Treat yo’ self to a potential LEGO Parks and Recreation set with LEGO Ideas
A LEGO Ideas project based on Parks and Recreation has reached the first 2023 review, which means you might one day be able to treat yo’ self to LEGO Tom Haverford and Donna Meagle.
The LEGO Ideas team is no stranger to sitcom sets by this point – see 21319 Central Perk, 21328 Seinfeld, 21336 The Office and so on – which means the odds are surely pretty good for prolific platform user SJs Workshop’s Parks and Recreation project. The long-running mockumentary sitcom, helmed by The Office showrunner Greg Daniels and writer Michael Schur, followed the antics of perky bureaucrat Leslie Knope in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana.
It’s the same quirky premise that saw The Office rocket to success in the US, and the LEGO Ideas team could now journey down the same path, following 21336 The Office with an official set based on Parks and Recreation. SJs Workshop’s model even takes roughly the same aesthetic approach as Jaijai Lewis’s The Office, packing in all the major rooms, details and characters from the TV show, along with countless Easter eggs and references.
That could well be its undoing, however, when the LEGO Ideas team judges whether to take it to production as an official set: do we need two very similar sitcom models, both depicting office environments, on shelves at the same time? On the other hand, 21336 The Office is due to retire by the end of 2024. The results of the first 2023 review will likely be announced in October, and Ideas sets generally debut a year after getting the green light.
It’s not hard to imagine a scenario in which 21336 The Office is immediately replaced on shelves by a LEGO Parks and Recreation set, but we’ll have to wait until the LEGO Ideas team announces the results of the first 2023 review to find out one way or the other. For now, SJs Workshop’s model becomes the 51st project in an increasingly packed review – and one that could well become a record-breaker…
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 | Bricky_Brick | 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 | Gothic Castle | Ponyraptor | March 23, 2023 |
| 49 | Welcome to Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 75th Anniversary Set | Reepicheep90077 | March 25, 2023 |
| 50 | Wednesday: Welcome to Ophelia Hall | Brickmax | March 25, 2023 |
| 51 | Parks and Recreation | SJs Workshop | March 30, 2023 |
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