LEGO's 2026 Advent Calendar lineup covers five themes this year: Star Wars, Marvel, City, Disney, and Friends. Every one of them follows the same basic format, 24 doors and 24 seasonal surprises, but the contents behind those doors are where the real differences show up.
EVORETRO hasn't covered LEGO Advent Calendars before, despite already covering holiday-season advent formats in NASCAR die-cast, Topps Holiday baseball, and hockey cards. That gap is worth closing now that all five 2026 themes have confirmed pricing and contents straight from LEGO's own site.
Each calendar hides genuinely exclusive minifigures, microdolls, or minidolls that either debut for the first time in that specific calendar or wear a holiday-only variant not sold anywhere else. That's the actual reason these sets sell out every year, not the small daily builds themselves.
This guide lines up all five 2026 themes side by side: price, piece count, age range, and exactly what's exclusive to each, so it's easier to decide which one fits a specific collector before digging into the deeper theme-by-theme guides that follow.
Priced at 62.99 CAD for 293 pieces and rated ages 6 plus, this year's Star Wars calendar leans into The Mandalorian. The Mandalorian and Moff Gideon minifigures and Grogu both appear in holiday sweaters, with Mando's and Grogu's sweaters each featuring an image of the other character.
The exclusives worth noting are a Jawa minifigure, an IG-11 minifigure, and a Pit Droid figure in festive colors, none commonly available elsewhere. Seven mini build vehicles round out the set, including Mando's N-1 Starfighter and the Razor Crest.
Also priced at 62.99 CAD, this 317-piece set for ages 6 plus includes six minifigures: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Dr. Doom, Ghost Spider (Gwen Stacy), Captain America, and Wolverine, each with festive accessories layered on top of their standard looks.
The daily builds lean into Marvel's cast rather than vehicles, a Captain America-themed photo booth, a Dr. Doom helicopter, and a Christmas tree built from green Wolverine claws are among the more distinctive surprises behind the 24 doors.
At 49.99 CAD for 252 pieces and ages 5 plus, City is the most straightforwardly holiday-themed calendar in the lineup. Santa, Mrs. Claus, three elves, a snowman, and a baby reindeer figure fill out the cast, and the box itself folds out into a Santa's Workshop playmat.
It's the lowest-priced calendar this year and the simplest build, which makes it the strongest entry point for a younger collector or a first-time LEGO Advent buyer.
Priced at 62.99 CAD for 290 pieces and ages 5 plus, Disney's calendar includes four microdolls, Ariel, Cinderella, Moana, and Mulan, each paired with their signature animal friend. That's a distinct format from every other calendar in this year's lineup, which use standard minifigures or minidolls instead.
The genuinely novel mechanic here is that the emptied box becomes a playable board game for up to eight players once every door has been opened, something none of the other four 2026 calendars offer.
At 49.99 CAD for 211 pieces and ages 6 plus, Friends includes three minidolls, Nova, Liann, and Aliya, plus six mini animal figures: a seal, pony, weasel, polar bear, penguin, and bunny. The minidolls write letters to Santa, wrap gifts, and throw snowballs across the daily reveals.
It shares City's lower 49.99 CAD price point but trades City's Santa's Workshop theme for a friendship-and-winter-activities framing built around its three recurring characters.
City and Friends both sit at the lower 49.99 CAD price point, while Star Wars, Marvel, and Disney all land at 62.99 CAD. Piece counts track roughly with price, Marvel's 317 pieces is the highest in the lineup, while Friends' 211 pieces is the lowest.
None of the five is meaningfully overpriced relative to the others once exclusives are factored in, the price gap mostly reflects piece count and the number of licensed characters packed into each box rather than one calendar offering less value than another.
Five: Star Wars, Marvel, City, Disney, and Friends.
City and Friends are both priced at 49.99 CAD, the lowest in the lineup.
Yes, every 2026 theme includes 24 seasonal surprises, one behind each door.
The Disney calendar, whose emptied box becomes a game board for up to eight players.
Five calendars means up to 24 exclusive minifigures, microdolls, and minidolls across the whole 2026 lineup, and small pieces like these are easy to lose once the countdown ends. A general-purpose case like EVORETRO's Lego Mini-figurine Display Case keeps them organized and visible instead of loose in a drawer.
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