Seasonal

Christmas Wreath 2-in-1

A real wreath you can hang on the door, built entirely out of little green leaves.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 40426 · 2020

Pieces510

Minifigsn/a

Year2020

Set number40426

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The verdict

I did not expect a LEGO wreath to give me actual holiday feelings, and then this one went and hung itself on my door for the whole month of December.

The 2-in-1 trick is the heart of it: build the version with the big red bow, or swap in four brick-built candles for an Advent wreath, all off the same ring. It is not a complicated build and the ring can be alarmingly floppy while you carry it, but the finished object is genuinely lovely. If you decorate for Christmas and want something you display rather than shelve, this is an easy yes.

Best for: People who actually decorate their home for Christmas and want a piece they hang up

The full review

What it is

There is a specific kind of LEGO set that stops being a model and just becomes part of your home, and the Christmas Wreath 2-in-1 is one of them. It is a 510-piece ring of green leaves, and the clever part is right there in the name: the same base ring builds two different display pieces. One version gets a big buildable red bow and hangs on your door like a proper wreath. The other swaps in four brick-built candles for an Advent wreath you set on a table, and the candles can even be shortened to look like they have burned down over the four weeks. It is the rare seasonal set that earns its place every single December instead of living in a box the other eleven months.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the two things that hold it back. First, that ring is fragile. You assemble sixteen leaf segments on click-hinges, and until everything locks together the whole thing has a worrying amount of give. Reviewers flagged how tense it gets when you finally have to lift it off the building table, and I felt exactly that. Second, the front half of the build is repetitive. Fifteen of the sixteen ring segments are identical (the sixteenth carries the little string loop for hanging), so you settle into a rhythm of the same steps over and over before any of the pretty decoration goes on. At the original 39.99 US price it was fair value, and now that it is retired you will pay a premium, so go in knowing this is a decoration you love, not an engineering showcase.

Who it's for

Get this if you decorate for the holidays and want something with presence: on a real door, a real wall, a real table, it holds its own next to anything non-LEGO. It is also a quietly brilliant buy for anyone who builds their own botanical or foliage displays, because you are basically getting a bag of leaves at a good per-part rate. Skip it if you are after a challenging build or intricate mechanisms, because the engineering here is simple by design and the repetition will test you. This one is about the finished object and the feeling it gives a room, not the journey to get there.

The parts story

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

Building it is a calm, low-stakes couple of hours right up until you have to move it. You start by making the ring in sixteen segments, snap them into a circle on click-hinges, and then the fun begins as you layer leaves outward to hide every seam. The decoration stage is where it comes alive: red berries, the oversized bow, or the four candles depending on which build you chose. Swapping between the two configurations later is painless because both share the identical underlying ring, so you are never starting from scratch.

The reason parts people love this set is the greenery. There are 96 foliage elements in here, most molded in LEGO's plant-derived plastic, including 32 of the three-leaf sprigs tucked inside the circle. You get a generous run of dark green wedge plates, sloped bricks and 1x2 plates locking in the bigger leaves, with small 1x1 leaf plates filling the center so there are no obvious gaps. The one gripe from serious parts hunters is that the leaf assortment leans heavily to one side (all those left-hand wedge plates with no right-hand mates), but as a cheap source of bulk foliage and red berries it is hard to beat.

Fun facts

01The set was designed by Nina Koopmann and released on October 1, 2020, then retired at the end of 2023 after a three-year run.
02Most of the 96 leaf elements are made from LEGO's plant-based plastic, sourced from sugarcane rather than traditional petroleum-based ABS.
03The Advent version's four candles can be built at different heights to mimic real candles burning down across the four weeks of Advent.
04The finished wreath measures over 25cm (9 inches) in diameter, big enough to read as a genuine door wreath rather than a tabletop ornament.