BACK TO THE FUTURE LEGO: EVERY SET RANKED

I have built every single Back to the Future LEGO set that has ever been released. That is not a flex, that is a confession. My wife thinks it is a hobby. My accountant thinks it is a cry for help. My six year old thinks it is the coolest thing any parent has ever done, so the scoreboard is 1 to 2 and I am counting that as a win.

Here is the thing about BTTF LEGO. There is not actually that much of it. For a franchise this beloved, with this much merch potential, LEGO has released a surprisingly small number of official sets. I can count them on one hand with fingers left over. But each one has its own weird story, its own price point, and its own reason to either buy it or run screaming in the opposite direction.

I ranked all of them. Every official Back to the Future LEGO set, from the absolute best thing in the lineup down to the regret purchase that is still sitting in a closet because I cannot bring myself to get rid of it. Let's get into it.

A Quick Note On What Counts

Official licensed LEGO Back to the Future sets only. No MOCs, no third party brick companies, no Lepin knockoffs. Just the real deal stuff LEGO itself manufactured with the Universal license. That gives us the 21103 DeLorean Time Machine from 2013, the 71201 Back to the Future Level Pack from LEGO Dimensions in 2015, the 10300 Creator Expert DeLorean from 2022, and some assorted minifigure polybag and BrickHeadz releases that showed up over the years.

Ranked worst to best, because that is the correct way to do a ranking and anyone who does best to worst is spoiling the reveal.

5. LEGO BrickHeadz Marty And Doc (Various)

Look, I like BrickHeadz. I have built dozens of them. They are fun stocking stuffers, they take twenty minutes to put together, and they look cute on a shelf. But the Back to the Future BrickHeadz sets, which showed up around 2020 and 2021 as small retailer exclusives, are genuinely mediocre.

The proportions feel off. Marty's jacket is rendered as a solid orange block that does not capture the layered vest over red shirt look. Doc's hair is too neat. The crazy eye thing that defines the character is missing because BrickHeadz eyes are just printed circles. Without the eyes, it is just an old man with white hair. Not Doc Brown.

The biggest problem is scale. BrickHeadz do not fit into any other LEGO display context. They are not minifigure scale. They are not Creator Expert scale. They exist in their own weird parallel universe where they can only be displayed next to other BrickHeadz, and the other BTTF options are so much better that these ones just end up in a drawer.

Price was around 20 dollars new. Secondary market price is basically retail, which tells you everything you need to know about collector demand. Skip them unless you already collect BrickHeadz and have to have them for completion reasons.

4. LEGO Dimensions Back To The Future Level Pack (71201)

This one hurts because I actually liked LEGO Dimensions when it was a thing. For those who missed it, Dimensions was LEGO's attempt at the toys to life genre that Skylanders and Disney Infinity were doing in the mid 2010s. You had a USB portal, you placed little LEGO figures and vehicles on it, and they would show up in the game. It was actually clever.

The BTTF Level Pack came out in late 2015 to coincide with October 21, 2015, the date Marty travels to in Part II. It included a Marty McFly minifigure, a DeLorean that you build from about 65 pieces, and a hoverboard. The minifigure is honestly great. It is the best Marty LEGO has ever produced, with a proper red vest printed on, a jacket design that actually reads as layered, and a head print with the iconic determined squint. The hoverboard is a cute little pink accessory.

The DeLorean is where this set completely falls apart. It is tiny. It is a microscale interpretation of the time machine that barely resembles the car. The gullwing doors do not work as doors, they are just angled slope bricks. The flux capacitor is a single stud. The time circuits are printed on a 1x2 tile. This is not a DeLorean, it is a suggestion of a DeLorean.

Worse, Dimensions got discontinued in 2017 when the whole toys to life genre died off a cliff. The game no longer receives updates. The online portal functionality is basically dead. If you buy this today you are buying it purely as a LEGO collectible, not as a game accessory. And as a LEGO collectible, the set is worth owning only for the Marty minifigure.

Current market price is about 40 to 70 dollars sealed, or 15 to 25 loose for the figure alone. If you want Marty McFly in minifigure form, buy a loose one. If you want a DeLorean, keep reading because there are vastly better options coming.

Original retail was 30 dollars. I bought mine for 30 dollars. I have no regrets about the minifigure and deep regrets about the DeLorean.

3. LEGO CUUSOO DeLorean Time Machine (21103)

Now we are getting somewhere. The 21103 came out in 2013 through the CUUSOO program, which was LEGO's fan voting platform before it got rebranded as LEGO Ideas. A user named Masashi Togami submitted a DeLorean design, it hit the 10,000 supporter threshold, and LEGO produced it with some revisions.

This set is 401 pieces. It includes a Marty minifigure and a Doc Brown minifigure. The DeLorean itself can be modified to represent all three movies, with swappable parts for the 1985 version, the Part II hover conversion, and the Part III railroad wheels. This is the same gimmick the 10300 would later do at a vastly bigger scale, and the 21103 did it first.

The build is solid for 2013. The gullwing doors actually open and hinge up. The flux capacitor has a little light piece inside. The proportions read as a DeLorean from six feet away. It is not going to fool anyone into thinking it is a scale model, but it reads correctly.

Where this set falls short is everything that the 10300 does better. The 21103 is smaller than the real car would be at minifigure scale, so the minifigures can barely fit inside. You cannot actually get Marty and Doc into the cabin without removing them through the roof every time. The interior detail is basically nonexistent. The time circuits look like they were drawn by someone's cousin.

Retail was 35 dollars in 2013. The set retired in 2015. Current market value is about 150 to 250 dollars sealed, 80 to 120 for a complete built version with minifigures. Not cheap anymore.

Is it worth chasing? Yes, actually. The 21103 has this charming retro LEGO quality to it that a lot of modern sets lack. It is the kind of build that took a weekend afternoon in the 2010s when LEGO was still figuring out how to do licensed vehicles properly. I built mine in 2013, I still have it displayed on a shelf, and every time I look at it I remember buying it at a Toys R Us that no longer exists. That is worth something to me.

But if you only have money for one BTTF LEGO set, this is not it. Keep reading.

2. LEGO Ideas Minifigure Sets And Anniversary Polybags

Scattered across the last decade LEGO has released a few smaller BTTF adjacent sets as promotional polybags, convention exclusives, or GWP (gift with purchase) items tied to bigger buys. These include a 2022 polybag that came with the 10300 that contained a microscale Hill Valley clock tower, a 2015 SDCC exclusive Jules Verne Train minifigure pack that is absurdly rare now, and a 40th anniversary Marty and Doc double minifigure pack that Target carried briefly in 2025.

I am lumping these together because individually they do not merit their own rankings but collectively they are actually some of the most collectible BTTF LEGO stuff in existence.

The 2015 SDCC Jules Verne Train pack regularly sells for 400 to 800 dollars because only about 1,000 were made. If you own one, congratulations, you have a genuine collectible. If you do not own one, do not buy one, because at that price you should just buy the 10300 and have infinitely more LEGO for your money.

The 2022 Hill Valley clock tower polybag was a freebie when you bought the 10300 at LEGO stores during launch week. It is cute, maybe 70 pieces, builds into a small clock tower with a stud shooter to represent the lightning bolt. Almost nobody has one because most people who bought the 10300 did it online and missed the in store promo. Sells for 50 to 80 dollars on eBay now.

The 2025 Target 40th anniversary double minifigure pack included a new Marty with a slightly improved jacket print and a Doc Brown with, get this, actual crazy eyes printed on. Finally. It was 15 dollars at Target, sold out within a week, and now goes for 40 to 60 on secondary.

These are ranked above the 21103 because the minifigure quality on the anniversary pack is genuinely the best Marty and Doc LEGO has ever produced, and the SDCC train pack is historically significant. But good luck finding them.

1. LEGO Creator Expert DeLorean Time Machine (10300)

Here is the best Back to the Future LEGO set ever made and it is not close. The 10300, released in April 2022 under the Creator Expert banner (rebranded to 18+ Icons shortly after), is 1,872 pieces, retailed at 170 dollars, and is the definitive LEGO DeLorean.

Everything about this set is better than everything that came before it. The proportions are correct. The gullwing doors open properly on real hinges. The interior has functional seats, a detailed dashboard, and a flux capacitor that actually looks like a flux capacitor. The reactor on the back housing is crisp. The vents and louvers on the rear deck are represented with correct parts. The wheels are proper low profile tires on the right rims.

The three configuration gimmick is done right this time. You can build it as the 1985 Part I DeLorean with standard wheels, swap to the Part II hover mode with pivoted wheel housings and folded out hover pads, or go to the Part III railroad wheels conversion with the flanged train wheels. All three configurations look good. The railroad wheels version is the best version and this is not a debate, it is a fact I am willing to die on.

The set comes with a Marty McFly minifigure, a Doc Brown minifigure, and an Einstein the dog figure. Doc Brown finally has the crazy eye printing. Marty has a decent jacket print that is not as good as the 2025 anniversary one but is leagues better than the 21103 version. Einstein is just a good dog.

There are some genuinely clever engineering touches. The OUTATIME license plate is a printed tile. The time circuits have a printed sticker that is detailed enough to read the actual dates from the movies. The Mr Fusion on the back of the Part II configuration is a tiny little set piece that looks just right.

The build takes about four to six hours depending on how carefully you work and how many times you have to dig through the piles looking for one specific 1x1 round plate. The instruction manual is gorgeous, with full page photos of the real DeLorean prop and background info on the films. I built mine over a Saturday afternoon and a Sunday morning with my kid helping on the easy stages and it was genuinely one of the best LEGO experiences I have had.

The set retired in late 2024. Current market value is 250 to 400 dollars for new sealed, 180 to 250 for a complete built version with all minifigures and instructions. Yes that is expensive. No, there is nothing else in the BTTF LEGO catalog that is remotely as good as this.

Is it worth 300 dollars in 2026? If you genuinely love Back to the Future, yes. This is the best licensed DeLorean product LEGO has ever produced and the best LEGO DeLorean anyone is likely to produce for a long time. Retired Creator Expert sets tend to hold or appreciate in value, so buying one now is not going to burn you financially unless you lose the instructions and half the wheels.

If you only kind of like BTTF and you want a fun LEGO set, 300 bucks is a lot of money and there are cheaper options in the Creator Expert lineup that will scratch the same itch.

Which One Should You Actually Buy

If you have money and you want the best BTTF LEGO experience possible, buy the 10300. It is the obvious answer and the correct one. Pay the secondary market price, build it over a weekend, display it with all three wheel configurations swapped out seasonally, and be happy.

If you have a budget of under 100 dollars and you want something BTTF themed in LEGO form, buy a loose 2025 Target anniversary minifigure pack off eBay for 40 to 60 dollars. That gets you the best Marty and Doc LEGO figures ever produced without breaking the bank, and you can display them on a small MOC or just on a shelf.

If you are a completionist who wants everything, start with the 10300, then work backwards to the 21103 if you can find one under 200, then hunt the polybags and minifigure packs, and save the Dimensions pack for absolute last because it is the weakest of the bunch.

If you see a LEGO Dimensions BTTF pack at a thrift store for 10 dollars, yes buy it for the minifigure, no do not pay more than that. The DeLorean is bad.

My DeLorean collection obsession runs deeper than just LEGO, and if you want the full rundown on how a failed car became the most famous time machine in film history, /blog/delorean-back-to-the-future goes deep on the DMC-12 story. The /blog/back-to-the-future-merchandise guide covers everything else worth collecting, from Mondo posters to hoverboard replicas. And if you want to catch up on the anniversary year drops, including the Target anniversary pack release, /blog/back-to-the-future-40th-anniversary has the full timeline.

Now if you will excuse me, I need to go rebuild the 10300 in railroad wheels configuration because my kid put it in hover mode last week and I cannot let that stand.