Metroid looks amazing on Lego – and it can become real if you vote

If you want one Metroid Lego set, you have the power to bring the idea closer to reality. The user L-DI-EGO submitted a design on the Lego Ideas website that brings the block treatment to Samus and his helicopter, but the website requires votes to present this concept to Lego itself (via Nintendo Life)

Lego Ideas is an official website for users to submit their concepts and designs for consideration by the Lego company and where Lego fans can vote for their favorites. If a shipment receives 10,000 votes, the Lego Group can turn it into a real product. Now the Metroid concept has about 5,700 votes, so it’s a little more than half. If you like the concept, you can access the website and put your thumb on the scale.

Image: L-DI-EGO about Lego Ideas

Image: L-DI-EGO about Lego Ideas

It is important to note, however, that many of the entries that receive 10,000 votes do not reach store shelves. The program has been running since 2008, and only 33 sets have come into production so far. Lego only guarantees that it will analyze the idea, but generally fans end up waiting for a response from the company only to receive a rejection.

This does not mean that it is impossible. Lego has a page that lists some of the ideas you can buy today. The list includes the truly amazing 1969 Saturn V rocket, and we wrote about a Doctor Who set that started out as an idea. Spatial ideas really seem to speak to Lego, since almost a quarter of the sets produced (if you count WALL-E and Doctor Who) have space as their theme. This includes a Women of NASA kit and a recreation of the International Space Station. Maybe it’s a good sign, because Metroid is defined in space?

Image: L-DI-EGO about Lego Ideas

Image: L-DI-EGO about Lego Ideas

Despite the spatial examples, the program does not operate at high speed. It can often take more than a year from reviewing an idea to being something you can buy: the Doctor Who kit got 10,000 votes on April 7, 2014 and hit stores in December 2015.

And even if the Metroid the idea ended up being produced by Lego, there is no promise that it will look the same as it does now. Lego usually makes changes to Ideas’ designs. You can see this by comparing the Back to the future set for 2011. At the top is the Ideas version and at the bottom is the retail packaging.

Image of m.togami on Lego Ideas

Image: Lego

While Lego decides to do this Metroid set may be unlikely, he already has a relationship with Nintendo from the work that companies have done on some Super Mario sets and a version of the NES that is just as captivatingly blocky as the system graphics.

What if Metroid is not your favorite Nintendo franchise, there is an Animal Crossing set that only below the 10,000 vote line. You have over 9,000 votes, so it only takes a little push to get to the Lego table. And, if you want to spend a night dreaming about Lego sets that will probably never be released, I suggest you take a look at the Ideas sets that are currently pending review – there are some great ones there, including Tom Nook’s infamous shopping.

TiagoCatarino on Lego Ideas