Yes, LEGO has become more expensive, but less neatly than the individual news posts suggest. Two things are solid: in August and September 2022 the LEGO Group raised the RRP of roughly a quarter of the range at the time, and since October 2025 the Death Star (set 75419) is the first standard set with an RRP of nearly a thousand euros. That is the ceiling, and it moved up.
At the same time, the “everything is getting pricier” picture doesn’t hold for the shop price you pay today. Plenty of sets sit below their RRP, including sets that were raised in 2022. The price that counts is not last year’s RRP, but what the cheapest Dutch shop asks for it right now.
This page is a live index, not a time machine. We keep our own price data and pair it with the official increases known from LEGO’s announcements and the trade press. Where our data can’t prove something, we say so, because for anyone tracking prices that distinction is the whole point.
What officially went up: 2022 in the EU, 2025 in the US
The last broad increase in the Netherlands was 2022. Around August and September the RRP of an estimated 150 to 190 sets rose, roughly a quarter of the portfolio. The rises ranged from a few percent to twenty or twenty-five percent. LEGO pointed at higher costs for raw materials, energy and transport at the time.
A few Dutch examples make it concrete, and you can see them in our data because the raised RRP still applies. The Tree House (21318) went up by about a quarter to its current RRP of € 249,99. The Haunted House (10273) rose by roughly a fifth, to € 299,99. The Bookshop modular (10270) got a smaller rise of about a tenth, to € 199,99.
The 2025 round happened elsewhere. In March 2025 LEGO raised the price of a series of sets in the United States, including four Jurassic World Rebirth sets that became six and a half to fourteen percent pricier. The smallest of them went from 24.99 to 27.99 dollars. That rise coincided with new US import tariffs, but LEGO did not explicitly tie the two together.
For Dutch buyers the most important sentence of this whole piece is this: that US round did not touch the EU. Our RRPs for those exact same sets held. Set 76970 still has a Dutch RRP of € 24,99 and 76973 sits at € 99,99, both at the pre-increase US level. A price increase in America is no reason to buy quickly in the Netherlands.
The Death Star as a benchmark
The Death Star launched in October 2025 and, at 9,023 pieces and an RRP of € 999,99, is the most expensive standard set LEGO has ever sold. For comparison: the Millennium Falcon (75192) from 2017 was the ceiling for years at an RRP of € 849,99, and that limit held for a long time. The Death Star lifted it sharply in a single move.
That ceiling rises structurally, and that’s a different story from the broad 2022 RRP round. In such a round, existing sets get pricier. With the ceiling, every year brings a new, more expensive flagship while the old ones simply stay on sale. For the average buyer little changes in that latter case; it mostly says something about how much room LEGO sees at the top of the market.
What our live numbers show
On 9 July 2026 our index held an RRP for 4,043 of the 4,542 active sets, roughly nine in ten. That is enough to draw an average per theme, and that average tells you where the expensive sets sit.
Icons leads by a wide margin with the highest average RRP, roughly five times that of City, the cheapest large theme. In between sit Technic, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Marvel, in that order. What stands out is that Star Wars lands mid-field on that average, while the very priciest individual sets are Star Wars: the Death Star, the Falcon, the AT-AT. That’s because the theme is also packed with cheap sets, from polybags to games, which drag the average down. A high average and a high top price are two different things.
More important for your wallet is the gap between RRP and what you pay now. Our price data shows the lowest current price per set across all tracked shops, and for most older sets that sits below RRP.
Take the three sets above. The Tree House and the Haunted House were both raised in 2022, yet now sit below their new RRP, because they have been available for years and the market has slowly let the price drop. The Bookshop is the exception: it’s creeping toward retirement, which has pushed its lowest price above the RRP. That is exactly where an RRP round and the real market pull apart.
The real price rise is in the retired sets
Anyone talking about “LEGO that got four or five times as expensive” almost always means retired sets: models that are out of production and only available second-hand or through marketplaces. That’s where the spectacular rises are, and where the biggest caveat lives.
A snapshot on 9 July 2026 found, for a few sought-after classics from 2013 and 2014, asking prices around seven to eight times the original RRP: the Tower of Orthanc (10237), Battle for Ninjago City (70728) and The Lonely Mountain (79018). But those are individual listings on the second-hand market, some of them used, and the spread is enormous. In our own live data there are currently zero new shop stocks for these three sets; they simply no longer exist as a new product. So the premium is real, but it isn’t a price LEGO or a regular shop charges.
For buyers the lesson is soberer than the percentages suggest. A retired set can rise sharply in value, but only if it’s complete, sealed and in demand, and you still have to find a buyer who pays that price. If you want to go down that road, first read our guide on the value of retired LEGO sets and LEGO as an investment, where we hold each of those assumptions up to the light.
Why prices are rising
The 2022 increases were cost-driven, in a year when sourcing and shipping costs rose across almost the entire industry. Licences add to that on themed sets; a UCS Star Wars box carries a royalty a generic Creator set does not, which partly explains why the price leaders are so often licensed sets.
But there’s a second layer, and you can read it in the company’s own figures. In 2025 the LEGO Group posted a record year: revenue rose twelve percent to 83.5 billion Danish kroner and net profit twenty-one percent to 16.7 billion kroner. A company growing at that pace feels little pressure to keep prices low and plenty of room to open a pricier segment at the top. The Death Star is the logical exhibit. Pricing power isn’t a conspiracy; it’s simply what a strong brand does after a record year.
What to do with this as a buyer
The practical side is simpler than the news posts. Three things work.
Buy a set you’re sure you want to keep sooner rather than later if it’s heading for retirement. The biggest price jump isn’t in an RRP round but in the moment a set goes out of production and stock dries up, as with the Bookshop. For how that price path looks, read why LEGO prices move.
For a set that’s still available, never just pay the RRP. The same set varies by shop, and those differences are often bigger than an RRP round. How we compare that and where the traps are is in how LEGO price comparison works. You’ll find the current prices per shop on every set page and in the deals overview.
Set a price alert on the sets you have your eye on. Then you don’t have to follow this kind of news yourself: you get a message when the price drops, and you’ll see for yourself when a set becomes structurally more expensive as it nears the end of its life.
What we can and can’t see
For completeness, and because this page is meant to be cited: here is what our data does and doesn’t prove.
Does: the current RRP of 4,043 active sets, the current lowest shop price per set across the tracked retailers, and the average RRP per theme. With that we can show which sets are expensive now and how far above or below RRP you pay.
Doesn’t: how an RRP moved over the years. We keep a single current RRP per set, not a historical series, and our separate price history spans a window of about thirty days. The concrete increase figures for 2022 and 2025 in this piece therefore come from the official LEGO announcements and the trade press, not from our own history.
Sources for the increases: the LEGO Group (news posts on the September 2025 Death Star reveal and the March 2026 full-year 2025 results), Brickset and the regular LEGO trade press on the 2025 US round, and bouwsteentjes.info on the 2022 European round. Our price and set data come from BricksDeal, with a snapshot taken on 9 July 2026. Prices move daily; this page was last updated on 10 July 2026 by Frank Spin and is revised as soon as a new RRP round is confirmed.
Three sets at the top of the market
The most expensive LEGO models currently on sale as new, with their RRP and what you actually pay for them right now.
The most expensive standard set LEGO has ever released: 9,023 pieces, RRP € 999,99, one cent under a thousand euros. The cheapest retailer already sits −5% below that, at € 949,00.
At 9,090 pieces the largest model LEGO sells. The RRP of € 679,99 has held for years, and you currently pay € 679,99: usually just the RRP, because flagships like this rarely drop.
The most expensive Technic set in our index: RRP € 679,99 for 2,883 pieces. Now au prix conseillé lower, at € 923,99.
RRP versus what you actually pay
Three sets that lived through the 2022 RRP round. Two you can still buy below the raised RRP; one has crept above it.
Rose by about a quarter in 2022 to its current RRP of € 249,99. Yet you now pay less: € 343,19, which is au prix conseillé below that raised RRP.
Went up around a fifth in RRP in 2022. That RRP now stands at € 299,99; the current lowest price is prix actuel à venir, au prix conseillé below it.
Also raised in 2022, but this modular is heading for retirement. Its lowest price € 329,99 now sits above the RRP of € 199,99: retirement moves the price more than any RRP round.
