How else could LEGO Speed Champions be celebrating its 10th anniversary?

LEGO Speed Champions turns 10 years old in 2025 but you'd be forgiven for not noticing, considering the lack of official celebrations.

As a theme, LEGO Speed Champions appears to be placing greater emphasis on its partnership with Formula 1 than its 10th anniversary in 2025. At Brick Fanatics, we've been revisiting 10 years of LEGO Speed Champions with various articles – but how could the LEGO Group have celebrated the anniversary?

We've gathered together a few ideas that would have tied together 2025 for LEGO Speed Champions, celebrating 10 years of an iconic theme.

Release a commemorative plaque

Taking a leaf out of LEGO Star Wars' book, any LEGO Speed Champions sets released this year could have been accompanied by a commemorative brick or plaque, to reward fans for their continued support of the theme. Specially printed bricks are a sought-after collectible for many LEGO fans and are often displayed in pride of place.

Looking at LEGO Star Wars, for example, it's a way to highlight sets in your collection as being from part of various anniversary celebrations. Long-term collectors can compare sets and minifigures from the 20th and 25th anniversaries, identified by their accompanying plaques. All in all, it would be a small but rewarding way to take notice of the theme's 10th birthday.

Return to LEGO Speed Champions' roots

Another more concrete way to highlight the growth of the theme would be to release eight-wide versions of LEGO Speed Champions' holy trinity. The term refers to three of the very first sets released all the way back in 2015: 75899 LaFerrari, 75910 Porsche 918 Spyder, and 75909 McLaren P1.

With the change to eight-wide cars in 2020, the theme is neatly divided down the middle – but that also means that long-term collectors of LEGO Speed Champions have some disparities in their collections. The 10th anniversary would have been the perfect opportunity to introduce three iconic cars in the eight-wide style, helping them to look more in line with modern LEGO Speed Champions designs.

Bring back six-wide for select cars

Along the same vein, the LEGO Group could have catered to those who miss the six-wide era of LEGO Speed Champions by releasing a one-off six-stud car. The real question with this idea would be around what car would make the cut for a speciality design, perhaps a fan favourite like 76908 Lamborghini Countach, or a classic Formula 1 car, combining heritage with the theme's far-reaching partnership with Formula 1 this year.

Expand sets beyond the cars

Anniversaries are all about paying tribute to history and one of the well-missed features of LEGO Speed Champions cars is the side builds. Nowadays, sets include one or two cars, complete with a driver for each – but none of the accessories or even buildings that used to feature 10 years ago.

Once again, the Formula 1 partnership would have been the ideal time to return to a more in-depth build, perhaps offering a Speed Champions-scaled pit stop, similar to what we got in the LEGO City theme. Otherwise, sets like the upcoming 77241 2 Fast 2 Furious Honda S2000 could have featured some extra scenery from the movie, like the flag to start street races and a section of road.

Those are just a few ideas that it now seems we're unlikely to see at this stage. Perhaps in another five or 10 years, we'll see a more in-depth celebration for the theme's birthday.

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