So you’ve got this solid idea for a Lego set based on Nintendo’s popular action-adventure franchise The Legend of Zelda. You optimize the project and submit it to Lego Ideas, a section of the company’s website where fans share their own suggestions for new sets, but… wait wait. Their idea was just rejected, with The Lego Group citing a “licensing conflict” as the reason. What’s going on here? Well, it turns out this has happened to several different fan-made projects centered on Nintendo’s fantasy IP.
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Corresponding a report from the Lego-obsessed news site brick fanaticThe Lego Group not only rejects this The Legend of Zelda fan ideas, but ban them completely. At least eight different projectsof a breath of the wild-inspired Hyrule Castle to one with ocarina of time‘s final battle, apparently were blocked by the prolific toy maker. Although these creations have garnered around 10,000 votes from fans on Lego Ideas, which usually pushes submissions into the review stage for possible consideration as official products, the company’s board has reportedly rejected every single one of them.
And now, as evidenced by screenshots of brick fanaticYou can’t even submit projects based on The Legend of Zelda to the area of ideas no longer. If you try, the site will ask if your idea is based on an intellectual property. Select “Yes” and enter “The Legend of Zelda‘ generates an error message stating that the company has ‘already evaluated this IP and determined that we cannot allow submissions based on it’ due to a ‘license conflict’. How strange.
However, the reason for this “license conflict” is unclear brick fanatic pin it in two ways. The first is that The Lego Group may already be working with Nintendo to produce sets based on The Legend of Zeldaas the two have done for Super Mario. (brick fanatic noted that when submitting ideas for Mario brothers., the message citing a “current third-party overlap” in its denial.) Second, a possible competing manufacturer may have rushed in to make sets themed around Nintendo’s long-running series, which could explain this “licensing conflict” error received when You try to submit ideas. (Again, brick fanatic noticed the same “license conflict” for Pokemon.)
my box has reached out to The Lego Group and Nintendo for comment.
Whether there will be new Lego sets in time The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom remains to be seen as this game will be released on May 12, 2023.
