16 New LEGO Sets in One Day: The Sep 1 Wave

This is the week the drought broke. After a month in which exactly two sets launched, 1 September brought sixteen at once, with the Batman Returns Batmobile following on the 4th. It is the busiest week of new LEGO in this whole roundup, and the range is unusually wide: a cartoon sponge, a 1960s starship bridge, a haunted mansion, a trainer, and a Formula 1 helmet.

11386 SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom

1,794 pieces, US$219.99 / £189.99 / €209.99. The headline of the wave, and the first SpongeBob LEGO set in fourteen years — the previous theme ended in 2012 with sets like 3818 Bikini Bottom Undersea Party. This one arrives under the Icons banner aimed at adults rather than as a children's play theme, which is a real change in positioning.

You get three buildings: SpongeBob's pineapple with a living room and bedroom, Squidward's Easter Island head with four separate spaces including a rooftop lounge, and Patrick's rock with a detailed interior underneath. A Jellyfish Fields scene, the Bikini Bottom sign, the "Bubbles 25¢" stand and SpongeBob's boat fill in around them. It measures 24 cm tall by 54 cm wide by 13 cm deep — a long, shallow shelf piece rather than something that needs a cabinet.

One detail worth knowing before you buy: despite what some early listings said, there are only three actual minifigures (SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward). Gary the Snail and DoodleBob are brick-built figures, not minifigures. Reviews have been warm on the design — Jay's Brick Blog called it both a display piece and a joyful playset — while noting the price is steep, if better value than some other recent large licensed sets.

11385 Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 Bridge

1,701 pieces, US$199.99 / £159.99, 18+. The piece count is a joke with a straight face: the Enterprise's registry number is NCC-1701. It went on sale 1 September, timed to the 60th anniversary of the original series, having taken pre-orders since 23 July.

The build covers the circular bridge and the transporter room. There are eight minifigures — Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Sulu, Chekov and Christine Chapel — plus four tribbles, which hide in a compartment opened by a Technic button. Spock's science station, Uhura's communications station and the engineering station are all built out individually, and the bridge is modular: sections lift out the way the panels on the 1960s television set did.

The recurring criticism in reviews is that the transporter room feels tacked on, with more than one reviewer speculating it began life as a gift-with-purchase model. If you want the ship rather than the interior, the 2025 U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D is the 3,600-piece alternative.

11383 Mayor Manor

1,420 pieces, US$119.99 / £99.99. This is the first set in a brand-new Midnight Valley Collection, which Brickset read as the start of what will hopefully become an annual Halloween line in the way Winter Village works for Christmas.

It stands about 27 cm tall by 30 cm wide, deliberately tilted and asymmetric, with creeping vegetation and a full interior. Three minifigures come with it — the Mayor, a butler with a tray and teapot, and a maid with a duster — and all three heads glow in the dark, which rather suggests the residents are ghosts. Two details stand out for builders: there are zero stickers, every decorated element being printed, and the Mayor uses the sit-capable dress technique seen previously in Rivendell and Downton Abbey, so he can actually sit down.

Two display pieces: a trainer and a helmet

43026 Nike Air Force 1 (1,093 pieces, US$99.99 / £89.99) is the stranger and more inventive of the pair. The shoe is roughly 35 cm wide, and a dial on the plinth rotates a suspended minifigure through a zero-gravity 360-degree dunk over a brick-built Nike wordmark. The minifigure is the 1978 Classic Space astronaut with a Swoosh-ified planet-and-orbit logo, shipping with two interchangeable heads. Best touch: the side swoosh comes in both metallic and bright red-orange, and you choose.

43024 Ayrton Senna Helmet (931 pieces, US$89.99 / £79.99) is the largest LEGO Editions F1 helmet so far, replicating the yellow-with-green-and-blue design Senna wore in 1988, his first championship season. It uses a new visor mould, and the included Senna minifigure has a torso printed with Senninha, the cartoon character based on him created by Brazilian cartoonist Rogério Martins. Almost everything is printed rather than stickered — the visor is the exception.

The rest of 1 September

76345 Doctor Doom Bust (379 pieces, US$49.99 / £44.99) covers Doom as he appears in Avengers: Doomsday, with a repositionable neck and jaw, foil used for the hood and cape, and a display spot on the pedestal for what is billed as the most detailed Doom minifigure yet.

71053 Minifigures: Shrek Series put twelve collectible characters into sealed mystery boxes at US$4.99 / £3.49 each. Reported characters include Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots, Prince Charming, the Fairy Godmother, Dragon, the Big Bad Wolf, Pinocchio, Gingy, Lord Farquaad and Thelonious. The reception was mixed at best — Brick Fanatics headlined its review "far from All-Star" — with the complaint being that large unique moulds eat the budget that would otherwise go on accessories, and that Shrek's head is oversized against the body. The printing itself drew praise.

Three BrickHeadz arrived the same day, covering three franchises at once:

The 40859 figures are the Golden Age versions of the characters, as drawn in the comics of the 1930s and 40s. Worth flagging on price: £22.99 for the double packs is up from the £19.99 that had been standard, an increase Brick Fanatics called out.

The five 2026 advent calendars also went on sale — a smaller lineup than in previous years:

A genuine caveat on those prices: outlets disagree. Several reported US$34.99 and US$26.99, but those figures look like the euro prices being relabelled as dollars. We have gone with $44.99 and $34.99, which is what the more careful reporting says, but treat them as good rather than certain and check before ordering.

The Star Wars calendar is Mandalorian-themed, with Mando and Moff Gideon minifigures plus Grogu and a pit droid in Christmas outfits and seven mini vehicle builds. The Marvel one has the highest piece count of the five and the best gag in the range: a Christmas tree built out of green Wolverine claws.

Finally, the Build-a-Minifigure towers in LEGO Stores switched to Halloween characters worldwide on the 1st — Frankenstein's Monster with dual-moulded legs and a lightning accessory, a Werewolf Costume Girl reusing a recoloured Series 23 headpiece, and a Zombie Girl.

76355 Batman Returns Batmobile — Insiders on the 1st, everyone on the 4th

2,269 pieces, US$229.99 / £189.99, 18+. The second-largest set of the week, based on the 1992 Tim Burton vehicle. LEGO Insiders could buy it from 1 September; general release followed on the 4th.

The engineering is the selling point. A button releases the side panels and an internal lift-arm mechanism deploys the Batmissile escape vehicle from inside the car — LEGO states this is the first LEGO Batmobile with a transformation function. Three new elements were created for the set, including a new Batman cowl that drapes over the entire minifigure and breaks the standard minifigure silhouette.

The catch, and reviewers have been vocal about it: there is exactly one minifigure. No Catwoman, no Penguin, on a set named after the film they are in. For comparison, the Classic TV Series Batmobile from 2024 runs 1,822 pieces, and 2025's Batman Forever Batmobile is 909 — the Burton car is the biggest of the three.

What to buy from this week

If you want one set: 11383 Mayor Manor is the critical favourite and the cheapest of the big three, and a sticker-free 1,420-piece build at US$119.99 is straightforwardly good value. 11386 Bikini Bottom is the crowd-pleaser and the one people will recognise on your shelf. 11385 is for Star Trek fans specifically — the tribble compartment and the eight-strong bridge crew are the draw, not the transporter room.

The Batmobile is the connoisseur's pick and the one most likely to frustrate: extraordinary mechanism, one minifigure.

How we dated this week. Release dates, piece counts and prices here come from LEGO's own announcements and from Brick Fanatics, Jay's Brick Blog, StoneWars, Toys N Bricks and Brickset, cross-checked between outlets where the date matters. Regional availability and promotion windows change without notice, so treat the dates as the week they were reported rather than a guarantee for your store.