The new Australian LEGO retail catalogue for the first half of 2018 (Jan – June) was recently released and with it comes all the local retail release dates for the Aussie market.

If you want to view the catalogue, you’ll have to download the LEGO 3D catalogue app on your Apple or Android device. Links: iOS Android

There’s nothing particularly groundbreaking in the catalogue, and certainly no new sets or themes that we weren’t already aware of.

I have to commend LEGO Australia for being a little quicker at getting sets on shelves this year, compared to previous years. Still not too happy that we have to wait till March for DC and Elves yet, but progress is progress. Hope this keeps up into the second half of the year.

In terms of the most exciting and newsworthy bits of the catalogue, it’d have to be the release dates for upcoming themes – Jurassic World, Speed Champions The Avengers Infinity War, and Solo: A Star Wars Story, which are due to arrive on shelves in March & April.

For fans of Jurassic World *raises hands excitingly*, there’s going to be a boatload of sets this time around from Duplo, to Juniors to regular LEGO sets. I guess LEGO finally realised that dinosaur moulds = license to print money.

Really excited to get my hands on the Jurassic World sets!

I’m also really pumped to see the new Speed Champions sets, especially the Porsche cars!

Here’s the retail release schedule for all the sets and themes that are headed to Australian toy stores in the next few months.

January 2018 releases

City
Classic (60th Anniversary)
Friends
Duplo
LEGO Batman Movie Wave 3
The LEGO Batman Movie Minifigures
Star Wars

February 2018 releases

Juniors
Classic
Creator
Disney Princess
Ninjago
Nexo Knights
Marvel Black Panther

March 2018 releases

Elves
DC Super Heroes
DC/Marvel Mighty Micros
Minecraft
Technic

April 2018 releases

Jurassic World
Solo: A Star Wars Story

You can click on each theme here, and it will send you straight to their respective sections along with details on set pricing and LEGO.com links if you’re keen on purchasing them straight away. Just wait, no point buying stuff at full price when you know you can get at least 20% off when they go on sale.

New Duplo – January 2018

New Juniors – February 2018

New Classic – January/February 2018

New Creator – February 2018

New Juniors – February 2018

New Disney Princess – February 2018

New Friends – January 2018

New Elves – March 2018

New LEGO City – January 2018

New Marvel/DC Mighty Micros – March 2018

New Marvel Black Panther – February 2018

New DC Mighty Micros – March 2018

The LEGO Batman Movie – January 2018

New Nexo Knights – February 2018

New Ninjago – February 2018

The LEGO Batman Movie Minifigures Series 2 – January 2018

New Minecraft – March 2018

New Star Wars – January 2018

New LEGO Technic – March 2018

List of Australian Retail Exclusives (first half of 2018)

In the catalogue, you may notice that there are a few LEGO sets missing. These tend to be retailer exclusives (the catalogue only displays sets you can buy at all toy stores) and LEGO Australia was also kind enough to send through a list of retailer exclusives this year.

So if you’re on the hunt for specific retailer sets, here’s a handy guide to which store has which set. The only omission from this year’s calendar that I can think of is Brickheadz. There’s no mention of the new Star Wars, Seasonal or Justice League Brickheadz. Currently following up on that, so stay tuned once I receive more information.

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