Review: LEGO Spring Festival Galloping Horse Canvas (80119)

Galloping from canvas to shelf – it’s Luna New Year!

With 2026 welcoming us to the year of the Horse, it was all but expected that we would receive a themed set. Opting for a bigger animalistic focus, LEGO have given us the LEGO Spring Festival Galloping Horse Canvas. A set bringing bricks from scrolls to life. With a lot to see and a lot to review, how will it hold up? Read on!

The Scroll

The LEGO Spring Festival Galloping Horse Canvas set itself is presented to us as a scroll being unravelled onto what is a colourful array of curves and splashes. With an in-built mechanism, the base of the set hides away the ability for each of our horses to be able to gallop and move together as a play function.

With golden crenelations, a coins print and large plastic printed sheet, there’s a lot going on here.

If we focus on the scroll, we can see a beautiful artwork of four horses galloping towards the viewer. I really do like this print and like the design, but its transition from plastic to four different colour splashes at the base feels oddly jarring. I’m not sure whether it is the mix of curves and slopes, four colours on a red background or the mix of studs and no studs.

LEGO have committed to a play function which is great to see in a model, but the model also has to hide that function. This is a LEGO model that benefits from looking at it from one direction only.

The Horses

Each of the four horses are identical in build shape, but not colour. I appreciate the LEGO Group for giving us four different horses, and it is actually a good way to build with multiple people. If you are by yourself however, the horses are a repetitive build.

Each use the plant leaf elements as manes, and have the same articulations in the front and rear legs. I initially though that the curved shapes on the bodies of the horses looked odd and didn’t think they looked natural at all. However, Dannii took a look and reminded me that horses are ‘weird muscly creatures that move in weird ways when they run’. So, do with that what you will.

Minifigure Scene

The Minifigure scene given to us in this set is a man in a horse mask and a little girl making an ink painting. The character in the horse painting also depicts the no. 8, which is a number believed to represent Good Fortune.

Although a simple build, the table actually attaches to the main model, allowing the painter of your choice to paint the horses as they come to life from the scroll!

I also absolutely adore the two figures in the set, and really like them both.

Verdict

Overall, the set is an okay LEGO Luna New Year Set, in my opinion. Remember that I’m not the target audience here, just looking at it from an AFOL perspective.

The set contains movements and bright colours that newer LEGO fans are sure to appreciate. But for me, I personally find the finishing polish on the set a little off. Maybe it’s the texture, or maybe its the colours. Something doesn’t land right with me to make me go “Wow!”.

Do I dislike it? No. Heavens no. And if its a set that you were wanting, I still recommend you go get it. The scroll is lovely and I still really love the ink art tile too.

The LEGO Spring Festival Galloping Horse Canvas is available for pre-order now from LEGO.com.