No LEGO set can stay on shelves forever (unless it’s the UCS Millennium Falcon), but it’s still tough to believe we waved goodbye to these eight sets in 2025…
Only a few stragglers remain now among the laundry list of LEGO sets retiring in 2025, with the rest long since sold out and only available on the aftermarket (at varying prices). And while most of them were obvious contenders for leaving production, there are a handful that even in hindsight we’re still surprised to have seen retire this year.
Whether because they only launched in 2025, were part of a wider collection or seemed like perennial best-sellers, here are eight LEGO sets we still can’t believe retired this year…
10339 Santa’s Post Office
The LEGO Group has established a pretty reliable schedule for Winter Village sets: each one enjoys a two-year run on shelves, so there are always three available to choose between ahead of the festive period (and two available for the rest of the year). It’s broken that pattern in 2025, though, as 2024’s 10339 Santa’s Post Office has retired only a year after its debut – which leaves only 10361 Holiday Express Train in stock heading into 2026.
10332 Medieval Town Square
LEGO Castle’s resurgence through the Icons line seems to have been a winner in some ways (see further down this list), but the same can’t necessarily be said for 10332 Medieval Town Square. This reboot of 2009’s 10193 Medieval Market Village launched in March 2024 and has already retired, enjoying less than two years on shelves – which doesn’t bode all that well for any subsequent medieval sets…
75396 Desert Skiff & Sarlacc Pit
A year and a half on sale is fairly standard for a LEGO Star Wars playset, but what’s unusual about 75396 Desert Skiff & Sarlacc Pit’s retirement is that
60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship
LEGO City has a relatively high turnover rate for sets, so it’s not especially extraordinary to see plenty of 2025 releases already gone for good. But we are genuinely surprised that 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship is among them, because it’s one of the best (if not the best) LEGO Space sets among the latest assortment, and pretty good value for money to boot. Shame it’s gone already then…
76426 Hogwarts Castle Boathouse
Several sections of the current modular Hogwarts Castle have retired in 2025, including one of this year’s releases in 76441 Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club, but there was no chance of them all staying on shelves indefinitely. The one that’s actually surprising to have seen gone is 76426 Hogwarts Castle Boathouse, as while the internal classrooms don’t feel essential to the wider silhouette of the school, this one absolutely does – and now leaves a boathouse-shaped hole for anyone picking up the Great Hall and Main Tower in 2026.
71799 NINJAGO City Markets
71799 NINJAGO City Markets has had a pretty good run, remaining on sale for two and a half years, but its retirement in 2025 was unexpected if only because this series of modular buildings has continued apace in 2025 with 71837 NINJAGO City Workshops. It doesn’t seem like another entry is on the cards for 2026, so for at least a year you’ll only be able to buy a single set in the line-up from LEGO Stores, with nothing to connect it to.
40499 Santa’s Sleigh
Remember what we were saying about no LEGO sets staying on shelves forever? 40499 Santa’s Sleigh should have been the exception to the rule. It’s a timeless Christmas classic that feels difficult to improve on (short of including five more reindeer), and is the sort of set that can continue to draw in new fans around the festive period year after year. Here’s hoping the LEGO Group does have a replacement of some sort up its sleeve for 2026.
10305 Lion Knights’ Castle
It had to go sometime, but it still wasn’t fun watching the greatest LEGO Castle set ever (in our books) sail off into the sunset… not least because it did so in a tangled mess of cancelled orders that left many fans in disarray. A modern classic that deserved at least an extra year or two in production, 10305 Lion Knights’ Castle now leaves a gaping hole in the portfolio – one that the LEGO Group will ideally fill with a successor in 2026, although nothing is rumoured just yet.
Check out more of our deep dives into 2025 in LEGO (and a few thoughts on the future as we head into 2026 in LEGO), or head here for a complete list of retiring LEGO sets.
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