Six LEGO sets retiring in 2026 that have a good chance of getting pushed back
Among the laundry list of LEGO sets currently scheduled to retire in 2026 are a handful that stand a fair chance of getting pushed back to 2027 or later, from veteran products to recent releases.
The LEGO retirement schedule is ever-changing, and while the summer line-up looks all but locked in – save for any other last-minute stays of execution next to 10307 Eiffel Tower – the cohort of sets retiring by the end of the year is still a little more susceptible to shift. With that in mind, we’ve picked out six sets that we think stand the best chance of getting pushed back to next year or beyond.
Bear in mind that we’re only speculating here: there’s also a good chance that all of these sets will indeed just retire at the end of 2026, regardless of how long they’ve already been on shelves or how popular they appear to be. You’ll find a full list of when every LEGO set is due to exit production over on our regularly-updated retiring LEGO sets page.
40955 Maersk Dual-Fuel Container Vessel
Price: £139.99 / $149.99 / €149.99 Pieces: 1,516 Release date: Mar 1, 2026
This LEGO Store and LEGO.com exclusive only sailed on to shelves at the beginning of March, but is already slated to retire by the end of 2026. That’s an unusually short shelf life in the grand scheme of things, although not necessarily remarkable for store exclusives – but given the effort put into this relatively niche set, we wouldn’t be surprised to see the LEGO Group and Maersk extend production of 40955 Maersk Dual-Fuel Container Vessel into next year at least.
75397 Jabba’s Sail Barge
Price: £429.99 / $499.99 / €499.99 Pieces: 3,942 Release date: Oct 3, 2024
Four LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series sets are scheduled to retire this year, including 75192 Millennium Falcon and 75382 TIE Interceptor. But our pick for the one to get pushed back is 75397 Jabba’s Sail Barge, not least because it’s currently the only way to get your hands on Jabba the Hutt, and resurrecting that mould from 2013 can’t have been cheap. That said, if he shows up in another set this summer or in 2027, all bets are off.
21323 Grand Piano
Price: £344.99 / $399.99 / €399.99 Pieces: 3,662 Release date: Aug 1, 2020
The oldest LEGO Ideas set still on shelves has been a prime candidate for retirement for a little while now, but that’s exactly why we reckon it might get another extension: 21323 Grand Piano has clearly done far better than anyone could have anticipated, outlasting many more Ideas sets that have come and gone since, and to see it finally retire would at this point be as surprising as its success.
10326 Natural History Museum
Price: £259.99 / $299.99 / €299.99 Pieces: 4,014 Release date: Dec 1, 2023
If 10326 Natural History Museum retires at the end of 2026, only two modular buildings will be left to buy (for the few weeks until 2027’s new addition comes along, anyway). That would admittedly follow the pattern established last year – if one year makes a pattern – when a couple of buildings retired to leave only the museum and 10350 Tudor Corner available until 11371 Shopping Street joined them. But the museum feels like such a landmark entry in this collection that we wouldn’t be shocked to see it continue on into next year…
76968 Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex
Price: £219.99 / $249.99 / €249.99 Pieces: 3,145 Release date: Mar 12, 2025
A new LEGO Jurassic World dino skeleton is on the way this year with 77985 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops, but that just makes it all the more surprising that 76968 Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex – a set that only debuted in the first half of 2025 – is on the way out in 2026. It would give the two sets only a few months’ crossover on shelves, and anyone buying one may be tempted by the other, so the more opportunity for that is surely the better from the LEGO Group’s perspective.
76300 Arkham Asylum
Price: £269.99 / $299.99 / €299.99 Pieces: 2,953 Release date: Sep 9, 2025
Perhaps the biggest surprise retirement of 2026 – if it happens as currently scheduled – is 76300 Arkham Asylum, a long-awaited DC set that only debuted in September 2025. Fifteen months is an awfully short shelf life for any direct-to-consumer set on this level, and especially so for a superhero-themed modular building. It feels like just a matter of time until this one gets an extension, particularly as it’s so frequently on back order in certain regions at LEGO.com.
Are there any other retiring LEGO sets you think might get pushed back to 2027 or beyond? Let us know in the comments. Otherwise, head here for a breakdown of the biggest LEGO sets on the brink of retiring in July…
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