Seasonal

Easter Egg Basket

A basket full of little building moments that actually feels worth building.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 40863 · 2026

Pieces216

Minifigsn/a

Year2026

Set number40863

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The verdict

I love that LEGO keeps treating Easter like a real building occasion instead of just slapping bunny ears on an old set.

This basket is small, it is sweet, and it gives you a woven handle and a pile of decorated eggs that each get their own little build sequence, which is exactly the kind of bite sized satisfaction I want from a seasonal set. It will not challenge an experienced builder for more than an evening, but that is not really the point here. Get it for the mantel display crowd, the parent looking for a calm Easter morning build with a kid, or the completionist who has every seasonal LEGO release since the first Easter egg hunt set.

Best for: Seasonal display collectors and parents wanting a low pressure Easter morning build

The full review

What it is

I will admit I have a soft spot for LEGO's seasonal Easter releases. They do not get the marketing push of a big licensed set, but they are where the designers get to have genuine fun with texture and color, and the Easter Egg Basket carries that tradition well. It is built around a basket shape with a woven handle, filled with a collection of separately built decorated eggs, so instead of one long continuous build you get several short satisfying ones stacked together. That structure alone makes it feel more generous than its piece count suggests.

The catch

I do want to be honest about the scope here. At 216 pieces this is not a set that will occupy your whole afternoon, and if you are coming to it expecting a serious engineering challenge you will be disappointed. It is a display piece first, and the value is in the seasonal charm and the tabletop presence rather than the build complexity. Seasonal LEGO sets also have a habit of disappearing from shelves once the holiday passes, so if the basket catches your eye do not wait too long to grab it.

Who it's for

This is a set for the seasonal decor crowd, the parent who wants a short calm build to share with a kid before Easter morning, or the collector who already has a shelf of LEGO's holiday releases and wants this year's addition. If you need a big build to sink your teeth into, look elsewhere in the catalog. If you want something small, cheerful, and a little bit clever with its parts, this basket delivers exactly that.

The parts story

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

Building this one is a pleasant change of pace from a typical set, because you are not chasing one big structure, you are assembling a handful of small ones and then bringing them together. The basket body itself uses layered plates and slopes to fake a woven texture, which is a nice bit of parts trickery for something this size, and the handle attaches with enough clearance that the whole thing reads as an actual basket rather than a box with a stick on top.

The eggs are where the real charm is. Each one gets its own little shape and color scheme, built up from curved slopes and small decorated pieces rather than just a single printed brick, so you end up with a collection of tiny sculptures before you ever get to the basket that holds them. For a 216 piece set there is more variety packed in here than the box art suggests, which is what keeps this from feeling like filler.

Fun facts

01LEGO has released a small Easter themed seasonal set nearly every year for over a decade, and each one takes a different approach, some as bunnies or hunts, this year as a basket of eggs
02Seasonal sets like this one are typically sold for a limited window around the holiday and are not part of the regular ongoing catalog
03Building multiple small sub assemblies before combining them into one final model is a common design approach LEGO uses for seasonal and holiday sets to add build variety at a low piece count