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The set is a white sneaker. The thing collectors will actually want is four bricks tall.

43026 Nike Air Force 1 x LEGO Set arrives on September 1, 2026, and its exclusive minifigure is a Classic Space astronaut. Not a nod, not a sport mascot in a white suit — the spaceman, with the planet-and-orbit logo on his chest reworked so a Swoosh cuts across the planet. His legs are side-printed with trousers tucked into AF1s. He comes with two heads. A dial on the base drives a Technic mechanism that spins him through a 360 dunk, and the basketball he does it with is printed with the LEGO Nike logo.

Every LEGO Nike set so far has come with a figure, and every one before this has been disposable — the Dunk's B'Ball Head was a gag, not an object of desire. This one is different in kind, because it is drawing on the deepest well the company has.

What is being borrowed here

The Brixy catalogue holds 89 Classic Space sets. That is not a footnote or a cult reference; it is a body of work large enough that the logo alone functions as shorthand for the whole idea of LEGO in space, which is why the company keeps returning to it in anniversary sets and in the Space theme's revivals. It is the most reliably fetishized piece of LEGO's own heritage.

And the decision to let a licensing partner's mark sit inside that logo is a bigger call than the sneaker it is printed on. Sneaker collaborations put the Swoosh on everything; that is the business. Putting it on the classic spaceman's torso means the LEGO Group treated its own heritage insignia as available real estate. Some people will find that delightful and buy the set for the figure alone. Some will find it a small desecration. Both reactions are the point — nobody is indifferent to Classic Space.

The shoe

1,093 pieces, ages 12+, and it builds the AF1 in white, the colorway that made the shoe permanent. It measures over 26 cm high, 35 cm wide and 10 cm deep, mounted on a rocket-blast stand set into a moon-surface plinth stamped with the AF1's outsole footprint. The Swoosh itself is buildable in either orange or silver, so there is a genuine display decision to make. LEGO's own copy dates the shoe to 1982, which makes it 44 years old in 2026 and still in production in over a thousand colorways.

The completed white LEGO Air Force 1 sneaker model displayed on an angled stand. — The assembled shoe measures 35 cm wide, and mounts on a moon-surface plinth stamped with the AF1 footprint.

Four sets in, and none of them are for kids

The LEGO Group and Nike announced their multi-year partnership in August 2024, and the framing was creative play, sport, and getting children moving. What has actually shipped is display sneakers for teenagers and adults: 43008 Nike Dunk in July 2025, 43021 Nike Dunk Trickshot that September, 43025 Nike Air Max 95 in March 2026, and now this. Far from drifting younger, 43026 nudges the age rating up from the Dunk's 10+ to 12+. Whatever the play-first product is, it has not arrived yet.

The pricing pattern is worth stating flatly. All four sets have launched at $99.99 / £89.99 / €99.99. The Dunk gave you 1,180 pieces for that. 43026 gives you 1,093. It is the first in the line to come in under the Dunk's count while holding the price, and there is no outrage owed here — the Technic dunk mechanism and the printed elements cost something — but it is the shape of the line now, and it is unlikely to reverse.

Buy on day one, or wait

None of the LEGO Nike sneakers have been limited runs, and nothing about 43026 suggests it will be the exception. The Dunk sat available for a long stretch. So there is no reason to treat September 1 as a deadline if you want the shoe: buy it when you want it, in the colorway configuration you prefer.

The figure is a different calculation. A single exclusive minifigure, no polybag, no promo route, no second set to pull it from — that is precisely the shape of the thing people are hunting on the secondary market two years after a set leaves shelves, and the Classic Space association widens the pool of people hunting well beyond anyone who cares about sneakers. If you want the spaceman, the set is the only door, and the set will not be on sale forever.

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