The LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth sets releasing in 2025 deliver everything you’d expect from a dinosaur movie tie-in collection, with one standout (brick-built) set.
The Jurassic World franchise continues this summer with Jurassic World Rebirth, a standalone sequel to the Jurassic World trilogy that only concluded three years ago with Jurassic World Dominion.
Rebirth takes place five years after Dominion and is set on a remote, overgrown island where Earth’s remaining dinosaurs continue to survive in tropical conditions similar to the environments they once flourished in. A team is tasked with infiltrating this ‘forbidden island’ to seek out the largest dinosaurs of land, sea, and air because the DNA of these creatures is believed to hold the key to a cure to save the lives of many people.
From what we’ve seen in the trailers and imagery so far, it looks like a cross between Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones and any of the first three Jurassic Park movies, and from a LEGO perspective, it offers the opportunity to takes things in two welcome directions – into a wild jungle environment and back to relatively traditional dinosaurs.
The six LEGO sets releasing for Jurassic World Rebirth offer a variety of scenarios, dinosaurs and build-and-play experiences for mainly the younger audience. Whilst older LEGO fans are taken care of with the likes of the Fossils collection (you’re a fossil) headed by 76968 Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex, there are a couple of aspects to this collection that may pull you in.
LEGO Jurassic World 76970 Baby Dinosaur Dolores: Aquilops review
76970 Baby Dinosaur Dolores: Aquilops
Release: June 1, 2025
Retiring: TBC
Price: £19.99 / $27.99 / €24.99
Pieces: 339
Minifigures: 0
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We were prepared to dislike 76970 Baby Dinosaur Dolores: Aquilops. Honestly. We thought it would be this weird little alien-looking creature that we’d easily write off as for the youngest builders out there – not for grown-ups.
But look at that little face, don’t you just want to squish it? And those big eyes, isn’t Dolores the cutest little Aquilops you’ve ever seen? These buildable baby dinosaurs have something about them, and, it should be noted, they are also some of the best-value Jurassic World sets – not a moulded dinosaur in sight.
LEGO Jurassic World 76972 Raptor Off-Road Escape review
76972 Raptor Off-Road Escape
Release: June 1, 2025
Retiring: TBC
Price: £29.99 / $39.99 / €34.99
Pieces: 285
Minifigures: 2
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The 30th Anniversary Jurassic Park sets from 2023 included a mid-range vehicle-and-dinosaur set that absolutely knocked it out of the park in terms of design, playability and all-round great value. 76958 Dilophosaurus Ambush delivered a smaller-designed, single-mould Dilophosaurus, a detailed vehicle build, a single minifigure, and a little piece of scenery (with broken road sign) in just 211 pieces, all for £20.99 / $19.99 / €26.99.
76972 Raptor Off-Road Escape looks to continue in the same vein, but with 74 extra pieces, including an additional minifigure and baby dinosaur presumably key to Rebirth’s story. It has the result of upping the price of this vehicle-and-small-dinosaur set to £29.99 / $39.99 / €34.99.
The play feature that hides the Velociraptor in the bushes and allows you to burst them out to attack is clever in design and effective as a play feature, whilst the print for the Raptor is really nicely done and once again highlights the effectiveness of these smaller dinosaurs, particularly in scale to the minifigures they are saying hello to.
Meanwhile, the vehicle design is surprisingly detailed for a 6+ set and offers good space for both included characters, the baby dinosaur and space in the back for bits and pieces.
Overall, there’s little to fault in the design and playability of this set, even if it doesn’t quite recreate the magic (and excellent value) of 76958 Dilophosaurus Ambush from just two years ago.
LEGO Jurassic World 76973 Raptor & Titanosaurus Tracking Mission review
76973 Raptor & Titanosaurus Tracking Mission
Release: June 1, 2025
Retiring: TBC
Price: £89.99 / $109.99 / €99.99
Pieces: 582
Minifigures: 3
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Aside from 76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission, 76973 Raptor & Titanosaurus Tracking Mission is a standout set from the LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth range for the sheer amount that comes in the box, even with what on paper reads as a limited piece count.
There’s more than the box art shows you too, with a mini campsite and tree for the gigantic Titanosaurus to interact with, and a fun abandoned gas station to explore, complete with slushie machine and mouldy hotdog.
Whilst the small camping set-up and tree leaves a little to be desired, the gas station is packed with detail that includes the effects of time that the jungle has had on the location. It makes it very playable, whilst the layout is perfect for either of the included vehicles to interact with – and the Velociraptor to hide in between too.
In all, whilst the price-per-piece ratio is still not great here, there’s a lot going on in story and play to make 79673 Raptor & Titanosaurus Tracking Mission a highlight set for the summer.
LEGO Jurassic World 76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission review
76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission
Release: June 1, 2025
Retiring: TBC
Price: £54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99
Pieces: 858
Minifigures: 2
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How many instances can you think of where a LEGO set has stated in its official name that it is brick-built? Whilst it seems like the most literal statement of any LEGO release, it’s significant for a Jurassic World playscale set, and so 76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission is named as it is. Instead of containing a dinosaur made up of large, moulded plastic parts, 76974 comes with lots of little moulded plastic parts to build its included dinosaur – the Mosasaurus – completely out of more traditional LEGO parts. The eyes are printed, as are some wedge pieces across the back, but the rest is made up of regular old LEGO bricks.
Whilst Creator 3-in-1 has given us many a buildable dinosaur of late, 76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission makes for a refreshing experience within the context of a Jurassic World set, and one that is still just as wholly relevant to the same play and display experience as any of the other sets with the goofier moulded dinosaurs.
Indeed, if the cost can be as low as this for a Jurassic World set and the design of the dinosaurs be as good as this then there’s every chance that 76974 is more than just a standout set from the summer 2025 Jurassic World sets, but also a turning point for the theme as a whole at a time when more affordable LEGO sets are needed more than ever.
LEGO Jurassic World 76975 T. rex River Escape review
76975 T. rex River Escape
Release: June 1, 2025
Retiring: TBC
Price: £44.99 / $49.99 / €49.99
Pieces: 199
Minifigures: 2
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76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission isn’t the only set to make an argument for changing LEGO Jurassic World’s design philosophy – sets like 76975 T. rex River Escape make just as strong of a case. For only £10 less than the 858-piece Mosasaurus set, this T. rex set offers a staggering 199 pieces. Another way of looking at it is in comparison to the 285-piece 76972 Raptor Off-Road Escape, which comes in £29.99 / $39.99 / €34.99.
In any comparison, 76975 T. rex River Escape offers some of the worst value for money we’ve seen from any LEGO set in a long while (or at least since the last set containing a similar T. rex), and is wholly indicative of the ever-increasing cost of producing big moulded, printed plastic parts for the dinosaurs.
There is a hint to the chase sequence that this set portrays in the trailers, as it apparently comes from the original Jurassic Park book. From a play and collector’s mindset, there’s enough going here to be interesting. The transition from land to water is nicely played out in the tiny piece count, whilst, as with a number of the other sets in this collection, the minifigures are exclusive.
Such is the price of this set and how little you receive for the money, though, we can’t see enough value to recommend 79675 T. rex River Escape.
LEGO Jurassic World 76976 Spinosaurus & Quetzalcoatlus Air Mission review
76976 Spinosaurus & Quetzalcoatlus Air Mission
Release: June 1, 2025
Retiring: TBC
Price: £139.99 / $159.99 / €149.99
Pieces: 984
Minifigures: 4
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76976 Spinosaurus & Quetzalcoatlus Air Mission offers the biggest Jurassic World Rebirth set in both piece-count and price, and at least tries to bring the theme’s moulded dinosaur sets back to a position of better value, thanks primarily to the number of things included within the box. Two dinosaurs, two vehicles, a mid-size piece of scenery to climb up, and four minifigures offer a lot for young hands to pick up and play around with, and from a pure LEGO perspective this is one of the most fun sets within the theme.
That being said, it’s a big set for young builders, inasmuch as for how playable this is, it is just as unserious. Who’s saying Jurassic World sets have to be anything else? Not us, but in comparison to the toyetic nature of other large-scale sets, the various items that you get within 76976 Spinosaurus & Quetzalcoatlus Air Mission all feel very disconnected from each other.
There are no clear interactive points between the central piece of scenery and either vehicle – due to where the budget has had to go here there aren’t enough pieces to make the rocky landscape large enough for either the road vehicle to drive underneath, or the helicopter to land on, or even hover nearby.
Both dinosaurs are looking a little goofy in design and also sit a little mismatched to the rest of the set for similar reasons. The Quetzalcoatlus is impressive in size but dramatically so in proportion, dwarfing everything else in the set in a way that makes it a bit hard to interact with anything.
At the same time, the Spinosaurus, portrayed on the box art and in the trailers as this menacing, scarred beast, is looking far more chilled in LEGO form in this colour combination and with that expression, and again, looks more awkward and unsure in the set than involved with the rest of what’s going on.
Every element by itself in 76976 Spinosaurus & Quetzalcoatlus Air Mission is fun and very playable, but not in a way that the whole set comes together.
Conclusion on LEGO Jurassic World June 2025 wave
Ultimately, the Jurassic World Rebirth sets offer a great amount of variety, in almost every way. Across the collection, we get a solid range of minifigures and an excellent variety of dinosaurs that are pleasingly pulled back into more traditional designs, as opposed to what the rest of the Jurassic World trilogy threw up.
Most interesting within this range of dinosaurs is the experimentation with moving away from a large plastic mould for the Mosasaurus in 76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission. In nailing the design in both movie accuracy and playability, it makes 76974 the standout set from the entire range and hopefully opens the door to such a design philosophy being applied to other dinosaurs.
Imagine a world populated by LEGO dinosaurs you could actually afford. Then we’d all have a Tyrannosaurus rex in our collection, rather than a set like 76975 T. rex River Escape to avoid.
There is a lot of clever design that has gone into this collection of sets, with a lot being achieved with relatively smaller piece-counts for the LEGO Jurassic World team to work with, and you can see a lot of story points that punctuate the playsets in particular. From a play perspective, they are all pretty fun, but our favourites would have to be 76973 Raptor & Titanosaurus Tracking Mission and the aforementioned and conceptually exciting 76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission.
Our honest opinion: In a world of expensive LEGO Jurassic World dinosaurs, it is the brick-built ones that have the best chances of not only surviving, but flourishing. 76973 Raptor & Titanosaurus Tracking Mission and 76974 Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission are standout sets, but it’s the latter that steals the show for value too, because it’s not often we can put ‘LEGO Jurassic World set’ and ‘good value’ in the same sentence.
These LEGO sets were provided by the LEGO Group for review purposes.
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