The LEGO sets worth buying this year, from the DUPLO ones a two year old can build up to the botanical and Technic sets that are really for the grown ups.
Not a set, a bin. Windows and wheels and doors mixed in so they build whatever they want instead of following the instructions.
LEGO Classic Large Creative Brick Box 10698
Five little minifigures and a delivery scooter, so this one keeps getting played with after it is built.
LEGO City Pizza Delivery Experience 60496
The wheel really spins. It is new this year too, so odds are good she does not already have it.
LEGO Friends Candy & Cupcake Ferris Wheel 42700
The easy way into the Mario Kart sets, and Mario reacts when you race him. For the kid who is obsessed with the game.
LEGO Super Mario Kart with Interactive Mario
Pokemon plus LEGO covers two obsessions at once. Pikachu comes in the box.
LEGO Pokémon SMART Play Training House Pikachu
The purple triple decker. Nice first Harry Potter set because it is small enough to actually finish in a sitting or two.
LEGO Harry Potter Knight Bus Adventure
This one ends up on a shelf instead of in the bin. Stitch is big when he is done.
LEGO Disney Stitch 43249
Little separate biomes instead of one big build, so it can be taken apart and redone. Better for the older Minecraft crowd.
LEGO Minecraft Mini Biomes 21589
The Falcon everybody actually wants, at the size you can afford. The box says 18 and up, the listing says 10, so you know your kid.
LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon 75375
Under thirty dollars and a one evening build. Looks pretty on a nightstand after.
LEGO Botanicals Water Lilies 11511
The step up from a toy car for a Cars kid who is ready to build the real thing.
LEGO Speed Champions Lightning McQueen 77255
For the two and three year olds. Chunky bricks, Mickey and Minnie already in the box, nothing tiny to step on.
LEGO DUPLO Disney Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 10465
Under twenty dollars and it is Elsa, which is the whole ballgame at that age. Bricks for building anything, not just one thing.
LEGO DUPLO Disney Frozen Creative Box 10462
Colored bricks on the track tell the train to stop or honk, so it does something without being a screen. The big preschool present.
LEGO DUPLO Interactive Adventure Train 10427
For a teenager who is over regular sets. Real steering, real suspension, and it takes a while.
LEGO Technic 1966 Ford GT40 MKII Race Car 42223
Buy this one for a grown up. It is a Game Boy made of bricks and it belongs on a desk.
LEGO Super Mario Game Boy 72046
Flowers that never die, for the person who is impossible to shop for.
LEGO Botanicals Tulip Bouquet 11501
The splurge, and the most grown up thing here. Snoopy, Woodstock and the red doghouse, out on a shelf all year.
LEGO Ideas Peanuts: Snoopy's Doghouse 21368
Hangs on the wall like art or sits on a shelf. For whoever loves Paris.
