From Star Wars to Harry Potter: five LEGO 2025 sets that look dramatically overpriced

We’ve now seen more than 100 different LEGO 2025 sets, and from Star Wars to Harry Potter, there are a handful that look to be asking an unreasonable amount of money for what you get in return.

The number of LEGO sets dropping in January 2025 is reaching well into triple figures at this point, and while nobody could be expected to collect them all, even picking up one or two of your favourites may introduce your wallet to a new world of pain… at least if they’re among these five.

From Star Wars and Batman to Harry Potter and Marvel, here are five LEGO 2025 sets that at first blush look to be dramatically overpriced for what’s in the box (and even two or three years ago might have been much cheaper).

5 – 76441 Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club

Theme: LEGO Harry Potter Price: £19.99 / $24.99 / €24.99 Pieces: 158 Release date: January 1, 2025

There’s an important question you need to ask yourself going into 2025, and it’s not ‘what’s your new year’s resolution?’ It is, in fact, ‘would you pay £20 for a LEGO table?’ That’s basically what’s on offer in 76441 Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club, another addition to ‘the most detailed LEGO Hogwarts ever’ that’s designed to replace the dining tables in 76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall.

The new Gilderoy Lockhart minifigure is pretty fancy, but otherwise this is a standard minifigure assortment and a tiny, tiny build. For £20…

4 – 76311 Spider-Verse: Miles Morales vs. The Spot

Theme: LEGO Marvel Price: £44.99 / $49.99 / €49.99 Pieces: 375 Release date: January 1, 2025

Look, we all know by this point that price-per-piece is a flawed metric, but even that logic can’t save 76311 Spider-Verse: Miles Morales vs. The Spot from its destiny as a fun but calamitously overpriced LEGO Marvel set. What stings most is that you can’t help but wonder if this might have been £35 or even £30 if it had launched at the same time as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in summer 2023.

Or it might at least have been more substantial for £45 – the convenience store here doesn’t even have a roof.

3 – 10359 Fountain Garden

Theme: LEGO Icons Price: £89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 Pieces: 1,302 Release date: January 1, 2025

Proving it’s not just licensed sets suffering from rapid inflation, 10359 Fountain Garden is a set that in isolation looks relatively poor value for the size of the finished build – again exposing the flaws in looking to price-per-piece, given so many of them here are so small – but looks dramatically worse next to its predecessor 10315 Tranquil Garden, which is set across a much larger footprint (and therefore looks much better value) for only £5 more.

2 – 76303 Batman Tumbler vs. Two-Face & The Joker

Theme: LEGO DC Price: £54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99 Pieces: 429 Release date: January 1, 2025

The last LEGO Dark Knight Tumbler at this scale arrived on shelves in 2021 and retired at the end of 2022, priced at £34.99 for 422 pieces and two minifigures. 76303 Batman Tumbler vs. Two-Face & The Joker tweaks that formula by adding seven pieces, one minifigure, and a blistering £20 / $20 / €20 to the price tag.

Presumably the last one of these sold like gangbusters and the LEGO Group is now trying to cash in on the continued popularity of Nolan’s Batman trilogy with a new Two-Face minifigure. But £55 is still a tall order – and probably out of reach if you do own the last one of these.

1 – 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor

Theme: LEGO Star Wars Price: £39.99 / $44.99 / €44.99 Pieces: 290 Release date: January 1, 2025

Defenders of the LEGO Group’s steady price increases often point to the consequences of inflation, but even that argument crumbles where 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor is concerned. The last standalone LEGO Star Wars Eta-2 Interceptor (Yoda’s smaller ship notwithstanding) was 2020’s 75281 Anakin’s Jedi Interceptor, which retailed for £24.99 for 248 pieces. In today’s money, that’s just over £31.

By contrast, 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor will retail for an eyebrow-raising £39.99 – the only material differences between the two sets being an extra 42 pieces and one more minifigure. £35 already felt like a tough ask for 75388 Jedi Bob’s Starfighter this summer, and an extra fiver on top of that means few people should be buying 75401 Ahsoka’s Jedi Interceptor on day one.

The good news is that you don’t need to buy any of these sets on day one, because they’ll be in production for at least a year if not two years or more. Waiting for a sale is perfectly fine – and if you want to persuade the LEGO Group that these prices really are beyond the pale, then voting with your wallet is probably your best option.

This also isn’t to say that there aren’t fairly-priced LEGO sets coming in January 2025, but more on those soon. For now, you can browse the full list of LEGO 2025 sets by heading here.

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