Edvard Munch art screams to 10K on LEGO Ideas in less than two months

A brick-built replica of Edvard Munch’s iconic The Scream artwork has raced to 10,000 votes on LEGO Ideas in less than two months.

Taking its cues from Truman Cheng’s 21333 Vincent van Gogh – The Starry Night, Ideas user Spacemanship’s The Scream is a three-dimensional recreation of Munch’s masterpiece housed inside a black, brick-built frame. The original painting – which is thought to symbolise the agony and anxiety of the human condition – was created in 1893, and the LEGO version captures its striking colours and forms across 2,999 pieces.

Spacemanship pitches the model as a chance to ‘blow anxiety away’, which fits in nicely with the LEGO Group’s current mantra of mindfulness (it describes its 18+ sets as a chance for adults to unwind). But its similarities to 21333 Vincent van Gogh – The Starry Night may be the project’s undoing: the LEGO Ideas team typically picks new and unexplored designs and concepts (sitcom sets notwithstanding), and The Scream may be too close to a current model to get the green light this time round.

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We’ll find out either way once the LEGO Ideas review board announces the results of the first 2023 review, which will likely be in October. Any projects that pass review will go into production as an official set, and eventually end up on store shelves. For now, The Scream – which was first submitted to the crowdsourcing platform on January 13, 2023, and has reached the review stage less than two months later – becomes the XXth project in contention in this round.

Every LEGO Ideas project in the first 2023 review

Number	LEGO Ideas project	LEGO Ideas user	Date qualified
1	Dr. Seuss and LEGO	LegoFan_506	January 2, 2023
2	Sweet Honey	RobertVII	January 4, 2023
3	The Botanical Garden	Goannas	January 9, 2023
4	The Crown – A Piece of History	Piraten	January 12, 2023
5	Stargate SG1: Embarkation Room	Starbrick_SG1	January 12, 2023
6	Roscosmos Soyuz MS Spacecraft	Tom_Brick	January 15, 2023
7	Motorized Howl’s Moving Castle	ericlego321	January 16, 2023
8	The Stargate	Captain Mutant	January 16, 2023
9	Medieval Seaside Market	bricks_fan_uy	January 17, 2023
10	Brick Boulevard	Bricky_Brick	January 19, 2023
11	Retro Comic Store	LEGOverwatch	January 22, 2023
12	Shrek’s Swamp – 20th Anniversary	The Real Ashnflash	January 22, 2023
13	Baby Green Sea Turtle – Kinetic	QuaintWolf082	January 23, 2023
14	Humpback Whale	Les Briques de Loïc	January 25, 2023
15	Shrek’s Swamp	danielbradleyy	January 26, 2023
16	Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 99th Precinct	Ben Fankhauser	January 27, 2023
17	LED Lamp	Castor-Troy and Max Brich	January 28, 2023
18	Bricks Coffee	UTAMARU_BRICK8	January 28, 2023
19	Ogel Creek Saw Mill	Krackenator4	January 31, 2023
20	Hollow Knight: Forgotten Crossroad	Ben Osborne	February 1, 2023
21	LEGO Godzilla	Matthew Esposito	February 2, 2023
22	Claus Toys	Pablo Sánchez Jiménez	February 2, 2023
23	Twilight: Cullen House	LobsterThermidor	February 4, 2023
24	Where’s Wally/Waldo?	Iyan Ha	February 4, 2023
25	V.&T.R.R. #12, GENOA	SgJess	February 9, 2023
26	River Side Lodge	terauma	February 14, 2023
27	CATAN – The Game	Christoph Ruge	February 15, 2023
28	Daft Punk – The Robots	eliot.obrien	February 15, 2023
29	Monsters Inc: The Door to Monstropolis	HollyonFilm	February 18, 2023
30	Iljinai Family House	Rock the Brick	February 19, 2023
31	Multi-Tool	Tall Guy Bricks	February 19, 2023
32	Portal 2 Quantum Tunneling Device. The “Portal Gun”	Hooded-Blaze	February 20, 2023
33	LEGOLAND Train Station	Mind the Bricks and Patgeo	February 25, 2023
34	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Marcos Garavelli	February 27, 2023
35	Amethyst Geode	gman13579	March 3, 2023
36	The Scream	Spacemanship	March 5, 2023

21333 Vincent van Gogh – The Starry Night is available now. The latest LEGO Ideas set is 21339 BTS Dynamite, which landed on shelves on March 1.

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