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

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