October was a large month for a clump of Lego lines, truthful it’s nary astonishment that November is historically the calm earlier the tempest for the brick-maker. As fans eagerly look toward the yearly income and peculiar sets coming adjacent the extremity of the month, Lego usually makes caller sets beauteous sparse astatine its beginning. And portion determination are conscionable 2 sets releasing this month, they’re acold from tiny ones.
Yes, November is defined by immoderate beauteous large drops of Lego, making up for the spartan quantity. We’ve got a immense summation to the Marvel enactment with the long-rumored, highly anticipated X-Mansion, portion Lego Ideas’ latest merchandise invites you to instrumentality a infinitesimal and odor the roses with a beautifully ornate botanical plot that wouldn’t look retired of spot successful anyone’s modular Lego City collection.
Check retired much images and details below—including immoderate of the bonus sets you tin get with purchases this month!
Lego Marvel The X-Men: X-Mansion
We got a teeny tiny instrumentality to Lego X-Men sets with X-Men ’97‘s X-Jet earlier this year, but present Marvel’s mutants are genuinely backmost successful enactment with this astir 3,100-piece replica of Charles Xavier’s Westchester schoolhouse for talented children. Including a modular plan to swap astir the assorted facilities, from classrooms to Cerebro and the Danger Room (to, of course, Logan’s chamber to recreate the iconic Animated Series meme), the acceptable comes with 12 minifigures—Professor X, Magneto, Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, Bishop, Iceman, Wolverine, Bishop, and Jean Grey—as good arsenic a brick-built sentinel for them to duke it retired with.
($330, disposable here starting 11/1 for Lego Insiders and 11/4 generally)
Lego Ideas Botanical Garden
The latest introduction from Lego’s crowdsourced enactment of community-designed sets isn’t the accustomed Ideas fare of a splashy crossover with different large brand, but instead, thing wholly archetypal and unique: a huge, 3,800-piece botanical garden. Packed with brick-built plants and minifigure gardeners and visitors (12 successful all), the set, designed by Lego instrumentality Valentina Bima, is simply a clever premix of ornate architecture and tiny, elaborate renditions of classical botanical plants. It’d beryllium a cleanable centerpiece for immoderate Lego metropolis display—a bully spot of greenery distant from the gangly buildings and bustling cityscape.
($330, disposable here starting 11/1 for Lego Insiders and 11/4 generally)
November Lego Gift With Purchase Sets
While there’s lone 2 sets (and pricey ones astatine that) releasing truthful acold this month—expect Lego to uncover its accepted Black Friday acceptable driblet with its ain bonus acquisition acceptable soon—buyers tin get a fewer other goodies for purchasing straight done Lego this month. Running done November 11 (or portion banal lasts) is the Ideas Books Are My Passion bonus set, different fan-designed other that tin beryllium earned by spending $130 connected immoderate disposable sets.
The different 2 are circumstantial additions for Lego Insider members buying the large sets of the month: purchases of the X-Mansion tin get a bonus mini-replica of Charles Xavier successful the mutant-tracking Cerebro room, portion purchases of the Botanical Garden get a tiny entranceway gross to adhd to the beforehand of the set. Both volition beryllium disposable portion supplies past oregon done November 7.
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