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Children's Day Teddy Bear

A soft little bear you can only get if you're in the right store at the right time.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 40763 · 2025

Pieces238

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number40763

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The verdict

This is a gift-with-purchase set, tied to Children's Day, and it has that GWP charm where LEGO clearly let the designers have fun with texture instead of worrying about shelf price.

The bear's fur is built from layered plates and slopes rather than one smooth shell, and that layering is what sells it, it actually reads as soft from across a room. I would not chase this one down at inflated resale prices, but if it lands in your hands through a promotion, it is a genuinely sweet little build. Best for people who already collect LEGO's plush-style animals and don't mind that this one has no minifigure and no price tag of its own.

Best for: collectors of LEGO's GWP animal builds who like texture-heavy small sets

The full review

What it is

I love when LEGO uses these small promotional builds to test out a technique, and that is exactly what is going on with the Teddy Bear. It was given away around Children's Day, a holiday celebrated widely in Asia on June 1st, and instead of phoning in a basic brick shape, the designers built the bear's fur out of overlapping plates and curved slopes so it actually has texture. The ears tilt just slightly off center and the arms have a bit of give in how they're posed, and that small imperfection is what makes it feel like a toy instead of a block.

The catch

I'll be honest about the catch here, this one was never for sale as a standalone set. It came as a gift with a qualifying purchase, so you cannot just add it to cart, and that means the only way to own it is secondhand or by catching the original promotion. If you're the kind of person who needs every set to be purchasable on demand, this will frustrate you. The build itself is also front loaded, the first third is where all the clever bits happen and the rest is finishing touches on the body and base.

Who it's for

Get this one if you already have a soft spot for LEGO's small animal builds, like the panda and bear GWP sets that came before it, and you happen to come across it through a promotion or a reasonable secondhand listing. Skip it if you're only interested in sets you can walk into a store and buy today, because that option doesn't really exist here.

The parts story

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

Building this one feels less like assembling a toy and more like sculpting, since so much of it is achieved through stacking small plates at slight angles rather than snapping together big obvious pieces. You spend most of your early build time on the head and chest, where the fur texture actually happens, and it is genuinely satisfying watching a lumpy pile of tan plates turn into something that reads instantly as a bear's face.

There's nothing rare or printed hiding in here, this is a parts-play set rather than a parts-value set, so the win is in the technique rather than in any single brick. The tan and warm brown palette does double duty, since those same small plates and slopes show up constantly in LEGO's other animal and creature builds, so if you build a lot of custom creatures this bag is quietly useful scrap for future projects even after the bear itself is done.

Fun facts

01Children's Day (June 1st) is a major gift-giving holiday across much of Asia, and LEGO has used it as the occasion for several small promotional animal builds in recent years.
02The set carries no minifigure and was never assigned a standalone retail price, since it was distributed as a gift-with-purchase rather than a shelf product.
03LEGO's GWP animal line, which this bear belongs to, has previously included builds like a panda and other seasonal creatures, all using similar layered-plate fur techniques.
04At 238 pieces, it sits in the same rough size range as most of LEGO's other promotional animal builds, big enough for real texture work but small enough to finish in one sitting.