Welcome to The Brick Report

This is a new thing. Every week, we're putting together a short digest of what happened in the LEGO world, what we published, and what you should be paying attention to. No filler. No press releases rewritten for word count. Just the stuff that matters if you build, collect, or invest in bricks.

Consider this your Sunday morning read with a cup of coffee and a baseplate.

The Big Story: Our First Giveaway

We launched the first Earl of Bricks giveaway this week. The prize is a LEGO Speed Champions Audi F1 R26 (77259) -- Audi's first Formula 1 car, now in brick form. Free to enter. No purchase necessary. Share your referral link and you earn bonus entries for every friend who signs up.

The giveaway runs through April 8. We built it on a platform called Confetti with referral tracking baked in. The goal here is simple: we want more people to find this site, and giving away a set we genuinely like seemed like the right way to start.

Enter the giveaway here if you haven't already.

April Is Coming

April 1 marks the next wave of LEGO releases. We've already reviewed twelve of the incoming sets, including five Star Wars builds, two BrickHeadz, and the first look at the LEGO Editions F1 helmets (Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, both arriving May 1).

If you want the full breakdown of what's landing next week, we wrote two posts that cover it:

The standouts for us: the Tintin set looks like an Ideas classic in the making, and the Mario Kart build is going to move a lot of units with parents.

Retirement Watch

July 31, 2026 is shaping up to be the biggest single retirement date in recent memory. We're tracking over twenty sets that are expected to leave shelves by year's end, and the July cliff is steep.

A few that should be on your radar right now:

  • Ferrari Daytona SP3 (42143) -- $449.99, Technic flagship, July retirement. The Technic supercar line has a strong appreciation track record.
  • Red Dragon's Tale (21348) -- $359.99, D&D crossover, July retirement. Two collector communities fighting over the same set.
  • Jaws (21350) -- $149.99, Ideas, July retirement. Movie dioramas with cult followings tend to move fast once they're gone.
  • Flower Bouquet (10280) -- $49.99, Botanicals, July retirement. Five years on shelves. The original Botanicals bestseller at a low entry price.

We built a full tracker page with all 22 sets we're watching, organized by price tier: LEGO Sets Retiring in 2026.

What We Published This Week

Set of the Week

The LEGO Jaws set (21350) keeps coming up in conversation, and for good reason. At $149.99 it sits in a sweet spot -- expensive enough to feel substantial, affordable enough that it doesn't require a committee decision. The Orca boat is the real star of the build. The shark is fine. But that boat has personality.

It retires in July. If you've been on the fence, this is the quarter to decide.

The Week Ahead

Next week we're diving deep into comparison content. Modular buildings ranked. F1 Technic head-to-heads. Star Wars sets for adults. The kind of posts that help you decide between two sets when you can only pick one.

We're also expanding the depth of our existing reviews. If you've read one of our shorter reviews and wanted more, check back. They're getting longer.

See you next week.

While you're waiting: if you're wondering whether retiring sets are worth holding sealed, the honest LEGO investment breakdown has the data on what actually appreciates. And if you're rethinking the release-day habit, why I stopped buying LEGO on release day covers the discipline in detail.