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’.

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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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