Starting July 1, 2025, two free LEGO Ideas sets will be available for LEGO Insiders as gifts with purchase: 40788 Friendly Snails and 40789 Flying Moon Car.
LEGO Ideas is releasing two new free LEGO sets as gifts with purchase beginning July 1: 40788 Friendly Snails will be available with any purchase over $160 / €160, and 40789 Flying Moon Car will be available to LEGO Insiders for 2,500 points and added to any order.
Both of these new free LEGO sets were designed by fan builders as part of challenges on LEGO Ideas last year. 40789 Flying Moon Car and 40788 Friendly Snails were both winners of their respective challenges, having won over the LEGO Ideas team and LEGO fans alike. As is typical for LEGO Ideas sets, the fan projects underwent some redesigns before becoming official LEGO sets, but the spirits of the originals are still captured in the new sets.
40788 Friendly Snails was submitted to the Build the Gift of Purchase Set of your Dreams challenge under the name of The Autumn Snails. Fan designer Maxime, known as Jagamax on LEGO Ideas, used exactly 250 pieces in the initial project to create two snails, a fallen log and small display stand.
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The final model ups the piece count to 264, but keeps most things remarkably similar—the snail atop the log appears to be identical to the fan design based on the initial pictures. The log and the other snail each got a little bit of a makeover, but remain faithful to Maxime’s design. The bee from the initial idea also got carried over, keeping an extra bit of life and detail in the scene. While the set is intended to be displayed as a full unit, the snails can be easily removed and used elsewhere.
40789 Flying Moon Car was selected as the winner of the Exploring the Cosmos challenge by user EnchantingNoodle. The original project was titled Vehicle: Moon Car and delivered exactly that. A charming blue ship hovers over the lunar surface, with a convenient lamppost providing some light and directions.
Not much changed from the fan design to the official set—a testament to the quality of EnchantingNoodle’s build. 211 pieces go into the final product, with the biggest differences coming in the form of a redesigned lunar surface, a larger arrow on the lamppost and some colour swaps on the ship.
Both of these LEGO Ideas sets will be available starting July 1, 2025. 40788 Friendly Snails will be added to any purchases that meet the threshold and will be a time-limited item, while 40789 Flying Moon Car will require you to have a free LEGO Insiders account and 2,500 points to spend. That one is likely to be available only as long as supplies last, so if you’re interested in getting your hands on both sets, it’s probably a good idea to schedule your shopping for July 1.
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