Modular Buildings

Shopping Street

The modular that finally breaks the grid, and splits the fanbase doing it.

Set 11371 · 2026

Pieces3,458

Minifigs7

Year2026

Set number11371

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The verdict

This is the 2026 modular, and it's the most divisive one in years.

If you love clever geometry and want a corner that does something genuinely new with an angled alley, you'll have a good time here. If you're chasing the cozy, packed-with-shops charm of Assembly Square, this one might leave you a little cold. Buy it for the techniques and the parts, not for the postcard looks.

Best for: modular collectors who care more about how a build works than how it photographs

The full review

What it is

So here's the big one for 2026. Shopping Street is the new LEGO® set carrying the modular buildings torch, and it's trying something the line has never really done before. Instead of one flat facade sitting square on its baseplate, you get two adjoining buildings set at an angle to each other with a narrow alley running between them. The sand green building on the left is a brass band shop called Brickleys, with brass instruments downstairs and percussion up top. The building on the right sells chairs and only chairs, with a little woodworking workshop above where they get made. Cap it off with a furnished apartment, a bathroom, and a roof garden complete with a pigeon coop, and you've got a set that's clearly out to shake things up rather than play the hits.

The catch

Now for the honest part, because this one has genuinely split the community. A lot of longtime modular fans looked at the reveal and shrugged. The word going around reddit is that it feels like a cobble of two older modulars, and more than a few people called it the weakest looking one in several years. The furniture shop especially takes flak for being cramped, it can barely hold its own stock. And at 249.99 dollars for roughly 3,458 pieces, the value is fine on paper but the interiors don't feel as stuffed with story as something like Assembly Square. If you were hoping for a bustling row of storefronts, the name Shopping Street is doing some heavy lifting, because it's really two specialist shops and a flat, not a high street.

Who it's for

So who should grab it? If you're the kind of builder who gets a little thrill from a 3-4-5 triangle done in bricks, or you've been hunting sand green parts for an older Green Grocer restoration, this is an easy yes. The build itself gets praised even by people who don't love the finished look, and the angled geometry makes far more sense once it's slotted between your other modulars on the shelf. But if you buy modulars purely for that charming, detailed, I-want-to-live-there feeling, you might want to see it in person or read a couple more reviews before committing. It's a builder's set first and a display piece second, and that's the whole thing in one line.

The parts story

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

The build is where this set earns its keep. The headline section is that central alley, where the two buildings meet at a 36.87 degree angle. That's not a random number, it's arctan of 3 over 4, the classic 3-4-5 Pythagorean triangle, with each anchoring stud sitting 3 across and 4 up from the last so the diagonal lands exactly 5 studs long and locks in solid. A true 45 degrees is mathematically impossible with normal LEGO connections, so the designers leaned into the geometry that actually works, and clicking your way along it is genuinely satisfying. Around that you get the usual modular rhythm of floors, walls, interiors and roof, but the angled sightlines and the rooftop pigeon coop keep the back half from dragging.

On pieces, the value story is quietly strong. There's no sticker sheet at all, everything decorated is printed, which modular fans always love, and the best new prints hide in the shop windows. The furniture maker is the standout figure with a fresh apron print torso and the only printed legs in the box, sitting alongside a furniture mover, a plumber, and the marching band twins in their band outfits. The recolored white pigeon is a fun touch, molded so the black core shows through as the eyes, beak and wing streaks. And the real treasure for collectors is the pile of sand green parts, including 1x8 bricks and 1x2 profile bricks, some of the most wanted elements in that shade and a big help if you're restoring the 2008 Green Grocer.

Fun facts

01The alley wall sits at exactly 36.87 degrees, arctan of 3 over 4, riding the 3-4-5 Pythagorean triple where every anchor stud is 3 across, 4 up, and 5 along the diagonal.
02According to the designer, the marching band twins are the first set of twins ever included in a LEGO modular building.
03It's the first modular in the line built as two separate angled structures with an alley between them, rather than a single flat facade.
04There are zero stickers, every decorated element is printed, and it stocks sand green bricks that collectors specifically hunt to restore the 2008 Green Grocer.