Classic

Creative Colorful Bricks

A big bright box of pure possibility, no instructions required to fall for it.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 11045 · 2026

Pieces820

Minifigsn/a

Year2026

Set number11045

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The verdict

This is the kind of set I keep quietly recommending to people who ask where to start with LEGO.

It is 820 bricks in a rainbow of colors, with printed steps for 14 little models and digital guides for three bigger ones. It will not thrill you the way a display set does, but as a spark for open-ended building it earns its keep. Best kept for a family with young builders or an adult who wants a loose parts stash.

Best for: Parents starting a 5-year-old on LEGO, or anyone building a colorful parts collection.

The full review

What it is

The thing that gets me about a set like Creative Colorful Bricks is how honest it is about what it wants to be. There is no wall-piece to display, no rare printed tile to chase, just 820 bricks in a proper spread of colors and a promise that you will make something. LEGO gives you step-by-step instructions for 14 small models, a racing car, a cat, a gaming controller, a watermelon, a pair of peacocks, and then hands you digital guides for three larger builds: a dragon, a guitar and a butterfly. I opened the description expecting to shrug and instead found myself thinking about which of my nieces would empty the whole box onto the floor within a minute.

The catch

I will be straight with you about where this set sits. At roughly $49.99 for 820 pieces it works out to about six cents a brick, which is squarely average, not a bargain and not a rip. The box is described as bursting with 2x2 and 2x4 bricks, and that is both the strength and the ceiling here. You are getting bread-and-butter parts, wonderful for building but not the sort of thing that makes an adult fan gasp. There are no minifigures at all, which matters more than you might think for a young child who plays through characters rather than construction. And I find it a little cheeky that the three most tempting models, the dragon especially, live only in the app, so you need a phone or tablet nearby to reach them.

Who it's for

So who actually wants this. If you are setting up a five-year-old with their first real LEGO, or topping up a family brick bin that has gone a bit beige and grey over the years, this is close to ideal. The color range alone makes everything a kid builds afterward look brighter. If you are an adult builder hunting for a satisfying afternoon or a piece to display, this is not your set and I would not pretend otherwise. Buy it for the building, for the mess, for the hundredth spaceship a child invents that was never in any instruction booklet. On those terms it delivers, and that is exactly what Classic is supposed to do.

The parts story

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

Building from this box is less about following one grand model and more about rhythm. The printed steps for the 14 small builds are gentle and quick, the kind a new builder can finish and feel proud of before losing interest, and then the box invites you to ignore the instructions entirely. That is really the point. You dump it out, you sort by color if you are that sort of person, and you start improvising. It is low-stakes, forgiving and genuinely relaxing, which is not something I say about every set.

There are no new molds or fancy printed parts to write home about, and I would be lying if I dressed it up otherwise. What you get instead is volume and color: a strong helping of standard 2x2 and 2x4 bricks in a wide palette, the exact parts that make future builds possible. For a parts-count value collector, that is the real appeal, common bricks in useful colors at a fair rate. Think of it less as a finished thing and more as raw material, a refill of the good stuff that every other set quietly assumes you already own.

Fun facts

01The set released on 1 June 2026 with a retail price of $49.99, £44.99 and €49.99.
02It ships with printed instructions for 14 models but adds three larger digital-only builds through the LEGO Builder app: a dragon, a guitar and a butterfly.
03LEGO markets it as supporting STEM skills, and the Builder app lets kids zoom and rotate models in 3D as they build.