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LEGO Icons Mayor Manor (11383) Revealed: New Halloween Line

Patrick W.

LEGO launches a brand-new 18+ subtheme, Midnight Valley, with Mayor Manor (11383) — 1,420 pieces, $119.99, a crooked haunted house and three zombie minifigures.

Official LEGO render of the Icons Mayor Manor set, a crooked haunted mansion from the new Midnight Valley collection

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🏚️ LEGO’s New Haunted Village Starts With One Very Crooked House

LEGO just opened a new corner of its Icons display line: Mayor Manor (11383), the first set in a brand-new subtheme called Midnight Valley. It’s up for pre-order now and ships September 1, 2026 — right alongside the rest of the month’s Icons wave.

Why This Matters for Dads

Here’s what makes Mayor Manor worth a second look: it’s not a licensed haunted house from a film or a game, it’s an original LEGO concept, built specifically to look wrong on purpose. The asymmetrical walls, tilted chimneys and lopsided windows are the actual design brief, not a manufacturing quirk — LEGO is chasing the same “so-crooked-it’s-charming” energy that Halloween-decor brands have built entire product lines on, and doing it in brick form for the first time as a real ongoing collection rather than a one-off seasonal set.

For the household, that’s a genuinely different pitch than most 18+ builds in our best LEGO sets for adults guide: Mayor Manor (11383) doubles as actual October decor. Build it in the weeks before Halloween and it earns its shelf space as a display piece the kids will point at, not just something dad assembled after bedtime and hid on a high shelf. If your family already leans into Halloween decorating, this is a build-it-together project with a payoff date built right in.

It also lands the same week as LEGO’s other big September nostalgia play, the SpongeBob Bikini Bottom (11386) — worth knowing about if you’re budgeting for more than one 18+ set this month.

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1,420 pieces of crooked, asymmetrical haunted mansion — a zombie mayor, zombie butler and zombie maid, plus a build designed to look genuinely off-kilter on the shelf.

LEGO Icons Mayor Manor (11383)

What’s Next

LEGO hasn’t confirmed what comes next in the Midnight Valley line, but “the first set in a new collection” is exactly the kind of framing that usually means more is coming — likely timed to future Octobers rather than a one-and-done release. We’ll be watching for the next entry, and we’ll build Mayor Manor ourselves once it ships to see whether the crooked-on-purpose design holds up as well in hand as it does in the renders.

The Dadnology Take

A new original LEGO subtheme is rarer than another licensed tie-in, and Midnight Valley’s whole premise — architecture designed to look haunted rather than a haunted license — is a smart, low-risk way to test a seasonal collection. $119.99 for 1,420 pieces sits in fair mid-range Icons territory, and unlike most 18+ display sets, this one has an actual calendar reason to build it in September rather than let it sit in the queue. We’ll reserve the final verdict for a hands-on build, but it’s on our list.

When does the LEGO Mayor Manor set (11383) release?

Mayor Manor is up for pre-order now and ships on September 1, 2026, the same day as the rest of LEGO’s September wave.

How much does LEGO Mayor Manor (11383) cost and how many pieces does it have?

It’s priced at $119.99 / £99.99 / €109.99 for 1,420 pieces, and it’s rated 18+ as part of LEGO’s adult Icons display line.

What is the LEGO Midnight Valley collection?

Midnight Valley is a brand-new LEGO Icons subtheme built around deliberately crooked, asymmetrical architecture for a haunted atmosphere. Mayor Manor is the first release, with more entries expected to follow as the collection grows.

Patrick W.Founder & Editor

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