Top 10 Sets of 2023

i must admit i was surprised the micro hogwarts didn’t make it given your HP background. While we certainly don’t share all the same opinions about display vs play i always enjoy seeing what others think of what has been, by all accounts, a great year for lego

I absolutely love this list, you didn’t just choose 500$ collector pieces but instead creatively different sets that are each unique, i was never able to guess what would be next on the list but the opinions you brought where always valid

The engineering on that rolling boulder still blows my mind. I hope they continue to work in play features like that on all the 18+ sets. Even just a couple of moving parts staves off the dust that much more.

Viking Village for the win! I've been wanting LEGO Skyrim for years, and this is close enough. Plus I have the option of using it in official animations without dealing with IP partner approval (a bonus that applies to hardly anyone, but important to me)😁

I was getting worried toward the end of the list when I hadn’t seen the Temple of the Golden Idol… then… BOOM. It’s such an amazing set, I can’t think of another set that balances everything that LEGO is about so perfectly, like you said. I hope more people can see this, get the set, and appreciate its awesomeness firsthand!

I was pretty glad to see the Viking village on this list. I got it for Christmas and I cant stop admiring it.

My favorite set of this year and of all time has to be Rivendell. I just finished building it and it’s just about flawless. It’s incredibly beautiful and detailed, expensive but fairly priced, includes a phenomenal collection of minifigures (getting the whole fellowship of the ring in one set is just plain amazing) and has a super fun building experience. It’s everything I want from Lego and more and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to get it, even though I’d never bought a set even close to those expensive before:

My favorite sets from 2023 are: 1. the Lego Ninjago Dragons Rising Elemental Dragon vs The Empress Mech set with Jay b/c we finally got a show accurate lighting dragon for my favorite character Jay. 2. The Lego Minecraft Axolotl house is my 2nd favorite because even though it’s pink, you can recolor it to any of the other 4 axolotl colors and it’s a cool underwater build which looks really nice next to my ocean monument.

to me Rivendell is the definitive #1, almost singlehandedly rekindled my love for Lego this year. and as you said maybe the most beutiful Lego set ever made? sad it is only #10 on your list, but i think your love for the smaller and mid tier sets makes it make sense.

My favorites from this year are the Upscaled minifigure, the Ravenclaw house banner (I’m a Ravenclaw), and the museum modular, I got it for Xmas and it may just be my all time favorite set

@4:06, "I think this is the year people stopped sleeping on friends"....interesting quote when deprived of context.

Great overview, and SUPERhappy about your #1!!! The original trilogy represents three movies brought to perfection, and so is this set! They are wrapping up the Indy theme likely once and forever, but on the high note!

With so many over the top incredible but expensive sets these days, it's almost worth doing a top 10 over $100 and a top 10 under $100! Love these videos 😊

2023 was such a strong year for Lego and I don’t think I’d have been able to narrow the range down to 10 definitively best sets, but I’m really surprised that 21342: Insect Collection didn’t make this list! I’ve been a little fatigued by the ideas sets as of late, but this year feels like a bit of a renaissance for them in my opinion, with both Tales of the Space Age and Insect Collection being great value, affordable and having some fantastic building techniques and parts usage! I’m a biologist so maybe that’s why I connected so strongly with Insect Collection, but I’ve had so many of my friends and colleagues say how much they love it, and I even ended up gifting two away at Christmas to people who also really connected with it! It’s one of these sets where the pictures online really don’t do it justice, and if you haven’t had the opportunity to build it for yourself yet I highly recommend it!

2023 was a great year for LEGO. I always look forward to these videos from you - thanks for a great year on your channel too!

thank you for making your list reasonable from a pricepoint stand. I've seen a lot of these lists where they seem like they go to legos website and sort from high to low and pick the first ten sets they see.

My top 10 sets from the year in no particular order are, Zane’s Ice Dragon Creature, Zane’s Dragon Power Spinjitzu Race Car, Jay’s Elemental Dragon vs The Empress Mech, Sora’s Transforming Mech Bike Racer, Blacktron Cruiser, Spider-Man No Way Home Final Battle, Mei’s Guardian Dragon, Indiana Jones Temple of the Golden Idol, Ilu Discovery, & Mr. Oz’s Spacebus. My top 10 minifigures of the year is gonna be a lot more difficult to decide on though since my short list is like 25 right now but I only got 23 sets this year.

It makes me so happy seeing lists with variety like this.

I think one of my favorite sets of the year has got to be that Gringotts Bank, even though it is a smidge over priced, it is a really detailed and accurate build.

I absolutely love your top sets each year because of the focus on sets that normally don’t get highlighted!