An official look at a new LEGO Restaurants of the World set has been revealed, drastically changing the direction of the 2025 collection.
The LEGO Restaurants of the World range debuted last year with
The 289-piece model comes with one minifigure, depicting a Japanese food stand complete with seating, a menu and a small blossom tree to the side. It's a welcoming model, but it doesn't look anything like
That original Restaurants of the World set had design rules to follow during development, and designer Hoang Huy Dang commented on the process of creating
“I have a deep passion for adult products, and I wanted to branch out even more to attract different audiences,” he stated. “10362 French Café is something new, something you don’t really expect. My hope is that it could have a substantial place in the product line.
"In the future, if any more products come out, they would stand next to each other," Hoang continued. "That's why we decided not to include the connector, the technical connector, as you might see in a modular building."
That latter point remains true for 40906 Restaurants of the World: Japan, which has no specific connectors and can be displayed individually like
It looks as if 40906 Restaurants of the World: Japan isn't actually a continuation of the Restaurants of the World range, but a spiritual successor to the Houses of the World and Shops of the World gifts-with-purchase instead.
Similar to those collections, 40906 Restaurants of the World: Japan has a small footprint and could theoretically be combined with other food stands of similar sizes to create a multicultural LEGO food court.
A release date for 40906 Restaurants of the World: Japan is not yet known, and the set has no product listing on LEGO.com at the time of writing. Stay tuned to Brick Fanatics, and we'll report as soon as we have an update.
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