Result: What is your favourite set of 2025?
Posted by CapnRex101,
Plenty of impressive sets were launched in 2025 and Brickset readers' nominations narrowed the field from over 800 to twelve finalists.
Nearly 7000 votes have been cast in the poll and one set has emerged as the comfortable winner, receiving almost twice the total votes of second place!
View the results below...
Winner: 10350 Tudor Corner - 1556 votes
- 10350 Tudor Corner - 1556 votes
- 72046 Game Boy - 809 votes
- 10356 Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D - 567 votes
- 10365 Captain Jack Sparrow's Pirate Ship - 545 votes
- 43279 WALL-E & EVE - 527 votes
- 21358 Minifigure Vending Machine - 524 votes
- 10355 Blacktron Renegade - 470 votes
- 31161 Medieval Dragon - 470 votes
- 75409 Jango Fett's Starship - 424 votes
- 10358 Transformers: Soundwave - 369 votes
- 10354 The Lord of the Rings: The Shire - 357 votes
- 76968 Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex - 342 votes
Modular Buildings normally feature in our annual poll for your favourite set of the year, although none have actually won in the seven years we have run polls in this format. That is testament to the outstanding quality of 10350 Tudor Corner, which many fans have identified as their favourite Modular Building to date, in a crowded field!
It is hard to pinpoint exactly why 10350 Tudor Corner stands out from the crowd. I wonder if it is because the set honestly feels close to perfection, which is always a very tricky thing to achieve and an extremely rare one. There are plenty of great sets released annually, but only one or two each year, if that, can truly be considered 'perfect'.
Speaking of which, many would say the same for 72046 Game Boy! This is an entirely different kind of model to 10350 Tudor Corner, but another fantastic one. It takes something truly special for a set with only 421 pieces to finish in second place, easily beating sets that comprise several thousand pieces and arguably have more opportunity to impress.
I think 43279 WALL-E & EVE should be acknowledged for the same reason. This is a relatively simple idea for a set and it is executed brilliantly, as a worthy successor to 21303 WALL-E, with excellent renditions of his robotic friends included too. Also, this set offers fantastic value, so the set definitely earns its fifth place.
Before finishing, I wanted to add a quick note regarding the comments. People love to criticise Brickset members and commenters for being wildly out of touch or blinded by nostalgia, utterly obsessed with a return to classic LEGO themes and unwilling to accept anything new. Certainly, there are comments like that sometimes.
However, I actually think Brickset has quite a diverse user base, including people who love the older LEGO themes, plus all other kinds of LEGO fans. For me, the results of these 2025 polls illustrate the diversity of opinions because so many themes were represented in the finals, with some unexpected sets and minifigures performing extremely well and even winning.
Anyway, what do you think of the results? Let us know in the comments and thank you for your votes.
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Given the strong Lego fan base in the UK and their high engagement rate with Brickset, it should not come as a surprise that the pub has come out on top. xD
Predictable, but deserved win for the Tudor Corner.
I don't think I would keep any of these, if I would get them for free. Except for 31161 of course.
Some of them wouldn't make my top ten, but for sure the Tudor is a good 1. Big vote difference too.
With the analysis focusing on perfection, I look forward to the much cheaper 75436 – described as "essentially a perfect set" in its review – winning next year.
I strongly suspected Tudor Corner would win but ran the nominations thread through AI anyway and it predicted it as well. So no surprise. I didn’t vote for it - I voted for 31161 Medieval Dragon - but recognise the design quality of Tudor Corner. It deserved to take the top spot.
I think all these sets deserve to be in this list. All are excellent sets, even if some are not in my subjects of choice. I voted for 72046 Gameboy purely on how close it resembles the real McCoy - I was so astonished at how realistic it looked. 10350 Tudor Corner would have taken my vote otherwise.
I confess I haven't bought any of these, so my vote decision could only be based on the reviews, but both the top two sit on my wishlist. (I have to prioritise sets that are retiring first, so as not to pay extortionate prices down the line)
Everybody on here is wildly out of touch or blinded by nostalgia, utterly obsessed with a return to classic LEGO themes and unwilling to accept anything new!
Butttt, I'm fine with a list like this. I don't own a single one of them (although I would like to own some). I don't even know what my favourite set that I actually bought would be...
@GirlWoman said:
"I don't think I would keep any of these, if I would get them for free. Except for 31161 of course."
I bought that specifically to build the sea serpent. Then I tore the sea serpent apart with the intention of redesigning it so I can have it undulating in and out of the water, like 3300001 or 40019. And then it’s going to replace the somewhat awkward sea serpent from 31132.
@Banners said:
"With the analysis focusing on perfection, I look forward to the much cheaper 75436 – described as "essentially a perfect set" in its review – winning next year."
Can’t, unless they raise the price above $50.
@Banners said:
"With the analysis focusing on perfection, I look forward to the much cheaper 75436 – described as "essentially a perfect set" in its review – winning next year."
The keyword is essentially. And it is a very small and simple set. Some people also think it’s a polybag being sold for double the price it should be.
@inversion said:
"Given the strong Lego fan base in the UK and their high engagement rate with Brickset, it should not come as a surprise that the pub has come out on top. xD"
This was absolutely a big part of it. Not that it isn't a great set, but UK LEGO fans clearly felt very "seen" with this set.
A deserved winner, but a lot of AFOLs probably just saw the word "Tudor" and thought it was another castle so they voted for it.
@Banners said:
"With the analysis focusing on perfection, I look forward to the much cheaper 75436 – described as "essentially a perfect set" in its review – winning next year."
Somehow I doubt it. It is relatively easy for a set of that size to be essentially perfect because it is not trying to do very much. Even then, it is not perfect, as I said in the review.
Very Glad 10365 ranked so highly. People seem to disregard it due to its price, but it's been on backorder since its release and is probably the best Lego sail-ship to date.
The last couple of paragraphs about the comments and users has really made me miss the Forum. There was a lot of great discussion, debate, and general fun to be had on there when it was up and running that the comments don't really replace.
Disappointed that the only one I own (21358) didn't place higher on the list, but it *was* up against some stiff competition!
@GirlWoman said:
"I don't think I would keep any of these, if I would get them for free. Except for 31161 of course."
That one just never had a huge amount of appeal for me, for whatever reason, although I do like the fact that it's green with red wings, like the original Lego dragon. If I had the space, I might get it, but I'd pick up the top three in this contest, as well as 10355, 10358, and 43279 first.
The Black Pearl sank...
A great list of sets. Definitely looking forward to buying the GameBoy at some point, on sale.
My view is that the Modular sets have been (and always will be) AFOL-bait so seeing one at the top of the tree every year is inevitable.
But the fact that it finally won this year is an expression to the fact that this year's one was particularly good thanks to its Tudor architecture. Truly amazing design. Well done to the designers involved!
@MZ_1 said:
"The Black Pearl sank..."
wouldn't be the first time.... or the second!
Not that many sets released in 2025 that appealed to me personally. Tudor corner and the game boy are my top picks (not sure I’ll buy them though)
Given that Tudor Corner featured in the best set of the past 10 years polls earlier last year, it should have been a shoo-in. I was wondering how fickle we can be though!
"People love to criticise Brickset members and commenters for being wildly out of touch or blinded by nostalgia, utterly obsessed with a return to classic LEGO themes and unwilling to accept anything new."
When you consider that seven sets out of the top 10 are tied to properties that actively invoke a sense of nostalgia, I'd say that's a fair bit of criticism. :'-)
Not that there's anything wrong with that... I'm a sucker for nostalgia, as I'm sure most folks here are, but I'm also aware that those rose-tinted nostalgia goggles do tend to cloud people's judgement, often more than they themselves realise.
That said, Tudor Corner is a deserved winner, one I voted for as well, and also a set that didn't receive votes for any type of brand recognition or lore, but purely because it's an amazing build with great aesthetics. Indeed, close to perfection.
Contrary to the list of the favourite minifigs, I can totally get on board with this result. All of those sets are awesome in their own way.
I only have a few of them, but I do have the winner (as well as the third, sixth and seventh place).
It's my favourite Modular of the last couple of years by far. Only beaten by my absolute favourite, the Detective's Office.
I was delighted to see Tudor Corner win, particularly by such a margin, as I've seen Gameboy crowned best of 2025 in a couple of other online polls. I only own three of those twelve, with a further four that I was looking forward to on initial announcement only to reconsider when I saw the final version. Not one of LEGO's best years.
My opinions are very diverse- even in my own head. ;)
Very happy that smaller sets like the gameboy and medieval dragon are high in this list!
So glad to see Gameboy did so well. I received it unexpectedly for Christmas and was blown away by how good it is. The build experience is one of my favorites ever.