10 Best Adult Lego Sets for 2021

For fans of vehicle-build LEGO, it’s unlikely you will ever find more life-like, authentic or further attention to detail in any other set and so for Land Rover drivers and fans, this 4-wheel drive supreme replica is a gift from the heavens!

It helps that this fantastic model vehicle was developed in partnership with Land Rover themselves, which has helped LEGO capture every outstanding sinew of refinement, allowing you to put together a sleek and sculpted classic figure with original-design rims and tires.

This isn’t just a display piece either and inside and outside the car, you’ll find plenty of interactivity and realistic function. Openable doors allow access to a working steering wheel, dashboard and LEGO Technics most sophisticated gearbox ever, with a lever for engaging high and low gear ratios!

For real petrolheads, you’ll also get a kick out of lifting the bonnet, as inside you’ll find visual access to an inline 6-cylinder engine with moving pistons! Then when it comes to playing, you’ll experience all-wheel drive with 3 differentials, independent suspension on both axles and a working winch!

I mean, who actually needs a real Land Rover when you can just snag this one for about 1% of the fee!

The great thing about LEGO is that it unlocks the creativity and little architect in all of us and while many little LEGO dreamers go on to become dreamers and designers for the next greatest buildings… most of us don’t.

However, that hunger to build and create is always within you and rather than cooking up the next intergalactic spaceship, your adult brain may well now dream of building more realistic ventures like skyscrapers and stadiums.

Helping to appease that inner architect still desperate to build, LEGO’s Architect range helps you build your own smaller versions of some of the world’s most iconic landmarks and man-made structures from the Taj Mahal to the Empire State Building.

These make for ideal display pieces in offices or living room shelves and they all even come with a lovely LEGO plaque entitling them.

Our favourites from this range, however, are the Skyline varieties, offering you several famous buildings and panoramic views of some of the world’s most beloved cities.

A favourite for Brits, this London Skyline gives an accurate representation of some of the UK’s most famous landmarks, including the National Gallery, Nelson’s Column, London Eye, Big Ben (the Elizabeth Tower) and Tower Bridge, all given accurate representation and comparative size.

A fantastic gift for those interested in architecture generally and the stories and plans of the people that built these great buildings, the inspirational stories of each building are richly included within the instructional booklet making building them in LEGO not just rewarding, but also educational!

Could this set BE anymore amazing?

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of everyone’s favourite sitcom, this Central Perk set is an exciting recreation of Friends’ most iconic setting, complete with couch, coffee machine, stage and more authentic details you’ll recognise… including Gunther!

Ideal for recreating your favourite episode moments, it comes with mini-figures of all 6 friends, each one with their own famous accessories, such as Phoebe’s guitar, Ross’s keyboard and Joey’s pizza!

The cafe itself also comes with an exterior TV set decal so you can play director whenever you want and plenty of small items such as newspapers, seats, tables and more help bring the cafe to life!

So what are you waiting for, it’s time to create the only episode you haven’t seen… The One With All The LEGO.

These days, LEGO is very much seen as an art form and the genius models people can conjure up with the humble brick are celebrated and admired around the world.

It’s probably for this reason that LEGO has created their Art range, using flat button bricks to create pixelated art so beautiful and complex that they wouldn’t look out of place hung up in a gallery.

Better yet, why not your own home?

A beautiful set for a Beatles fan and brick lover, this unique Beatles portrait set is a 4-in-1 package allowing you to build a stunning mosaic of your favourite member.

Combining your passion for music and art, this stress-relieving set will take you back to yesterday where all your troubles were so far away, and when it’s done it can be displayed forever as a token of your appreciation for the best band in the world.

Best of all, it’s got bags of longevity, because if you ever go off John Lennon, you can simply take it apart and build George, Paul or Ringo!

(Okay, maybe not Ringo)

Calling all science geeks and space race nuts!

Have you dreamt all your life of being an astronaut but have been let down by your grades and the UK’s less than opportunistic space program?

Do you want a chance to get closer to the dreamy world of shuttle and lunar modules and bring your hopes back down to earth?

Well now you can thanks to one of LEGO’s most in-depth and authentic models – a stunning recreation of the International Space Station that imagineers can now create at home!

Crammed full of actual technological marvels found on the real ISS, including a posable Canadarm2, posable joints, interactive solar panels and a dockable NASA Space Shuttle!

If that all sounds a bit too scientific for you, don’t worry too much, as there’s also 2 astronaut mini-figures to play with, so you can plot that fantastic space mission you’ve always dreamed of!

Featuring a phenomenal 128-page building booklet with facts and information about the ISS itself, this is a wonderful gift for all passionate scientists that will help them indulge and geek out over a still much beloved pastime.

The name’s Bond… James Bond. Licence To Build.

Ever since the elegant Aston Martin DB5 skidded onto our screens in the smoothest and most sophisticated fashion in 1964’s Goldfinger, it’s been the dream car of every Bond super fan ever, with no other vehicle coming close.

Unfortunately though, most of us don’t have a spare ¾ of a million going spare and so we’ll have to settle for this impressive replica model from LEGO which captures all the suave cool of the car while making all of Q’s brilliant gadgetry a playable reality!

Car-wise, you’ll be romanced by the attention to detail, with drum-lacquered silver bumpers, silver wheel rim inserts and functioning doors and bonnets. Then prepare to unlock the nostalgic child within when releasing the ejector seat, unveiling the tyre scythes or deploying the revolving number plate!

Inside you can also build in a concealable radar tracker, telephone compartment and marvel at a straight-6 engine detail when popping the hood.

It’s the best way to keep the British end up!

A well-known legend amongst hardcore LEGO fans even if you’re not particularly au fait with the Star Wars Universe, Han Solo’s Corellian freighter, the Millennium Falcon, is one of the most famous ships in sci-fi history and one of the most notoriously difficult LEGO sets in the world.

Constantly being updated and reaching for the stars when it comes to authenticity, this 7,500 mega-collection of pieces is one of the biggest available and the largest, most detailed model of the Falcon yet!

With an unbelievably detailed exterior, you can marvel at the ships, 4 mini-figure cockpits, interchangeable sensor dishes, upper and lower quad laser cannons, 7 landing legs and removable hull panels.

There’s also a lowering boarding ramp just like in the film so you can guide included figurines such as Han, Chewy and Leia onto their faithful vessel.

This all makes for a beautiful display item, and in included information plaque only helps to enhance this aesthetic.

However, if you like to play hard as well as work hard, you’ll also be impressed by the numerous interactive features which will help you finally become the captain of your most beloved spaceship.

This includes the main hold with seating area and engineering station, and engine room with hyperdrive and console, a gunnery station and of course 2 escape pod hatches!

She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid.

Relive the magic of Harry Potter with this in-depth and seemingly never-ending Hogwarts Castle, with over 6,000 pieces that offer a spellbinding build experience.

Must-have for any Potterhead, It’s stuffed full of highlights from the world’s most beloved series allowing you to build and then recreate the most iconic scenes.
With a fantastic exterior detailing the rocky cliff base above the lake and the impressive towers and turrets of the castle, inside you’ll find the Great Hall with build-a-brick stained glass windows, benches and banners for you to sort your figurine into a house or enjoy a feast. Then in the corridor, you’ll find the moving staircase, where you can navigate to classrooms such as Potions or Defence Against The Dark Arts (featuring a boggart containing a closet!)

As well as mainstays throughout the series though, there’s also a variety of classic rooms from the series, including the Chessboard Chamber, Room of Requirement and even the dreaded Chamber of Secrets!

To complete the aesthetic, you’ll also create some of your favourite decals from around the grounds, including Hagrid’s hut and The Whomping Willow (as well as the Ford Anglia stuck in its branches!)

For all your play needs, it’s thankfully packed with mini figurines too, including Harry, Ron, Hermione, teachers, Voldemort, dementors and more, so you can act out the entire franchise from Philosopher’s Stone to The Deathly Hallows!

What’s truly amazing about this set though is that we’ve literally only just skirted the edges of this absolute behemoth of a castle when it comes to describing its many features, as there are plenty more things to be found beyond its brick walls.

An endless voyage of discovery, it’s officially LEGO’s most dedicated and expansive set.

We deny anyone to look at us with a straight face and claim they’ve never imagined themselves touring the UK coast behind the wheel of a classic VW Beetle… in search of yourself and the next big wave.

But whether you’ve been there and done that, or still dream of a Volkswagen holiday… this LEGO set is an instant classic that will please just about everyone.

Featuring every iconic detail of the world’s greatest little vintage car, the set comes the iconic VW logo, curved fenders, flat windshield and plenty of other brilliant details.

In fact, if you’re lucky enough to own a life-sized VW Beetle, you’ll be astonished when you compare the model with the real thing, as the interior features beige-coloured, forward-tilting seats, dashboard, wheel and even a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine under the trunk!

Unlocking your inner surfer, there are even some little extras to strap to the roof rack in the form of a cool box and surfboard, so you’re all ready for that summer holiday!

Ideal for homes who love to celebrate that summer of love in 69 with cool throwback home decorations, this is a display piece that is as fun and funky to build as it is to marvel at.

Forget Christopher Nolan, forget Ben Affleck, forget Adam West and turn a blind-eye to Robert Pattinson before he’s even had his chance.

Because for people of a certain age, Batman and his iconic Batmobile will always look and sound like the very first version we ever saw and loved… the winged crusader and sleek gothic sports car of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film.

Replicating the classic and never bettered curves of the car’s most famous incarnation, this set is built from 3,306 pieces and so is not only a must for bat freaks and vehicle enthusiasts but also a challenging and rewarding build for just pure LEGO fans.

A delight for those who revelled in the car as a child, batman addicts will love the attention to detail on this build, including wraparound windshield, hidden machines guns with pop-out function, decorative grappling hooks and a slide-open cockpit, evoking all your favourite moments from the film.

For those who are all about play, there are also 3 characters to explore your imaginary Gotham City with – The Joker, Vicki Vale and of course… Michael Keaton’s Batman himself.

A beautiful piece to collect any comic book fans memorabilia collection, it also comes with an entirely rotatable stand so you can show it off to every visitor who’s in the know!