Today I’m sharing an honest Brick Borrow review. If you read my blog regularly or follow me on social media, you’ll know I’m a huge lego fan. I love to build the sets, but don’t really have anywhere to display them safely. (Two asbo dogs and an Autistic teen who loves nothing more than breaking down Lego creations, are basically my Lego nemesis).

So when I saw that Brickborrow had a 1 month half price joining offer, I decided to give it a whirl. Keep reading to find out how I got on, when I tried the Brick borrow Lego subscription service.

What is Brick Borrow?

Brickborrow is a lego subscription service, ideal for people who like to build lego sets, without displaying them. It’s a great way to experience many builds without the high price tags often associated with larger lego sets. There are 3 different subscription options available, and you can choose to pay monthly, or annually, for the best value.

I decided to take advantage of the 1 month half price offer, and signed up for “The Builder” plan. At £14.99 per month, I figured I could get one build in per 7-10 days, for maximum value.

How Brick Borrow Works

Once you sign up, you can make a wish list of all the sets you are interested in borrowing. I highly recommend doing this BEFORE you select your first one, as you can’t create or edit a wish list, when you’ve got an active “borrow” on your account. Brickborrow is different to a traditional subscription box, in that you have to return the lego set, you don’t get to keep it.

When you’re ready to borrow a Lego set, you can see which items on your wish list are available, and select a set from there. Alternatively, you can view all of the available sets and select a set that way too. It’s worth noting that you can’t borrow the high value sets until you’ve borrowed and returned sets for 3 months.

You pay £4.99 to cover the shipping (and return) of each set you borrow, on top of your subscription cost. I didn’t realise this to begin with, so it was a bit of a surprise when I realised this. (It is mentioned in the FAQs, but not on the subscription page, which I did think was a little misleading), but I decided to proceed anyway.

My Brickborrow Experience

I subscribed on 15th June 2025 and chose the Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine 10363 set as my first build. This set has an RRP of £54.99, so I felt like I was getting great value for the £12.98 I’d paid for the month, including the shipping of this set. The set arrived via Royal Mail on 18th June 2025. 

I recorded this video to show you how the sets actually arrive…

As you can see if you watched the video, the original set was split into 4 separate bags to help streamline the building process, but all of the pieces were in one bag, when they arrived. This is typical of all Brickborrow sets, so I can imagine sorting pieces for even bigger sets is pretty painful and time consuming.

I initially decided that the easiest way to proceed would be to sort pieces by colour, but I quickly realised this was a rookie mistake, and instead sorted them by piece. It’s easier to pick a specific colour from a pile of lego, than it is to pick a specific piece from a colour, after all.

Missing Pieces

By 21st June, I had got around half way through the build, before I realised 3 critical pieces were missing from the bag of lego I’d received. I then triple checked all of the lego to realise there were 2 other critical pieces missing from the build, as well. This prompted me to email Brick Borrow, to explain…

The team replied within an hour, so I was confident that the pieces would arrive quickly. Sadly, that wasn’t the case. I chased them on 25th June as I’d had no tracking information, and they assured me they’d been dispatched that day, so I figured they’d arrive quickly after that.

Cancelling my Brick Borrow Subscription

By the 6th July, the missing pieces still hadn’t arrived. It had been more than 2 weeks from my flagging the issue at this point, and I still had no tracking information, and was unable to complete the build.

Given the issues I’d had, I knew that I’d never be able to build and return the set within the first month, even if they arrived the next day. I was due to be charged another £14.99 on 15th July, so I decided to email again, requesting to cancel my membership and saying I’d return the set. I offered to send on the missing pieces if they arrived after I’d returned the set – If Brick borrow covered the cost of doing so.

I returned the set on 7th July, and received confirmation on 9th July that my subscription had been cancelled. The missing pieces which had been sent out arrived on Monday 14th July, so my suspicions were indeed correct that I’d have been unable to build and return this set within the one month window.

Brick borrow haven’t asked me to forward on these pieces, so I am presuming they’ve ordered more directly. (The package is still sat here, should they ask me to forward them on, of course).

Brickborrow Review Verdict:

All things considered, I can’t recommend Brick borrow, which is a real shame, as it has the potential to be brilliant. Things go wrong when buying anything online, but when you’re relying on weighing a product on its’ return to verify all of the lego pieces are there, things are bound to go wrong more often.

Had they offered to add a month on for free, given the fact I’d waited almost that long for the missing parts, I may well have accepted that, but no such offer was made. Sadly, the 1* reviews they have on Trust Pilot shows my experience isn’t unique.

There are plenty of positive reviews on there as well, but for me, I feel like I’d be better off buying used versions of sets that I want to build, building them, then disassembling them back into the original bags, before selling on eBay to get back the same or more than I paid. (People pay a premium when items are disassembled into the original bags, so they can be built as if new).

There are other Lego subscription services out there, but for now, I think I’ll avoid the stress.

Please note: I paid for this subscription, and wanted to share a completely honest review.