More 2026 LEGO Speed Champions sets announced!

Love the Ferrari minifig with the French tuck.

“This Ferrari toy car features a cab-forward design”

1994 called, Chrysler wants its marketing materials back.

But seriously, I need all three of these. The McLaren looks awesome, even by SC standards.

Love the Bugatti! Been waiting for this one for a long time

Yeah, three more cars that all look almost the same, apart from the colour.

All these cars with their wind-tunnel dictated likeness look so boring and interchangeable to me.

How I miss the days when even models from the same era and same company looked very distinct.
Like a Ferrari Testarossa, that looked nothing like a 288 GTO that in turn looked nothing like an F40.

I want to like the SF90 but it's just too blocky for my tastes. It doesn't really capture the curves of the real thing (which I had the pleasure of seeing up close & personally)

As nice as they look, they lack of functions. Till this day i do not understand how there is not even one 8 stud wide speed champion with opening doors or bonnet or any function. This would be the bare minimum by the way. How about a light brick to light up the front headlights? Would that too much to ask for?

As long as the design team refuses to add functions this theme is nothing for me.

Lots more of the 2x2 wedge tiles! Exciting to see that many colors so quickly. Quite a few prints on these, especially the Ferrari. This corner cheese slope thing is super interesting! Pretty great parts from these three sets, especially the Ferrari!

Trans-red blood feathers!

Inverted corner cheese slope in red on the Ferrari - it's about time they expanded this family of parts! (Now we just need a regular corner one!)

I’m not big on my cars , however I expect I’m not the only person wanting the Bugatti for that Michelin man print!

@Oli said:
"As nice as they look, they lack of functions. Till this day i do not understand how there is not even one 8 stud wide speed champion with opening doors or bonnet or any function. This would be the bare minimum by the way. How about a light brick to light up the front headlights? Would that too much to ask for?

As long as the design team refuses to add functions this theme is nothing for me."

lol.
You would not expect to see a comment like this looking at the W1 spoiler.

Anyways, I’m noticing Ferrari rims got the logo this time, first ever print on rims? New year, new improvements, as we have become accustomed with!
I will most likely get the Ferrari and McLaren, Bugatti unsure

Seeing a fair number of models that don't really require many, if any, stickers to look good. I know they're pricier, but I'm not really complaining in this case.

@PurpleDave said:
"Trans-red blood feathers!"

Forestmen of the dead!

I wish I was more into cars cause this theme is consistently impressive

These look phenomenal. Will definitely be picking these up day one with the Audi F1 car (as much as I can't stand McLaren cars) they just look so good.

Praying we start getting more off road/rally cars like the Toyota Baja truck, Lancia S4 and (a big pray just cause I don't see them doing this) the Opel Manta 400. Would be super cool if they did start doing more.

@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"Trans-red blood feathers!"

Forestmen of the dead!"

Uh...sure? I've just found that the old single feather and the new triple feather/flame have been useful for depicting blood in some forms, so trans-red might look even better. Specifically, I've got a minifig with the latter held in red hands, to somewhat recreate the scene of Fry feeding the T-Rex in Futurama. And I've got a matrioshark, with the large System shark eating the small System shark eating a minidoll, and I used some feathers to show blood streaming out of their mouths.

These look magnificent. It's very mean of Lego to make all of the coming wave so good that I won't be patient enough to wait until they drop to £15!

Of these three, I might get the Ferrari. The Bugattis always look chonky, and I'm just not a huge fan. The McLaren looks a bit odd from the side, and the rear feels a tad...empty? Maybe the real car is like that, but I don't love it. The mirrors are great though.

I think the McLaren might only have four stickers on the exterior, and the Ferrari five? Either way, I think they'll both look fine unspoiled.

The build techniques and shaping continues to be impressive, but I'm over speed champions for the most part. I have never been a really big car guy, and these cars while good, don't really mean too much to me. It's another sports car. Hopefully they'll continue doing more movie theme cars and classics that can grab my interest like the DB5 or the DeLoreon.

@fluffy39126 said:
"I’m not big on my cars , however I expect I’m not the only person wanting the Bugatti for that Michelin man print!"

I was already thinking that that would be the only one I bought, and now I like it even more! I hadn't even noticed that!

Maybe we can take a break from super cars and maybe get some “Everyday” Champions?

@TheOtherMike said:
" @fluffy39126 said:
"I’m not big on my cars , however I expect I’m not the only person wanting the Bugatti for that Michelin man print!"

I was already thinking that that would be the only one I bought, and now I like it even more! I hadn't even noticed that!"

I was thinking the exact same thing, it’s a great print.

@Boettner_Builds said:
"Maybe we can take a break from super cars and maybe get some “Everyday” Champions?"

Great news! Lego Sandero is coming to left hand drive market!

The Bugatti...:P, Just don't like the front of it, but the Ferrari and McLaren are fantastic.

And @Boettner_Builds, I do agree with you to a point...but OTOH I also want TLG to make a 'current' Corvette, because that thing looks amazing:
https://www.chevrolet.ca/en/performance/corvette

Never bought speed champions, but they always look like winners. I am always baffled how they manage to create all those curves and contoures in such a small volume with pretty big pieces. Even a 1x1 isn’t that small when you’re sculpting.

They look amazing. Especially the Bugatti. Nice.

@Brickodillo said:
"Never bought speed champions, but they always look like winners. I am always baffled how they manage to create all those curves and contoures in such a small volume with pretty big pieces. Even a 1x1 isn’t that small when you’re sculpting. "

I have twenty-four (admittedly, three of those are polybags, so not a huge amount of room for innovative building techniques there), and they are a SNOT-lover's dream (although also being a sticker-hater's nightmare). I just built 77237 a couple of days ago, and that thing has a lot more SNOT than I was expecting. Even the dashboard is mounted with a clip!

Like these all 3, so they'll probably end up on my sc shelve
The mclaren has usefull parts to mock with in that orange color

The cars look great.

Another Ferrari.
Another Bugatti.
Another McLaren.
Inspired choices....

Might get the Ferrari I like it! ??

I wish Star Wars got the same attention as Speed champions...

@BLProductions said:
"A decent lineup once again; I like the look of this Bugatti more than this year's one, but it still doesn't match the real car. And I want to like the McLaren, but it's just so... uninteresting. I guess that's due to post-2015 supercars just being aerodynamic blobs.... Oh, and another unnecessary new mold on the Ferrari with that corner cheese slope - it doesn't even match the real car's shaping. But I suppose it will be useful elsewhere.

@Oli said:
"As nice as they look, they lack of functions. Till this day i do not understand how there is not even one 8 stud wide speed champion with opening doors or bonnet or any function. This would be the bare minimum by the way. How about a light brick to light up the front headlights? Would that too much to ask for?

As long as the design team refuses to add functions this theme is nothing for me."
My dear friend, just how do you propose they fit functions into models of this size? Where do you fit light bricks inside all that? Have you not seen how dense these models are to achieve their complex shaping? Here I am ranting about LEGO making more and more unneeded special molds, and you've over here advocating for LEGO to become Playmobil just so your tiny model car can have an opening bonnet. And mind you - real cars only need an opening bonnet as a maintenance hatch, otherwise they wouldn't have one. These LEGO cars have no engines, much less working ones, so there's absolutely no reason to incorporate such a feature on them. I'd want to see you make an honest attempt at modifying a Speed Champions set to have the functions you desire before you make such ridiculous complaints. "

This is a joke right? I have build cars just 6 studs wide with all functions i mentioned exept for the light brick. I do see the confusion here, i know it might be not possible for all speed champions because of the shaping and yet a lego designer can do it, if he realy want! i am certain about that!

If you think that aint possible, just try it yourself. Its not that difficult to have a bonnet to open and reveal a motor in 8 stud wide car. This is just damn lazy to say it aint possible in that large size of 8 studs. Too wide for most lego cities anyways!

@Oli said:
"As nice as they look, they lack of functions. Till this day i do not understand how there is not even one 8 stud wide speed champion with opening doors or bonnet or any function. This would be the bare minimum by the way. How about a light brick to light up the front headlights? Would that too much to ask for?

As long as the design team refuses to add functions this theme is nothing for me."

You won't find this with LEGO sets and probably never will.
Some 30 years ago LEGO has light and sound elements, cables, sockets, pins, barcode scanners, etc.

Face it - LEGO is nowadays License Shovelware - McLego. Bland products, bad quality for very high prices.

If you are interested in more elaborate sets with light, I suggest FunWhole / LumiBricks.
They have many illuminated sets from houses, castles, Wild West, Cyberpunk to cars, bikes, etc.

A 8-wide fully illuminated set with functioning police light would, for example, be the Funwhole Police Patrol Car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhRV7Y1CnCA

They also have 6-wide, fully illuminated cars, for example the steampunk vintage car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0NwwFOPG9k
oh, it has opening doors, too xD

Agriculture tractor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnIcPO0kvCA

Tiny offroad vehicle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQuV_u7B2U4
with suspension, doors, many lights, ...

Or one of my favorites: a larger camper van:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaklniiQ-lQ

Essentially you might only need one of the sets and use the light system in your own builds or enhance other (e.g. LEGO) models if you care, but don't expect anything with a quality like this from the LEGO company.

Those are highly sought after sets so you need a bit of luck to still be able to grab one.

@ulibu said:
" @Oli said:
"As nice as they look, they lack of functions. Till this day i do not understand how there is not even one 8 stud wide speed champion with opening doors or bonnet or any function. This would be the bare minimum by the way. How about a light brick to light up the front headlights? Would that too much to ask for?

As long as the design team refuses to add functions this theme is nothing for me."

You won't find this with LEGO sets and probably never will.
Some 30 years ago LEGO has light and sound elements, cables, sockets, pins, barcode scanners, etc.

Face it - LEGO is nowadays License Shovelware - McLego. Bland products, bad quality for very high prices.

If you are interested in more elaborate sets with light, I suggest FunWhole / LumiBricks.
They have many illuminated sets from houses, castles, Wild West, Cyberpunk to cars, bikes, etc.

A 8-wide fully illuminated set with functioning police light would, for example, be the Funwhole Police Patrol Car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhRV7Y1CnCA

They also have 6-wide, fully illuminated cars, for example the steampunk vintage car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0NwwFOPG9k
oh, it has opening doors, too xD

Agriculture tractor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnIcPO0kvCA

Tiny offroad vehicle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQuV_u7B2U4
with suspension, doors, many lights, ...

Or one of my favorites: a larger camper van:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaklniiQ-lQ

Essentially you might only need one of the sets and use the light system in your own builds or enhance other (e.g. LEGO) models if you care, but don't expect anything with a quality like this from the LEGO company.

Those are highly sought after sets so you need a bit of luck to still be able to grab one."

Thanks for the message but i totaly refuse to buy other brick building products then Lego. Lego is what i grew up with and therefor the only bricks i own and will buy in the future because i do not want to mix other bricks to my collection drawers.
I do own those old school lego lightings and i enjoy building mocs with it. I dont need another brick company to do that. Our Wintervillage gets lid up every year with those.

As for me, there is less and less interesting sets in the Lego product portfolio anyways and the Lego Company as a whole is right now very questionable as well (Bricklink). If that madness continues i am not eager to buy Lego again. I also dont have to, because i have a big wide selection of sets and bricks, enough to have fun with until i die and for my next gen Lego builders, my kids..

I havent mentioned that i tried cobi, bluebricks and mega but the building techniques and clutchpower are nothing like Lego, sorry. And the figures... well.. i cant even cope with legos minidolls.. nor minifigures from Lego with flesh coloured faces and hands. In my world Minifigs have to be yellow. They can smile and have facial expressions but they have to be yellow, exept for sceletons, ghosts or Aliens.

When it comes to service which is needed more frequently with most other brick companies then Lego, it is, realy realy bad as i heard from several youtube channels. Personaly i cant say anything about the service quality of mega or bluebrix because i dont have experience with it.

I had one Lego set which was missing one piece and Lego send me the whole bag the part was in just 1 week later. No other brand can beat that! I am sure about that, but that relies on that realy large company factor.

@Oli said:
"I havent mentioned that i tried cobi, bluebricks and mega but the building techniques and clutchpower are nothing like Lego, sorry. And the figures... well.. i cant even cope with legos minidolls.. When it comes to service which is needed more frequently with most other brick companies then Lego, it is, realy realy bad. I had one Lego set which was missing one piece and Lego send me the whole bag the part was in just 1 week later. No other brand can beat that!"

That sounds to me your experiences are some years old.

BlueBricks is both a reseller and offers own sets. Their sets come with a wide variety of suppliers and the brick quality is not evenly distributed. I persnally would never buy from them.

Cobi has awesome parts quality and is very detailed if you want a model look. Their parts have a somewhat higher cluth power but the overall quality is great. A bit pricy, though. They use quality pad-printing.

Mega is also (trash tier) not so very good as I have heard. Their products are not for me.

Really, the best parts come from GoBricks, which get used by Pantasy and other set makers.
Best light (and still very very good part quality) is from LumiBricks / FunWhole.
Sets from both are usually sticker-free and feature pad-printing, too.

Lego part quality is not as good as it was long ago.
From what I understand your parts are also a bit older, just like mine are, but the current parts suffer from varying to too loose cluth power and very bad color consistency, brown was a problematic color with breaking parts. Then again, I also have tons of proken Lego parts, especially from the early Technic aera, here they used a brittle composite.
They overall just don't make good parts anymore and their sets are also a stickerfest license grab without any satisfying appeal, a 3D-puzzle at best. And once-build-never-touch is exactly the today's Lego, which also explains why the parts loose cluth power the more often you rebuild something with them.

But I understand you. I personally would never mix different vendors, that's part of my OCD, but if I can keep them separated of just takeover truly distinct parts, like the lighting system, I'd make a compromise as I can cleanly separate the two again.
However, you should not mix "then" and "now" Lego parts, too, because the material formula changed several times over the years, molds changed, etc.

The last set I bought from Lego was three years ago and I am not interested in any more sets from Lego.
I have still not transitioned to other brands, though, and I shy back because "Lego" is so ingrained into me it feels "wrong" to buy othebrands. But from a rational point there are only very few reasons to buy Lego.
And I say this as someone who bought sets in the five-figures mark overall. Yes.
Even from an investor's view Lego is pretty much valueless nowadays and the boxes take up too much space. There are easier and more lucrative ways to produce money without turning your home into a warehouse and have the problem of getting rid of the sets again at a later point in time. But that's only a spinoff why to buy brick building sets.

Their service is good, yes, and I had to use it quite often, a bit too often for my taste. But I wouldn't even need it if I just skip Lego sets.

Might be my favourite SC wave since 2022 or 23. I've gotten a few of the cars from the past few years, but most didn't do much for me. These three however, I immediately love the look of.

i disagree about the brick quality. I accasionaly buy bricks from the PaB wall and cant confirm that the clutchpower is less good then my 80's and 90's bricks. Somehow they feel lighter nowadays.

I agree that the colour consistency isnt as good anymore, but thats something i am not bothered about at all. In fact, i like it because it gives the fassade of an building for example a more real life pattina same goes for snow in winter villages. I guess there are examples where its rather bothering but then i try another brick which has the same shade of colour. No problem at all.

Another thing most people brag about is that colourful inside of adult sets. They argue you cant build something else out of it. Here is what i think about that: Just because the unicorn had vomitted into the star destroyer it CAN be build into something intirely different! Or what am i missing?

28 bucks for a singe car. Speed Champions are now 18+ domain.

@Pekingduckman said:"Lego should include at least 1 retro car for Speed Champions every year."

Hear, hear!

@Oli said:
" @BLProductions said:
"A decent lineup once again; I like the look of this Bugatti more than this year's one, but it still doesn't match the real car. And I want to like the McLaren, but it's just so... uninteresting. I guess that's due to post-2015 supercars just being aerodynamic blobs.... Oh, and another unnecessary new mold on the Ferrari with that corner cheese slope - it doesn't even match the real car's shaping. But I suppose it will be useful elsewhere.

@Oli said:
"As nice as they look, they lack of functions. Till this day i do not understand how there is not even one 8 stud wide speed champion with opening doors or bonnet or any function. This would be the bare minimum by the way. How about a light brick to light up the front headlights? Would that too much to ask for?

As long as the design team refuses to add functions this theme is nothing for me."
My dear friend, just how do you propose they fit functions into models of this size? Where do you fit light bricks inside all that? Have you not seen how dense these models are to achieve their complex shaping? Here I am ranting about LEGO making more and more unneeded special molds, and you've over here advocating for LEGO to become Playmobil just so your tiny model car can have an opening bonnet. And mind you - real cars only need an opening bonnet as a maintenance hatch, otherwise they wouldn't have one. These LEGO cars have no engines, much less working ones, so there's absolutely no reason to incorporate such a feature on them. I'd want to see you make an honest attempt at modifying a Speed Champions set to have the functions you desire before you make such ridiculous complaints. "

This is a joke right? I have build cars just 6 studs wide with all functions i mentioned exept for the light brick. I do see the confusion here, i know it might be not possible for all speed champions because of the shaping and yet a lego designer can do it, if he realy want! i am certain about that!

If you think that aint possible, just try it yourself. Its not that difficult to have a bonnet to open and reveal a motor in 8 stud wide car. This is just damn lazy to say it aint possible in that large size of 8 studs. Too wide for most lego cities anyways!"

Were your MOCs as detailed as SC cars? Because it's one thing to say "I built six-wide cars with working functions," it's quite another to say, "I built detailed six-wide replicas of real-life cars that have working functions." With as much SNOT-work as goes into SC cars to get the shapes right, there really isn't room for engines or trunks or the like, unless they start creating single-use molds for each set.

There are a lot of good-looking stuff here, a lot of details the more you look. But as always my eyes are drawn to the not-so-nice stuff first for some reason. The Bugatti for example, why did they decide to print the roof more than halfway down the side windows? There's just a tiny sliver of side-window left, looks awful to me. The McLaren has the same thing going on, but not quite as bad. Frustrating, when there is so much good and it's let down by one prominent part that can't be easily modified. The design of the print just is what it is.

@Oli said:
"As nice as they look, they lack of functions. Till this day i do not understand how there is not even one 8 stud wide speed champion with opening doors or bonnet or any function. This would be the bare minimum by the way. How about a light brick to light up the front headlights? Would that too much to ask for?

As long as the design team refuses to add functions this theme is nothing for me."

Both cars in the 76924 Mercedes 2-pack have an opening bonnet and engine. It's a good set if you haven't checked it out already.

They always nail the shaping at this scale. I just can't justify the cost of them. And I don't need any more super cars.

@Boettner_Builds said:
"Maybe we can take a break from super cars and maybe get some “Everyday” Champions?"

Coming soon in 2030, a silver 2008 Toyota Corolla and a blue 2002 Ford Taurus lol

Absolutely stunning wave of designs. These are incredibly difficult design challenges to brick build and they've managed to capture the identity of these cars well and the designs are so elegantly resolved. Smooth sophisticated shaping transitions everywhere with really great part usage. Congrats to the SC team! Wow! I can't wait to get these in hand!

@JavaBrix said:
" @Boettner_Builds said:
"Maybe we can take a break from super cars and maybe get some “Everyday” Champions?"

Coming soon in 2030, a silver 2008 Toyota Corolla and a blue 2002 Ford Taurus lol"

The Speed Back-of-the-Packs line, new from Lego!

Speed Champions produces the most beautiful small sets year after year. Great stuff.

@Tuppence442 said:
" @Oli said:
"As nice as they look, they lack of functions. Till this day i do not understand how there is not even one 8 stud wide speed champion with opening doors or bonnet or any function. This would be the bare minimum by the way. How about a light brick to light up the front headlights? Would that too much to ask for?

As long as the design team refuses to add functions this theme is nothing for me."

Both cars in the 76924 Mercedes 2-pack have an opening bonnet and engine. It's a good set if you haven't checked it out already."

i wasnt aware of that! So apperently there is 2 sc cars with a function, noticed. Thanks.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @JavaBrix said:
" @Boettner_Builds said:
"Maybe we can take a break from super cars and maybe get some “Everyday” Champions?"

Coming soon in 2030, a silver 2008 Toyota Corolla and a blue 2002 Ford Taurus lol"

The Speed Back-of-the-Packs line, new from Lego!"

You say that, but there was a reality show called Getaway Driver where drivers showed up with whatever wheels they could get their hands on and were going to show off their driving skills with no knowledge of what the competition would involve. Many people wrecked very expensive cars (including one that was borrowed from a famous rapper) during the course of the miniseries, but the only guy who managed to escape _twice_ showed up with a beater Ford that didn't even have a hood. The pursuit team apparently took personal offense to this guy, as on his third attempt they ended up pinning his car up against a fence with _four_ squad cars.

The build on that McLaren looks interesting enough that I think I might be burdening my partner with some more stickers. I usually try and keep away from Speed Champions because it doesn’t seem entirely fair when I won’t be the one doing the stickering, and now that’s two in the January wave (the F1 Academy car has a delightful colour scheme) and I’m definitely still getting the 2 Fast 2 Furious Honda. I’ll have to think of something nice to do to make up for it..!

@Hiratha said:
"The build on that McLaren looks interesting enough that I think I might be burdening my partner with some more stickers."

Does your partner sigh when you ask them to apply the stickers, do they cheerfully volunteer to do it, or somewhere in between the two extremes?

@AustinPowers said:
"Yeah, three more cars that all look almost the same, apart from the colour.

All these cars with their wind-tunnel dictated likeness look so boring and interchangeable to me.

How I miss the days when even models from the same era and same company looked very distinct.
Like a Ferrari Testarossa, that looked nothing like a 288 GTO that in turn looked nothing like an F40. "

To be fair, the Testarossa was quite an outstanding design at the time. And the F40 was derived from the 288 GTO Evoluzione. Although they still look quite different.

Apart from the colour, I wouldn't mistake the Bugatti for a Ferrari.

Other than that, I agree that contemporary cars are often overdesigned, stylewise.

@Wrecknbuild said:
"To be fair, the Testarossa was quite an outstanding design at the time. And the F40 was derived from the 288 GTO Evoluzione. Although they still look quite different."

To be fair, the F40 looked like someone started with a Pinewood Derby kit, carved the front half of the car, and slapped a spoiler on the back when they ran out of time to finish it.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Hiratha said:
"The build on that McLaren looks interesting enough that I think I might be burdening my partner with some more stickers."

Does your partner sigh when you ask them to apply the stickers, do they cheerfully volunteer to do it, or somewhere in between the two extremes?"

Sort of both? They are very much not a fan of sticker applying at all ever, but I can’t do it - a light tremor, bendy fingers and a dollop of poor proprioception are not particularly an obstacle to building Lego so long as you don’t mind picking things up after dropping them a lot but are quite a big obstacle to getting stickers on straight - and they know that so when I ask they're happy to do it *for me* if not happy to be doing it in general, if that makes sense. I usually try and figure out a few kits at a time so they can get it all done at once for several weeks worth of entertainment. I just feel guilty about it!

@Hiratha said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Hiratha said:
"The build on that McLaren looks interesting enough that I think I might be burdening my partner with some more stickers."

Does your partner sigh when you ask them to apply the stickers, do they cheerfully volunteer to do it, or somewhere in between the two extremes?"

Sort of both? They are very much not a fan of sticker applying at all ever, but I can’t do it - a light tremor, bendy fingers and a dollop of poor proprioception are not particularly an obstacle to building Lego so long as you don’t mind picking things up after dropping them a lot but are quite a big obstacle to getting stickers on straight - and they know that so when I ask they're happy to do it *for me* if not happy to be doing it in general, if that makes sense. I usually try and figure out a few kits at a time so they can get it all done at once for several weeks worth of entertainment. I just feel guilty about it!"

Sense enough. What I’m getting is that, where I might be willing to apply stickers for any random person who asks (assuming I had free time available), they’ll only do it because it’s you asking.

Then here is what I would advise. Take it as proof that they care about you very much, stop feeling guilty about it (but don’t start overly burdening them with 200-sticker sets), and find some way you can reciprocate. If you can do something that means as much to them in return, then it will both give them more reason to feel good about helping you out, and help you feel less like you’re taking advantage of them. And talk to them about this. If they really understand how much it bothers you to ask, and how much it means to you when they help you out, maybe they’ll start seeing the act in a different light.