Hello. My name is Bjarke Lykke Madsen and am a LEGO Model Designer.

I have a background in Mechanical Engineering. After my studies, I resumed my childhood interest in building with LEGO Bricks as a hobby. Later, I applied for the job as a LEGO Model Designer and started in 1997.

It has been my pleasure to work together with so many wonderful and multi-talented creative people within model-design, graphic-design and sculpture-design. All of them are great colleagues, and I am proud to call many of them my very best friends.

It´s important to emphasize, that making a new LEGO set and bringing it to the marked, is a very complex process that involves the skills, knowledge, experience and enthusiasm from hundreds of LEGO employees in many different departments: Design, Marketing, Building Instruction, Production, Packaging, Distribution and more. The goal is to make each LEGO set the best possible building- and play experience for our customers, and it only becomes possible, because everyone is working together to achieve this.
For this reason, and because I am a very strong believer in fairness, I have credited the colleagues, that I have worked together with on the various sets.

When new LEGO sets (that I have designed) have been released, I will continue to update this list with information which I hope will be interesting to LEGO enthusiasts of all ages.

Enjoy & kind greetings - Bjarke :)

Switch to view to "List" for fun facts and anecdotes.
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I typically work in the role of the "Idea Guy." I bridge the gap between wild ideas and realistic execution. Most of the sets on the list were finalized by another model designer! I work on early versions then hand them to off to amazing designers like Justin R, Antica B, Wes T, the Pokémon Design Team, and many others. It's a great feeling to hand it over to colleagues knowing they'll make it even better.
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As part of the early design work for LEGO Pokémon, we started a big update to our Bow Elements- it was a huge collaboration. We deleted, modified, and added many new bows to improve the building system. The first of them launched with 75398 C-3PO, more than a year and a half before the LEGO Pokémon Smart Play sets launched.

All LEGO sets, no matter how big or small, are the result of teamwork in some capacity. We work together with and get input from other designers, graphic designers, element designers, model coaches, the people who make the building instructions and many more. I just made this list to keep track of the LEGO sets I have worked on since starting at the company in 2019.

This list includes the LEGO models I’ve designed since joining the LEGO Group in 2021. As a lifelong Star Wars fan and all-around geek, designing LEGO Star Wars models is my dream job. I’ve included some notes on the development of each model in the list below.

Bringing any LEGO set to life is a highly collaborative process with many contributors. While it’s impossible to name every person who brainstormed and offered great ideas, I’ve done my best to highlight the key people involved in each set. Thanks for reading!

A list of sets I have designed/worked on as a Model Designer for The LEGO Group since March 2024

This compilation of sets is a handy tool for anyone looking to adorn their homes, cottages, kingdoms or desktop backgrounds with what are, without any doubt, superb efforts by the Lego company to make replicas of household utensils through their crafty manufactures.

Magnificently littered with a range of significantly gray Star Wars battleships, cruisers and other 'things,' this list is definitive and a panacea for all Star Wars fans, non-fans and slavish devotees. The recommendations made for the proper utilization of these sets are in no way prescriptive and should be tested thoroughly before being put into practical use. Use this list at your own risk. Enjoy.

This bricklist is the controversial companion to its predecessor and consists of those sets that really should have been thought a bit more about before being released by Lego. Superbly littered with a collection of those painstakingly annoying sets that made you cringe, this list will enlighten you in ways unimaginable. The set with the worst design. The set with the utterly useless baseplate. The set with the ugliest minifigure. The set with the most worthless bricks. The set that will make you vomit. The set that will make you vomit and then eat your own vomit. The set that will make you vomit, eat your own vomit, and then vomit again...I digress, this experience is relative – but the scenarios are endless.

Peer within if you have the gall to do so. Peer within if you want a glimpse of the complete failuredom of Lego. Oh heck, just peer within!

P.S. This goes out as an Easter gift and appreciation to all those wonderful brickset users who favourited my last bricklist. Thanks guys!! I hope you enjoy this one!

NB. Also, this is a wholly creative piece of work and no defamation is intended.

This list collates all ships released by Lego, in chronological order, since the beginning of the Pirates line. It includes POTC but it excludes re-releases, mini-versions and any ships that are not to minifig scale (Duplo, juniorised era releases.. etc).

This is the list of the biggest LEGO sets of all time by number of pieces.

Updated June 6, 2026. Added the placement at the sets release date for comparison!

Fixed a glitch with 70620 being in the wrong placement. No clue how long that was there, but it’s fixed now! -05/26/2026

If you had all of these sets, it would add up to 222,545 pieces. (Broke 200K pieces in 2023!)

This list reached a milestone in 2023 - every set in this list is over 4000 pieces! I remember starting this list circa 2017-2018 and only about five or six sets at the time were over 4000, with number 35 reaching as low as the 2700s. Interesting to see how quickly large sets like these have been coming out!

The set 40179 Personalized Mosaic is not included because it is not the same set every time. It has the same number of pieces in every set, but the final product is never consistent. In addition, there are two versions of the set, one with 4,502 pieces, and one with 6,002 pieces which adds to the inconsistency.

Other people have tried to list all of Jamie Berard's sets - what's special about this list? I tracked him down on Facebook to ask him firsthand which sets he did. His response was detailed and precise, but making it readily available (and easy to follow with pictures) on Brickset seemed like a good idea. His comments are in quotes, the sporadic other notes were info I happened to know (let me know if I should add something).

Newer sets have been added (by Brickset staff?) that did not appear on Jamie's original Facebook list, but have been publicly attributed to Jamie elsewhere (such as in official designer videos advertising the sets).

Hello. My name is Bjarke Lykke Madsen and am a LEGO Model Designer.

I have a background in Mechanical Engineering. After my studies, I resumed my childhood interest in building with LEGO Bricks as a hobby. Later, I applied for the job as a LEGO Model Designer and started in 1997.

It has been my pleasure to work together with so many wonderful and multi-talented creative people within model-design, graphic-design and sculpture-design. All of them are great colleagues, and I am proud to call many of them my very best friends.

It´s important to emphasize, that making a new LEGO set and bringing it to the marked, is a very complex process that involves the skills, knowledge, experience and enthusiasm from hundreds of LEGO employees in many different departments: Design, Marketing, Building Instruction, Production, Packaging, Distribution and more. The goal is to make each LEGO set the best possible building- and play experience for our customers, and it only becomes possible, because everyone is working together to achieve this.
For this reason, and because I am a very strong believer in fairness, I have credited the colleagues, that I have worked together with on the various sets.

When new LEGO sets (that I have designed) have been released, I will continue to update this list with information which I hope will be interesting to LEGO enthusiasts of all ages.

Enjoy & kind greetings - Bjarke :)

Based on the movies, at least until we get a "House of Tom Bombadil" set from Lego. Note that any LOTR/Hobbit set not on the list either doesn't depict any specific scene, or is chronologically ambiguous (mostly single-minifigure sets).

Total sets per movie:

An Unexpected Journey: 5
Desolation of Smaug: 10
Battle of the Five Armies: 2
Fellowship of the Ring: 11
The Two Towers: 5
Return of the King: 7

Ninjago sets containing ninja suits/variants, which have never appeared in any canon media.
This list does NOT count minifigures like NJO0037 or NJO0103, since you can remove their extra armor and make them completely story-accurate.
I'm including non-canon versions of Wu, Skylor and Lil' Nelson as well, because it makes sense to group them with the ninja.
Officially released items that aren't in Brickset's database:
Exclusive variants of Sora and Arin available at LEGO stores in 2023
Minifigure Factory exclusive torso prints of the Ninja's Fortnite outfits

BrickList created on 14 May 2025

BrickList created on 14 May 2025