (which are very good quality).

@ScholtzTKO:
$50 was the low end of expensive sets in the 1900's, when gas cost under a buck per gallon. If you're balking at that now being a cheap set in 2026, you might need a better job.

@alLEGOry_HJB2810:
Do we know for a fact that all of these parts are being designed at the behest of the Botanicals line, or is it possible they're just taking advantage of new elements as they become available? Even if they appear first in a Botanical set, that doesn't necessarily mean anything. 8008 beat the Toa to market with the first Toa torso element. Likewise, 21317 surprised everyone with new hats for the minifigs, when Ideas was still under a strict ban on creating new elements. Then when 71024-1 and 71024-2 came out, they admitted it was the CMF team who actually called for the new hat molds.

I'm not denying that they could be making new foliage elements just for the Botanical theme. I honestly don't know, and I'm genuinely curious now.

@Feroz:
It's really on the last half century of inflation, and also on AFOLs who display their MOCs in public showing people what's possible with the system. Not only did that help spur the shift towards Icon-sized sets that cost upwards of $200, but many of those same AFOLs now work as set designers, brought that wealth of experience and knowledge with them, and put it all to use.

@PurpleDave said:
" @ScholtzTKO :
$50 was the low end of expensive sets in the 1900's, when gas cost under a buck per gallon. If you're balking at that now being a cheap set in 2026, you might need a better job.

@alLEGOry_HJB2810 :
Do we know for a fact that all of these parts are being designed at the behest of the Botanicals line, or is it possible they're just taking advantage of new elements as they become available? Even if they appear first in a Botanical set, that doesn't necessarily mean anything. 8008 beat the Toa to market with the first Toa torso element. Likewise, 21317 surprised everyone with new hats for the minifigs, when Ideas was still under a strict ban on creating new elements. Then when 71024-1 and 71024-2 came out, they admitted it was the CMF team who actually called for the new hat molds.

I'm not denying that they could be making new foliage elements just for the Botanical theme. I honestly don't know, and I'm genuinely curious now.

@Feroz :
It's really on the last half century of inflation, and also on AFOLs who display their MOCs in public showing people what's possible with the system. Not only did that help spur the shift towards Icon-sized sets that cost upwards of $200, but many of those same AFOLs now work as set designers, brought that wealth of experience and knowledge with them, and put it all to use."

Well your comment towards me was terribly rude, but considering I don't even need to have a job (I do anyhow), I hope you enjoy overpaying for children's plastic blocks... You must really put a lot of worth into incredibly overpriced toys. I don't anymore. You are the problem.

Neither of these were what I voted for but they’re both great sets and worthy winners. Congratulations to the Lego designers involved in creating them and everyone who successfully voted for their faves. Honestly, the shortlists were great this year - maybe one across all four shortlists I’d not be the happiest to see win, but even that is so much to do with my personal taste I think I’d consider myself churlish.

I doubt it *needs* to be pegged to $50, since there’s no shortage of great cheaper sets and the winner itself is less than half that, but it does seem to be a little below the point sets stop getting a chance at the best overall lineup and that’s as good a reason as any to peg the threshold where it is. There’s no midtier category for the sets to go in otherwise, and there are sets between $30 and $50 that certainly deserve the recognition of a nomination.

@Feroz said:
"Congratulations to the winners!

I wonder if the Star Trek Shuttle Pod would have gotten more votes if it was less trouble to require it. Going to build a classic Space version.

+1 for disliking that the cheaper set category has gotten a higher price. That's on Lego of course, not Brickset."

It's on inflation, too.

@Hiratha said:"There’s no midtier category for the sets to go in otherwise.."

I wouldn't mind at all if Brickset would introduce a new category in these polls, something like "Favorite set between fifty and one hundred dollars."