2026 LEGO Chinese Traditional Festival sets announced!
Posted by CapnRex101,
Two new Chinese Traditional Festival sets have been revealed at the annual China International Import Expo in Shanghai.
2026 will be the Year of the Horse, as the 1650-piece 80119 Galloping Horse Canvas illustrates. Notably, the set includes the traditional animal-costumed minifigure and incorporates a clever function, it appears. 80118 Fortune Firecracker is also coming soon and both sets will be released on January 1st.
Pricing information and images are available below...
80118 Fortune Firecracker
- 1039 pieces
- £69.99, $89.99, €79.99
Inspire fun family activities for kids and adults during Spring Festival and create playful LEGO wall art with this Fortune Firecracker building set (80118). This firework decoration is an ideal toy gift for boys and girls aged 9 years and over. It features ornate firecrackers with LEGO bricks inside to make a ‘crackling’ noise when moved. Press the button to reveal either a Spring Festival firework display or scene with people welcoming the God of Fortune. While one of the celebration scenes is displayed inside the firecracker model, the other can be played with separately. The set features 6 minifigures, including a God of Fortune, to encourage role play.
80119 Galloping Horse Canvas
- 1650 pieces
- £89.99, $109.99, €99.99
Celebrate Spring Festival with this Galloping Horse Canvas build-and-display model (80119). A super Zodiac sign toy gift for boys, girls and animal lovers aged 10 and over, this set lets kids, families and friends create their own stunning horse art decor. Hang the canvas with a printed brush painting of 4 galloping horses – which symbolises the traditional blessing of ‘success upon arrival’ in the New Year – as a backdrop to your model. Pose the legs of the 4 brick-built horse toys and turn the handle to make the horses move as if galloping out of the painting. Horses are a symbol of strength and the total number of 8 depicted in the painting/model symbolises good fortune. Attach the scene featuring minifigures of a painter and a person in Year of the Horse costume plus a horse painting on a scroll to the model.
What do you think of these additions to the Chinese Traditional Festival range? Let us know in the comments.
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I miss the days of two minifigure-scale sets for the Chinese New Year theme. This is the second year in a row with only display-focused sets. That being said, the Galloping Horses Canvas looks stunning! I love the build and can't wait to see how the feature works.
The Fortune Firecracker is cool but seems really overpriced. Hopefully it goes on sale quickly like 80117 Good Fortune from this year.
Wow, that horses set is neat! I do not have anyone in my family who is horse according to the Chinese horoscope but this is quite something. I would have nowhere to put this at my place but I'm looking forward to see the mechanism in action. The rendering of the horses and the surroundings is very well done. Not for me but impressed nonetheless.
Man, I really wish there was a better way to get those zodiac mascot headpieces.
As cool as those are, it’s going to be another skipped year for me. I absolutely loved the Diorama and “city” sets and bought multiples of them. This years and last are both a no go for me, and that sucks because it was becoming for me some of the most anticipated sets of the year…
Designers of 60278 must be like, seriously?
It's the four horses of the apocalypse! "And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And Lego followed with him."
Interesting sets, but they don't really fit into my collection.
These both look excellent. Will get both, but I still rather miss a building focused set each year.
(Wouldn't even mind a re-issue of the limited availability 80101 Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner if they're stuck for ideas)
I like the brick-built paintbrush in 80119. I wonder if the designer didn't use the existing paintbrush piece because it hasn't yet been done with a black-colored tip, which would mean the designer would have to use a frame.
Those horses remind me of that scene in Fellowship of the Ring
I just love how Chinese sets get all printed parts when normal sets dont :)
just hoping horse chinese zodiac new year to finish set
Where's the little animal set, Year of the Horse (a la 40707)? We're so close to completing the set. I expect they'll re-do the Sheep, too, since he doesn't fit the style of the ones that came after.
@ra226 said:
"Where's the little animal set, Year of the Horse (a la 40707 )? We're so close to completing the set. I expect they'll re-do the Sheep, too, since he doesn't fit the style of the ones that came after."
Get's announced after new year ones. If I remember correctly. comes out middle jan? beg. feb?
Thinking horse should be last one...
the snake had 4/1 before these came out 10250 Year of the Snake (2013), since they made a new snake think that one just asia.
sheep (2014-2015) first one...
I love these sets. So vibrant and lively. I must make sure I get one if I ever make it to China one day.
I've collected every set with minifigures since the second year of the Chinese New Year-themed sets, but I didn't like the six vignettes diorama three years ago, and I didn't like the lantern last year. Fortunately for last year, only the lantern came with minifigures, so I didn't need to buy the fan as well. But this year I'll have to get both for all of the figures (especially the Horse costume) and the Horse-themed red lanterns (on trans-red minifig heads). At least they both look nice.
I wish they continued with the modular building or town based sets. Not sure how I'd use any of these.
Horse one reminds me of back to the future (2?).
That one I really like.
If you want him, come and claim him!
Ooops, wrong franchise….
So THAT's how Elrond pulled that off, with a magic scroll.
The galloping horses look amazing and majestic, I just fear that the end-result is going to look like four confused dogs chasing each other in a puddle.
Oh, don't give me that look. We've been hurt before.
He had red eyes, I swear to God!!! Red eyes!!!!
The horses look really interesting, as does the fire cracker.
Would prefer building style sets, but since I already had all the previous CNY sets, I'll get these 2 as well, with the Horse GWP to tag along no doubt.
@GoldenNinja3000 said:
"I miss the days of two minifigure-scale sets for the Chinese New Year theme. This is the second year in a row with only display-focused sets."
Yes, it's a pity.
Seeing how popular those early sets in the theme appeared to be and how massively discounted last year's sets were, it seems the theme may have run out of steam.
I don't think I'll buy either this tear. The horses one really relies on that big bit of printed fabric.
The CTF sets used to be really cool play-sets before they turned them into kitsch decorations for adults. Guess the same can be said about most themes nowadays.
Wow, they quickly made that set (80118) based on a Big Clive video!
tick follows tock
I know that Guinness advert is famous but never thought that Lego would make a set off of it!
@GreyMagistrate said:
"It's the four horses of the apocalypse! "And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And Lego followed with him.""
And 71858 (Four Weapons Blacksmith) are gearing up the horsemen.
@WolfpackBricks63 said:
"Man, I really wish there was a better way to get those zodiac mascot headpieces."
I believe that previous ones were briefly available on PAB and some even made it to BAM stations.
@GreyMagistrate said:
"It's the four horses of the apocalypse! "And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And Lego followed with him.""
You kind of owe it to yourself to one horse red, one horse skinny, one horse sickly, and one horse Binky.
Kinda ugly, to be honest.
I stepped away from collecting these two years ago and this proves it to be a good decision.
@Dannygast said:
"Those horses remind me of that scene in Fellowship of the Ring"
@Euca said:"If you want him, come and claim him!
Ooops, wrong franchise…."
As soon as the instructions become available, someone needs to make that MOC.
Damn, so no Monkie kid. So disappointing to see such an amazing theme die quietly in the background.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Dannygast said:
"Those horses remind me of that scene in Fellowship of the Ring"
@Euca said:"If you want him, come and claim him!
Ooops, wrong franchise…."
As soon as the instructions become available, someone needs to make that MOC."
Rivendell needs its moat..
Looks like we're shy one horse!
- No, you brought four too many.
All jokes aside, those Galloping Horses are pretty neat. Not quite sure if it's €100 neat to me, but it is a cool set. The other one.....sorry, clearly not for me.
@lordofdragonss said:
"I just love how Chinese sets get all printed parts when normal sets dont :)"
Which sets are normal?
I wonder if the "canvas" in 80119 Galloping Horse Canvas is actually canvas or similar cloth material, or is it printed on a sheet of flexible plastic? The smooth texture that it shows in the pics makes me think it may be plastic. Too bad if it is.
These are impressive as always.
These sets look amazing!
The New Element will have been busy analysing these photos, I'm sure.
I will definitely be getting the horse one for my wife. Apparently some folks have already been posting about it on some of the Breyer model horse groups.
I'm probably a minority, but I'd have preferred the minifigure scaled horse elements to brick-built horses.
No diverse minifigures in the Chinese sets? It's like doing a german Oktoberfest-set where all figures is blond with blue eyes. Or is Lego just like many other big companys that hide the pride flag in middle eastern countries..
Man…where’s the amazing location sets?! The last two years have been fairly disappointing. Sets looked nice, but not enticing to me to buy. And two minifigs in a $110 set?! Yikes. These used to be mining heavy….
@Jumperstud said:
"No diverse minifigures in the Chinese sets? It's like doing a german Oktoberfest-set where all figures is blond with blue eyes. Or is Lego just like many other big companys that hide the pride flag in middle eastern countries.."
What do you mean by diversity? For the minifigures they have big and small, old and young, male and female, with glasses and without glasses.
@Goujon said:
"Damn, so no Monkie kid. So disappointing to see such an amazing theme die quietly in the background. "
This was around summer or earlier, but word was that it would be back next year as the show needed to catch up…or something along those lines. After only getting two MK sets this year I was pretty bummed & went looking for answers.
That canvas is horseome!
Like the trotting Lantern I have no interest whatsoever in the firecracker, but it looks great - even the interior is lovely!
Beautiful designs! It’s currently niche by China but I hope they covet other cultures too one day.
Probably the least interesting year so far for me, and the theme has been fantastic.
The price/piece/size ratios are still quite decent but part of that is also because of being exclusive.
I love the horse canvas, but I do miss the sets you could play with, like the dragon boat race or the family dinner.
@CamberbrickGreen said:
"Beautiful designs! It’s currently niche by China but I hope they covet other cultures too one day."
I don't know if this is niche, my dude. The average person is Chinese.
Of course chinese lickboot sets all have prints.
No love for https://www.lego.com/product/fortune-master-40864 ?
The galloping horses set looks so amazing and I love how it is kinetic. I do hope they bring back more minifigure scale locales for these holiday sets.