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LEGO retirement report 2026

Every year LEGO retires hundreds of sets from its official range, and that date — not the hype — is the only thing that really marks when a set stops being at store price. At LastChanceBricks we capture the official retirement date of each set and bring it together here: how many leave in 2026, in which months they cluster and which themes take the biggest hit. These are facts observed in our database, not estimates. You won’t see an “estimated value” or promises of appreciation: pricing sets without real sales is smoke, and it’s not what we do here.

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512

sets retire in 2026

364

still to retire (as of today)

148

already retired this year

321,895

pieces leave the range

When retirements cluster in 2026

The month with the most exits is December (360 sets). Retirements aren’t spread evenly: it’s worth looking at the month before deciding what to wait for.

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
2
May
3
Jun
16
Jul
125
Aug
2
Sep
Oct
3
Nov
1
Dec
360

Which themes lose the most sets

Breakdown of the 512 retirements of 2026 by official theme. Each theme links to its live list of sets.

Star Wars 35 LEGO® Technic 32 Friends New 30 City 28 Marvel superheroes 26 Ninjago 26 Disney 24 LEGO® Other 22 Harry Potter 19 LEGO® Icons 19 Duplo 18 LEGO Super Mario 18 BrickHeadz 15 Minecraft 15 Creator 14 LEGO Ideas 14

The biggest sets retiring in 2026

Sorted by piece count — the objective figure, not a market rating. The date is the official retirement captured on its page.

Set Theme Pieces Official retirement
Millennium Falcon™ · 75192 Star Wars 7,541 December 31, 2026
Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser™ · 75367 Star Wars 5,374 December 31, 2026
Gringotts™ Wizarding Bank – Collectors' Edition · 76417 Harry Potter 4,801 July 31, 2026
River Steamboat · 21356 LEGO Ideas 4,090 December 31, 2026
Natural History Museum · 10326 LEGO® Icons 4,014 December 31, 2026
Jabba's Sail Barge™ · 75397 Star Wars 3,943 December 31, 2026
The Botanical Garden · 21353 LEGO Ideas 3,792 December 31, 2026
Ferrari Daytona SP3 · 42143 LEGO® Technic 3,778 July 31, 2026
Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon's Tale · 21348 LEGO Ideas 3,745 July 31, 2026
Grand Piano · 21323 LEGO Ideas 3,662 December 31, 2026
NASA Artemis Space Launch System · 10341 LEGO® Icons 3,601 December 31, 2026
Tournament Temple City · 71814 Ninjago 3,489 December 31, 2026

How we counted this

We count each set with an official retirement date within 2026 recorded in our database, filtering out merchandise and promotional polybags without a useful page. “Pieces” is LEGO’s official count; the themes are the official taxonomy. We don’t apply any price, appreciation or probability model: if we haven’t observed it, we don’t publish it. You can rebuild these figures from the list of sets retiring and the archive of retired sets. More detail in our methodology.

Data from LastChanceBricks · retirement dates can move; each set page shows the latest one observed.

Does it help you decide? Start with how to decide what to buy first before it retires, look at the genuine deals today or compare pairs in the head-to-head comparisons.