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Top 5 Trendy & Detailed LEGO Sets Every Netflix-Binging Adult Will Love

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If you love spending your downtime binging on Netflix shows or building LEGO sets for fun, then you’ve reached the right spot. This collection includes five spectacular designs where the world of Netflix meets the haven of LEGO! That’s right, we’ve curated a collection of super fun, detailed, and intricate LEGO collections based on some iconic TV shows and movies. From a LEGO model of the 99th precinct from Brooklyn 99 to an amazing set of the Central Perk Café from Friends – this collection of fantastic LEGO builds is a must-have for the Netflix-binging adults out there.

1. LEGO Brooklyn 99

If I had to pick a comfort show – it would be Brooklyn 99 for me. So you can imagine my excitement when I discovered that LEGO builder Ben Fakhauser has created an amazing build for it! The LEGO model includes the entire 99th precinct, including all the different rooms and characters as well. The build is extremely precise and intricate, consisting of everything – ranging from the bullpen to the printer room, and the captain’s office. Secret details like Holt’s pet corgi Cheddar were integrated as well.

2. LEGO Downtown Abbey Set

LEGO builder BRO3 built a dedicated LEGO set for the historical drama series Downtown Abbey to celebrate the show’s 15th anniversary! This marvelous set displays the old Highclere Castle and is truly detailed. It includes the massive Crawley family, even the butlers and the castle caretakers who are the main cast of the show. The set contains multiple rooms, and 15 minifgures or 16 if you count the dog Pharaoh. It even contains Lady Mary’s bench.

3. LEGO Godzilla

This LEGO version of Godzilla is the first LEGO Godzilla out there, even though there have been ten or more movies already. The build was created by the LEGO lover Matthew Esposito, and it is a small-scale variant of the city-destroying reptile. The LEGO Godzilla is inspired by the ‘King of Monsters’ Godzilla from the 2019 movie. It is a couple of inches tall, equipped with a heavy body and long ass tail. The Godzilla can blow blue flames as well!

4. LEGO Men in Black

Created by the KostyanMan, this custom set of Men in Black depicts the final battle of the first movie in the MIB movie series. It involves MIB agents K and J, driving on a hyperdrive car to the park, to save the world from an evil alien monster! The set includes a diorama with decorations, transforming LTD, the Bug, and some Easter Eggs too. The mini-figures include Agent K, Agent J, Dr.Laurel Weaver, Frank the Pug, and a couple of other characters. J is also holding a baby squid in his arms!

5. LEGO Central Perk

Another LEGO fan created a collectible model of the Central Perk Café to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the iconic show! You can build the legendary TV set, and relive hilarious moments with this detailed building toy. It includes a stage for musical performances, allowing Phoebe to stand tall and sing her legendary songs. The set also includes the iconic seating area, which is removable for easy play. It includes 7 minifigures – Ross, Chandler, Joey, Monica, Phoebe, Rachel, and Gunther!

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Golden Girls get their own fan-made LEGO kit featuring characters Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia

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I’m a 90s kid myself, but the beauty of growing up in the 90s was to see sitcoms building on the success of great comedies of the 70s and 80s. I was raised on Full House, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon, but also on the greats before it – Diff’rent Strokes, Small Wonder, Three’s Company, and Golden Girls. I was raised on these shows because of how mom would watch them on TV, while I hung around in the background, chuckling away at funny moments. Decades later, LEGO sets like these bring back that familiar feeling, as they capture the intricate details of our favorite shows. Designed by Martin_Studio, this fan-made recreation of award-winning show Golden Girls captures the iconic kitchen setting where protagonists Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia tackled important issues like aging and friendship in a way that was both relatable and uplifting.

Designer: Martin_Studio

“The Golden Girls won Emmys and Golden Globes, showcasing its quality and impact on television. The show’s clever writing, exceptional performances, and heartfelt storytelling have left an enduring legacy that continues to delight audiences,” says designer Martin_Studio. “A LEGO set based on the show would not only celebrate its remarkable history but also offer a unique way for fans to engage with it.”

Imagine building the iconic Miami home of Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia with LEGO bricks. This fan-made set offers a detailed recreation of the show’s most recognizable rooms, from the cozy kitchen where countless conversations were shared over cheesecake to the sun-drenched lanai where the girls enjoyed their morning coffee. The minifigures, each with their own distinctive personalities captured through facial expressions and accessories, would allow fans to recreate their favorite scenes or create new adventures entirely.

Beyond the nostalgia factor, a Golden Girls LEGO set offers a delightful building experience for fans of all ages. Although Martin_Studio doesn’t declare how many pieces the set uses, it caters to both casual builders and experienced LEGO enthusiasts. The building process itself is a fun and engaging activity, allowing fans to relive cherished moments from the show while putting their creativity to the test. The kitchen scene even features studio lights on the top, bringing the feeling of being on set down to the small LEGO mini-scale.

The appeal of this potential set extends far beyond just fans of the show too. LEGO is known for its ability to bridge generations through its building sets, and a Golden Girls set could be a wonderful way for families to connect. Parents who grew up watching the show can introduce their children to the characters and themes in a new and interactive way, quite like the Full House LEGO Ideas set we covered just last month. Building the set together can spark conversations about friendship, aging, and the enduring power of laughter.

The LEGO Ideas Golden Girls set is currently a submission on the LEGO Ideas forum, where fans build and share their own creations with the global LEGO community. You can vote for the set on the LEGO Ideas website, and if it hits the 10,000 vote mark, LEGO might turn it into a retail kit for everyone to buy!

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LEGO Coldplay Music Of The Spheres Kit crosses 10,000 votes after being endorsed by the band itself

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Considered to be the biggest band on the planet (with nearly 80 million monthly listeners on Spotify), it’s sort of a shame that Coldplay still hasn’t gotten a LEGO set of its own. Getting your own LEGO set is almost a rite of passage to icon-dom, and we’re at a point where the Brit pop-rock band is well on its way to being immortalized in the brick form. LEGO master-builder MIKEYDENDEN decided to build is own kit based on Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour, featuring the band members, two stages, and even hovering fireworks. With an official nod from Coldplay themselves, the fan-made build cruised past its 10,000 vote mark on the LEGO Ideas forum, and is currently being reviewed by the LEGO internal team. If things go smoothly, Coldplay could have its own official LEGO kit for fans to buy!

Designer: MIKEYDENDEN

I had the privilege of attending the Music of the Spheres tour during its Asian leg, and while the LEGO kit doesn’t even scratch the surface of how grand and awe-inspiring the production was, it’s definitely something. It has its own easter eggs, so to speak, with the presence of a main stage along with a smaller C-stage that the band often takes to in the middle of the show for acoustic covers of their songs. For added flair, you’ve even got fireworks at the top that go off during the songs Fix You, Sky Full of Stars, and right at the end of the show.

Zoom in deeper and the kit has a few more surprises, from butterfly and star confetti, to a colorful piano that Chris plays, ‘Believe In Love’ written on the stage backdrop, and Chris in his signature ‘Everyone Is An Alien Somewhere’ tee shirt.

The set obviously also has the usual suspects – band members Chris Martin, Will Champion, Guy Berryman, and Jonny Buckland all with their signature instruments. The only thing really missing here is the B-Stage, which extends off the main stage, connected through a ramp. The B-Stage is arguably where most of the action happens, as Chris performs on it, sometimes solo, and at other times with his crewmates. Given it’s the Music of the Spheres, it would also make sense to have some of the floating spheres that get thrown into the audience during the show! Maybe the redesign post LEGO’s internal review will feature these details.

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Mario Kart™ comes to LEGO® with six super sets to arrive in 2025

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The Mario Kart series is probably the most played series on Nintendo Switch. Aside from the games itself, we’ve seen several toys and tie-ins, the most recent being the appearance of characters in the Super Mario Bros Movie last year. Fans of the Mario Kart series and collectors of LEGO® sets will have something to look forward to next year as not one but six LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ sets will be available in 2025.

Designer: LEGO®

The addition of LEGO® versions of beloved characters in the Mario Kart universe brings a new dimension to an already popular franchise. Aside from the characters, you also get customizable karts and unique track items in each set so that collectors, fans, and builders will be able to experience the digital game in the physical universe, even though of course you won’t be able to actually race. At least, not like in the games.

The Yoshi Bike set includes the light-blue Yoshi, a shell item, and a brick-built bike and is made up of 133 pieces. The Standard Kart is a 174-piece set which has a buildable standard edition Mario Kart, a workstation, a Toad toy figure and a detachable Super Glider. The Donkey Kong & DK Jumbo set features the DK Jumbo kart and launch items like shells and a banana and has 387+ pieces.

Baby Mario vs Baby Luigi has 321 pieces and features the former in his Biddybuggy and the latter in his Tri-Speeder and includes 6 buildable balloons. The 390-piece Toad’s Garage has two Blue Toads (Pit Crew) getting the B Dasher kart ready. Lastly, the Baby Peach & Grand Prix set features Baby Peach in the Wild Wiggler kart, Lemmy in the Landship kart, and Toad on the standard bike. This comes with a whopping 823 pieces, making it the set with the most pieces.

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Someone Made A Deadpool & Wolverine LEGO Set in 2022 And We’re Only Discovering It Now…

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Popular LEGO stop-motion animator Hachiroku24 gave us a taste of Deadpool & Wolverine two full years before the real deal. Even though the final movie was star-studded with more cameos than we could possibly hope for, Hachiroku24’s LEGO build is no less, featuring a fight scene between Logan and the merc within the hallways of X-Mansion, with Prof. X, Cyclops, and Storm in the background watching with what I can only assume is a sense of despair as the two immortals absolutely trash the mansion.

Designer: Hachiroku24

Given that the diorama was created two full years before the movie, a lot is left to Hachiroku24’s imagination… and with good reason – the LEGO scene fun, chaotic, and captures a slow-motion build-up of the two superheroes going at each other’s throats – something we all expected early on. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s because of Deadpool either being outright obnoxious or flirting with Storm. Wolverine has his claws out, lunging towards a suited Wade Wilson, who has his non-golden pistoleros pointed in obvious self defense.

The rest of the scene is literal chaos. Furniture broken, curtains and decor knocked over, a marble bust on the floor along with a croissant and a mug of coffee. Meanwhile, rather than intervening, Xavier, Cyclops, and Storm just stand aside and let the two supes go at each other’s throats, knowing that Logan’s temper and Deadpool’s incessant blabbermouthery cannot be controlled.

Although LEGO won’t sell this set, the fact that Hachiroku24 built it on his own means it’s technically possible to source the parts required to put this diorama together. If you’re reading this, Hachiroku24, we’re waiting for you to drop a DIY video on YouTube!

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Popular Sitcom Full House gets its own LEGO Ideas Kit with a minifigure Tanner Family

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A LEGO set that instantly has you saying “Have mercy!”

Kids of the 80s and 90s practically grew up in the Tanner household. Whether it was being charmed by Uncle Jessie’s killer personality, humored by Uncle Joey’s quips, or just feeling the warmth of single dad Danny Tanner’s approach to parenting, the Tanner house felt like home to all of us. LEGO builder obiblock considers himself one of those kids, having religiously followed the sitcom Full House through his young years. As an homage to the TV show, obiblock recreated the Tanner home in stunning detail out of LEGO bricks. The LEGO Ideas Full House set comes with a detailed model of the home’s living room and kitchen – the most iconic and memorable rooms on the set – complete with furniture, decor, tiny details like paintings, and minifigures of all the main characters, including Danny, Uncle Jesse, Uncle Joey, D.J., Stephanie, Michelle, and Aunt Becky. Sorry, but Kimmy Gibbler didn’t make it on the list!

Designer: obiblock

“I built this set out of my love for Full House and its significant impact on pop culture,” says designer obiblock. “The show has a special place in the hearts of millions, offering timeless family values and memorable humor. As a lifelong LEGO enthusiast, I wanted to merge my passion for building with my appreciation for this iconic series. Recreating the Tanner home allowed me to relive the nostalgia and share it with other fans, both of the show and LEGO.”

Although obiblock doesn’t mention how many pieces make the set, it does contain a fair amount of detail, down to the plants on the kitchen window, and even the front and back door. The set features the very nucleus of the home – the living room, with its signature couch, fireplace, and the staircase behind that leads to everyone’s individual bedrooms. A door to the right guides you to the kitchen, with the coffee table, kitchen island, and the backdoor through which Kimmy would often make her entrance every few episodes.

Even the characters on the show are represented beautifully. Danny and his 3 daughters can be found in the kitchen (Michelle has her own stuffed teddy too), along with Uncle Joey. Meanwhile, Uncle Jesse is spotted on the living room couch, wooing Aunt Becky with dulcet tunes on the guitar. The characters can obviously be moved around, recreating different scenes from the popular sitcom.

obiblock’s MOC (My Own Creation) can currently be found on the LEGO Ideas forum, where fans submit their own ideas for new LEGO creations and kits. Just shy of 2,000 votes, the LEGO Ideas Full House kit is well on its way to hitting the coveted 10,000 vote mark, following which it may just get turned into a retail kit for all Full House fans to buy and proudly put on display!

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The Nightmare Before Christmas LEGO® set coming in time for Halloween and Christmas

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Christmas is just around the corner (well, at least here where we start celebrating as soon as the -ber months come in) and before that, Halloween first, for those who celebrate. Those who want to combine the two holidays are probably fans of the classic Tim Burton movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas. And if you’re one of those, then you will want to save up money for this LEGO® Ideas set.

Designer: LEGO®

The LEGO® diorama kit you never knew you needed will soon be available for the fans of the famous stop-motion animated musical fantasy film that came out in 1993 (so yes, that’s considered a classic now). The set includes 3 iconic locations from the movie – Spiral Hill, Jack Skellington’s house (that’s the main character if you haven’t watched it), and the Halloween Town Hall.

Each of the diorama models features “authentic” details like the walking bathub, a chalkboard containing Jack’s formula for Christmas, the lectern at the Town Hall, among other things. The set also includes 8 character minifigs: Jack Skellington, Sally, Santa Clause, Lock, Shock and Barrel, Zero the Dog, and a brick-built The Mayor with two faces. The LEGO Builder app also has some 3D viewing tools based on the set and the movie.

There are 2,193 pieces in the Nightmare Before Christmas set so this is something you might want to keep away from young children who might lose some of the pieces. And with its $200 price tag, you probably want to keep it for the grown-ups.

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Bob Ross gets his own LEGO Ideas Kit with a foldable Miniature Art Gallery

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Designed by LEGO-builder Bricknificent, the “Bob Ross: Studio & Paintings” kit perfectly immortalizes painter and art-instructor Bob Ross, known for his calming, almost meditative painting videos. The fan-made LEGO set contains Ross himself as a minifigure, within his own recording studio attached to an art gallery. The gallery, which folds open or shut, contains 6 of Bob Ross’ most prolific artworks, all made from a total of 1,234 LEGO bricks.

Designer: Bricknificent

“As a nature lover who likes to draw and paint, Bob Ross is truly an inspiration. I admire his passion, reassuring voice, and limited selection of tools and colors. With this in mind, I created the ultimate Bob Ross experience in LEGO,” says Bricknificent, the creator behind the LEGO Ideas Bob Ross kit. The kit is more than merely Ross’ studio, or his paintings. Instead, it’s practically a diorama of sorts, capturing the television setup that Ross used to film his painting sequences for his show, The Joy of Painting, along with his great works.

The studio set comes with a foldable design that can either be fanned out to display the entire collection in one go, or folded together to make a closed-loop gallery that forms a shape of the heart. The top of the heart, where the upper curves intersect, is where Bob’s studio is located, complete with studio lights, a camera, and a director filming Bob painting away. You’ve got a black curtain backdrop, and art supplies in the corner, capturing the entire recording setup’s nitty-gritty details… including even Peapod, a pet squirrel that featured in his episodes.

Move away from the setup and you’re greeted with 6 of Bob’s most prolific works – Mountain Retreat, Misty Waterfall, Winter Night, Campfire, Sunset, and Winter Solitude. Known for his unconventional approach to painting that broke down the process into simple, easy-to-follow lifehacks, Ross helped millions of people pick up a paintbrush and make actual, close-to-realistic landscape art. The LEGO Ideas set captures six such landscapes across various terrains.

6 of Ross’ most famous paintings use unconventional bricks from existing LEGO sets, like ice-cream scoops for waterfalls, and baby bottles as paint-tubes.

The entire set comes made from 1,234 bricks, ranking fairly on the easier end of the LEGO difficulty spectrum. Sadly, the set is just a fan-made creation for now… however, with nearly 2,500 votes as of writing this article, it’s racking up immense support on the LEGO Ideas website, where enthusiasts go to vote for their favorite fan creations or MOCs (My Own Creation). If Bricknificent’s MOC reaches the 10,000 mark, there’s a chance LEGO may turn it into a retail box set, so go ahead and cast your vote for this gorgeous kit on the LEGO Ideas website!

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Fan-made LEGO Technics Turntable features rotating disc, movable tonearm, and sliding faders

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Short of actually playing music, this Technics SL-1200 MK2 turntable made from LEGO bricks is as near the real deal as it could possibly get.

With a build of over 2,000 pieces, the LEGO build pays tribute to the SL-1200 MK2, an iconic turntable from 1979 that became the club standard for all disc jockeys in the day, helping pioneer the scratching trend and even allegedly being the technical epicenter of movements like disco and house music genres. The submission comes from the mind of LEGO builder Tamás Borján, aka Tomasso Builds, who created the design from scratch, building it smaller than scale but exactly the perfect size to fit a 7-inch vinyl disc.

Designer: Tamás Borján (Tomasso Builds)

Tomasso’s SL-1200 MK2 may look undoubtedly brickish, but it’s as detailed as they come, with buttons, faders, settings, a weighted tonearm, rotating discs, and even a motor on the inside to power the entire experience. The built-in motor drives the turntable, which you can also spin manually to ‘scratch’ the disc, and Start and Stop buttons toggle the motor. The tonearm has adjustable weights and an anti-skating knob, and right under it is a pitch slider that deejays famously use to mix songs with different pitches or scales. Right beside the Start/Stop buttons is also a toggle switch to let you alternate between 33RPM and 45RPM speeds.

The movable parts and rotating turntable really make this build more than a sum of its bricks. The entire piece contains 2,215 LEGO bricks, which may sound like much, but a lot of the bricks go into building the turntable’s flat surfaces like the outer housing and the upper disc. A motor on the inside controls the disc’s rotation, and runs on a battery that also sits under the hood, giving you an overall LEGO kit that’s wireless and can be placed as a collectible anywhere around the house. We recommend keeping a few 7-inch vinyls nearby too to complete the look!

This isn’t the first LEGO turntable we’ve seen, though. Back in 2023, someone built a highly detailed version of the Pioneer CDJ 2000 that featured actual controls, a rotating disc, a dynamic display, and even a USB stick. Spiritually, however, the SL-1200 MK2 has a good 2 decades on the CDJ, given the fact that it absolutely dominated the 70s and 80s.

Tomasso’s build is currently a submission on the LEGO Ideas website – an online forum where LEGO builders and enthusiasts share their own creations and accept votes from the larger LEGO community. Entries that cross the 10,000 vote mark eventually get reviewed by LEGO’s own internal team and turned into box kits that us commonfolk can then buy. Tomasso’s submission is picking up votes at a surprising speed, having just crossed the 800-vote mark as of writing this piece. If you want to see an SL-1200 MK2 LEGO kit in the future, head down to the LEGO Ideas website and cast a vote for this fan-made build!

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LEGO® Technic™ NASA model set brings the Lunar Rovel Module to your table

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While LEGO® sets were probably originally built for kids to enjoy, most of the people I know who play with these patented bricks and sets are grownups. Granted, these are adults who were somehow “deprived” of owning some of these pretty expensive sets, it’s just one of those toys that can be enjoyed by children and adults of all ages. There are sets however that are especially built for grown-ups as they are pretty detailed and contain a lot of intricate and authentic parts.

Designer: Lego

This new LEGO® set they’re releasing in particular is meant for adults and will appeal to those who are into space travel. The LEGO® Technic™ NASA model set includes a displayable model version of the Lunar Rover Module that was aboard the historic Apollo 17 mission back in 1972. It also includes 3 attachable equipment sets that includes a lot of authentic details. Basically, this LEGO® set is for the big boys and girls who are very much interested in outer space and everything NASA.

If you are a frustrated (or aspiring) astronaut, you can test out some of the steering and suspension included in the set and play around with equipment like the model battery pack (with its heating and cooling elements), a TV camera with antennae, communications unit, and even a shovel and drill so you can pretend to find LEGO® Moon rock elements. There’s even a Traverse Gravimeter Experiment that was carried by the Apollo 17 during NASA’s very last Apollo mission.

Aside from the enjoyment of building this LEGO® set, you will also get a deeper insight in the Apollo missions (if you didn’t already know everything there is to know about it). The young ones may need adult assistance for this as there are a lot of detailed equipment with this and it’s a hefty 1,913-piece set.

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