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LEGO Technic H1 2026 | Set Previews

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It’s just a few weeks ’til Christmas
And all through LEGO’s HQ
Our Elves have been stealing
Next year’s sets to preview!

Yes it’s time to preview the 2026 LEGO Technic sets, and we have nine brand new vehicles to bring to you! Plus one already previewed that really annoyed us. So is the rest of the H1 2026 Technic range any better? Let’s find out…

42218 John Deere 1470H Wheeled Harvester

The 2026 Technic range kicks off with this, the 42218 John Deere 1470H Wheeled Harvester. With just over a hundred pieces 42218 is about as small as Technic sets get, and yet it looks to be rather a good one. Pivoted ‘steering’, mechanical worm-gear boom elevation, and a simple grab mechanism feature, as does John Deere licensing that probably wasn’t really necessary at this scale but is nice nonetheless. Aimed at ages 7+ 42218 will cost pocket-money when it arrives next year and we rather like it.

42225 Yellow Motorbike

A refreshingly simple title from LEGO for a refreshingly simple set, this is the new 42225 Yellow Motorbike. Constructed from 151 pieces, 42225 features steering, a working chain-driven inline-triple piston engine, and zero licensing or stickers. It’s like mid-’00s Technic never went away. A decent pocket-money starter set.

42219 Monster Jam Grave Digger Fire and Ice & 42220 Monster Jam Sparkle Smash

It’s time for the obligatory Pull-Backs, and LEGO have certainly found a sweet-spot with the Monster Jam series. We’d have thought they would have run out of Monster Jam trucks by now but no, two more join the line-up for ’26. And one’s pink!

Aimed at ages 7+ 42219 Monster Jam Grave Digger Fire and Ice & 42220 Monster Jam Sparkle Smash bring around 150 pieces each, an array of colourful stickerage, and – in the case of the sparkly pink unicorn – may well be bought by a few adults for the pink and purple parts alone.

42221 NASA Artemis SLS Heavy Lift Rocket

LEGO Technic Space is back! After the surprise Space range of 2024, LEGO have decided to bring a real-world rocket to the Technic line-up. This is the brand new 42221 NASA Artemis SLS Heavy Lift Rocket.

Constructed from 632 pieces the new 9+ model offers a very unusual feature set (which makes sense as rockets don’t really have any moving parts to replicate). Hidden within its base, 42221 includes a tightly packed set of gears and a crank handle that allows the NASA Artemis to blast-off via the mother of all corkscrews, with the booster rockets separating as it does so.

Original and rather ingenious, expect 42221 to cost around $60/£50 when it’s cleared for launch in 2026.

42222 Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport

There have been a myriad of officially licensed Bugatti LEGO sets over the years, echoing the myriad of special edition real-world Bugattis. This is the latest, the 771-piece 42222 Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport Hypercar with functioning steering, a working W16 piston engine, opening doors and hood, a few choice stickers, and a continuation of the tie-in with the ‘Asphalt Legends’ video game that we still don’t understand.

Aimed at ages 9+ and arriving in stores next year for around $65/£60, 42222 makes the previously revealed 793-piece 42223 1966 Ford GT40 MkII Race Car‘s ’18+’ marketing look even more cynical…

42224 Porsche 911 GT3 R REXY AO Racing

Now we’re moving up a gear. This is the brand new 42224 Porsche 911 GT3 R REXY AO Racing Race Car. Dual-licensed by both Porsche and REXY AO Racing, 42224 recreates one of GT3’s most strikingly liveried racers in Technic form, and brings a whole lotta green to the 2026 line-up. And stickers. A lot of stickers.

42224 is a racing car though, so they’re rather appropriate here, and the model includes a suite of working functions to ensure it’s not simply a display piece. All-wheel suspension, working steering, a flat-6 engine (with the correct firing order), opening doors and front truck, plus functioning mechanically-operated ‘air’ jacks feature, as do a few new parts including transparent oval headlights.

With 1,313 pieces and an age of 11+, expect a price-tag around $140/£130 when 42224 races into stores in 2026.

42226 BMW M4 GT3 EVO

Next to join the 2026 Technic range is another GT3 racer, although whilst this one keeps the 11+ age of the 42224 Porsche 911 GT3 above, it drops the parts-count and scale back to that of the 42222 Bugatti. There must be some trickier building techniques at play…

The new 42226 BMW M4 GT3 EVO doesn’t seem to offer any more complexity than the other mid-size sets joining the 2026 Technic range though, with just shy of 750 pieces, working steering, opening doors, and a piston engine. It also looks every bit as hideous as its real-world counterpart, despite the stickers doing their best.

A few parts appear in new colours, the model ties-in with the ‘Asphalt Legends’ video game as per the Bugatti, and you’ll be able to get your hands on 42226 for around $65/£60 when it arrives in stores next year.

42227 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon

Wait, wasn’t this yellow? There was indeed a yellow Technic Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, but the new 42227 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon adds 10% more parts to its 2022 predecessor and 100% more turquoise. It also adds a working engine, whilst retaining its predecessor’s working steering, pendular suspension, and – perhaps our favourite detail of a Technic model ever – a rubber duck (Google it).

With many parts making their debut in turquoise we suspect 42227 will be rather sought after when it lands in 2026, and it’s probably our pick of the line-up too. Expect to pay £55/$60 and to see this on the dashboard of many a real Wrangler Rubicon – alongside a rubber duck – by this time next year.

Aerial Platform

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This is a Volvo FM Angloco Aerial Platform, or ‘massive fire truck’ to most of us. Based on the real aerial platforms in service in the UK, this terrific Technic example comes from MCD of Eurobricks, who has not only recreated the exterior and British livery beautifully, his model works too, thanks to a motorised main boom, mechanical support legs, working steering, and a suite of Game of Bricks LED lights.

There’s more to see at the Eurobricks forum, where MCD has published his Volvo Aerial Platform alongside a more conventional Scania P280 fire truck also outfitted by Angloco, and you can call the fire brigade via the link above.

Having a Tug

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We’ve having a tug today, courtesy of regular bloggee Thirdwigg and this neat all-mechanical harbour tug boat. Rarely built in Technic form, Thirdwigg’s ship features ‘HOG’ steering and twin winch control via the cogs atop the pilot-house, and he’s released free building instructions too. Give your self a tug at both Flickr and Eurobricks, where full details and the instructional link can be found.

My Other Car’s a Bronco

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Is your new Ford Bronco too big to get to the really cool off-road places? Then you need to switch it for an ATV, thanks to TLCB Master MOCer thirdwigg!

Constructed only from the parts of the official LEGO Technic 42213 Ford Bronco set, thirdwigg’s ATV (or ‘quad bike’ in TLCB’s home nation) alternate features working steering, pendular suspension front and rear, plus a W6 piston engine, and with building instructions available you can create it for yourself too.

There’s more to see including that link to instructions at thirdwigg’s ‘42213 ATV’ album, and you can jump to a trail somewhere cool via the link above, or alternatively click here if you want to downsize your Bronco, but not quite this much…

LEGO Technic 42223 1966 Ford GT40 MKII Race Car | Set Preview

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It’s that time of year again, when a crack team of Elven ‘Volunteers’ are fired over The LEGO Company’s perimeter wall by way of the office catapult, tasked with uncovering the newest LEGO sets due to hit shelves next year.

We’ll report their finds for 2026 in the coming weeks, but we have one 2026 Technic set to share ahead of the main event today. This is the brand new LEGO Technic 42223 1966 Ford GT40 MKII Race Car!

Bringing one of America’s* greatest ever race cars into the Technic line-up, 42223 recreates the car that finished 1, 2, 3 at the 1966 Daytona 24 Hours, Sebring 12 Hours, and Le Mans 24 Hours sixty years ago, becoming an all-time legend in the process.

The new LEGO Technic 42223 Ford GT40 captures the exterior of the all-conquering ’66 MkII variant with a range of pieces appearing in new colours – including those gold wheels – plus an array of decently-authentic looking decals adding the side and centre stripes, roundels and seat details.

793 parts make up the new 42223 GT40 in all, with the set featuring the default working engine (a miniaturised V8), working steering, and the opening doors and engine cover expected as a minimum at this scale, and no more.

Except 42223 does have one unexpected variance from the mid-size Technic vehicles that have preceded it… An 18+ age and £65 / $75 price tag.

No, that isn’t a typo. Despite being constructed from under 800 pieces, and with no more working features than any other mid-size Technic vehicle, LEGO have somehow determined that 42223 requires a brain eighteen years or older to complete it, and thus it carries a price to match.

Which is – and there’s no other way to put this – a marketing scam.

We’re admittedly idiots here at The Lego Car Blog, but we don’t like LEGO treating its customers as such. The brand new 42223 Ford GT40 MkII Race Car might bring one of greatest cars of the 1960s to the Technic range, but the cynical, unscrupulous, and exploitative marketing that accompanies it is definitely from 2026.

At £55 / $65 and an age of 12+, 42223 could have been a strong set. As it is, this GT40 should have stayed in ‘66.

*Except it was British. Ford are no strangers to marketing scams either…

My Other Car’s a Bronco

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By American standards Ford’s new Bronco isn’t particularly large. But as this writer is not American, it still looks pretty massive. Which means this is much more to his liking, Suzuki’s diminutive Samurai.

Constructed only from the parts found within the LEGO Technic 42213 Ford Bronco set, damjan97PL / damianPLE shrinks the fat Ford into a rather smaller off-road alternative, complete with opening doors and hood, working steering and suspension, and a three-cylinder engine.

There’s more to see at both Eurobricks and Bricksafe, and you can put your Bronco on a B-Model diet via the links above.

My Other Car’s Also a Ferrari

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It’s been two decades since the Ferrari Enzo, and two since an official LEGO set depicting it. Cue nopingrid of Eurobricks, who has recreated Ferrari’s iconic early-’00s hypercar from the parts of one of their newest, the Technic 42212 Ferrari FXX K. Using 85% of the FXX K’s 900 pieces, nopingrid’s Enzo includes working steering, a V12 engine, plus opening butterfly doors, and we think it looks rather better than the donor set. Building instructions are available and you can find out more at the Eurobricks forum via the link above.

Paint it Black

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This splendid creation is a Porsche 911 (964) Turbo, and it isn’t quite possible to build in black. But is is possible to build it in red, which is why we’ve pictured a black one here obviously.

Designed by previous bloggee ArtemyZotov, this fantastic 1:12 recreation of the early-’90s 911 features opening doors, front trunk and engine cover, a fully removable body, working steering, independent suspension, and a detailed flat-6 engine.

Artemy has produced building instructions too, so you can recreate this outstanding model for yourself, although only in red. Which is fine by us at it looks the business in red.

Artemy didn’t have all the red pieces for his design, hence the black build with a few (cough) clone parts, however you can see what the 911 looks like rendered in red at the Eurobricks forum, plus you can find the full gallery of the black brick-built version you see here at Bricksafe.

Take a look via the links in the text above and perhaps create Artemy’s brilliant 911 Turbo for yourself. In red of course.

*Today’s title song.

Roman Roads

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This magnificent vehicle is an AM5 crane, mounted atop a Roman SR113/114 truck, and it comes from Pufarine of Flickr.

Beautifully recreating the real Romanian truck and crane combo, Pufarine’s model harks back to LEGO’s vintage Model Team line whilst incorporating a range of mechanical Technic features within.

The truck features working steering, deployable stabiliser legs, and a wonderfully detailed engine under a raising hood, whilst the huge intricately constructed lattice crane can slew and raise, with a superbly replicated winch system controlled via neatly hidden cogs at the rear.

There’s much more of Pufarine’s fantastically presented model to see at their ‘AM5’ album on Flickr, and you can take a closer look at this exquisite creation via the link to it in the text above.

Ford + Volvo =

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Back in the ’00s the answer to that question would probably have been a Jaguar, but Ford’s ‘Premier Automotive Group’ is long since dead, with the brands held within it now mercifully free from its yolk.

So whilst a Ford crossed with a Volvo did often equal a Jaguar, today we have something far more unique.

Constructed from the parts found within both the 42213 Ford Bronco and 42209 Volvo Electric Wheel-Loader sets, this terrific Technic tractor deploys two sets’ worth of pieces to pack in the functionality.

There’s a working engine, functional steering, opening doors and hood, a self-levelling front-loader, a two-speed power-take-off with neutral, and a three-point elevating rear hitch.

It’s all the work of mirrorbricks, who will release building instructions for this B-Model shortly, and there’s more of this excellent alternate to see at the Eurobricks forum in the meantime. Merge your Bronco with a Volvo via the link in the text above.

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Casagrande Crawler

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This is a Casagrande C400XP2 hydraulic crawler, a machine built to, um… hydraulically crawl. OK, full disclosure, we don’t really know what it’s for, but it looks the business.

Powered by nine motors, this remarkable Technic replica of the C400XP2 comes from Aleh, and features subtractor tracked drive, a rotating superstructure, a multi-stage winch and boom, and a motorised 6-cylinder engine.

Even cleverer, all nine motors (even those driving the tracks) are fitted within the rotating superstructure, and with internal renders and building instructions available you can find out how it’s done.

There’s much more to see at Aleh’s Bricksafe folder and via the Eurobricks forum, and you can hydraulically crawl you way there via the links above.

Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R Nismo Z-Tune | Picture Special

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That’s quite a title. But then this is quite a car.

Created in 2005, the Skyline GT-R (R34) Z-Tune is a factory restomod of sorts, borne via Nissan’s motorsports arm Nismo who bought nineteen lightly used GT-Rs, returned them to factory, and outfitted them with 500bhp GT500 drivetrains.

The result was the most special version of an already special car (which feels a bit weird to say looking at the crap Nissan make today), and one we’re unlikely to ever see, let alone drive.

Today though, we can all have a bit of Nissan at their absolute pinnacle, courtesy of newcomer Grigoriy and his spectacular Technic recreation of the ultimate R34 GT-R.

Blending Technic and Model Team to perfection, Grigoriy’s Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R Nismo Z-Tune is one of of the most visually brilliant Technic creations this site has ever featured, and includes four-wheel-steering, independent suspension, opening hood, doors, and trunk, and a superbly detailed interior and engine.

A complete parts list and building instructions are available – meaning you can build Grigoriy’s R34 GT-R Z-Tune for yourself – and you can find these along with the model discussion at the Eurobricks forum, plus you can check out LEGO’s own official Nissan Skyline R34 Skyline set by clicking on these words.

Tractors in Space

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LEGO surprised us all in 2024 with the shock arrival of the Technic Space line, becoming the mash-up we never knew we needed. Flickr’s Tung Pham has taken his terrestrial Technic into space too, converting the 42136 and 42157 John Deere sets into vehicles rather more other-worldly. Tung’s speeder, floating front-loader, and maintenance mech alternates each requisition the pieces from their donor sets and include both mechanical and pneumatic functions. There’s more to see – including a link to building instructions – on Flickr, and you can click here to take your tractors into space.

Common Hooker

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This is an Isuzu NPR, and they are everywhere. Box trucks, tipper trucks, recovery trucks, chiller trucks, cherrypickers, and – today – hook-lifts. This excellent Technic version of the ubiquitous NPR comes from TLCB Master MOCer Thirdwigg, and not only features a working hook-lift mechanism but a host of other hand-operated functions too, including an inline-4 engine under a tilting cab, ‘HOG’ steering, and opening doors and tailgate.

Building instructions are available should you wish to create it for yourself and you can find more imagery and information at Thirdwigg’s ‘Isuzu NPR’ album here, you can read his Master MOCers interview here at TLCB via the link above, and you can find a few other Isuzus (mostly NPRs) that have been recreated in brick form at the A-Z of Trucks here.

Technically Camping

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After pondering the deliciousness of animals in today’s other post we promised a vehicle for vegans, and they don’t get more vegany than a Volkswagen Camper!

This tremendous Technic example comes from Flickr’s Darren Thew, who has not only recreated the ‘60s exterior beautifully, there’s a fully fitted interior inside the opening doors complete with furniture, a folding bed, and a kitchen for making, um… lentils? We’re not sure what vegans cook, but whatever it is they can do it here!

There’s lots more of Darren’s split-screen VW to see at his photostream, and you can enjoy eat a delicious healthy van-based meal via the link above.