The Absolute Best LEGO Sets, According to LEGO Masters (2024)

Lego expert Ben Friedman tells Best Products that this is one of his personal favorites.

This set features over 3,000 pieces, a bi-level treehouse, Lego's signature leaves (a similar style found on the highly sought-after bonsai Lego kit), a working crane, four minifigures, and a bird Lego.

The detail on this lends itself toward older builders, but enthusiasts are known for buying this set to pillage the pieces for their own villages.

Adult and teen brick heads love the architecture series. The White House is really the pinnacle of the line. It's intricately styled, and each detail matches that of the real thing. All you need is a little President Biden and Dr. Biden to finish the 1483-piece set.

This set rarely goes on sale, so get it while you can. It's 25% off which is just huge.

This is a fantastic base set at an unbeatable price. It has 201 pieces, and it features two minifigures, windows, a door, and a little kitchen. For an additional $10, you can purchase a very sleek box from Ikea to store them within, that doubles as a Lego mat.

And though it doesn't come with specific instructions, it does come with a package of inspirational ideas, and a "useful tool" à la Ikea.

So far, the children of the parenting editor have not felt the same need to crawl into a hole and cry building with the Ikea Legos as the editor does when building an Ikea set of drawers.

Another Lego expert who goes by "Brick" Sanchez tells Best Products that his favorite Lego sets are modular buildings like this one. He likes them so much that they are what drove him to show his love for Lego on Instagram and YouTube.

He says that these are wonderful because it's just so easy to start a Lego city using the modular kits. Plus, more are being created all the time, so you'll never be bored once you start.

This set is 790 pieces, including a tow truck, a motorcycle, and eight minifigures, one of which has a baby in a carrier.

The patriarchy — otherwise known as the 9-year-old girls’ brothers —all agreed that their sisters were wrong, and the only Lego set they want right now is this Mandalorian kit, which only two members of the group actually own, but every member is positively drooling over.

Eckhart, 12, says, "It's super hard, like, really hard, but once it's done, it's like, really cool and has Grogu — baby Yoda — for the newbs. Putting it together was really pog. I took a whole bunch of pictures for my Lego Discord server.

"Now, I understood about one in three of those words, but I'm told through translation of the Urban Dictionary that this is all good. Smaller than the treehouse at just about 1,000 pieces, it's a much easier build, geared towards kids 10 and up. It's no wonder it's so popular.

A 9-year-old Lego fanatic who just so happens to be the child of the parenting editor argues that this is the best “quick Lego that’s fun for making Lego movies on your iPad, and is way better than some of the other Friends Legos because even though the old guy is creepy, there’s a juice bike, which you don’t see every day.”

Upon being reminded that she lives in Brooklyn, and therefore could see a juice bike every day, she iterated that she meant "in Legos, Mama."

Cool cool.

That being said, the Lego Friends series has a ton of different sets ranging from hair salons to beach houses to electric cars. They are dynamic and their pieces are interchangeable between scenes, much like the modular kits. They're designed to be ultra simple to put together, but they provide enough room for creative experiment that kids won't feel stymied by the limitations of each set.

This style of set is a favorite of Lego Instagrammer and special education teacher, Jarrod Johnson.

He tells Best Products, “I just think they are super cute builds that capture characters really well in simple ways," and that he loves “the little Easter eggs in a lot of the sets, including how each one has a pink brick for their brain inside their head."

I vote that Grogu is so awesome that he should get two pink bricks. Or at least a frog to go inside of his mouth, right?

Got a dinosaur lover in your family? Then this set, a favorite of the families of the Best Products editorial team, is just the thing. Kids will lose it over the pteranodon and gallimimus dinosaurs, the three minifigures from the series, and the four wheel vehicle. The set is for ages 8 and up, and generally only takes a few hours to put together.

If your child is so inclined, there is a whole series of Jurassic World Lego sets to combine to make a larger model.