Seasonal

Halloween Wreath

The spooky cousin of LEGO's Christmas wreath, and honestly a lot more fun to look at.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 40825 · 2025

Pieces617

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number40825

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The verdict

I did not expect a plastic Halloween wreath to win me over, but the finished thing has real personality hanging on a wall.

The grinning ghost, the vampire bat, and that scattering of pumpkins turn a simple ring of leaves into something you actually want on your door. It is a display piece first and a building challenge a distant second, so go in wanting the payoff more than the process. For anyone who decorates hard for October, this is an easy yes.

Best for: October decorators and adults who want a mess-free wreath they can put up year after year

The full review

What it is

This is a 617 piece brick-built wreath that stands over 11 inches tall and about 10 inches wide, dressed head to toe for Halloween. Instead of the pine-and-holly green of a Christmas ring, LEGO leaned into orange, purple, and black woven through dark green foliage, then hung three little characters off it: a wide-eyed pumpkin, a frightened-looking ghost, and a vampire bat with its wings out. There is even a medium nougat spider tucked into the leaves. The first time I saw the finished model on a wall I grinned, because it reads as genuinely spooky-cute rather than a novelty. It is the kind of thing that makes a front door feel like someone inside actually loves October.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the build, though, because it splits cleanly into two moods. The base wreath is a ring, and building a ring means doing the same handful of steps over and over until the circle closes. That stretch is meditative if you are in the right mood and a bit of a slog if you are not. The real joy only arrives once the structure is done and you start layering on flowers, leaves, and the characters. On price, 40 dollars for 617 pieces sits in fair territory rather than steal territory, and you should know a big chunk of that count is tiny plant elements rather than substantial bricks. It is worth it for the look, not for raw part-count math.

Who it's for

So who should grab this one? If you decorate for Halloween with any real enthusiasm, or you love a tidy seasonal display you can box up and bring back every year, this belongs on your shelf. Plant and flower part collectors will also quietly love it as a botanical grab bag in autumn colors. The people I would gently steer away are builders who live for clever engineering and a meaty construction challenge, because the repetitive ring and the display-only nature will leave them cold. Everyone else, especially anyone who already regrets missing the retired Christmas Wreath, will be happy here.

The parts story

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

Building this is a tale of two halves. The first half is the base ring, and it is honestly repetitive, the same rhythm of pieces cycling around until the circle is complete and stable. It is not hard, just patient work, and it is the price of admission for the fun part. Once the ring is locked in, the whole thing opens up and you get to decorate: pressing in clusters of leaves and flowers, positioning the pumpkins, and clipping on the ghost and the bat. That second half is where the set earns its keep, and it is customizable enough that you can nudge the decorations around to your own taste.

For parts people this is a quiet treasure. The foliage makes generous use of leaf and flower elements in various sizes, and the Halloween palette means you are getting them in orange, purple, and black rather than the usual greens, which are lovely colors to have in the bin. The three brick-built characters (pumpkin, ghost, and vampire bat) are the sculptural standouts and the reason the wreath has so much charm. At roughly six and a half cents per piece it is not a blowout deal, but as a botanical and autumn-color parts pack that also happens to assemble into a great display, the value stacks up better than the sticker suggests.

Fun facts

01The Halloween Wreath is built to a similar scale as the now-retired 40426 Christmas Wreath 2-in-1, but packs over 100 more pieces thanks to its extra decorations and customizability.
02It launched on August 1, 2025 at 39.99 US dollars (34.99 pounds / 39.99 euros) and is aimed at ages 12 and up.
03Despite being a display model, it ships with an actual string plus a brick-built hook, so you can hang it on a real door or wall like a traditional wreath.
04Early buyers rated it around 4.8 out of 5 with about 96 percent recommending it, praising how much more stable it feels than LEGO's flatter seasonal builds.