Dizzying LEGO Ideas roller coaster rides to review in virtual reality

A dizzying LEGO Ideas project inspired by double-helix roller coasters has spun its way to 10K, and you can experience the ride in virtual reality – if you’re brave enough.

Get ready to potentially see your breakfast again, because Nachapon_L_e_g_o’s Double Helix Coaster has ridden to the LEGO Ideas review stage on the back of first-person GIFs and virtual reality videos. It’s a unique concept for an Ideas project, giving potential voters the chance to shrink down to minifigure scale and experience the mechanics of the model for themselves.

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The innovation doesn’t stop there, either: the build itself is anchored around a new mechanism for LEGO roller coasters, combining two helix rails. “One is a helix lift using a worm gear gearbox operated by hand crank or a motor to push many carts to the top continuously, another one is a helix slide rail for carts to coast down in a spiral,” the builder explains.

“What makes this design possible? The answer is the cart has a lift hook only on its left side. The hook is inside and pushed by the lift when the cart is climbing. but when the cart coasts down the hook [is] outside so it will not hit the lift parts.” The model also relies on an element that doesn’t actually exist in the LEGO parts catalogue: a 13x13x3 track piece the designer created from scratch in Blender.

It hasn’t been a quick ride to the magic 10,000 votes for the nautical fairground ride, however. Nachapon_L_e_g_o first submitted their build to the crowdsourcing platform all the way back in April 2021, so it’s taken nearly two years to the day to progress to the next phase. And that means it’s joining an already-packed review stage, which now includes a towering 68 projects.

You can check them all out in the table below. Once the qualifying window closes in early May, the LEGO Ideas team will decide which (if any) of these designs to turn into official sets. We’ll likely find out the results around October 2023.

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	Pablo Sánchez Jiménez	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	pacemanship	March 5, 2023
37	U Liotru – Elephant Fountain – Catania	Giovanni Mirulla	March 6, 2023
38	LEGO Astronaut – Never Give Up	legotruman	March 7, 2023
39	The Iron Giant	hachiroku24	March 8, 2023
40	Bluey! Again!	Monkey Scout	March 13, 2023
41	Naruto: Ichiraku Ramen Shop – 25th Anniversary	DadiTwins	March 13, 2023
42	Robotic Mech Factory	The_B3_	March 13, 2023
43	DuckTales: The Money Bin	sxavalentine	March 15, 2023
44	BIONICLE: Toa Head Statue	yannickbuildsthings	March 15, 2023
45	Deejay Chiama Italia	FACEBRICKUP	March 16, 2023
46	The Metropolitan: Don’t Miss Your Train!	LilBilly	March 18, 2023
47	Classic Telephone	Brick Dangerous	March 21, 2023
48	Welcome to Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 75th Anniversary Set	Reepicheep90077	March 25, 2023
49	Wednesday: Welcome to Ophelia Hall	Brickmax	March 25, 2023
50	Parks and Recreation	SJs Workshop	March 30, 2023
51	Stardew Valley Farmhouse	fourbrickstall	March 30, 2023
52	Antique Cabinet	terauma	March 31, 2023
53	The Hearthean’s Ship from Outer Wilds	SuperSirLink	March 31, 2023
54	Gilmore Girls	marodipietro	March 31, 2023
55	Cool Runnings: Jamaica Bobsleigh Team	SakaBassoon	March 31, 2023
56	One Direction: What Makes You Beautiful	SJs Workshop	April 3, 2023
57	BLACKPINK: How You Like That	By The Power of fusion and BangtanBricks	April 4, 2023
58	Harry Styles – Harry’s House	BrickHills14	April 4, 2023
59	Lantern in the Wind	QuangTran1993	April 4, 2023
60	Addams Family	Yang Yang	April 5, 2023
61	Spongebob Squarepants – Bikini Bottom	Vaicko	April 8, 2023
62	BrickLink-LEGO Colour Table	DOC_BRICK	April 9, 2023
63	The Moon: Earth’s Companion	SharkyBricks	April 9, 2023
64	Taylor Swift – Lover House	Lucy33	April 17, 2023
65	Ice Cream Parlor	Pablo Sánchez Jiménez	April 17, 2023
66	Elf the Movie	Johnathan1986	April 17, 2023
67	Eda’s Owl House	t-brick	April 18, 2023
68	Double Helix Coaster	Nachapon_L_e_g_o	April 19, 2023

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