Everything You Need to Know About LEGO Ideas 21358 Prize Machine | June 2025

We've already seen official pictures of 21357 Disney Pixar Luxo Jr., but in just a couple of days time the second LEGO Ideas set launching on the 1st of June 2025 will be officially presented. 21358 Prize Machine will become the 66th LEGO Ideas set ever and the fifth, and likely most popular, of the calendar year.

21358 was announced in the results of the 2023 review phase, alongside the currently available 21356 River Steamboat, but releases this summer to mark the 50th anniversary of the LEGO Minifigure. In this article, we'll be discussing everything you need to know about this extra special 18+ LEGO Ideas set ahead of its presentation on Tuesday, the 20th of May 2025...

The Important Details

As we've already vaguely mentioned, 21358 is one of two LEGO Ideas sets launching on the 1st of June 2025 alongside over seventy more new brick-built LEGO Models. 21358, however, is more on the expensive side with a recommended retail price of $169.99 / €169.99 / £149.99. 1,343 pieces are included within this model, making this set have quite a harsh price-per-piece ratio, especially considering the lack of licenses.

This, however, can be explained but its 16 Minifigures, which are also included in the 18+ model to celebrate 50 years of the iconic LEGO Minifigure. Once the Ideas model launches on the 1st of June 2025, it will be available exclusively in LEGO stores and LEGO shop@home and will likely be extremely popular with such an incredible selection of Minifigures and a beautiful brick-built display model.

The Original Idea

The Prize Machine, like every official LEGO Ideas mode,l began as a fan made submission from Rob Vangansewinkel (aka Goosestore). The set was approved in May 2024 to originally celebrate the 45th anniversary of the LEGO Minifigure, but 2025 marks 50 years since the Danish toy manufacturers first released the Minifigure we've come to know and love. In fact, 1975s LEGO Minifigure originally included unmovable legs and no arms, showcasing just how far our yellow brick-built figures have come

The idea itself has been further developed by the official LEGO designers, but not by much. The build and idea of a red brick-built Minifigure prize machine remains the same, but what can be won has changed a lot. And this first started out when the LEGO Group ran a competition allowing the community to vote for the next colour of a brand new Classic Space Minifigure and emblem of a new Castle faction to be included in the final model releasing next month.

The Build

21358 will be one of the most unique and expressive LEGO Ideas models yet, with its interactive and fully functional elements. The Prize Machine will be a fully working build where builders can insert a token, turn the dial, and a Minifigure capsule will be dispensed from the entirely brick-built machine. Most of the prize machine will be red with further hints of grey and an entirely clear section of pieces to showcase the prizes on offer.

Printed 2x2 round tiles to represent coins will be included to simulate that arcade-like feeling of placing coins into a real prize machine. A total of 16 prizes can be won with each being a Minifigure inside a ball with either a yellow or blue bottom half, along with a clear top half. Each Minifigure is obviously in pieces in the ball, along with their accessories, making each play of the machine a complete mystery.

Minifigure Lineup

Those 16 prizes are 16 Minifigures, with the majority of these being exclusive in some form or another. A total of eight Minifigures are based on the previous community vote, with two LEGO Knights based on the Griffin faction and two more based on the Kraken faction. Meanwhile, the other four consist of the iconic classic LEGO Space Minifigure in new colours of warm gold and bright bluish green.

The rest of the Minifigures continue to include an exciting range of prints, accessories and references to iconic and nostalgic LEGO themes. There's a male and female Minifigure with printed LEGO Paradise torsos, an elephant and a bear with a LEGO Fabuland torso print, and two LEGO pirates of a male with a sword and a female admiral with a map and pistol. Finally, a Minifigure with the LEGO Ideas logo printed on their torso is included along with a LEGO Ideas designer with the mini version of the prize machine.

So that's everything you need to know about 21358 Prize Machine, but what do you think? Will you be purchasing 21358 in just under two weeks time? What are you looking forward to most about the fully functional Minifigure Prize Machine? Which of the Minifigures are you looking forward to getting? Would you like the LEGO Ideas platform to do more, individual set votes? Let us know your thoughts and opinions in the comments below.