LEGO and Yu-Gi-Oh! collide in latest LEGO Ideas 10K project

A storage box is the latest LEGO Ideas project to reach the second 2023 review – but this isn’t any old storage box. It’s one specifically designed to hold Yu-Gi-Oh! cards…

Pitched as ‘a box to hold your most treasured cards’, Ideas user Zero Helix’s Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Box: Dark Magician vs Blue-Eyes White Dragon adapts the anime’s striking gold sarcophagus and tops it with ‘the franchise’s two most iconic monsters’. Coming in at 791 pieces, the box’s interior is apparently big enough to hold sleeved Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, with a little extra finger room to boot.

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“I created this build because, like many others and their pastimes, latching on to my hobbies of LEGO and Yu-Gi-Oh! has given me great comfort during some hard times in my life, and the strength of this idea is that being a fan of both pursuits is unlikely to be a unique experience,” the designer explained on the project page. “Two such beloved hobbies, both focused around collecting, should have plenty of overlap in their target audience.”

In fact, Zero Helix is ‘certain’ that a LEGO Yu-Gi-Oh! build would sell well enough to make it worth the LEGO Group’s time, pointing to the fact that franchise fans ‘spend an absolute fortune on cards and other merchandise’. The card game – based on the Japanese manga and anime of the same name – even counts a LEGO-inspired monster among its deck, and Zero Helix has suggested that Konami could include an exclusive card in the Ideas set to further entice fans.

The self-professed game designer has made a strong case for LEGO Yu-Gi-Oh! getting the green light from the Ideas review board, but its fate will ultimately be decided in the second 2023 review. It’s taken just over two years to reach 10,000 votes, and becomes the 20th project in this review stage. We’ll find out the result one way or the other in early 2024.

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

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