The Best of Speed Champions: A 10-Year (Okay, 11-Year) Retrospective
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Caleb Wagoner, a car and sports car racing enthusiast and AFOL, reviews some of the best LEGO Speed Champions sets from the past decade. He focuses on sets that balance good part selection, creative building techniques, and how well they capture the source material.
The first set highlighted is the 75892 McLaren Senna. This set stands out for its floating windscreen design, which captures the glass in the doors. It also uses Nexo Knights axes as headlights and transparent red spear tips as taillights. The set was also a good way to get the new cut baby bows in dark grey in quantity at the time of its release. The angular nature of the LEGO bricks complements the Senna's design well.
Next, Wagoner discusses the 76910 Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro & Aston Martin Vantage GT3 set, released in 2022. The Valkyrie's unique shape led LEGO to forgo the standard Speed Champions base piece. Instead, the set repurposes a part typically used for axles to form the body where the minifigure sits. The cockpit features complex bracket work to build out the surrounding structure.
For LEGO fans looking to display their Speed Champions sets, consider getting a LEGO display case to showcase them.
Speed Champions has come a long way in just over a decade, evolving far beyond its 6-wide roots. From clever parts usage to boundary-pushing builds, we revisit the LEGO cars that pushed the theme forward—and decide which set is the best yet.
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