Best LEGO Gifts for Adults [2023 Guide]

LEGO Gifts for Adults list
Updated: May 18, 2023

LEGO is a hobby that can be enjoyed by everyone. It’s an all ages toy and collectible, a way to interact with your favorite series or flex your imagination from childhood into adult years.

LEGO is mostly seen as a brand of toys specifically for children, but those children grow up. LEGO has seen many generations advance and the kids of yesterday have become the adults of today, but their LEGO fascination has remained.

So, for those further-along fans, LEGO has begun releasing adult oriented 18+ LEGO sets.

LEGO For Adults

These are sets for enthusiasts with a little more time, more money, more patience and who want to work with a Lot more bricks. These are the extreme builder’s dreams, sets made to appeal to interests that cover all age ranges but in a way that adults will appreciate much more.

The 18+ models and kits are slow burns done over a few evenings or one all-out day of stacking and clacking together.

If you’re looking for a great LEGO gift for a “kid at heart” in your life, don’t look in the kid’s aisle. A big fan needs a big LEGO set.

BMW M 1000 RR Model

BMW M 1000 RR Model

Everyone loves motorcycles. They’re loud, they’re fast and they’re cool. They are the mechanical stars of some of the greatest action movies, driven by stuntmen who make crashing look like a really fun job.

Kids are fascinated by the power motorcycles represent, and as an adult, the thrill of riding one can get bogged down in the danger, and the tedium of paperwork just to get the right kind of license.

There are no issues with this LEGO motorcycle, though. The kit is part of the LEGO Technic line, and one of the largest of its kind, a 1:5 scale model of a real racing motorcycle. With rubber wheels that connect to working spokes and even follows the LEGO approximation of its factory assembly specs.

Building this LEGO gift is the first step toward getting your hands dirty piecing together a real one.


LEGO Seinfeld Set

LEGO Seinfeld Set

Seinfeld is one of the most popular and beloved American sitcoms ever made. It ran for nine seasons on NBC from 1989 to 1998, and its influence can still be felt in comedy today.

The show follows a group of four friends living in New York City as they navigate life’s everyday absurdities with wit and humor.

Seinfeld was created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, who wrote many of the episodes together while also starring in them.

It’s a LEGO set about nothing. Kids seem to get all the tie ins, Marvel superheroes and Star Wars kits are usually targeted at the younger demographic.

For them, it’s all about the appeal of action and good defeating evil.

Adults can like that too, but you know what else is funny? A couple of schlubby New Yorkers and their nonsense lives.

The LEGO Seinfeld Set comes with the whole cast of minifigs in the studio setting of Jerry’s apartment.

LEGO Mosaic Wall Art

LEGO Mosaic Wall Art

The ancient art of mosaic tiles are akin to an ancient form of LEGO. But instead of interconnecting bricks, it was simple tiles layered and arranged to form shapes out of different colors. 

Now, LEGO has renovated that artform to allow people to form their own art in a series of wall art Mosaics that you get to build yourself.

These LEGO sets include portraits of famous artists like The Beatles in their prime, a blocky rendition of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe with four different colorful coordinations, and a variety of Iron Man suit faces. 

Each set has over 3,000 pieces to arrange or, for the particularly skilled, to customize. 

Star Wars LEGO Helmets

Star Wars LEGO Helmets

The first sets introduced when the 18+ lines were announced are a collection of of LEGO Star Wars themed 1:1 helmet reconstructions.

The LEGO helmets are good enough to wear, albeit a bit blocky. These kits let you build your own TIE fighter, Stormtrooper or infamous Mandalorian bounty hunter helmets which are positioned on balanced stands, so you can display them as the models they are.

There’s no minifig big enough to wear them, so you’ll have to take the chance and don them yourself.

(Do not actually try to wear them unless you want to rebuild them off your floor)

LEGO AT-AT Star Wars Walker

LEGO AT-AT Star Wars Walker


Star Wars is one of those things that never gets old.

The original trilogy is still beloved by those who grew up with it, and those who they raised in turn can now appreciate the labor of love that is building a 25 inch tall AT-AT walker for their own rendition of the Battle of Hoth.

This LEGO set has 6,785 pieces. The kit costs about $800. This is no toy, it’s a LEGO work station. If you want to show off a love for a venerated franchise, this is what you put the work in to prove it.

This set is one of many Star Wars branded model kits that are geared towards serious hobbyists, both of Star Wars and of LEGO. Just know that if you saw it in a movie and wondered how cool it would be to make one yourself, for the right price, you can.

LEGO Camp Nou FC Barcelona

LEGO Camp Nou FC Barcelona 

No this isn’t the next big football card. These two LEGO soccer sets are part of a larger series for sports fans to build a shelf-sized replica of their favorite team’s stadiums.

The LEGO Barcelona stadium has real-to-life features from its color palette to the inclusion of the team’s Barca Bus and the 1899 banner of the team’s historic founding. If you’re from farther north, or cheer along to games on BBC instead of Telemundo, the Old Trafford stadium reflects the joy and pride of the perfect season champions with historic detail and perfect recreations of the essential landmarks. Both of these sets are over 5,000 pieces.

You can build these LEGO soccer sets during game day – while your team is winning. They need you to cheer if the pitch is tied up.

LEGO Assembly Square

LEGO Assembly Square

One of the staples of LEGO is not in its branding, but its original sets. Fans of movies and shows can come and go, but LEGO fans will stay forever, and they want their own original kits and model sets.

LEGO Assembly Square offers modular building, with floor by floor interchangeable layouts and designs that allow for huge customization across three separate but super-packed three-story buildings.

This adult LEGO set also comes with minifigs to populate the city street, the bakery, the dentist office and the balcony of the highrise apartment.

This kit is aged 16+ with over 4,000 pieces. It’s not just fun for individuals, a group can build it together – or a parent and child.

Adidas Originals Superstar

LEGO Adidas Superstar Sneaker Set

Adidas is one of the most iconic and recognizable brands in the world. Founded in Germany in 1949 by Adi Dassler, the company is known for its high-quality shoes and apparel which blend style, comfort and performance.

Fashion and LEGO are one in the same. They both exist for you to show off and flaunt the styles of your favorite brand.

With fashion, you wear it, and with LEGO, you build it. It’d be a daring look to go with an all-LEGO outfit. Maybe in the future, because Adidas has already got your feet ready with a model replica of their Superstar line shoe.

This adult LEGO model will build a perfectly LEGO-ified version of the sneaker from the 70s onward. For avid shoe fanatics, adidas addicts or for people who just like a good looking shoe.


LEGO Bonsai Tree

LEGO Bonsai Tree

There’s something meditative about building LEGO. It puts you in a zen state of mind, where no distractions can enter and pollute the garden of your thoughts with anything past the sounds of bricks snapping delightfully together.

Building LEGO is almost as calming as pruning a bonsai tree. Well, now you can do that - but slightly easier. Your LEGO Bonsai Tree will never grow distracing, imperfect branches or have unsettled leaves that rustle in the wind. But the calming procedure of building one up is its own reward.

As part of the “botanical collection”, this fake plant has plastic parts made from sustainable materials, so you don’t have to break your tranquility over the clash of ideals.

LEGO Apollo Lunar Lander

A decently complex build of one of the most important engineering feats in the history of mankind.

Some built towers, pyramids, or monuments on Earth, but mankind set forth to send a dinky little shuttle all the way to the moon - and got there. This replica of the phenomenal achievement comes in just over 1,000 pieces worth of an afternoon of boldly bricking where no man bricked before.

Check out the LEGO NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander if you are looking for an awesome LEGO gift for an adult.

LEGO James Bond Aston Martin

LEGO James Bond Aston Martin

If you’re a fan of cars, good news - so is LEGO.

Car makers the world over, some notable for having distinctly hot rivalries over races for the past couple decades, have all collaborated at one point or another to put their most iconic cars into modeling condition.

The Ford Mustang, the car of America’s 1960s, comes with a turbo-charged stick-out-the-hood engine block and workable doors and trunk.

The track-dominating Ferrari comes with moving pistons in its mighty V8 engine block, detachable spoiler and all the sponsor logos it can fit. And of course, the legendary Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger. And yes, it does have front-mounted machine guns. Which lever reveals them, and not the ejector seat? Only a secret agent would know.

You might never get the chance to drive these legendary cars, but you can still find a place for them in your garage. A shelf space. 

LEGO Creator Roller Coaster

LEGO Creator Roller Coaster

If you’re a fan of cars, good news - so is LEGO.

Car makers the world over, some notable for having distinctly hot rivalries over races for the past couple decades, have all collaborated at one point or another to put their most iconic cars into modeling condition.

The Ford Mustang, the car of America’s 1960s, comes with a turbo-charged stick-out-the-hood engine block and workable doors and trunk.

The track-dominating Ferrari comes with moving pistons in its mighty V8 engine block, detachable spoiler and all the sponsor logos it can fit. And of course, the legendary Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger. And yes, it does have front-mounted machine guns. Which lever reveals them, and not the ejector seat? Only a secret agent would know.

You might never get the chance to drive these legendary cars, but you can still find a place for them in your garage. A shelf space. 

Final Thoughts

The main driving difference between LEGO sets for everyone and LEGO sets intended for adults is the sheer complexity and time-to-build required.

Many of these are pastimes waiting to be taken up, long and complicated projects that might not hold a kid’s attention.

It’s not about making figures and scenes for action and battles, it’s about calmly constructing a piece of appreciated artwork. It’s about taking and enjoying all the time in the world to create something with your own hands. It’s about a couple hundred dollars for any given one of these sets, which is money kids just don’t have. 

But, one day, they’ll get it. They’ll see all the things they built and will look for something to challenge them, something that will take longer than one afternoon to get bored of.

LEGO welcomes everyone, with any interest, and with open arms to enjoy the hobby their way. The best LEGO gifts to give someone over 18 are just about anything.

Most sets are listed for ages 6-99. Any of those sets are, also, for people 18 and over because anyone of any age can find something fun to do with LEGO.