Lego Ideas, the platform where fans can design Lego sets, then see them licensed and sold in stores, has given us some fantastic builds over the years. Sadly, this big Hyrule Castle set wonāt be one of them.
There are a few hurdles a project has to clear before being signed off by Lego. The first is that it needs to get over 10,000 votes from members of the community. Then it has to be selected by judges from a pool of all the designs that managed to hit that threshold. Then it needs to actually be given the licensing green light, something achieved by loads of Ideas winners in the past (from Ghostbusters to Friends).
Artem Biziaevās Hyrule Castle got the 10,000 votes part, but it wasnāt among the winners announced in Legoās blog post from last week. Itās unclear at which subsequent hurdle it fell over, but given the quality of the build, it doesnāt seem outrageous to me to guess that the issue was licensing. Nintendoās current Lego partnership results in sets that, while unique in their own ways, arenāt as traditional as this.
Which is a damn shame! Iām really not a fan of any of the existing Nintendo x Lego sets, asācall me old-fashioned hereāall I wanted from the deal was traditional Lego playsets. Locations and characters we all love, recreated in that trademark Lego style. I was thinking a Peachās Castle playset, an Animal Crossing village, a bigā¦well, Hyrule Castle, all of them populated with lilā Nintendo minifigs.
Since thatās not happening, then, all weāve got are Biziaevās images to go on, revealing his plans for everything from hidden treasures to a full-blown transformation after Ganonās Ocarina of Time takeover.
While weāre on the subject, the latest round of Ideas announcements also showed that Lego and/or Nintendo also passed on sets based on Animal Crossing and Metroid, while an Among Us build also missed out.
