Creator

Wild Animals: Majestic Lion

A brick lion with a mane so cleverly built it kind of made me gasp.

Brick Rated Score

4.1/5

Set 31386 · 2026

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Year2026

Set number31386

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The verdict

The mane is the thing that got me here.

LEGO angled the head inside it on tiny ball joints so the whole face tilts and catches the light, and from the front this lion honestly looks proud. It is a genuinely lovely display animal for 839 pieces, though the 3-in-1 promise is where I have to be straight with you, because the lioness rebuild leans hard on the same torso. If you want one gorgeous cat on your shelf you will adore it. If you buy Creator sets for three wildly different models, temper that expectation.

Best for: Animal lovers who want one poseable, display-worthy cat rather than three totally different builds

The full review

What it is

I did not expect to be charmed by a bag of brown bricks, but the Majestic Lion won me over fast. This is a 2026 Creator 3-in-1 that builds a male lion, and with the same pieces a lioness or a pair of cubs, each one sitting on a little savanna side build of rocks and plants. The star is the head. LEGO holds it at an angle inside the mane using small ball joints, and the effect is that the face is not flat and dead-on, it tilts and gazes like a real animal surveying its patch. Add the poseable legs and jaw and you get a cat that can stand tall or flop down into a crouch, and it looks great doing both. At 839 pieces it has real presence on a shelf.

The catch

Now the honest caveats, because I owe you those. First, the price. At 69.99 dollars this is not a cheap animal, though the per-piece maths lands fine at roughly 8 cents. The bigger issue is the 3-in-1 spirit. Reviewers who rebuilt the lion into the lioness came away with a strong sense of repetition, because pretty much the whole torso comes apart only to go back together in nearly the same shape with a bit more brown up front. It works, but it does not feel like a fresh build, more like a variation on a theme. And the mane, glorious from the front, gives itself away from the side and back where it reads flatter than the real thing. None of this ruins the set, but it stops it short of an easy top mark.

Who it's for

So who should bring this one home. If you love big cats and you want a single, poseable, display-worthy lion that actually looks noble on a desk or bookshelf, this is an easy yes, and the cubs alternate is genuinely sweet if you have a younger builder in the house. It is rated 9 and up and comes with no stickers, which I always appreciate, plus tidy printing-free earthy parts you will happily raid for other projects. Who should skip it. If you buy Creator sets specifically for three dramatically different models from one box, the sameness of the rebuilds will nag at you, and you might be happier with a 3-in-1 that swings wider. But as a lion, purely as a lion, it is lovely.

The parts story

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

Building this is a calm, satisfying evening. There are 7 bags, 3 booklets and no stickers, and the flow moves from a sturdy internal skeleton out to the sculpted surface, so you spend the back half of the build watching a real animal shape emerge under your hands. The mane section is the highlight to assemble, a fiddly little cluster of angled plates and ball joints that clicks together into that tilted face, and it is the kind of technique that makes you sit back and admire how a few clever connections fake an organic curve out of rectangular bricks.

There is no rare unicorn part to chase here, and no minifigures, since the animal is the whole point. What you get instead is a big, genuinely useful haul of browns, tans and dark tan in curved slopes, small plates and joint elements, the bread-and-butter pieces that earthy MOC builders are always short of. The ball-joint and click-hinge parts that make the lion poseable are the real value, because they turn up in creature and mech building constantly. For 839 pieces in warm natural colours with zero filler, it is a quietly excellent parts pack dressed up as a cat.

Fun facts

01The set is part of LEGO's Summer 2026 Creator wave, which also introduced koalas, a pirate ship and a Ferris wheel.
02Only one figure can exist at a time, but fans note you can buy multiple copies and combine them into a full lion pride.
03The lion's head is deliberately mounted off-centre inside the mane on ball joints, which is what gives the face its lifelike, slightly turned gaze.
04It ships with no stickers at all, so every detail on the finished animal comes from the moulded and coloured bricks themselves.