You'll Need Batman's Budget For All the Best Lego Sets Arriving in June

Available starting on June 4 for $270, the 2,651-piece Lego Icons Pac-Man Arcade machine will be impossible for ‘80s kids raised in shopping mall arcades to resist. It not only features authentic graphics from the original Pac-Man arcade cabinets, it’s also got a light-up coin slot, and a hand-cranked mechanism that makes Pac-Man, Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde navigate brick-built maze.

The honor of being the largest Lego set arriving in June is the 3,981-piece Batcave Shadow Box recreating the Dark Knight’s headquarters as seen in Tim Burton’s Batman Returns. The set includes a Batmobile, a lair full of play features including a Batcomputer and a vault full of Battoys, plus seven minifigures featuring our first Christopher Walken fig. The whole thing even folds away into a shadowbox with the interior left revealed through the iconic Batlogo. It will be available starting on June 8 for $400.

You can’t have a hero without a villain to foil, and Lego is finally acknowledging that the baddies play a big part in making iconic Disney animated films as memorable as they are. The 1,540-piece Villain Icons set highlights four of them: Maleficent, Jafar in genie form from Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast’s Gaston, and the disguised Evil Queen from Snow White, alongside a vignette packed full of Easter Eggs and secret compartments to store the minifigures. (We’re particularly fond of that The Little Mermaid Lego VHS tape.) The set will be available starting on June 1 for $130.

Disney usually prefers its sidekick characters to come in pairs so they always have someone to interact with when the star of the movie is caught up doing something else. This 553-piece set celebrates some of those dynamic duos and includes buildable versions of Cogsworth and Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast, Pua and Hei Hei from Moana, Nemo and Squirt from Finding Nemo, and Percy and Meeko from Pocahontas. Lego Disney Duos will be available starting on June 1 for $45.

Starting on June 1, you can express your love of Disney through Lego with this $60, 1,022-piece set that includes build instructions to recreate 72 different Disney characters on 12, 8x8-stud plates that can be framed and individually displayed on a desk, or grouped into a 3x3 collage and hung on a wall.

You could only buy Lego’s scaled-up Captain Redbeard minifigure by visiting the company’s HQ in Denmark, which was a genuine tragedy given Redbeard is often considered the best Lego minifigure of all time. As a consolation prize, starting on June 1 you can grab this 654-piece, generic Up-Scaled Lego Minifigure for $50, which features the same level of articulation as smaller minifigures, which can actually ride inside and control this towering twin from a secret cockpit under its hat.

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original Jurassic Park first hitting theaters with five new themed Lego sets recreating iconic moments from the film. The largest is the 693-piece Visitor Center: T. rex & Raptor Attack that includes six minifigures, a velociraptor, a T. rex skeleton, and a moulded T. rex figure that can go on a rampage and destroy the entire set. It will be available starting on June 1 for $130.

Do you worry your Lego collection doesn’t have as much poop as you’d like? The easy solution is to drop $50 on this 281-piece Triceratops Research set on June 1, which includes a Jurassic Park tour vehicle, Ellie and Malcolm minifigures, a moulded triceratops, and one big pile of brick-built poop.

The 512-piece, Brachiosaurus Discovery set includes the tallest minifigure-scale Lego dino figure released to date, with a moulded Brachiosaurus towering over Ellie Sattler, Alan Grant, and John Hammond. The set also includes a Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler that can hold all three minifigures, and a tall tree with an observation deck. It will be available starting on June 1 for $80.

Is it worth spending $20 on a 211-piece set just to get a minifigure-scale can of Barbasol shaving cream? Obviously, but the Dilophosaurus Ambush will also come with a Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler, a Dilophosaurus, and a Dennis Nedry minifigure when it’s available starting on June 1.

Technically, this set is designed for younger builders aged four and up with a simplified design and just 137-pieces which means it should be fully assembled before they lose interest. But it’s still worth considering for older collectors with Ellie Satler and Robert Muldoon minifigures, and a moulded Velociraptor looking for an easy meal. “Clever girl!” It will be available starting on June 1 for $40.

The third largest set this month, available starting on June 4 for $370, comes from one of Lego’s longest running collections and animated series. The 2,405-piece Ninjago City Markets is absolutely packed with four levels of play features including a working cable car, a wheelchair lift from the subway station, 21 minifigures, and a bathroom at Sushimi’s sushi bar with a toilet that actually flushes poop down to the sewer.

Don’t have $240 to spend on Lego’s 2,336-piece Land Rover Defender 90 model? You can save yourself $225 and opt for this 150-piece, minifigure scale Land Rover Defender instead. It doesn’t have anywhere near as much functionality, but it’s got four wheels plus a spare, a roof rack, storage space in the back, and a $15 price tag when it’s available starting on June 1.

If Lego’s 905-piece Bugatti Bolide Agile feels awfully familiar to you, it’s because you’ve definitely already seen it before. The company previously released a yellow version of the supercar with the same piece count and functionality, but starting on June 1 it will be available in blue instead, for $50.