It’s that time again – the design team is thinking about another video game world Lego, for a chance to be an official LEGO product in stores around the world.This time, it’s perfect for a brick world – with Terraria Get the LEGO treatment.
Terraria sets come from LEGO Ideas, a project run by The LEGO Group that allows fans to submit set designs and ideas to the company. Any set that garners 10,000 backers in the LEGO Ideas community is sent to a committee of LEGO designers and staff, who then evaluate the set for suitability for final release. If they decide to pick it up, it will appear in the real-life store later as a real-life scene, no longer just a fan creation, but an official release.
Making the final product from LEGO Ideas was a particularly long process, but the Terraria set has cleared the first major hurdle. In the field of video games, both Lego Minecraft and Lego Sonic the Hedgehog were submitted from Lego Ideas. In the case of Minecraft, the one-off Ideas sets eventually led to the entire Minecraft set series, which are still going strong with new releases to this day.
Beyond video games, LEGO Ideas has spawned a wide variety of new LEGO sets, from all-original designs to beloved franchises including Doctor Who, Genesis, Sesame Street, Lone Man, Flint and Stone, Voltron, and Office – to name a few. As part of the review process, LEGO will evaluate the set from their perspective and contact the rights holders of the intellectual property to see if a partnership is possible.
The Terraria Project contains nearly 2,000 pieces constructed as cross-sections of the Terraria world, including houses, ponds, and caves. It’s a very neat representation of the game world, and while fairly basic in some areas, if approved, full-time LEGO designers will redesign and tweak it to better fit the state of the official set.
During the review process, a committee of LEGO staff will build a conceptual model of the set, considering its playability, safety and fit with the LEGO brand. Essentially, this is the same process that any set idea that comes up internally goes through.
However, its competition is fierce. It’s part of the 2022 LEGO Ideas second review, along with 50 other sets, including some beautiful original and licensed designs. Results will be known in a few months.
If the Terraria set isn’t approved, it will join a long list of painfully rejected LEGO Ideas sets, including multiple fantastic Zelda sets. pain.
With LEGO’s 90th birthday, the company seems to be looking for new horizons, with more sets for adults and collectors, and more video game collaborations. There’s a steady stream of LEGO Mario releases, with a giant brick Bowser coming next month. There are now two LEGO console models – the NES and the new Atari 2600. Earlier this year, LEGO released its first collaboration with PlayStation in the form of a Tallneck model of Horizon Zero Dawn. Even if Terraria doesn’t make it, now is a great time to be a LEGO and gaming lover.
