At a special reveal event for the latest LEGO Technic Ultimate Series 1:8 car at Koegnisegg's HQ in Sweden, the company's founding family proved their personal love for brick-built fun.
Ängelholm in Sweden is quite possibly the most beautiful place on planet Earth.
The modestly sized coastal town has it all: beautiful architecture, a vibrant town centre, excellent public transport, perfect infrastructure to encourage cyclists, Nordic beaches, several museums, a large library and even a few ancient Bronze Age burial mounds for those who like to explore the lush woodland.
It’s no surprise that Koenigsegg has chosen this particular spot as its base of operations. For all that the company’s founder, Christian von Koenigsegg, insists that he was the wrong person in the wrong part of the world to get into the luxury car market as a young man, it’s hard to imagine a better place to build any kind of business.
On Tuesday, June 16, 2026, Koenigsegg opened its doors to a small group of journalists and other guests to unveil the latest in LEGO Technic’s Ultimate Car Concept Series (more colloquially known as the ‘Cars You’ll Never Own Collection’). 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear contains 4,104 pieces, 19 of which are new elements, and will retail for £399.99 in the UK, €449.99 in parts of the EU and $449.99 in the US when it launches on July 4, with early access starting from July 1 for LEGO Insiders.
The set is gorgeous, highly detailed, and technically incredibly impressive. While it wasn’t possible to use the current LEGO colour palette to match the most iconic shade of dark brown that is associated with the Sadair’s Spear, the team did work incredibly hard to ensure that the build has a fully-functioning Ghost Mode, the real car’s signature feature.
Lifting up the build’s back portion will cause the entire model to transform as the doors and bonnet also rise upwards and the wing mirrors tilt inwards. It’s possible to fix the back in place to then pose the doors, giving this set many different display options. It also features a complex gearbox, although this is of course not quite as visually striking as seeing the entire car seemingly rise up like the world’s most elegant Transformer.
The new set was accompanied at the event by a life-size recreation of the car. While 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear is rendered in 1:8 scale as is standard for this collection, the LEGO Group likes to take the opportunity to make a 1:1 scale version of these LEGO Technic Ultimate collection cars as well.
As exciting as it was to see both the new set and the 1:1 recreation up close, though, the real stars of the show were the von Koenigsegg family themselves. It was clear that this collaboration with the LEGO Group wasn’t just driven by a desire for better brand recognition or a diverse revenue stream, but from the company owners’ genuine, unabashed love of the LEGO brick.
LEGO press events of this nature come in many forms but some features remain constant: there will typically be a short speech from representatives from both the LEGO Group and whatever brand partner they are collaborating with for a new set.
What is significantly less common is for the IP partner’s company founder and COO to address us personally.
Koenigsegg, as a company, is something else. Yes, it is valued at approximately a billion US dollars, but it is very clearly still a small, family-run enterprise. Upon seeing the factory, this journalist initially mistakenly assumed that Koenigsegg was one of the major employers for Ängelholm. It just so happened that a member of the city’s tourism board was present at the event, and was eager to set the record straight: Koenigsegg, with around 750 employees, is only a tiny part of the local economy.
This is, against all odds, a tight-knit family group that’s squaring up against some of the biggest names in the automotive industry. What’s more, the husband and wife team behind the company were literally hands-on with the design of this new LEGO set.
Right from the start, it was clear that this was going to be a different event. Things kicked off with possibly the most stylish opening remarks in LEGO history: our initial mingling was interrupted suddenly when company COO, Halldora von Koenigsegg, appeared suddenly, holding a microphone, part-way up a large metal staircase. It almost felt like a magic trick or the start of a grand theatrical performance as she beckoned us to gather round and welcomed us to her home.
From there, we were ushered into a side room with a small stage that had been set up to unveil the set and the large 1:1 recreation. We heard briefly from the company founder, Christian von Koenigsegg, as well as the set’s designer, Kasper René Hansen and the team behind the 1:1 Technic car. We were also shown a short video showing off the 1:1 car on a race track – the team were very proud that they’d managed to get the car up to an impressive 111km per hour, making it the fastest life-size LEGO car based on the LEGO Technic Ultimate collection to date.
Then came a roundtable interview – not with the designer behind the set, but with Halldora and Christian von Koenigsegg themselves. Despite having a billion-dollar company to run, the couple at the heart of this empire eagerly sat with journalists all day, fielding questions about their careers, the company, and the work that had gone into the set.
We had been told at the start of the day that Koenigsegg and the LEGO Group had enjoyed a close collaboration on the set, with regular meetings every three weeks to discuss how the design was progressing.
The company heads clarified during this interview that when they said that Koenigsegg had talked with the LEGO Group every two weeks, they meant that they personally had been in attendance for these calls (or certainly as many as was possible around other commitments). Indeed, designer Kaspar later mentioned that when he showed off Ghost Mode for the first time, Halldora hadn’t initially been on the call, but had been quickly called in because her husband was so excited to let her see it.
Halldora made it clear, as well, that this collaboration was something that she had been seeking for years before the LEGO Group finally offered them the chance for a partnership. She had apparently been trying in vain during the company’s early days to convince the LEGO Group to make a set based on one of their cars, simply because the family were such big fans of building LEGO together.
At one point, Christian got out his phone to show us photos of his son’s stop-motion brick films from when he was a child (in an adorable moment, he couldn’t instantly find the photos, so Halldora took his phone off him and found them instead). They painted a vivid picture of a family who adore LEGO, who have many happy moments of playing with it together, who also just happen to be the multi-millionaire owners of a luxury car company.
For anyone looking to purchase and build 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar, it’s worth bearing in mind just how excited the von Koenigsegg family are for this set, and how much love and attention has gone into it, right from the top of the company.
We also had the opportunity to speak with Kasper René Hansen, the set’s designer, who was effervescent with excitement as he talked through the build, the hard work that went into it, and just how thrilled he was to get Ghost Mode working. It’s funny to think that initially, there were no plans to include this feature in the set.
Kasper’s initial brief was to focus on visual fidelity over anything else. Then came the car’s complicated gear box, and then, only at a later stage, did Ghost Mode finally take shape. The team’s work on this is to be commended, as it’s hard to imagine the finished model feeling quite so dynamic and exciting without it.
This is one feature that makes 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar stand out from the rest of the LEGO Technic 1:8 supercar collection, and it’s a very welcome inclusion.
Then came some time to admire the large 1:1 version of the car. Lukáš Horák and Lubor Zelinka from the LEGO Group’s model team were in attendance, both to present the car and discuss its complicated construction with attendees, and they similarly spoke of the passion and commitment that went into building this fully functioning LEGO Technic vehicle.
Finally, at the end of the day, we were given one last treat. As the von Koenigseggs bade us farewell, we all shuffled into a coach which drove us to a nearby airstrip, where we got to watch a brief racing stunt display – zigs and zags, donuts, a lot of flying rubber and smoke and an awful lot of engine revving.
As exciting as this was, though, the aspect of the event that left the strongest lasting impression was the excitement of so many of the people involved in creating 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar. From the designers at the LEGO Group all the way up to the heads of Koenigsegg themselves, this has been a labour of love from start to finish.
There’s something very wholesome about knowing that, at the heart of such a massively successful car company, there’s a family that just loves playing with LEGO together.
LEGO Technic 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear launches July 1 for LEGO Insiders and July 4 for everyone else. All purchases made between July 1 and 6 will also receive 40894 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Steering Wheel for free while stocks last.
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