Spin for a LEGO minifigure as working gumball machine hits 10K on Ideas
You may one day be able to spin and win a random LEGO minifigure with LEGO Ideas, as a working gumball machine has just reached the second 2023 review.
Goosestore’s Minifigure Gumball Machine swaps out sweet treats for tiny plastic people, but offers the same rush of turning the dial to earn a tantalising reward. Using clever mechanisms built into the model, the machine jumbles up the spherical cases in its main chamber – each of which holds a minifigure – and spits one out at random, perfectly replicating the process of a real-life gumball machine.
Those minifigures would of course be from a predetermined selection – whether from your own collection or any included in the set – rather than truly random, but the designer bills it as ‘the perfect way to show [off] your special minifigures’. They’ve popped a pirate captain, classic police officer and a Mariachi skeleton into their concept model, but have also suggested that the finished set could come with ‘new, rare minifigures’.
That will be entirely up to the LEGO Ideas review board, which must now determine whether to take this unique model into production as part of the second 2023 review. We’ll find out the results of this review stage in early 2024, so there’s a while to go yet – and likely plenty more projects for it to compete with by the time the qualifying window closes in September.
For now, the Minifigure Gumball Machine joins 17 other projects in the second 2023 review. Check out the full list 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 |
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