First LEGO Ideas 2024 review kicks off with Studio Ghibli

The first LEGO Ideas 2024 review window has kicked off with a project inspired by Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away, from the designer behind 2022’s 21333 Vincent van Gogh – The Starry Night.

LEGO Ideas veteran Truman Cheng has racked up 10,000 votes across no fewer than 15 different projects, the latest of which is his second attempt at getting a Spirited Away set over the line. His original version of the Ghibli movie’s iconic bath house rocketed to the third 2020 review in roughly six weeks, but was ultimately rejected by the LEGO Ideas review board. He then submitted the same design again in March last year.

The 2,612-piece build has now gathered the required support to progress to the review stage, and becomes the inaugural LEGO Ideas project in the first 2024 review. If the LEGO Group does give it the green light this time around – and move it into production as an official set – the difference will surely be one of timing, because Cheng has made no changes to his rejected Spirited Away model.

Here again is a towering bath house with eight different rooms, an elevator, dragon, three minifigures and six brick-built characters, capturing the fantastical world of one of Studio Ghibli’s most acclaimed movies. Whether this ever becomes a LEGO set for you or us to buy will depend entirely on the decisions made by the LEGO Ideas review board, but we won’t find out one way or the other for a good while yet.

For now, click here for a reminder of all 42 projects in the third LEGO Ideas 2023 review, the qualifying window for which has just closed. We’ll find out the results of that review in the summer, while the results of the first 2024 review will likely follow in the final quarter of this year.

Every LEGO Ideas project in the first 2024 review

Number	LEGO Ideas project	LEGO Ideas user	Date qualified
1	Spirited Away	legotruman	January 10, 2024

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