Tiny LEGO Ideas chameleon’s race to 10K couldn’t be better timed

Talk about synergy: a tiny LEGO Ideas model of a chameleon has reached 10,000 supporters on the same day the LEGO Group revealed 21342 The Insect Collection.

Jimmi-DK originally tried to gather support for a brick-built chameleon back in 2021, but failed to stir enough interest from the LEGO Ideas community. This time round, though, their 259-piece model has managed to rack up enough votes to reach the review stage – and the final dash across the finishing line came on the same day the LEGO Group unveiled its latest Ideas set, 21342 The Insect Collection.

Whether the reveal of José María’s set contributed to those last few votes is tough to say, but you couldn’t really ask for better timing either way. This chameleon follows the same design language as the Blue Morpho Butterfly, Hercules Beetle and Chinese Mantis in 21342 The Insect Collection, perched on a brick-built branch – and while it’s obviously not to scale with the bugs, it would make a fine companion display piece.

It would also be one of the smallest retail LEGO Ideas sets in recent memory – and the fourth-smallest available to buy (so not as a gift-with-purchase) ever, if the piece count remained roughly the same. That would likely make it the most affordable crowdsourced set since 2018’s 21314 TRON: Legacy.

These factors may weigh into the review board’s decision to give Jimmi-DK’s project the green light or not, but we won’t find out either way until we learn the results of the second 2023 review next year. For now, the chameleon joins the ever-growing list of LEGO Ideas projects in this review stage. Check out all 44 potential sets in the table below.

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

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