LEGO SpongeBob SquarePants Returns After 14 Years with Two Sets Launching 1 September 2026

The original LEGO SpongeBob SquarePants theme ran from 2006 to 2012 - a handful of sets per year - then disappeared entirely, skipping Dimensions, BrickHeadz, and everything else in between. After fourteen years away, the licence is back. Two sets launch on 1 September 2026, with pre-orders open now exclusively through LEGO.com and LEGO Stores across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom (11386) is the main event. An Icons set priced at £189.99 / $219.99 / €209.99, it runs to 1,794 pieces - roughly 10.6p per piece - and covers the full Conch Street lineup. SpongeBob's pineapple home comes with a living room and bedroom; Squidward's house includes a living room, bedroom, bathroom, and rooftop lounge; Patrick's rock gets a detailed interior; and there is a Jellyfish Fields scene besides. An open-back design keeps all three building interiors visible at once, giving the set genuine shelf presence without demanding the footprint of a modular.

Five minifigures are included: SpongeBob, Patrick Star, Squidward Tentacles, Gary the Snail, and DoodleBob. All three lead characters feature new moulds that sit considerably closer to their cartoon forms than anything from the original theme. Props include the boatmobile, Squidward's clarinet and music stand, and a portrait of Gary, with further Easter eggs scattered through the build.

At £189.99 this is well beyond impulse-buy territory, but 10.6p per piece is a fair rate for a licensed Icons set at this scale. The multi-building layout - four distinct locations in one set - justifies the spend more convincingly than the original theme's spread of smaller, cheaper sets ever could.

SpongeBob SquarePants Figure (40858) is the companion piece: a 72-piece BrickHeadz priced at £10.99 / $12.99 / €12.99, aimed at ages 10 and up. It works as a desk ornament, a sensible add-on alongside 11386, or a straightforward gift for younger fans and casual collectors.

The Icons label places 11386 squarely with adult builders - anyone who watched SpongeBob in the early 2000s is now in their late twenties or thirties. The original theme's building techniques have not aged particularly well, so the new character moulds and the more considered approach of the Icons line represent a meaningful step up for a licence that deserved better first time around.

Both sets are available to pre-order now from LEGO.com and LEGO Stores, with release on 1 September 2026.