All aboard! A new LEGO Ideas design has chugged past 10,000 votes

The latest LEGO Ideas fan design has attracted both train enthusiasts and book lovers at the same time, making its way past 10,000 supporters.

Hot on the heels of their last successful design, the Chameleon, Danish builder Jimmi-DK has managed to get another model past 10,000 votes on LEGO Ideas just three days after the last. Train Bookends splits into, making it look as though a train is chugging its way through your bookshelf. Built in the style of a traditional steam locomotive, the train is manned by five minifigures, a train driver and four passengers.

What’s more, the roofs lift off the train to reveal the cosy interior within. Each bookend weighs about half a kilo, so they’ll be plenty strong enough to keep your books in place.

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Train Bookends joins 44 other sets on their way to becoming real LEGO Ideas sets. Of course, the decision of what will finally make it onto LEGO store shelves now lies with the LEGO Ideas review team. Here’s a reminder of all the sets that have currently made it into the second 2023 review stage.

Every LEGO Ideas project in the second 2023 review

Number	LEGO Ideas project	LEGO Ideas user	Date qualified
1	“Big Boy” Locomotive	Lassehfl	May 2, 2023
2	Retro Arcade	If You Build It	May 7, 2023
3	Spartan Helmet of Leonidas	Delusion Brick	May 8, 2023
4	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider	Lego.Ozzy.Fan	May 15, 2023
5	The Muppet Show	BulldoozerBuilder	May 20, 2023
6	Red Bull Racing F1 Team RB18 1:12 Scale	LukasRS	May 20, 2023
7	Scooby Doo Mystery Machine	Let Them Fly	May 20, 2023
8	Western River Steamboat	CTDpower	May 23, 2023
9	Dreamwork’s Shrek Swamp	Pedro_RuizMx	May 25, 2023
10	Asterix & Obelix	Ganpat the Celt	May 26, 2023
11	Venice	LEGOverwatch	May 30, 2023
12	Stilt House	Norton74	May 31, 2023
13	Red Bull RB18	_MrB_	June 2, 2023
14	Trojan Horse	Daytona	June 7, 2023
15	Red Dwarf: Sleeping Quarters	BRO3	June 7, 2023
16	TaleSpin Seaduck meeting Seagull	Delusion Brick	June 11, 2023
17	Stud Lane Book Nook	LORDSQUISH	June 12, 2023
18	Minifigure Gumball Machine	Goosestore	June 14, 2023
19	Greenhouse	JaredR2	June 14, 2023
20	Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Box: Dark Magician vs Blue-Eyes White Dragon	Zero Helix	June 15, 2023
21	Disney’s Phineas and Ferb Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc.	Inevitable brick	June 18, 2023
22	Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood	Bricksmitherd	June 23, 2023
23	Taylor Swift “Lover House”	AndrewC456	June 26, 2023
24	The Motograph	kongjirra	June 26, 2023
25	Taylor Swift’s Lover House	donnydings	June 28, 2023
26	Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: Perry the Platypus / Agent P	DragonBuilder22	June 30, 2023
27	Flying Scotsman – LNER Class A3 4472 4-6-2 Pacific Steam Locomotive	LOCOBUILDERBEAR1	July 1, 2023
28	Jumanji Game Board	Airbricks95	July 2, 2023
29	Kerbal Space Program – Modular Ship System	Sam67c	July 2, 2023
30	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Lyonsblood	July 4, 2023
31	Working LEGO Bicycle	SleepyCow	July 7, 2023
32	The Muppet Theatre	LEE40	July 9, 2023
33	The Landscape Photographer	LobsterThermidor	July 12, 2023
34	Schitt’s Creek – The Rose Apothecary	snorkel_maiden	July 13, 2023
35	Taylor Swift Lover House	Water Leaper	July 15, 2023
36	Vintage Toaster	dimexart	July 15, 2023
37	New York Corner	Bricky_Brick	July 21, 2023
38	Mary Poppins, Cherry Tree Lane, 60th Anniversary	Free-the-kraken	July 22, 2023
39	The Krusty Krab!	Lanko	July 23, 2023
40	Taylor Swift: Lover House	RC1317	July 31, 2023
41	Snowy Morning in the Countryside	Castor-Troy and Max Brich	August 5, 2023
42	Marine Life 2	Brick Dangerous	August 8, 2023
43	Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour	donnydings	August 12, 2023
44	Chameleon	Jimmi-DK	August 15, 2023
45	Train Bookends	Jimmi-DK	August 18, 2023

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