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Sea Animals: Beautiful Dolphins

An adult and baby dolphin arcing over a curling wave, and honestly, that pose is the whole reason to buy it.

Brick Rated Score

4.1/5

Set 31385 · 2026

Pieces542

Minifigsn/a

Year2026

Set number31385

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The verdict

The main dolphin build, a grown dolphin and a little one caught mid-leap over a cresting wave, is one of the prettiest things Creator 3-in-1 has done with animals in a while.

Both dolphins have posable fins and tails, so you can nudge them into an actual moment instead of a stiff pose. The seahorse and crab rebuilds are pleasant but they never hit the same emotional note, and at 49.99 dollars for 542 pieces you are paying a small premium for the sculpting. If you love the ocean and want something that looks alive on a shelf, this one earns its keep.

Best for: Ocean lovers who want a display piece with genuine movement in the pose

The full review

What it is

I did not expect a 50 dollar Creator box to stop me the way this one did, but the main model gets it exactly right. It is an adult dolphin and a baby dolphin frozen mid-leap over a cresting wave, with coral tucked underneath, and the arc of the two bodies actually reads as movement rather than two toys glued to a stand. That is a hard thing to pull off in bricks, and the fact that both dolphins have posable fins and tails means you can fuss with the angle until it looks like a photograph you took at sea. This is the 2026 refresh of the sea-animals corner of Creator 3-in-1, and the dolphin is where all the love clearly went.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the other two builds. The seahorse, on its little stand with seaweed and a posable clam, is charming, and the crab with its posable eyes and claws (plus a jellyfish and some sea plants) is a fun rainy-afternoon rebuild. But neither one made me feel anything close to the dolphins. That is the honest catch with a lot of 3-in-1 sets: the box art sells you three builds, but usually one of them is the reason and the other two are the bonus. At 49.99 dollars for 542 pieces you are paying a little over what a pure part-count set would run, and you are paying it for the sculpting on that hero model. If the dolphins do not grab you, the value math gets harder to defend.

Who it's for

So here is who I would hand this to. Anyone who genuinely loves the ocean, especially dolphins, will be thrilled, because the display model is the kind of thing that ends up on a bedroom shelf and stays there (parents in the early reviews kept saying exactly that). It is also a lovely gentle build for a younger enthusiast who is ready to move past the very simplest sets. Who should skip it? If you live for engineering puzzles and tricky techniques, this will feel too easy, and if you only care about squeezing maximum pieces per dollar, there are better-value boxes out there. Buy this one for the dolphins or do not buy it at all.

The parts story

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

The build itself is calm and forgiving, which suits the subject. There is a good stretch of curved and sloped work to shape the dolphin bodies and the swell of the wave, and one Argos reviewer noted the coral section eats up a fair chunk of the piece count with lots of small detailed elements, which tracks. Nothing here will trip you up, the instructions are clear and picture-led, but the shaping of those smooth animal forms is genuinely satisfying to watch come together brick by brick.

The stars of the parts breakdown are the color transitions. The wave uses a blend of blues and whites to fake the curl of water, and the coral leans on warm reds, pinks and corals that give the whole thing a reef-postcard palette. You get a healthy pile of curved slopes and small round plates that will scatter straight into anyone's ocean-scene parts bin, and the mix of teal, coral and sand shades is the real treasure here for a MOC builder. For 542 pieces it is a colorful, useful assortment even after you have displayed the dolphins.

Fun facts

01The set released on January 1, 2026 as part of the Creator 3-in-1 sea-animals lineup, carrying an RRP of 49.99 dollars, 44.99 pounds and 49.99 euros.
02The assembled dolphin display stands over 10 inches (25 cm) tall, which is genuinely large for a 542-piece Creator box.
03It follows in the wake of the older 31128 Dolphin and Turtle set, but this time the whole 3-in-1 concept is built around a single family of sea creatures rather than mixing land and sea.
04Every one of the three builds keeps a posability feature: the dolphins pose at fins and tail, the seahorse at head and tail, and the crab at its eyes and claws.