Why make a house out of gingerbread when you can make a giant walking death machine out of the same materials? That’s the question the designers of this incredible set were brave enough to ask. And the answer is one of my favorite LEGO sets ever made. I built this set and found it to be utterly delightful from start to finish. By the way, if you want a standard gingerbread house set, keep on reading.

Want a fun little build that doubles as a tasteful Christmas decoration? Grab this buildable poinsettia. It looks like the seasonal flower and comes in its own buildable pot. But you don’t have to water it, and it lasts forever. Build it once, and you can set it out every year when the holidays roll around.

This festive set is a Christmas train and 16 pieces of circular track. The idea is build it and display it around the base of your Christmas tree, which is pretty clever. The train is fully decked out in holiday cheer, with wreathes and holly pinned to it, plus a whole train car wrapped in a bow and a giant polar teddy bear. It’s not motorized, but as you push the train around the track, the smokestack and bear move. As an added bonus, this set includes the first-ever 3D-printed LEGO piece, a miniature train engine.

LEGO has had a whole bunch of Christmas sets over the years, many of them featuring an adorable little Santa minifigure. This set celebrates that most generous and cheerful minifig, with a scaled-up buildable version of it that’s nearly a foot tall.

Gremlins is set at Christmas, which in my book makes it a Christmas movie. It even has a Scrooge-like character in the form of the greedy real estate maven, Mrs. Deagle. The only difference is, she doesn’t exactly have a change of heart in the end. What she does have is one of the most memorable deaths in the movie, which is really saying something. Anyway, here’s a nostalgic Gizmo build that would make an excellent Christmas decoration.

For a serious holiday LEGO build, this family Christmas tree is just the ticket. It’s over a foot and a half tall and over a foot wide and deep. Plus, this tree contains all sorts of holiday secrets within. It also comes with a sleigh, reindeer and snowman, plus elves, Santa and Mrs. Claus, and more. There’s even Cataclaws, which is a brick-built tuxedo cat with holiday accessories.

If there's one movie I make sure to watch every holiday season, it's Home Alone. It's my favorite Christmas movie of all time, and only partially because the climax is 20 minutes of Kevin McCallister delivering cartoonish amounts of pain on the burglars who've been stalking him all movie. It's also a fantasically efficient script, and the end never fails to bring a tear to the eye. This set, which we built when it came out, has you recreate the McCallister mansion, complete with tons of scenes and Easter eggs from the movie.

If the giant AT-AT Imperial death machine from Star Wars doesn’t appeal to you as a Christmas decoration, maybe this standard gingerbread house will do the trick. It’s a colorful, snowy wonder, complete with candy stripes and polka dots on the outside and spacious rooms on the inside. It comes with a Santa minifig with a gift bag accessory.

For a modest $12.99, you can pick up this pair of snowman Christmas ornaments. They’re cute little guys wrapped up in winter gear, complete with rosy cheeks and carrot noses. They also have hoops on the tops of their heads so you can actually hang them on your tree.

That's it for Christmas stuff, but we have plenty of other LEGO coverage for you to enjoy. Check out the LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight sets based on the upcoming video game. There's also an awesome LEGO Goonies set coming in early November.

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