Fantasy build makes magic to reach the LEGO Ideas review stage
There’s magic in the air over at LEGO Ideas, as a fantasy-inspired wizard’s house has cast a spell over 10,000 voters to reach the third 2022 review.
Ideas user and 10K club member farmfarm’s patience has paid off, as their Wizard’s Retreat project – which they first submitted to the platform in November 2020 – has finally crept past the 10,000 votes required to reach the review stage. The LEGO Ideas team will now consider whether to produce the fantasy project as an official set.
The modular build consists of a treehouse, the main house and a garden around the back, and is populated with all manner of details and minifigures. Scattered across the rooms you’ll find a crystal ball, a key, an orrery, the wizard’s treasured manuscript (containing all his potions and spells) and a workshop. The proposed characters include the wizard, his apprentice, two elves, a forest princess and a ‘mysterious traveller’.
There’s a lot of storytelling and world-building going on here, which may help to convince the LEGO Ideas team to take a punt on the project and move it into production. It isn’t farmfarm’s first crack at progressing beyond the review stage – they previously reached the same milestone with a set of brick-built bookends, which were rejected in the first 2021 review – but the US builder will be hoping this is the build to make the cut.
It’s facing stiff competition, though: there are now a total of 33 projects in this round, and there’s still a couple of weeks to go until the qualifying window closes and the review begins. Here’s a list of them all so far.
The Wizard’s Retreat
Japanese Castle
Holiday Village w/Train (Working)
Wallace & Gromit
The Alpine Refuge
Mechanical Flip Clock
The Clock Tower Park
Jack Skellington’s House
Lover House
Cat
House of Open Shutters
Modular Arcade
Jaws
LEGO Zoo
The Old Western Train Station
The Neverending Story (40th Anniversary)
Community
The Architect’s House
London Underground
Sewer Heroes: Fighting the Fatberg
Cipher Machine
Golden Clifftop Temple
JWST
Classic Thunderbirds
The Wright Flyer
BOTW Temple of Time
Pixar’s Up House with Balloons
The Travel Suitcase
Japanese Courtyard Garden
The Lost City
Pac-Man Moving Display
Castle Dracula
This Is Fine
Ancient Roman Temple
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