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Arcade Pinball Machine

LEGO's first proper working pinball table, wrapped in glorious Classic Space nostalgia.

Set 11374 · 2026

Pieces2,274

Minifigs2

Year2026

Set number11374

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The verdict

This is a genuinely fun, actually-playable pinball machine you build yourself, and the Classic Space theme is a lovely nostalgia hit.

It works better than photos suggest, though it's pricey at $229.99 and the busy colours plus stickers split opinion hard. If you love mechanical builds and playing with your finished set, grab it. If you want a shelf showpiece, look elsewhere or wait for a discount.

Best for: Nostalgic AFOLs who want a set they can actually play with, not just display

The full review

What it is

Okay, this one's a bit special. The Arcade Pinball Machine is the first fully functional pinball table LEGO® has ever made, and yes, it actually plays. You get a spring-powered launcher, two real flippers you control with side buttons, spinning bumpers, and an up-and-over ramp bridge, all sitting in a proper cabinet shape at 2,274 pieces. The whole thing leans hard into Classic Space, LEGO's beloved retro theme from the late 70s and 80s, so the playfield is covered in asteroids, rockets and that unmistakable blue-and-grey spaceman charm. It's the kind of set that gets people crowding round your table, and the little mission built into it (whack the central asteroid to send your astronaut along a track to reunite with the space baby) gives you an actual goal to chase.

The catch

Now the honest bit. At $229.99 (£189.99 / €209.99) this is not cheap, and reviewers have been quick to point out you can buy a real electronic pinball machine with metal balls, lights, sound and two-player scoring for a fraction of that. So you're paying for the LEGO building experience, not the arcade tech. The look is also divisive. Some folks love the loud 2026 colour palette and the fluorescing bits that glow under UV, while others find it a busy, clashing eyesore, with the ramp and the sticker sheet copping the most flak (one commenter flat out called the stickers a disgrace). There have also been scattered reports of the core mechanism not working perfectly out of the box, so a bit of patient tuning may be on the cards.

Who it's for

So who's this for? If you're the type who wants a set you can actually mess about with, who grew up on Classic Space, and who enjoys clever mechanical engineering more than a pristine display piece, you'll get a real kick out of this. If you mainly buy sets to line up on a shelf and admire, or if the busy aesthetic makes you wince, this probably isn't your set, and waiting for a sale is completely reasonable given the price. For the right fan though, it's a warm, playful, genuinely different thing to have on the table, and there's real joy in building your own working arcade cabinet from scratch.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build is paced nicely, breaking into chunks of about an hour each, which makes it easy to dip in and out. You construct the playfield in segments and drop the mechanisms in as you go, so the flippers, the spring plunger and the ball guides come together in satisfying stages rather than all at once. Because it's a working machine, a lot of the fun is in the engineering: getting the linkages aligned, the ramp seated, and the flipper buttons responding cleanly. It rewards care, and it teaches you a few mechanical tricks you don't see in a straight display model. By the end you've got something that genuinely does what it's supposed to, which is a different kind of payoff from a static build.

For parts hunters, the headline is the minifigures. This set delivers the complete Bright Light Blue Classic Space astronaut for the first time, finishing off the colourway that the Build-a-Minifigure bar started, plus a brand-new bright light blue Space Baby (the fourth after blue, white and pink). There's also a new pinball element, a solid ball with no openings and a chunkier width, made to actually roll and take a beating. Add in the fluorescing pieces that pop under daylight or UV and a big pile of the 2026 colour palette in plates and decorated tiles, and there's plenty here for collectors. At roughly 10 cents per piece it's not a bargain-bin value, but the play function and the exclusive figures carry a chunk of that cost.

Fun facts

01This is the first fully functional pinball machine LEGO has ever released, complete with a spring launcher, dual flippers and spinning bumpers you actually operate.
02It leans into Classic Space, LEGO's iconic blue-and-grey astronaut theme from the late 1970s and 80s, and finally introduces the complete Bright Light Blue version of that astronaut.
03The included Space Baby is the fourth colour of the little figure, joining the earlier blue, white and pink versions.
04The finished cabinet measures roughly 38cm long, 28cm wide and 24cm tall, and instead of a digital score it uses a built-in mission to reunite the astronaut with the space baby.