LEGO Contest Round-Up for May 2026
It may be time for some new contests – it’s May, after all. So here’s our contest calendar! There’s plenty on offer in our latest lineup of LEGO contests and challenges from across the AFOL community. May 2026 has a bit of everything to offer – and there’s nothing quite like a theme or a prompt to nudge you out of your comfort zone and push you to experiment building in ways you might not otherwise attempt.
We’ve listed them in order of deadline so you can plan your building time wisely—especially in a month that always seems to fly by. Be sure to check the LEGO activity calendar for local challenges and events near you. Some of our fondest memories, proudest builds, coolest trophies, and strongest friendships started with a contest entry, so we hope you’ll jump in and give one (or two) a try.
LEGO Ideas: Pokémon Trading Card Challenge - Build Your Card!
Create a brick-built Pokémon trading card in this unique collaboration between LEGO Ideas and Pokémon! Choose one from 30 different Pokémon and create a Full Art Pokémon card and with a bit of luck have it turned into an official LEGO set!
Deadline: May 6th
Prizes: The chance to have a set based on your creation as well a up to 4 runners up receiving 72151 Eevee, 72152 Pikachu and Poké Ball, 21358 Minifigure Vending Machine, 21365 Love Birds, and 21376 Orange Cat
Where to enter: LEGO Ideas
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The AdoraBuild, the ultimate LEGO celebration of all things cute and cuddly, is back! BrickNerd is challenging you to build your most charming, heartwarming, and adorable creations. We’re looking for builds that make us smile and go “Aww!” at first sight.
You can build in three categories: 1. Cuddly Characters, 2. Small Scale, and 3. Sweet Scenes. Enter them all and you can win the title of Master AdoraBuilder!
Deadline: May 9th
Prizes: There are tons of amazing prizes up for grabs including 72151 Eevee, 31165 Wild Animals: Panda Family & 60484 Rides - Gaming Race Car, 21365 Love Birds, 31382 Cute Animals: Playful Puppy Dog & 10349 Happy Plants, 43279 WALL-E and EVE, 77255 Lightning McQueen & 31376 Cute Hamster with a Flower, 40767 Up-Scaled Baby Astronaut, 40921 Up-Scaled Blue Astronaut Minifigure, a BrickNerd swag box, and Golden Nerdly Trophy!
Where to enter: Google Form on BrickNerd.com
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The Building Improvement Initiative discord hosts monthly building challenges, and this month is all about building the great beyond – be that underwater or in different planes of existence.
Deadline: May 10th
Prizes: Just the fun of building with LEGO!
Where to enter: Discord
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LEGO Ideas: Build the Legacy of the Batmobile
Celebrate what makes the Caped Crusader’s vehicle so special for you – and maybe see your Batmobile show up in a video game!
Deadline: May 15th
Prizes: 5 Grand Prize winners will have their Batmobile showcased in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, along with receiving a digital code for its Deluxe Edition on the gaming platform of their choice, as well as 4 LEGO Batman sets (76330, 76331, 76332, 76333)
Where to enter: LEGO Ideas
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Brethren of the Brick Seas: A Knight’s Tale
Pirates and jousting – what sounds odd at first was totally overlapping historically, and so it’s time to joust! Bring a knight, build across three categories with varying deadlines, and win a cool prize doing so!
Deadline: May 15th (Category A), June 1st (Category B & C)
Prizes: TBD
Where to enter: Eurobricks
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Create a portrait of a Black woman – Women’s Brick Initiative and BlackLUG prompt couldn’t be simpler! Historical or contemporary, widely known or personally meaningful – this contest is about celebrating black women, past and present, great and small.
Deadline: May 15th
Prizes: Just the joy of uplifting others with your creation!
Where to enter: Women’s Brick Initiative Website
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It’s the most magical time of the year! The fifth annual #DisneyHabitats26 challenge will run May 15th-17th with stacks on the 18th.
And check out our article on Habitat building tips here to get you started!
Deadline: May 15th-17th (post your stack on the 18th!)
Prizes: The fun of building!
Where to enter: Instagram
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Celebrate Your Colors
Let’s see if this activity floats your boat! Bricklink’s latest activity is putting together a parade – with its parade floats celebrating individuality, creativity and self-expression.
Choose a color to guide your float and build around how that color makes you feel!
Deadline: May 25th
Prizes: Winning entries will be featured on social media
Where to enter: Bricklink
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Summer is here and it’s time for all kind of sporty activities. Extreme, water, winter, aerial… – the sky is the limit in this month’s BrickCentral challenge!
Deadline: May 29th
Prizes: Just the fun of building with LEGO!
Where to enter: Threads & Discord
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Umbasa LUG Merchant Challenge
Umbasa LUGs monthly challenge is asking for scenes and minifigures of merchants – the fantastical kind. What wares or animal companions might they have? Or what kooky customers?
Deadline: May 31st
Prizes: Just the fun of building with LEGO!
Where to enter: Instagram
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Basketball mascots – halftime hype people, iconic costumes, electric energy. That and more is what the latest LEGO Ideas challenge is looking for – should you win, your submission will become a LEGO set!
Deadline: June 3rd
Prizes: The chance to have a set based on your creation, 1% of the new sales, 10 complimentary copies of the set once produced, as well as credit and bio as the LEGO Ideas Fan Designer in the set materials
Where to enter: LEGO Ideas
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A LEGO Star Wars The Clone Wars Contest
To celebrate RebelLUG’s 10 year anniversary RebelLUG is hosting a LEGO Star Wars contest for the ages, celebrating The Clone Wars!
Deadline: June 6th
Prizes: 1st Place: Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship (75409); 2nd Place: Venator-Class Attack Cruiser (75441) + Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack (75372); 3rd Place: Brick-Built Star Wars Logo (75407); RebelLUG Member Prize: AT-TE Walker (75337); Raffle Prize: Jedi Bob’s Starfighter (75388)
Where to enter: RebelLUG Discord Server
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The 13th annual Brickworld Film Festival is but a month away – and it’ll be the biggest festival to date!
Accepting international entries, Brickworld Film Festival is looking for films between 30 seconds and 5 minutes and 30 seconds long, of any theme.
Deadline: June 10th
Prizes: $1,600 USD in prizes plus trophies across eight different awards
Where to enter: Google Form
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Guilds of Historica: Towers and More
The latest Guilds of Historica challenge is all about technique: Build round towers from square bricks, and educate your fellow builds while doing so with WIPs and updates as you go. There’s also a second story-focused challenge!
Deadline: WIPs before May 1st, final entries July 1st
Prizes: The tower challenge offers 11373 Sauron’s Helmet and 71829 Lloyd’s Green Forest Dragon as prizes, the story-focused one might net you a 40478 Mini Disney Castle.
Where to enter: Eurobricks
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Eurobricks May the 4th Contest 2026
Eurobricks’ beloved May the 4th contest is back – with 3 different categories and lots of Star Wars MOCs to build! Will you create a set of dubious underworld characters, an alphabet starfighter or face interesting size restrictions?Whatever it may be, there’s a variety of prizes to be won!
Deadline: July 1st
Prizes: The winners for the three categories will receive a 20€ valued LEGO set of the winner’s choice, a 70€ valued LEGO set of the winner’s choice or a Smart Play X-Wing, respectively
Where to enter: Eurobricks
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Glup Bricko: A LEGO Star Wars Contest
With five categories and custom-built trophies to be won for each of them, you’d better be building a LEGO Star Wars creation this Summer!
Deadline: July 12th
Prizes: Custom-built trophies and more!
Where to enter: Discord or Flickr
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Summer Joust
Summer is upon us, and with that the return of the fan-favorite annual Summer Joust!
There are plenty of fresh, exciting categories and returning favorites to ensure you have plenty of castle-building motivation for the next two months. So buckle on your brick separator and get to work!
Categories and details will be announced June 1st!
Deadline: August 1st
Prizes: Lots of epic sets, parts packs and custom MOC prizes!
Where to enter: Flickr, Discord, or Instagram
More DetailsHappy building! See you here next month for our next LEGO community contest list. And if you would like us to add a contest, please email [email protected].
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