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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