A mythical creature that eats coins and hands them back is a hard display piece to walk past. That’s the trick inside the Auspicious Pixiu, and it anchors LEGO’s two flagship Spring Festival sets for 2027, both on sale January 1. The second set skips the shelf entirely and puts a full family reunion on a dragon-headed boat.
Auspicious Pixiu Under Fortune Tree (80122) is the shelf piece, built around a mythical creature that stands for wealth and prosperity. Spring Festival Voyage (80123) is the playset, and it’s the bigger build by a wide margin. The year ahead is the Year of the Goat, and one small costume carries that detail.
A Pixiu that eats coins and gives them back
Pixiu sits under a money tree hung with red ornaments and gold leaves. In the legend, the creature draws wealth in and keeps it safe. LEGO turned that idea into a mechanism.
Coins come off the tree one at a time and drop into the creature’s mouth. A hatch on its back opens, and the coins come out of its belly, ready to feed again.
Off the base, the creature stands on its own and its limbs pose, so it holds a shelf like a statue instead of sitting in a tray like a toy. Built, it stands just over 8 inches high, 9 inches wide and 8 inches deep. That’s a real presence without eating the whole shelf.
879 pieces at $79.99 puts it in line with the display sets this line produces every year. Ages 9 and up can build it solo. Build Together mode in the LEGO Builder app splits the build across as many as three builders, each working from their own device.
The tree carries half the visual weight. Gold leaves fill the canopy, red packets hang from the branches, and the whole build sits on a cloud-patterned base in red and gold. It lands as festival decor first and a toy second, which is exactly the job of the display slot in this line.
Price: $79.99
Where to buy: LEGO
A dragon-headed boat built for the reunion dinner
Spring Festival Voyage builds a sailing vessel with a dragon’s head at the prow and a cabin stacked at the stern. A printed sail carries the inscription “Smooth Sailing,” a wish for prosperity in the year ahead. Red, gold and teal run through the whole hull.
Push the boat along a table and the oars row back and forth. The sail and rudder both pose. It’s a display hull with a working toy trick inside it, and that split is the right one for a set this size.
The cabin roof and one wall lift off. Inside sits a kitchen, and a top compartment hides coins and red packets for the crew to find. At 1,529 pieces, the finished boat measures over 12 inches high, 14 inches long and 10.5 inches wide.
Preorders are open now, capped at three per household, and the set is good for 780 Insiders points on LEGO’s own store. Build Together splits this one across as many as four builders.
Price: $119.99
Where to buy: Amazon
Seven minifigures and one goat suit
Seven minifigures crew the boat: dad, mom, son, daughter, grandpa, grandma, and a figure in a goat costume for the Year of the Goat. Three generations at one table is the whole point of the holiday, and the set builds its cast around exactly that.
All seven sit at the dining table on deck for the New Year’s Eve meal. That scene calls back to 80101 Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner, the set that started this line. Long-time collectors will catch it. New buyers just get a boat that seats its whole crew at dinner.
The two sets side by side
The pairing is the line’s habit: one display model, one playset, every year. Collectors who keep the full run get a shelf piece that holds still and a build that fills a table. The 2027 pair splits the money $80 and $120, with no overlap in what the two sets do.
| Set | Pieces | Price | Built size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80122 Auspicious Pixiu Under Fortune Tree | 879 | $79.99 | 8 in. high, 9 in. wide, 8 in. deep |
| 80123 Spring Festival Voyage | 1,529 | $119.99 | 12 in. high, 14 in. long, 10.5 in. wide |
Both sets go on sale January 1, 2027, five weeks ahead of Lunar New Year on February 6. A third set, 40976 Prosperity Lion, arrives the same day as a gift with purchase.
So which one gets your shelf? Display collectors take the Pixiu: it sits still, it means something, and the coin trick gives visitors one thing to touch. Families take the boat, and it isn’t close: more pieces, more figures, more play per dollar.
