LEGO Icons 10375 How To Train Your Dragon: Toothless is set for take-off – but will it soar or come crashing down?
How To Train Your Dragon fans were waiting for LEGO Toothless for a long while – but the long-awaited reveal of 10375 How To Train Your Dragon: Toothless came as something of a surprise. Does the chibi style let the set down, or is there value on putting a different design spin on a beloved character? Let's take a look...
10375 How To Train Your Dragon: Toothless
Release: Jul 1, 2025
Retiring: Dec 31, 2028
Price: £59.99 / $69.99 / €69.99
Pieces: 784
Minifigures: 0
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10375 How To Train Your Dragon: Toothless raises some surprisingly far-reaching questions for such a compact set: what do fans want from a licensed set? Is accuracy the same as authenticity? How far can experimenting with new styles take us?
Kicking off quite literally on the face of it, it's impossible to deny that the wide-eyed gaze rendered in chibi style is genuinely adorable in real life. While some poses – like with the jaw wide open or the head too far to one side – end up looking eerie rather than cute, nine times out of 10, you can't help but smile back at this brick-built dragon.
10375 How To Train Your Dragon: Toothless captures the essence of the dragon itself. When you think of the character, you don't think about the length of his legs or the proportions of his wings. You think about his boundless energy, his love for Hiccup, and his verging on overexcitable energy. And those characteristics are perfectly captured in this set.
For long-term fans of How To Train Your Dragon, the lack of a movie-accurate recreation of Toothless himself doesn't mean that it's lacking in references and nods to the source material. His saddle and prosthetic fin are well rendered and proportional to the redefined size of his body and limbs, and the trans-blue fire element is an excellent depiction of his unique flame.
The nods to story beats, like including the fish that helps bond Hiccup and Toothless, adds more depth to 10375 How To Train Your Dragon: Toothless than first meets the eye. It also helps that the fish is one of the most ingenious parts of the build, with the head and tail attached using ball joints for an impressively floppy end result.
When it comes to articulation, there's more movement than some other buildable characters, like 43269 101 Dalmatians, as one example. Only the legs are firmly placed, with the back ones able to turn slightly but not far. The jaw, wings, tail, and neck are all posable, so you can get an impressive amount of different poses from the 784-piece set.
Whether or not you'll like 10375 How To Train Your Dragon: Toothless really comes down to what you're expecting. If you're a fan of the franchise and you want to put some of its heart and soul into a LEGO display, this will scratch that itch for sure. However, if you're looking for a one-to-one recreation of Toothless the dragon, it's not attempting to do that – and it doesn't have to.
The build experience is engaging throughout, from foot to horns. The nods and references to elements of the movies' plots are testament to the fact that it doesn't need to be a direct recreation to be a fun build for fans.
If you can get past possible dashed hopes (an unfortunate by-product of long-running rumours about the LEGO Icons set), 10375 How To Train Your Dragon: Toothless has a lot to offer, both as a LEGO set and as a version of the well-loved dragon.
Our honest opinion: If you want a movie-accurate recreation of Toothless, this isn't the set for you – but it is a commendable and genuinely fun representation of a beloved character.
This LEGO set was provided by the LEGO Group for review purposes.
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