Brickset Awards 2018 - Nominations

My favourite set of 2018 is 10261 rollercoaster
My favourite minifigure of 2018 is Sons of Garmadon Kai

Set: 21315: Pop-Up Book
Figure: 41597: Go Brick Me
Usually I am into technic but these two got my attention.

Set: 21315 Pop-Up Book
Minifigure: Baby, Dark Turquoise Body with Moose and Snowflakes and Yellow Hands from 10263

https://brickset.com/minifigs/hol121/baby-dark-turquoise-body-with-moose-and-snowflakes-and-yellow-hands

71043 Hogwarts Castle
Cactus Girl

My favorite set is hard to pick out, especially coming out of a year as good as 2017, but I'm gonna go with 75954 Great Hall

Favorite minifig is without a doubt Mr. E from Sons of Garmadon.

It seems the minifigs and minidolls from The Lego Movie 2 are missing in this list. Just check a set like https://brickset.com/sets/70841-1/Benny-s-Space-Squad - which has to be my favourite set of the year, with the pink space figure being my favourite minifig - it has no minifigures listed.

Set: creator expert roller coaster.
Minifig: knightmare batman.

set: 10261 Roller Coaster
minifig: torn between Cactus Girl from series 18 and Apocalypseburg Benny from 70834

My favourite set of this would have to be 70652 Stormbringer for offering such a high-quality build and detailed figures- it's a good example of the sort of standards even lower-priced sets are held to in terms of design nowadays.

As for figures, Cactus Suit Girl! The versatility of the torso when different arms are attached is a massive bonus.

Set: Downtown Diner

Minifigure: Bacta Tank Vader

Difficult indeed, but my favorite set might be 42071: dozer compactor. I can't get over how much I love the color scheme and overall design of the body.

As for favorite minifigure, I agree with Bheil on this: Dr. Ian Malcolm AKA Jeff Goldblum surely has to take the top spot. :D

Got to be the downtown diner - not perfect but take the top floors off and moc it and it’s amazing!! Best mini figure is the accompanying Elvis!!!

Set: 10260 Dowtown Diner
Minifig: 71021 Flower Pot Girl

Favourite set: Hogwarts Castle 71043
Favourive Minifigure: Reverse Flash

Set: 70657: NINJAGO City Docks
Figure: Kabuki Nya

Minifig: Party Clown

Set: Great Hall

Favorite Set: Ninjago City Docks 70657

Favorite Minifigure: Luna Lovegood

Favorite set: Voltron
Favorite minifigure: Luke Skywalker from Betrayal at Cloud City

Set: 70657 NINJAGO City Docks
Minifig: col329 Classic Police Officer

Set: Thanos: Ultimate Battle

Minifig: Iron Spider

Fig: Tropical Joker from TLBM
Set: Statue of Liberty

That Joker is the funniest! :D And Liberty for its great display quality and abundant rare sand green and tanned parts.

Hogwarts express for the stand out set. Luna lovegood for the minifig a great inclusion in the collectable series.

41196: The Elvenstar Tree Bat Attack - brilliant design and building techniques and fairly priced.
NJO483 Mohawk for minifigure. Great design and first time I have gone out of my way to buy a specialty promo item like this because I had to have him.

Set: 70655: Dragon Pit
One of the best base sets we ever get.
Best figure: brick suit guy! He is double icon :D

Ninjago City Docks and Mad-Eye Moody

Ninjago city docks - a perfect extension to the ninjago city from the previous year - favourite minifigure has to any of the 4 from founders from Hogwarts castle

Set: Go Brick Me; Voltron
Minifig: Most of the birthday bash CMF and the Harry Potter CMF

Set: 70654 Dieselnaut, from Ninjago
Minifig: Mr. E, also from Ninjago

10261 - Roller Coaster

Set: 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall
Minifig: Han Solo from 75212 Kessel Run Millennium Falcon

41347: Heartlake City Resort

Set: 21313 Ship in a Bottle
Minifig: 71021-8 Classic Police Officer

Set: Voltron (21311)
Fig: Jawa (SW896)

Downtown Diner, Lando from Cloud City

Favourite set: 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City
Favourive Minifigure: sw976: Han Solo - Dual Molded Legs (75222)

Benny's space squad, go brick me, or ninjago city docks for sets. The new white classic spaceman, Dragon suit guy or newt scammander for minifigs.

the Dowtown Diner for sure ! and for the minifigs i can't choose ^^

Set: Hogwarts Castle
Minifig: Dumbledore (Michael Gambon)

Set: Old Fishing Store
Figure: Vacation/Tropical Joker

Set - 007 Aston Martin DB5

Minifigure - Tobias Beckett

My favorite set is probably 21313 Ship in a Bottle, its one of the most creative LEGO sets ever and turned out amazing! My favorite minifigure might actually be Ellie Sattler from 75932, so much detail and captured the classic character so well.

Downtown Diner or Hogwarts Castle for best set.

Got to be 10260 Downtown Diner for me

Minifigure: Boba Fett 75222
Set: 10260 DownTown Dinner

Favorite set is Hogwarts Great Hall, and favorite Minifigure is Michael Gambon Dumbledore

Set - 10261 Roller Coaster
Minifig - col315 Party Clown

Set: Darth Vader’s castle
Minifigure: Elite Praetorian guard (from Snoke’s there one room)

Set: Darth Vader Transformation
Fig: Enfys Nest

71043: Hogwarts Castle
71022: Neville Longbottom

@CapnRex101: Oh I see. It still seems a bit odd that it says "Year released: 2019" on sets officially released yesterday. But it does indeed say (c) 2019 on the boxes. (Shouldn't 30620 be 2019 too?)

Favourite set - ((Downtown Diner,
Favourite character - Krypto the Superdog (not really a Minifigure but I love it).

71043-1: Hogwarts Castle
Dobby the House Elf from the CMF series.

Favorite set: LEGO Ninjago 70653-1 Firstbourne
Favorite figure: LEGO Jurassic World Zia Rodriguez (https://brickset.com/minifigs/jw031/)

71043-Hogwarts Castle
Han Solo from 75222 cloud city

75230 Porg - first set my wife bought herself, Minifigure Rio Durant from 75219.

Set: 75218 X-Wing Fighter; minifigure: SW944 Biggs Darklighter.

Set: BttF brickheadz
Minifigure: Future Jay

Either ninjago city docks or creator expert roller coaster. And as far as minifigs, either the baby from the fire station or mad eye moody

Statue of Liberty, Singapore and Great Wall of China were all excellent Arch models

Set: Roller Coaster 10261
Minifig: Batwoman sh522

My favorite set is definitely 71043 Hogwarts Castle and my favorite minifigure is tied between the Iron Man with jetpack from 76107 and Rowena Ravenclaw from 71043.

Set: 10261 Creator Expert Rollercoaster
Minifigure: Clown guy from CMF

Set: Pop-up Book or Go Brick Me
Minifigure: Pop-up Book wolf

Voltron

Sets: Ninjago city docks, Voltron, Vader's castle
Minifig: knightmare batman

Set: 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall
Minifigure: Ellie Sattler (Jurassic park set)

Heavy transport 60183
Reverse guy

Set: 70653 Firstbourne
Minifigure: Enfys Nest

Set: 76108: Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown
Minifigure: Wong

Set: 76108 Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown
Minifigure: 71022-14 Mad Eye Moody (CMF Series)

Set: Creator Expert Roller Coaster
Fig: Hamley's Royal Guard

Voltron
Dr. Alan Grant

Statue of Liberty
Cedric Diggery

The OG Powerpuff Girls fan in me wants to say Mojo Jojo Strike's set because its a great little play set that gives people who didn't already buy the Dimensions packs two out of three of the PPG's as well as introducing Mojo Jojo into the minifigure world. I also really liked Newt's Case of Magical Creatures for its creative way of actually having the inside of the case try to replicate what it did in the film. Unfortunately there's one set that set's itself apart from all the rest in both quality, display-ability and functionality. And that set is...
Set: Voltron (21311)
Minifigure: Hagrid (71043)

Although I don't own it yet, I'd have to go with 10261 Creator Expert Rollercoaster as the top set (while giving a shout to its little brother 31084 Pirate Roller Coaster). Darth Vader's Castle, the Statue of Liberty and the Justice League Anniversary Party are up there as well.

For top minifigure, I'm going with whom I said I was choosing going into the year - Firestorm from set 76097! But of course, the Pittsburgh LEGO Store grand opening minifigure is the one nearest and dearest to my heart.

Dragon Suit Guy, Flowerpot Girl, Party Clown and Racecar Guy from the Series 18 minifgures were highlights as well, as were all the batsuits from the 70923 Bat Space Shuttle.

For set I’d give it to Jurassic Park Velociraptor Chase (75932). For minifigure I’d give it to Ian Malcolm.

From the sets I own: 71043 Hogwarts
71022 Invisible Harry Potter

From those I don’t: Batman from the RC Batmobile.

Set: 60204 City Hospital

Figure: 71022-18: Tina Goldstein

Favourite Set: Cloud Rider Swoop Bikes

Favourite Figure: Mimban Stormtrooper, Elite Praetorian Guard or Gentleman Ghost

Best set: 60204 City Hospital
Best figure: Antoc Merrick

Set: Voltron

Minifigure: Firestorm

Set: 70654 Ninjago Dieselnaught
Minifig: 71021 CMF series 18 Dragon Suit Guy

My favorite set of the year has been the Ninjago City Docks. My favorite minifigure is the Luna Lovegood collectible minifig from the Harry Potter CMF series.

Set: Roller Coaster
Fig: Enfys Nest

Set: 21313 Ship in a bottle
Minifigure: Mountain Police - Crook Male Bare Chest (60173)

Set: X-Wing 75218

Minifigure: Doctor Strange 76108

Set: 76105 The Hulkbuster Ultron Edition
Minifigure: sh501 Teen Groot

Set: Pop Up Book
Minifig: Cat Costume Girl

Set - Downtown Diner 10260 - I don't often buy the modulars, but as soon as this one was revealed, I knew i'd be ordering it the day it came out.

Minifig - Ant-Man from 76109 - such awesome detail in the textures on his printing.

Set: 76108 Sanctum Sanctorum
Minifig: SH509 Doctor Strange

Favorite set: Voltron
Favorite minifig: Iron Man (Thanos: Ultimate Battle)

Set: 21315 Pop-Up Book
Fig: col326: Cowboy Costume Guy (clever to use his legs and the horses rear legs!)
Runner up figs are the Brick Guy and Brick Gal from the CMF18 series.

75955: Hogwarts Express
Minifig: Old Luke Skywalker

Set: Voltron
Minifig: Party Clown Series 18

Favorite Set is 42083 - Bugatti Chiron and Minifig is the 1968 Mustang Driver

Turns out my favorites from this year are sets made earlier that I only got them in 2018. But man, the Apollo Rocket is amazing. There are very few models I'd consider to be 100/100, but that's one of them.

Favorites from this year would have to be the latest 75218 X-Wing (it's not perfect, but it's really good), 4000025 Ferguson Tractor (which the kind people on ebay are selling at a modest $4000+ ), and a personal favorite, the 75884 Speed Champions '68 Mustang (my dad had this same model when I was a kid--even the same dark green color).

Set : 71043 Hogwarts Castle
Minifig : Severus Snape Boggart from 5005254-1: Harry Potter Minifigure Collection

40199 Billund Airport. I bought it in summer direct at the airport.

Professor Snape in the dress of Neville longbotten grandmother.

Set - Really undecided between Hogwarts Castle and City Hospital but I think I'll plump for the hospital as I'd been wanting a new one for such a long time. Special shout out to ALL the Ideas sets this year too - I have them all and each one has been brilliant in their own, unique way.
Minifig - I think I'm going to go with the Cowboy from the party Minifig series earlier in the year, but I also really like Clock King from Batman Minifig series 2 and both Little Red Riding Hood and Granny/Wolf from Pop Up Book.

Set: 31084-1 Pirate Roller Coaster
Minifigure: Beach Party Dude from 5005359-1

Set: 70657 Ninjago City Docks
Fig: Mera from 76095

set: 10260 Downtown Diner
minifigure: SW925 Han Solo Imperial Mudtrooper uniform (75211)

Without a doubt my favourite set has to be the Creator Roller Coaster! Fun build. Huge set. Amazing on display. Its everything an afol could want.

Fave Minifig? Cant decide on this.

Man this is tough. Two childhood loves became lego reality with Voltron and the DB5. Going to jave to give it to 21311 Voltron though such an enjoyable build and it looks great.
For the minifig im going to say Alan Grant . Was a great surprise to get a set from the original jp movie and this would have to be my favourite character from it.

Voltron best set bar none, and knightmare batman minifigure

My favourite set was 71043 hogwarts castle and my favorite minifigure is Alan Grant. It is so great that we finally got a set from the first Jurassic park.

Favorite Set: 75222 Betrayal At Cloud City
Favorite Minifigure: Much Gambon Dumbledore

Set: 21315 Pop-Up Book
Minifig: The Wolf https://brickset.com/minifigs/idea042/the-wolf-(21315)

Set : 71043 Hogwarts Castle
Minifigure : Princess Leia Cloud City

Set: Hogwarts Express
Fig: Professor Trelawney from HP CMF

Favourite set: 10261 Roller Coaster
Favourite minifig: 71021-2 Brick Suit Guy

Favorite set: 21315 Pop-Up Book
Favorite Minifig: Professor Dumbledore from the 71022 HP CMF

Favourite Set: Voltron
Favourite Minifig: General Merrick (from the Star Wars Advent Calendar)

Set: 10261 Roller Coaster
Minifig: Biggs Darklighter

Favorite Set: 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall

Favorite Minifigure: Batwoman

Set: 10262: James Bond Aston Martin DB5
Minifig: None

Minifig: golden jaguar

Set: darth vaders castle ( listed as 2019 set ) / rollercoaster

Are the Lego Movie 2 sets counted as this year as they're released already or not?

If so, Minifigure: Battle Ready Batman from 70836
If not Minifigure: Doctor Strange from 76108.

Set: Egghead Mech Food Fight 70920

Set: 71043 Hogwarts Castle
Minifig: Godric Gryffindor

Set: Ninjago city docks
Minifigure: Golden Dragon Master

Out of what I have built so far in my collection I would go with:

Best set: 76107: Thanos Ultimate Battle
Best figure: Iron Spiderman (76108)

Set: 10260 Downtown Diner
Minifig: 71021 Birthday Cake Guy

Ship in a Bottle 21313 & Beach Party Dude 5005359

There was a lot of really great sets, this year, particularly in City and Ninjago ... but my favourite set was Voltron. I can't answer that in any other way. I think it's one of the best sets of all time, and certainly the best ever Ideas set.

As for best fig, I really like Batwoman, and I also want to throw a vote for the male stripper/cowboy figure from the party collectable minfigure set.

Set: UCS Y-Wing
Minifig: Yellow Lantern Batman

Set Voltron
Figure: Batwoman

It is sad trend how the best sets and minifigures are not imagined by LEGO. All of the best things are licensed themes or Ideas projects. Only Ninjago is good enough.
I need more (pure) LEGO Space; Castle; Pirates; and a second wave of LEGO movie sets with the big blue-grey truck from the trailers.

Set/kit: 71043-1 HOGWARTS CASTLE UCS
Beautiful display model with wonderful details throughout. A plethora of nano-figs, iconic scenes and a tremendous price to part ratio.

Minifigure: NYA 5005257-1 NINJAGO Minifigure Collection
Another beauty with gorgeous paint applications and graphics.

Ninjago City Docks
Percival Graves just because it took me so long to feel this beast

Set: 75955 Hogwarts Express
Minifig: Range Trooper from 75217 Conveyex Transport, easily my favorite trooper from any of the Disney SW movies

Set; 71043 Hogwarts Castle
Minifig; Luna Lovegood

Set: 75886 Ferrari 488 GT3 Scuderia Corsa
Minifigure: 71021 Party Clown

Set: 75214 Anakin's Jedi Starfighter
Minifigure: Luke Skywalker, Old

Best set: Winter Village Fire Station
Best minifigure: Luke Skywalker from The last Jedi!

Scarift Battle, it is one of the most accurate sets ever and the Jyn in Imperial disguise is golden for any MOC, a close second would be Tie Fighter from Solo for both the build and the figures.

Favorite set - 60177 Airshow Jet
Favorite minifig - CMF Race Car Guy

Set: 42078 Mack Anthem
Minifigure: Han Solo - Imperial Mudtrooper Uniform

I know it's not going to be a popular choice, but I vote for magnificent 10262 Aston Martin DB5

Favourite set - 10262 - James Bond Aston Martin DB5

Favourite minifigure - Sandman from 76114

My favorite set is the Vesta and my favorite minifigure is Emmet.

favourite minifigure has to be: Mountain Police - Crook Male Stumpy 10K (in tree costume 60174)

for favourite I'm having a hard time to choose between the large Hogwarts Castle, the Hogwarts Great Hall set, the Ninjago City Docks, the Sanctum Sanctorum and the Pop-Up Book.

Nomination for Set: 10261 Creator Expert Roller Coaster
Nomination for Minifigure: Big Bad Wolf from 21315 Ideas Pop-Up Book

Set: Hogwarts Castle 71043
Minifig: Hemley's Royal Guard 5005233

Set: 21315: Pop-Up Book (or Hogwarts Castle, but I havnt built it yet)
Minifigure: probably Queenie Goldstein from Newts Suitcase set because off that face but there is a lot of contenders for my favourite

75954 Harry Potter grand hall is my pick.

Favorite set: LEGO Ninjago 70653-1 Firstbourne
Favorite minifigure: jw028 Ellie Sattler

Set: 75955 Hogwarts Express
Minifig: sw887 Luke Skywalker, old

Set: 71043 Hogwarts Castle
Minifigure: 75212 Lando Calrissian

Set: 21042
Fig.: Erik Killmonger, sh469 (76100)

Set: Hogwarts Great Hall
Minifig: Thanos with Infinity Gauntlet

Favourite set - 76107 : Thanos Ultimate Battle
Favourite Minifig - Luke Skywalker, old ( sw887 )

Favorite Set: 76109 Quantum Realm Explorers
Favorite Minifigure: 71021 Cactus Girl

Set: 42083 Bugatti Chiron
Minifigure: Doctor Strange from 76108

My favorite set: 70643 Temple of Resurrection
My favorite minifigure: elf054: Noctura with Cape

Favorite set of 2018 that I actually bought (don't really think it's fair to nominate something I didn't actually buy, even though I admit there was some impressive sets I didn't buy this year) would have to be 10260 Downtown Diner.

Edit: favorite minifig, just because I've been wanting a minifig of him at this scale since 2014, would have to be teenage Groot from set 76102. Not a popular choice I'm sure but I'm sticking with it, it was MY favorite minifig from this year (among ones I actually have). I'll be honest Unikitty I actually like slightly more, but since she's brick-built I don't think she technically qualifies as a minifig. So going to stick with Groot.

Favourite Set: Tron legacy
Favourite Minifigure: Reggae Man Batsuit

Minifig: Dragon Suit Guy
Set: 5005747-1: Black Card Display Stand

My favorites of 2018:

Set: 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City
Minifigure: Lando Calrissian (75222)

Favorite Set: 71043 Hogwarts Castle
Favorite Mini-Fig: 71020 Friends are Family Alfred

(Owned). Hogwarts Express
Greedo

Set : X-Wing Starfighter (75218)
Minifig : Han Solo - Dual Molded Legs (75222) - SW976

Set:
Han Solo's Landspeeder (75209)

Minifig:
Elite Praetorian Guard (sw947)

Set: Ninjago Docks
Fig: Rick with stand

My favorite set of the year is the Thanos, Ultimate Battle, and my favorite minifig of the year is Thanos. (Though, he’s greatly imperfect)

Set: Creator Roller Coaster - Never thought we would get one and it is awesome!
Minifig: Apache Chief - Saturday morning cartoons in minifig form, yes please!

Best minifigure - Range Trooper (it won't win but it's one of the best Imperials we've had)
Best set - Rollercoaster (because it's just the most fun thing to have around!)

Set: 75952 Newt's Case of Magical Creatures
Minifigure: 71021 Flower Pot Girl

Favorite set: Darth Vader's Castle
favorite minifigure: Avengers Infinity War Iron Man

Set: 10261 Roller Coaster
Minifig: Lando from 75222

Set- 10261 Creator Roller Coaster

Minifigure- Luna Lovegood

im for the apollo rocket idea set

Set: 10261: Roller Coaster
Figure: sw977: Boba Fett - Pauldron, Helmet, Jet Pack, Printed Arms and Legs (75222)

Set: (owned) Hogwarts Great Hall
Set: (most desired) Roller Coaster
Minifig: Series 18 clown (with balloon animals)

Set: City 60198: Cargo Train, and:
Minifigure; a.k.a: "minifig:" Nature Photographer with 35mm camera having flash attachment and telephoto lens, and with satchel, in the People Pack 60202: Outdoor Adventures. Because she depicts a hobby I do in real life!

I'm going off of what I have:
75955- Hogwarts Express
HP155- Dementor

I’d have to say that the Ship In a Bottle was my favorite thing to build this year, and Gentleman Ghost was my favorite minifig.

Lego set: Ship in a Bottle and for minifigure is say the Cactus Girl from series 18 or the Banana guy from the juice bar set

Favorite Set: Voltron
Favorite Minifig: Lando (75212)

Set: Hogwarts Express
Minifigure: Luna Lovegood

Set: Hogwarts great hall 75954
Minifigure: Tina Goldstein 1002

Set: 10261 Roller Coaster
Minifig: Executioner Stormtrooper (75197)

Set: 42078 Mack Anthem
Minifig: Rinzler (TRON: Legacy)

Favorite Set: Hogwarts Express
Best Minifigure: Either Killow, Elite Praetorian Guard or Infinity War Gamora

Favorite Set: Kessel Run Millennium Falcon
Favorite MiniFigure: Range Trooper

Favorite Set - 21213 Ship In A Bottle
Favorite Minifig - From 75216 Snoke's Throne Room ELITE PRAETORIAN GUARD

Bonus : Favorite BrickHead - 41624 Micky Mouse

best set: 10261 Roller Coaster

the 10261 Roller Coaster!

honorable mention to the Voltron set and 40305 LEGO Brand Store

My fav's:
- 10268 | Vestas Wind Turbine obviously,
- the Vestas technician/worker guy with a moustache (https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/10268-1/tn_10268_alt17_jpg.jpg - unfortunately the minifigs of this set are not in the database)

For the sets, 10261Roller Coaster has the best functionality, but I would say 21311 Voltron has the most interesting visual design.

For figs, Dragon Master (Sensei Wu) would be my top pick (they went full out on that character) but some other contenders are Kabuki Nya, CMF Race Car Guy, and Mera.

Favourite set: UCS Hogwarts
Favourite minifigure: CMF Albus Dumbledore

Set: Downtown Diner
Fig: rock n roll guy from Downtown Diner
Best affordable set: 31079 Creator Sunshine Surfer Van

Favourite set: 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall
Favourite minifigure: Dumbledore (Gambondore) / COLHP16

The wizarding world sets have been such a stand out this year with incredibly detailed minifigures and models, new minifig parts (the medium legs too!) and new elements in the sets.

If I have to nominate my favorite set it would be Lego Technic 42082 or 42070!
My goal this year was to collect as many minifigs as possible... I only got 25 so far. :-(

Set: Voltron
Minifig: Red dragon guy

Set: 70920 Egghead Mech Food Fight
Fig: 71021 Dragon Suit Guy

Set: 21311 - Voltron
Fig: coltlbm31 - Vacation Joker

Set - 41597 Go Brick Me
Minifigures: Black Canary from LEGO Batman CMF2

Newt’s Case of Magical Creatures (75952-1)
Han Solo - Mudtrooper (40300)

Set: 75952-1: Newt's Case of Magical Creatures (Go Brick Me is very close)
Minifig: 71022-16: Professor Albus Dumbledore

After scrolling through both categories, my nominations are:

Set: Stormbringer (NINJAGO), Firstbourne (NINJAGO), Roller Coaster (Creator Expert), Boba Fett (Star Wars Buildable Figures), Darth Maul (Star Wars Buildable Figures)
Minifig: Batwoman (DC Super Heroes), Firestorm (DC Super Heroes), The Wolf (Ideas Pop-up Book)

If I have to pick just one of each it would be:
Set: Stormbringer
Minifig: Batwoman

My pick for Set of the year 2018 is
21314: TRON : Legacy.

And my top pick for Minifigure of 2018 is a 3 way tie between :
Knightmare Batman : SH532
Val : SW953
Range Trooper : SW950

Thanks.

For me set will be: Ninjago Stormbringer
Minifig: Dragon suit guy

Set: 42083 Bugatti Chiron

Minifig: -

They had me at "Voltron"

Best set: 60204 City Hospital

Best minifig: Fairybrick Cyclist

Best set: Down Town Diner
Best minifigure : Birthday Cake Guy 71021-10 (After all, 80 years Lego means the party is on !)

Set: 21313: Ship in a Bottle
Minifig: SW940 Enfys Nest (75215)

For me, it was the year of the dragon... Even though I'm not a huge fan of Ninjago, my favourite set for this year is 70653-1 Firstbourne.

https://brickset.com/sets/70653-1/Firstbourne

Minifig: Col318 Dragon suit guy.

My favourite set was the 70841 - the ratio between price and performance is just perfect!

Set: Statue of liberty 21042
Minifig: Santa Claus Advent alendar

As a favourite set, I think 75954: Hogwarts Great Hall should be nominated. It really showed the difference between the level of complexity seen in previous sets in this theme, and the current detail shown in a model.

Set: downtown diner (haven't built Ninjago City docks yet)
Minifig: Elvis

Set: Roller Coaster
Fig: Brick Suit Guy

Set: [31083] Cruising Adventures
Minifigure: [njo485] Nya - Kabuki

Elephant Girl COL312
10261 Roller Coaster

Apologies if it's troublesome, but I think I want to change my fav set vote to 75932-1: Jurassic Park Velociraptor Chase as well. 2018 was a good year for JP fans.

Fav minifig is still Ian Malcolm of course.

10262 Aston Martin
71020-7 Tropical joker

I like set 10260 - Downtown Diner most of all sets. Modular buildings are awesome.

Set: 70657 - NINJAGO City Docks
Minifigure: cty850 - Crook Male Bare Chest, White Underwear with Red Pawprints Pattern

My second favorite set would be 31079 - Sunshine Surfer Van, and while there definitely are a lot of much more intricately designed minifigs, especially in the licensed themes, this crook is just too funny :)

I can't really vote for set, since I only got one from this year and it feels cheap to vote for it just on those grounds, but... from what I've seen even if I don't own it? I vote 71043 - Hogwarts Castle.

Minifigure: the new young!Hermione (hp139). She's just so cute in that figure, love what they did with her design this time around :D

Difficult choices... and in many ways almost impossible to compare, due to their different character, target audience/theme, and price/size.

Top sets for 2018 for me include: Downtown Diner (10620), Creative Personalities (40291), Peter Venkman and Slimer Brickheadz (41622), Mack Anthem (Technic, 42078), Firstbourne (70653), Ninjago City Docks (70657), Harley Quinn Cannonball Attack (70921), Hogwarts Castle (71043), Cloud-Rider Swoop Bike (75215), Newt's Case of Magical Creatures (75952)

I think I am ging to cheat a little, and use a format somewhat similar to that of the Christmas Gift recommendations (using US RRP from as listed on this site):

Top set under 50 euro: Cloud-Rider Swoop Bike (75215)
Top set under 80 euro: Firstbourne (70653)
Top set over 80 euro: Ninjago City Docks (70657)

Set of 2018: Ninjago City Docks (70657);

I like the many minifigures in this set, the tremendous amount of detail, the many different and fun techniques used for similar elements (e.g. roofs and windows), it is simply a true pleasure to build, and one that makes me hope for a successor set.

Top Minifigures: Killow (NJO402), Daddy No Legs (NJO468), Enfys Nest (SW940), Gentleman Ghost (SW455), Harumi (The Quiet One, NJO383), Luna Lovegood (COLHP05), Nya Kabuki (NJO485), Severus Snape Boggart (HP173).

If I had to pick one from these I would go with: Nya Kabuki (NJO485)

Set: Creator Expert Roller Coaster

Figure: Gentleman Ghost - I know I'm probably throwing my vote away but damn I loved this fig.

42083: Bugatti Chiron

10261Rollercoaster
70841 Lenny (Pink Spaceman) & Series 18 Policeman

10261

60204 city hospital because of the playability and nice integration (with few modifications) into the modular building city
71022 Dean Thomas because of his outfit and the muffler matching nicely with his skin

https://brickset.com/minifigs/sh510/iron-spider-man-(76108)

https://brickset.com/sets/75181-1/Y-wing-Starfighter

My favorite set is Imperial TIE Fighter, 75211:
https://brickset.com/sets/75211-1/Imperial-TIE-Fighter

My favorite minifigure is: ENFYS NEST, sw940:
https://brickset.com/minifigs/sw940

set: Go Brick Me
figure: Dumbledore from CMF

Set: 21311: Voltron
Figure: 71022: Luna Lovegood

I dithered about whether I'm more enamoured by Luna or ol' Mad-Eye but in the end quirkiness trumped grumpiness :-D

10261: Roller Coaster is truly epic as well, one which I desire but have no space for. Still, Voltron is one of the pride and joys of my collection alongside Wall•E.

Sets
75125 Cloud-Rider Swoop Bikes
10268 Vestas wind turbine
60195 Arctic Mobile Exploration Base

Minifigs
Range trooper (75217)
Reggae Man Batsuit (70923)
Weasel (75125)

Set: 41597: Go Brick Me
Fig: the brick suit figs from CMF series 18

Set: 71043 Hogwarts Castle !!

Favorite set - Ninjago City Docks
Favorite minifigure - Hagrid from Hogwarts Great Hall

My favourite Set: 75212 - Kessel Run Millennium Falcon
My favourite Minifigure: Kessel Operations Droid

favorite set - Voltron, brings back so many memories.
favorite minifig - no selection

10261 Roller Coaster
71022 Dobby

Set: Hogwarts great hall
Minifigure: Mad eye moody/barty crouch Jr from Harry potter CMF series

Set: 70657 - NINJAGO City Docks!

Set : Solo Millennium Falcon

Minifigure: gotta be Lando!

Set:Hogwarts great hall
https://brickset.com/sets/75954-1/Hogwarts-Great-Hall
Fig:hagrid
https://brickset.com/minifigs/hp144

76107: Thanos
And
30615: Edna Mode

My big set of the year was 70657-1: NINJAGO City Docks. It is just so nice visually. It has a lot of interesting design elements and works on a lot of levels. For small sets, I actually really enjoyed 60191: Arctic Exploration Team as it was just so fun a little set and it was great to see the return of the Arctic series. It's a shame that most of the larger sets in that line were just odd vehicles instead of playsets. As far as mini-figures go, I have to vote for 71020: Professor Hugo Strange from the Batman Movie collectable mini-figure series 2. It was a lesser known character, though he appears on Gotham, but they really captured him in mini-figure form.

@kneroh - Gentleman Ghost was my 2 mini-fig, so I was close to adding him myself.

set: 30552-1: Ariel's Underwater Symphony
minifigure: Alien Puppycorn - Character Only Entry, no stand

Set: Voltron
Minifig: The Iron Baron

My favorite set would be 76108 Sanctorium Showdown, it has much of the detailing of the modulars but in a more compact, affordable and (with the vertical opening) play-friendly form. While the hinges gets a little in the way when making a modular-style street, it's easy to replace them with technic pegs (so the two halves separate fully), I really hope Lego makes more sets like this!

21042 Statue of Liberty, 21313 Ship in a Bottle and 21315 Pop-up Book also deserves honorable mention.

While these nominations always seems way too random (especially with the large number of posts, the time it takes to read through them all, and how earlier posts generally gets more votes than later ones), this time I feel it's even worse than usual when people lists their favorite sets and minifigs in the same post. So users votes for the posts, but it's impossible to see if they've voted for the set or the minifig. For instance TuckerBankshot nominated the Sanctorium (and got my vote for that), but he also nominates a Batwoman figure I don't care about at all. Basically the nomination and voting process doesn't seem to scale well with the large number of sets and figures available, and while it's not a very serious voting I'd still appreciate if we could find a way to make it work in a better, more balanced way. At the very least include more than ten options for each of the final votes!

10261 roller coaster has got to be the best set of 2018. It's gotta be the most rewarding Lego set ever.
And the cactus girl minifigure

Best set: either 71043 Hogwarts Castle or 75211 TIE-Fighter

Best Minifigure: Lando Calrisian (75222: Betrayal on Cloud City)

76108 Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown

IDEA039 Sam Flynn

Favorite set: Downtown Diner
Best Minifigure: Zane from the dragon masters set (2nd place is probably the Han Solo Mudtrooper)

75952: Newt's case of magical creatures. It's very creative and fun to build. I love the way it looks closed up and open.

71022: Neville Longbottom just a personal preference :)

Set: 75181 Ultimate Collectors Series Y-wing
Minifig: Han Solo redesigned

Best set: 10261 Roller coaster
Best minifigure: Rockstar from 10260

Best set: 75218 X-Wing Starfighter
Best minifigure: Cloud City Han Solo

Any of the Wizarding World collectable minifigures

Set: 75952 Newt's Case

Minifigure: The niffler (if he counts; if not I'll go with the Brick-Costume Guy from the Series 18 CMF)

Favorite set purchased: 5005406-1: Ninjago Movie Play & Display Case. I don't get a lot of new LEGO, but managed to get 6 of these on discount.

Favorite minifigure purchased: col330: Party Banana Guy

Favourite set, Ninjago city docks 70657
Favourite minifig, Knightmare Batman 853744

Favorite set: 31078-1 Tree House Treasures
Favorite minifigure: Classic Police Officer (1978)

Set: Ninjago City Docks
Minifigure: Iron Baron from NINJAGO

41597 Go Brick Me
71021-7 Dragon Suit Guy

My favourite set is by far the Hogwarts Express 75955 - it’s just brilliant in every level.

My favourite Minifigure is probably Hagrid from the Hogwarts Great Hall 75954 set. If he’s too big to count as a Minifigure I’d have to go for the Nearly Headless Nick from the same set.

Best set: 41340 Friendship House
Best minifigure: Knightmare Batman

Set: Indoraptor Rampage at Lockwood Estate.
Minifigure: Not sure if this counts, but the Carnotaurus from the Gyrosphere Escape.

Minifigure: Just2good’s custom series. Take your pick.

Set: 71043 Hogwarts Castle and 10260 Downtown Diner
Minifigure: Knightmare Batman and Lando Calrissian (Betrayal at Cloud City)

Feels like a lot of good stuff to choose from this year. My personal choices - Kessel Run Falcon and the Elite Praetorian Guard.

For best set I'd have to say Ninjago's rustic Dragon Pit, and for the minifigure the highly detailed Mimban Stormtrooper.

Set: Hogwarts Great Hall
Minifigure: Dean Thomas (Collectible Minifig)

Set: pop up book. Such an original concept
Minifigure: mountain police crook male bare chest

Sets:
10869: Farm Adventures
60181: Forest Tractor
75218: X-wing Starfighter
70653: Firstbourne

Figures:
cty872: Mountain Police - Crook Male Stumpy 10K (in tree costume 60174)
Harumi - Hunted

For the best set, I really liked 41597 Go Brick Me, which is great as a stand alone product as well as to be combined with my ever growing loose parts collection. The stickers are amazing and optional, the rare / exciting pieces and colours astound me, and for the price of £25.99 for 708 pieces (THAT is a bargain beyond anything else I've seen this year), it gets top spot for me. The Pop-Up Book and Statue of Liberty are also great, but I own neither of the sets because they are too big to display anywhere, in my humble and personal opinion, and are outside of my normal price point.

As far as minifigures go, I have to go for Dumbledore from the Harry Potter CMF series. I know this will be an odd choice for most people, but something about this figure makes me love him, from his brilliantly well executed pensive, to his wonderful dual molded hat and hair combo with the perfect design for his beard. The blue colour is visually pleasing for me, and the figure would look in place in any themed display or diorama. Sorry Brick Suit Guy, as well as some surprisingly well executed new pieces in the smaller city sets this year.

Anyway, there's my thoughts. To summarise, favourite set is 41597: Go Brick Me and favourite minifig is Dumbledore from the Harry Potter CMFs.

My Favorite set is the Downtown Diner
My Favorite minifigure is Dean Thomas

my favorite set is either the great hall or vaders castle. and my favorite figure is probably mad eye or cloud city han in blue jacket

Favourite Set - Rollercoaster
Favourite Minifigure has to be - Mountain Police - Crook Male Bare Chest, White Underwear with Red Pawprints Pattern - this has to be the funnest minifigure they have ever produced. You used to have to go to firestar toys if you wanted pants guy etc.

Set: 42083 Bugatti Chiron (Loved the technical aspects of the car base)
Fig: 71022 Percival Graves (I just like the fact that you can realy transform him into Grindelwald like in the movie)

None. I am pissed at the VIP UCS Millennium Falcon promotion and bought almost nothing this year.

Favourite Set: Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown

Favourite Minifig: Wong (bricktober marvel super heroes pack)

My favourite set was the Sanctum Santorum Showdown and the best minifigure was the rocker dude from the downtown diner. He's a brighter looking Ray Liotta from Goodfellas!

Favourite Set: Bugatti Chiron 42083
Favourite Minifig: Mountain Police - Crook Male Bare Chest, White Underwear with Red Pawprints Pattern (60173) (cty850)

Minifig: Black Manta from 76095: Black Manta Strike

Set: 40320-1: Plants From Plants

Set: Hulkbuster Smash-up 76104, fantastic version of the Hulkbuster suit, absolutely love it.

Minifig: Percival Graves (HP CMF), amazing rendition of the character, almost flawless.

Minifig: Mad Eye Moody, fantastic use of dual molded legs and great coat print. Also the first version this character has been Lego-ified if I'm not mistaken.

Favorite Set: Hogwarts Express(75955), although I wouldn't consider it the objective "best" set of the year (Clearly that goes to the Millennium Falcon lol) it is one I have been waiting for for 8 years now after I failed to get the 2010 one. Stunning model with much needed improvements from the last one!

Set: 10261 Roller Coaster
Minifigure: Brick Suit Guy

Favourite set: UCS Hulkbuster
Favourite minifigure: Lando from Cloud City 75222

It is difficult to select a single set, there are too much interesting releases. So, as many sets I like has been already been widely mentioned, I will propose a set that I think deserve the nomination.
Last but not least, I think that it is important to value a set considering its price: it is to easy to vote large and stunning set, but I think there are many little jewels.

About figures (damn... Super Sloth is listed in 2017!), I'll avoid the usual re-edition of classic ones and I'll vote one that hit me. There are many great standard figures (such as twn339 or cty850), but I think that only a "special" figure could be considered in this contest, so I'll choose one of them (very undecided this time).

So my selection is:

SET: City Hospital (60204-1)
FIG: Quorra (idea038 from 175952)

75955 Hogwarts Express
Jedi Master Luke Skywalker

Set: 70841 - Benny's Space Squad. No contest!
Figure: col330 - Party Banana Guy! That shirt!

Statue of Liberty for sure not everyone likes the face but I think it is fine.

Ship in a bottle and pop up book are also great.

My selection:

Set: Hogwarts Express (75955)

Minifigure: Percival Graves (Grindelwald)

Set: Hogwarts castle
Minifig: Percival graves

21311 Voltron
Perceval Graves

Arctic Mobile Exploration Base

Favorite Set: Voltron
Favorite Minifig: Thanos with Infinity Gauntlet

2018 Set: 75955 Hogwarts Express (THANK YOU, LEGO)

Wow this is so hard to name 1 but I will go with Creator Roller Coaster there are others one's I'd like to nominate but this is a whole new level and minifigure would have to go to the Policeman

set: 60 years of lego

fig: dad with baby (carried on chest) from 60202

or thanos

Set: Voltron,
Fig: Party Clown

70643: Temple of Resurrection

sh490: Lobo (76096)

Set 42078 mack anthem. My son received for Christmas and it's stunning.

Sets:
10261 - Roller Coaster
10260 - Downtown Diner
Minifigures:
5005257 - Nya-Kabuki
71021 - Party Clown
71022 - Luna Lovegood

Set: 21315-1: Pop-Up Book
Figure: col329: Classic Police Officer

Set: 75955 Hogwarts Express

Minifigure: col330 Party Banana Minifigure (from Party Banana Juice Bar)

Set - difficult as there are so many this year - Roller Coaster, Hogwarts, Big Red, H Express, Pop-up book - but due purely to the aesthetics - I think it has to be Hogwarts Castle

Mini fig - I just think because of the humour - The Snape boggart is one of the best minifigs this year

SET: 75211 Snokes throne room
MINIFIG: COLHP09 - Lord Voldemort

Set: Betrayal at cloud city.

Minifigure: Dobby.

Best Set: 21042 - Statue Of Liberty

Favourite Set that I own: 10260 - Downtown Diner
Favourite Minifig that I own: Cactus Girl

All sets considered I'd go with 71043: Hogwarts Castle and Harry Potter from the Collector's series - because of the revolutionary short legs!

Set has to be Go Brick Me.

Figure is the s18 elephant girl.

Set: 60181-1: Forest Tractor
Minifig: Luke (with Yoda attached) from 75208: Yoda's Hut
If that doesn't count because it's cheating : Mountain Police - Crook Male Bare Chest, from 60173-1

71043 Hogwarts Castle
Minifigure series Birthday Girl with purple balloon

Set: 60179 Ambulance Helicopter

Figure: Cty919 - Dad with Baby Carrier from People Pack Outdoor Adventures

With so many amazing sets this year, this was a challenge!

Set: 21311 Voltron

Minifigure: tie between COL313 and COL314 (the two brick figures)

Set: Ship-in-a-Bottle
Minifigure: Voldemort from Collectible Series

Set:Cloud City
Minifigure:Lando from CC

Set: Hospital
Minifig: Mad-eye Moody

Set: Roller Coaster
Minifig: Kabuki Nya from the free in store pack (that I had to buy on eBay cuz no store within 500 miles)

Creator Expert Roller Coaster

Set: Dieselnaut
Minifigure: Harumi from Throne Room Showdown and Oni Titan

Favorite Set: 10261 Creator Expert Roller Coaster - the fairground set fans have waited for!
(honorable mentions: 60204 Hospital and 10260 Downtown Diner)

Favorite Minifig: The Giant [21315] - excellent printing on a non-licensed figure!
(honorable mentions: Hagrid [75954] and Rio Durant [75219])

My favorite set is 10261: Roller Coaster, looks great and when motorized works really well. My favorite minifigure is the Royal Guard (5005233), it just has a really nice look.

favourite set is the downtown diner
favourite fig the wolf in granny clothing from the pop up book

Favorite set: Voltron
Favorite minifigure: Classic Police officer or Hunted Lloyd

Favourite set: 10261: Roller Coaster

Favourite set: 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall, looks great and tons of those new 2x2 window inserts.

Favourite minifig: the street musician guy in 60200 Capital City. Great idea, and the scarf is a nice and fitting bonus.

71043: Hogwarts Castle for best set without a doubt.

Minifigure: Neville Longbottom from the collectible series.

Favourite set: 42083 Bugatti Chiron

Favorite Set of 2018: Ship in a Bottle 21313-1
Favorite Fig of 2018: Antoc Merrick (75213) sw963

Favourite set: 72004: Tech Wizard Showdown
Favourite Fig: sw947: Elite Praetorian Guard

Favorite set: 76097 Lex Luthor Mech Takedown
Favorite minifigure: Spider-Man 2099 from 76114

Favorite set: 75218 X-wing Starfighter
Favorite minifigure: Luke Skywalker from 75218
(in case you can't tell, i like the X-wing set)

Favourite set: X-wing fighter 75218

Minifigure: Luke Skywalker, old version :)

So hard...City Arctic Mobile Exploration Base Set (60195) and it's Arctic Climber minifigure may be my favorite...

Favorite set: 10261 Roller Coaster
Favorite figure: hol121 Baby, Dark Turquoise Body with Moose and Snowflakes

Favorite Set: Cloud-Rider Swoop Bikes (Star Wars 75215)

Favorite Figure: Kabuki Nya (Ninjago 5005257)

Favorite set: 70657 Ninjago City Docks
Favorite minifigure: Harumi (njo383) from Temple of Resurrection (set 70643)

minifigure clock king and gentleman ghost
Set Egghead mech food fight

Up until a few days ago I would have said my favourite set of 2018 is the Hogwarts Castle (which I don't have yet). However since then I've actually built the Architecture Statue of Liberty and now I have to say, it's that because it's such a great build and it also looks great (even with the missing face).
My favourite minifig is Newt Scamander from the CMF Harry Potter series.

Set: 42083 Bugatti Chiron

Set: 75954 Hogwarts great hall
Minifigure: Rebeus Hagrid

Set: 75955 Hogwarts Express
Minifigure: Rio Durant (75219 – SW955)

Set : 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall
Minifigure : Arctic Photographer / Biologist

Set: 10263 Winter Village Fire Station
Minifigure: Teal baby and reindeer clothing in 10263 WV Fire Station

Favourite set:

72004: Tech Wizard Showdown: https://brickset.com/sets/72004-1/Tech-Wizard-Showdown

Favourite minifigure:

Robin - Pear | Gold Armor

Set: TRON Legacy
Minifigs: Sam and Quorra from the aforementioned set.

Two sets I have enjoyed this year;
42082 - Rough Terrain Crane.
10260 - Downtown Diner.

Set: 42082 Rough Terrain Crane
Minifig: Porn Moustache Boxer from 10260 Downtown Diner

Sets : 1)Technic 42082, 2) Voltron 21311 and 3) Hogwarts Castle 71043.

Minifigs : Hagrid, cowboy from CMF 18 and the Baby with the reindeer from 10263...

Favourite set: 75932-1: Jurassic Park Velociraptor Chase
Very close 2nds: 75952-1: Newt's Case of Magical Creatures & 75200: Ahch-To Island Training

Favourite Minifigure: jw019: Alan Grant
Very close 2nds: coltlbm40: Jor-El, colhp17: Newt Scamander & sw887: Luke Skywalker, Old

My favourite set is the Roller Coaster and my favourite minifigure is Maleficent :-)

75954 Hogwarts Great Hall

76222 Han Solo Dual Molded Legs or Clock King

10261: Roller Coaster

71021-12: Cat Costume Girl

Set: Downtown Diner

Figure: Cedric Diggory CMF

Favourite set is 75884 the '68 Mustang. It's great LEGO is getting into vintage muscle cars. The mini fig looks so "boss" in the vintage looking racing suit. So that is my favourite mini fig as well. Happy New Year fellow Bricksetters.

My favourite set is Ford Mustang Fastback and my favourite Minifigure is the race car guy from the party Minifigures series.

favourite set sanctum sanctorum ,favourite minifigure talon

Set 31084 : Pirate Rollercoaster
It encompasses everything Lego stands for, love it!

My favorite set is the Jurassic Park velociraptor chase set .
My favorite minifig is Ian Malcolm from the JW Bricktober Pack.

Best sets: 71043, 10262, 42083.

Best set: Rollercoaster
Best male figure: Lobo
Best female figure: Pola

Best Set: Lego Technic BASH!

Set: Downtown Diner