To Me, My Lego November Sets!

October was a big month for a bunch of Lego lines, so it’s no surprise that November is historically the calm before the storm for the brick-maker. As fans eagerly look toward the annual sales and special sets coming near the end of the month, Lego usually makes new sets pretty sparse at its beginning. And while there are just two sets releasing this month, they’re far from small ones.

Yes, November is defined by some pretty major drops of Lego, making up for the spartan quantity. We’ve got a huge addition to the Marvel line with the long-rumored, highly anticipated X-Mansion, while Lego Ideas’ latest release invites you to take a moment and smell the roses with a beautifully ornate botanical garden that wouldn’t look out of place in anyone’s modular Lego City collection.

Check out more images and details below—including some of the bonus sets you can get with purchases this month!

Lego Marvel The X-Men: X-Mansion

We got a teeny tiny return to Lego X-Men sets with X-Men ’97‘s X-Jet earlier this year, but now Marvel’s mutants are truly back in action with this nearly 3,100-piece replica of Charles Xavier’s Westchester school for gifted children. Including a modular design to swap around the various facilities, from classrooms to Cerebro and the Danger Room (to, of course, Logan’s bedroom to recreate the iconic Animated Series meme), the set comes with 12 minifigures—Professor X, Magneto, Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, Bishop, Iceman, Wolverine, Bishop, and Jean Grey—as well as a brick-built sentinel for them to duke it out with.

($330, available here starting 11/1 for Lego Insiders and 11/4 generally)

See X-Men: The X-Mansion at LEGO

Lego Ideas Botanical Garden

The latest entry from Lego’s crowdsourced line of community-designed sets isn’t the usual Ideas fare of a splashy crossover with another major brand, but instead, something entirely original and unique: a huge, 3,800-piece botanical garden. Packed with brick-built plants and minifigure gardeners and visitors (12 in all), the set, designed by Lego fan Valentina Bima, is a clever mix of ornate architecture and tiny, detailed renditions of classic botanical plants. It’d be a perfect centerpiece for any Lego city display—a nice bit of greenery away from the tall buildings and bustling cityscape.

($330, available here starting 11/1 for Lego Insiders and 11/4 generally)

See The Botanical Garden at LEGO

November Lego Gift With Purchase Sets

While there’s only two sets (and pricey ones at that) releasing so far this month—expect Lego to reveal its traditional Black Friday set drop with its own bonus gift set soon—buyers can get a few extra goodies for purchasing directly through Lego this month. Running through November 11 (or while stock lasts) is the Ideas Books Are My Passion bonus set, another fan-designed extra that can be earned by spending $130 on any available sets.

See Books Are My Passion Gift at LEGO

The other two are specific additions for Lego Insider members buying the big sets of the month: purchases of the X-Mansion can get a bonus mini-replica of Charles Xavier in the mutant-tracking Cerebro room, while purchases of the Botanical Garden get a small entrance gate to add to the front of the set. Both will be available while supplies last or through November 7.

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