The best first LEGO set? Pick yourself a brick-built bouquet

LEGO Botanicals designer Theo Bonner explains why brick-built flowers are one of the best places to start for a budding builder.

When the LEGO Botanical Collection started out, it was tucked under the LEGO Icons 18+ banner. Now, it's expanded far beyond that and is often touted as a great place for new LEGO builders to get started.

That's not a coincidence, however, but an intentional consideration from LEGO Botanicals designers like Theo Bonner. Speaking during LEGO Fan Media Days, Theo expanded on how the complexity and the build experience is a crucial consideration for this theme.

"Originally, with the first couple of Botanical sets back when they were part of Icons, we were really treating them as 18+ products," remembered Theo. "On the whole, we have started to steer a little bit towards not simpler but more efficient builds, in terms of making them buildable for newer people.

"At the very least, we realise that, for the people who are building these, this could be their first LEGO set. You do have to take some consideration into that."

Theo remembered this point being driven home most clearly by 10329 Tiny Plants, where a friend told him that they had bought a copy for their five-year-old niece. Having designed the set, Theo knew that might be a demanding ask for a young builder, motivating him to make sure there are brick-built flowers to cater for a wide range of ages and abilities.

"That was my clue that people are really buying these almost at any age, and we need to be conscious of that," he explained. "It's not that we don't put exciting techniques in the sets. I think Botanicals is challenging in a lot of ways, and we need those techniques.

"However, we are thinking about, if this is your first LEGO set, how do we make sure that this is a good experience? There's definitely a lot of repetition in Botanicals sets, so we're often thinking about whether we can break that up. Can we split it into chunks, so you can do it one evening and another evening without feeling like you have to do the whole thing at once? Can we make it a more meditative experience? We consider anything we can do to make that first experience great."

In practice, that might look like grouping pieces and sections according to colour, or using intuitive ways to space out the flowers. While on the face of it, LEGO Botanicals might appear to be fairly straightforward in their designs, the whole experience is carefully thought-out to not only be a good introduction to building LEGO, but also an almost therapeutic experience for those at any stage of their LEGO journey.

If you're looking for a Botanicals LEGO set to get started with or grow your collection, four new LEGO Botanicals sets are set to release in January 2026.

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