Our next LEGO Ideas set is about to officially be revealed soon, with LEGO releasing a video teaser hinting at the arrival of its 3rd LEGO Ideas set of 2021 – the LEGO Ideas Typewriter (21327).
As a fan-submitted entry by LEGO fan builder Steve Guinness over at the LEGO Ideas platform, this brick-built classic typewriter managed to win the approval of the LEGO Ideas Review Team during the Third 2019 Review Stage.
According to sources from brick street, the LEGO Ideas Typewriter is quite a hefty one, clocking in at 2,078 pieces making it the sixth-largest LEGO Ideas set in the theme. It is also rumored to come in a predominant sand green color, as opposed to being gray like how Steve intended it to be. I’m not quite sure about it, but it is also rumored that the choice of presenting it in sand green was influenced by the classic Erika-10 typewriter that Ole Kirk once used in the 1930s.
The LEGO Ideas Typewriter 21327 may also follow a similar color scheme as that of the classic Erika-10 typewriter.
Additionally, with an expected retail price of $200, it may also suggest that the Typewriter may also feature certain Powered Up functions similar to what it did with the LEGO Ideas Grand Piano (21323). I just hope that this is an optional upgrade of sorts since I am already content with the original design’s working keytop and typebars without the added hardware.
The official release date of the LEGO Ideas Typewriter is also said to be slated for June 16 next week so it is expected that more info might come out this week after the initial teaser. Aside from the LEGO Ideas Typewriter (21327), we can also expect its contemporaries like the LEGO Ideas Home Alone: McCallister’s House and LEGO Ideas Seinfeld 30th Anniversary sets are already in their pre-production stages considering that these two product ideas were also approved to become official LEGO sets alongside the Typewriter. Hopefully will find more info about these before the end of the 3rd quarter.
In the meantime, be sure to keep tabs with us for more updates about this next upcoming LEGO Ideas set.
While the LEGO Ideas 123 Sesame Street (21324) is a cool way to celebrate our childhood nostalgia, chances are, the minifigures that come with it are somewhat tucked away in a collectible minifigure case. Well, that’s understandable considering how exclusive they are to this set. Thankfully, LEGO has also provided an opportunity for us to have a spare Elmo or Cookie Monster minifig in the form of LEGO keychains.
I have to admit that these little accessories managed to fall from my radar, but it’s a good thing that LEGO Shop@Home still has them listed and available over at the LEGO home shopping portal for $6 each. I still hope to see Ernie and Bert given the same dangling treatment, but having a LEGO Elmo and Cookie Monster minifigure always with me wherever I go is still very much welcomed.
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Introduce a fan of Sesame Street’s Elmo to this great LEGO® Ideas Elmo Key Chain (854145) to take along on their adventures! It features an Elmo minifigure looking cheery with a big smile and red fur, attached to a durable metal chain and ring. This eye-catching key chain can be fastened to a backpack or used to keep keys together in a pocket or bag.
Give a Sesame Street fan this fun LEGO® Ideas Cookie Monster Key Chain (854146) to keep them company! It features a Cookie Monster minifigure with a big grin and blue fur, attached to a durable metal chain and ring. This fun key chain can be fastened to a backpack or used to hold keys safely in a pocket or purse.
It has been a month since we saw our first qualifiers that managed to gather the necessary 10K fan votes for the second LEGO Ideas 2021 Review Stage. And in just a month, we now have an additional 10 product ideas that secured their place for the next review stage cycle. In this next LEGO Ideas update, we’ll take a look at these qualifiers voted by LEGO fan builders. Click on their respective links below if you wish to know more about these excellent LEGO creations.
Since the Second LEGO Ideas 2021 Review Stage is yet to be concluded in September, we can still expect a lot of product ideas to reach the necessary 10,000 votes during the next months. Recently, the LEGO Ideas platform has seen a surprising increase in fan/member engagement as evidenced by the exponential growth of product ideas that qualify for the Review Stage. The First 2021 LEGO Ideas Review Stage, for example, managed to gather a record-breaking 57 product ideas last month. I can just imagine how busy the LEGO Ideas review team considering the sheer volume of these original creations that needed to be evaluated. And we can somewhat expect that this trend will continue throughout the next review cycles.
The LEGO Ideas Review Team has announced its next fan-designed, LEGO Ideas GWP or Gift-With-Purchase set. Supported and voted for by fellow LEGO fans and builders, the grand prize winner of the now concluded Do You Want To Go The Seaside Building Contest has been selected by the LEGO fan community. Take a look.
Our next LEGO Ideas GWP set will be based on this creation by LEGO fan builders DadiTwins entitled “Ray the Castaway”.
Other than the Grand Prize Winner, five Runner-Ups were selected as well. Though the honor of being the next LEGO Ideas GWP set is reserved for the Grand Prize winner, these Runner-Ups will also bring home the abovementioned LEGO sets except for the Pirates of Barracuda Bay. In case you want to see it, here are the Runner-Ups for this contest.
We usually don’t have an exact release date once winners in these kinds of contests have been announced, but we can expect that the LEGO Ideas GWP Ray the Castaway will be officially released after a year or so, similar to the ones before it.
Again, a huge congratulations to LEGO fan designers DadiTwins and the entire LEGO fan community for making this possible!
Earlier this week, the LEGO Ideas Team has announced the winner of this year’s Your Creations in the World-Famous LEGO House Building Contest. If you recall, a similar contest has been launched last year where LEGO fan builders may have the chance of having their original brick creations be displayed at the LEGO House in Billund.
A Grand Prize winner and several Runner-Ups were eventually chosen across three different categories: Architecture, Minifigure, and Nature. All of these winning entries, plus the rest of the other sixty-six (66) winners of the fan vote will have the opportunity to be also placed on display at the House Brick.
To celebrate the release of LEGO’s tallest Marvel set, the LEGO Ideas fan submission platform has launched the new Your Friendly Neighborhood Comic Book Hero building contest. Inspired by the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Daily Bugle (76178) set, this new contest challenges LEGO fan builders to come up with their best creative vision of a Spider-Man inspired brick-built comic book cover (Brick Category), or a drawn/graphic (Art Category) with that distinct LEGO humor and flavor.
Fan submission has already started last May 19 and will close on June 22. And like other LEGO Ideas building contests, LEGO is certainly generous of its prizes. There will be two winners per Brick and Art Category, with the Grand Prize Winner guaranteed to take home the following:
A Runner-Up will also be proclaimed, with the opportunity to bag the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Daily Bugle set.
For more information about this new LEGO Ideas Your Friendly Neighborhood Comic Book Hero building contest, be sure to check the following guidelines below. For the rest of the fine print, visit the contest page right here.
COULD YOU IMPRESS US, OR EVEN J. JONAH JAMESON WITH YOUR VERY OWN SPIDER-MAN COMIC BOOK COVER?
WE’RE LOOKING FOR BRICK-BUILT, OR LEGO-STYLE DRAWN/GRAPHIC DESIGNED COMIC BOOK COVERS TO HELP CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THE 76178 DAILY BUGLE. WITH TWO CATEGORIES, THERE WILL BE ONE GRAND PRIZE WINNER AND ONE RUNNER-UP PER CATEGORY (ART AND BRICK).
WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR ENTRY, YOUR PHYSICAL ENTRIES SHOULD HAVE A TITLE THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS:
BRICK: YOUR TITLE
AND YOUR DRAWN/GRAPHIC DESIGNED COMIC BOOK COVERS SHOULD HAVE A TITLE THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS:
ART: YOUR TITLE
YOU MUST CREATE YOUR OWN DESIGNS AND CANNOT COPY EXISTING COMIC BOOK COVERS AND THE USE OF THE MARVEL LOGO IS NOT ALLOWED. YOUR COMIC BOOK COVER SHOULD INCLUDE SPIDER-MAN/PETER PARKER/MILES MORALES AND WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU ALSO INCLUDING SOME OF THESE CLASSIC CHARACTERS:
In March, LEGO Ideas has launched another contest that gives the chance to have the winning entry displayed at the LEGO House in Billund. The submission and review phase for the LEGO Ideas Your Creations in the World-Famous LEGO House Building Contest has been concluded. And this time, fans can now vote for their most favorite entry to give it a chance to be featured at the LEGO House for an entire year.
The contest itself has three categories: Nature Builds, Minifigure Builds, and Architecture Builds. And from May 5 to 13, fans can vote for their favorite build to give it a chance to be displayed at the famous House of the Brick. Other than having the bragging rights of having their creation put on display in the famous House of the Brick, the Grand Prize Winners from each of the three categories will get the following sweet prizes:
This list of finalists is quite long, so without further delays, here what they offer for each of the categories. If you wish to show support to any of these particular entries, just click on their respective links. Which of these LEGO Ideas Your Creations entries is your favorite let us know in the comments below.
The First 2021 LEGO Ideas Review Stage started on a high note with the announcement of yet another record-breaking 57 product ideas. And hot on the heels of this batch of qualifiers are the first product ideas that managed to enter the Second 2021 LEGO Ideas Review Stage.
The Movie Set by Castor-Troy, and Imperial Island Fort by 10K Club Member BrickHammer, are the two initial product ideas that gained the support of more than 10,000 LEGO enthusiasts, qualifying them to enter the Second 2021 LEGO Ideas Review Stage. The former features 8 facades and movie props that give your favorite movie that funny LEGO twist; while the latter takes its inspiration from the classic LEGO Pirates Eldorado Fortress (6276) from 1989.
The Movie Set product idea is a cool way to bring your minifigure filming up to a new level with its diverse selection of brick-built background props. And fans of the classic LEGO Pirates theme will certainly appreciate the Imperial Island Fort if perchance this MOC qualifies to become an official LEGO Ideas set, similar to its predecessor the LEGO Ideas Pirates of Barracuda Bay (21322).
Read on for more details about these Second 2021 LEGO Ideas Review Stage qualifiers, and what their respective creators have to say. You may also click on their links to know more about these entries. Congratulations to their respective builders as well!
The set includes 8 facades, movie props, and figurines, for a total of 2900 pieces. This creation is not based on any license. We made some visuals to suggest ideas of presentation and playability. The facades are 16 studs wide and include supports at the back that allows them to stand on their own, and to be combined at will. We focused on the aesthetics and design of the facades while making sure that the set offers a lot of possibilities and playability for the AFOLs :
For those who like to display their LEGO set, the Movie Set will be an optimal choice, as it makes optimal use of pieces for that purpose
The set can be used to reproduce scenes from cult movies by combining the different facades,
For those who like to take pictures or make brickfilms, the set would make a great background scenery
You can make a tracking shot with your smartphone over 1 meter long, thanks to a cart specially designed for that purpose,
For those who have a LEGO city, the Movie Set would make a very nice background
Finally, for those who like big LEGO buildings, all facades can be put together to form a single building that would fit well together with other modular buildings.
Since I was a child I have been a big fan of pirates and the old pirate Lego theme! Now as an adult I am still an avid fan of history! This small island fortress is therefore supposed to be a blend of nostalgic classic Lego red coat fortresses like the Eldorado Fortress and actual real-life Caribbean architecture!
The Build
The island consists of a big main castle on top of a rocky cliff and a pier beneath it. The castle contains a gatehouse tower and the governor’s house!
The pier beneath the castle is fortified with 2 cannon bastions to guard the island from incoming pirate ships or Armada attacks!
They just keep on coming, and I love it! The LEGO Ideas fan submission platform has just concluded with another record-breaking high, with a total of 57 product ideas qualifying for the First 2021 LEGO Ideas Review stage, as announced over their blogsite. These 57 submissions managed to get the necessary 10,000 fan votes needed to progress for this year’s first LEGO Ideas review.
Since the start of the pandemic, the LEGO Ideas platform saw a steady increase of fan submissions, largely as a result of increased LEGO building at home. As I’ve mentioned before in a previous related article, this is a testament to how LEGO building as a hobby, turned out to be a positive outlet for most LEGO fans as we strive to cope with the series of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders.
I’ve always been a fan of LEGO Ideas, and I’ve covered and supported some of its fan submissions that eventually found their way to becoming official LEGO Ideas sets. And I also intend to continuously cover every LEGO Ideas fan submission that reaches that 10K support milestone. However, the recent influx of review stage qualifiers is just kind of hard to keep track of! I guess I just have to double down on keeping them on my radar. It will always be a pleasure to see the creativity of the LEGO fan community spring into life, so be ready with the scroll wheel because this will be a very lengthy list.
Additionally, it should be mentioned that there was a particular fan submission that didn’t make the cut even though it managed to reach 10,000 supporters. The Stadium Tour did not eventually qualify for the First 2021 LEGO Ideas Review because it failed to follow the platform’s stipulated guidelines, particularly on “intellectual properties”.
As a last note, the Third 2020 LEGO Ideas Review Stage is about to be concluded, with the announcement of the winner slated to happen sometime this summer. We have to wait a lit bit more to see which among the 25 qualifiers in this particular review stage will go on to become an official LEGO Ideas set. For now, let’s take a look at what these new 57 product qualifiers for the First 2021 LEGO Ideas Review Stage has to offer. Which is your personal favorite? Let us know in the comments below.
If you recall from several weeks ago, the LEGO Ideas platform has launched another building contest that celebrates our most creative renditions of space using LEGO bricks. And after declaring the Grand Prize winner and the next exciting gift-with-purchase (GWP) set, let’s take a look at how the 15 finalists of the LEGO Ideas Out of this World Space Builds fared out.
Starting with the contest’s Grand Prize Winner and based on the number of acquired LEGO fan votes, the following are the 15 finalists with the 2nd to 6th place winners set to receive their runner-up prizes.
As the Grand Prize winner for the LEGO Ideas Out of This World Space Build contest, bulldoozer’s LEGO Ideas The Adventures of the USS Cardboard has the privilege of becoming the next official LEGO GWP set. And in case you don’t know yet, LEGO fan designer bulldoozer or Ivan Guerrero in real life is also the fan designer behind the more recent LEGO Ideas 123 Sesame Street (21324).
Congratulations once more to Ivan Guerrero and a huge thanks to all the finalists for inspiring us to just keep on building.
