LEGO Ideas again bypasses Disney finalists

Since 2008, LEGO has run a program for the public to submit their new set designs, with the chance of them becoming a real product on store shelves.

There have been eight Disney or Pixar sets released as part of the campaign, but they’re surprisingly uncommon, considering the two companies deep, decades-long partnership.

The winning concepts in the newest round are E. T. The Extraterrestrial, Go Go Power Rangers! LEGO Megazord, La Catrina (a Day of the Dead skeleton), Smurf Village – The Half Blood Baron, Downton Abbey: Highclere Castle, and Ramen.

Disney rejects this time around were of the Golden Girls’ kitchen, Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s Evil Incorporated building, Statler and Waldorf’s balcony (which functioned as a key rack), the Pizza Planet truck, and “Mary Poppins, Back to Cherry Tree Lane.”

The third 2024 LEGO Review, announced this June, included Godzilla, the Tin-Tin space rocket, and camping trip. That round rejected sets based on Ratatouille, The Princess Bride, the Muppet Theatre, The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, and two sets based on Gravity Falls. (It also rejected a beautiful, working Turning Machine computer.)

Both rounds rejected concepts based on Taylor Swift, a Disney+ mainstay.

Oh well, better luck next round.

The next sets for consideration are of or are based on, an operational Muppet Theatre, 20th Television’s The Rookie, and “Monsters, Inc. – Boo’s Door Scream Floor”.

There’s two designs each of Hamilton, two of Pirates of the Caribbean (The Curse of the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman), Phineas and Ferb (“Perry the Platypus/Agent P” and “Doofenshmirtz Incorporated Building”), and two of Percy Jackson (“Welcome to Camp Half-Blood!” and “Poseidon’s Cabin”).

There’s also two more designs based on the Gravity Falls Mystery Shack, a design where variants have qualified many times before.