D&D General It's Time For D&D Lego!

Lego Ideas has announced a Dungeons & Dragon challenge. The contest is timed to coincide with D&D 50th anniversary, and allows fans to submit LEGO builds. The winning entry later becomes official LEGO sets, with the winner getting 1% of the total net sales of the product.

New Challenge - 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons!

Join us in celebrating 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons! To celebrate those 50 adventure filled years, we invite you to ignite your imagination and ...

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Previous LEGO IDEAS sets have included the themed sets like PIrates, Castles, or Space, plus specific brands like The Rolling Stones, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and more.

 

[Stormonu]

And here is the thing, I get a bit depressed, because I cannot afford this, a working adult, and many kids will struggle from lower income families. Toys are so expensive now though really good quality.
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There's plenty of cheap toys still on the market, but items like these aren't aimed at the kids - they're aimed at nostalgia collectors. Besides, LEGOs were never cheap to begin with - I remember only having one set (a spaceship) for a long time, because they just cost too much for everyday play.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

"1% of the total net sales of the LEGO IDEAS Dungeons & Dragons product; "

<- Now that sounds like a prize!

That’s what I was thinking. Maybe I’m overestimating LEGO sales, but 1% of sales is a lot. I wonder if it’s meant to be 1% of the profits?

 

[Rabulias]

I'd like to see the scene of the 1st edition Player's Handbook cover made out of Legos. I think it would be a perfect set and would look awesome.

As much as I love that cover artwork, I doubt they will have a Lego set with bloody lizardman corpses to drape over an altar, much less one to be dragged by the tail.

 

[darjr]

As much as I love that cover artwork, I doubt they will have a Lego set with bloody lizardman corpses to drape over an altar, much less one to be dragged by the tail.

We’ll have to put them in hidden

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As much as I love that cover artwork, I doubt they will have a Lego set with bloody lizardman corpses to drape over an altar, much less one to be dragged by the tail.

Lizardfolk with swords to fight the heroes feels reasonable enough to include.

I suspect Lego would pause more about the statue, which WotC has decided in recent years is Mammon, whom even the general public knows the name of. I don't know that WotC wants to stir up the embers of the Satanic panic right before the movie drops, especially with the 24/7 culture war going on in American politics.

 

[Laurefindel]

Thinking about it, all I want for a D&D-themed LEGO box is an assortment of like 40 torsos, 40 legs, some long some short, 25 human heads, 25 non-human heads, a generous assortment of armor pieces, helmets, capes, wigs (some with pointy ears), various accessories, and a shitload or weapons. Throw in a few dogs, wolves, hawks, and why not an imp while we’re at it.

Then I can recreate my D&D party. Or all of them!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Thinking about it, all I want for a D&D-themed LEGO box is an assortment of like 40 torsos, 40 legs, some long some short, 25 human heads, 25 non-human heads, a generous assortment of armor pieces, helmets, capes, wigs (some with pointy ears), various accessories, and a shitload or weapons. Throw in a few dogs, wolves, hawks, and why not an imp while we’re at it.

Then I can recreate my D&D party. Or all of them!

D&D would be a great theme for one set of their blind bag mini-figures. I believe they've done the Lego Movie sequel, Disney (two or three times) and Harry Potter that way. D&D, as you say, lends itself to mixing and matching with those figures.

That third rogue you got is now a dragonborn rogue! Its head is now on the storm sorcerer body!

 

[darjr]

I liked the LEGO dungeon crawl board games. They got my nephew into D&D. His parents too.

 

[Laurefindel]

That’s what I was thinking. Maybe I’m overestimating LEGO sales, but 1% of sales is a lot. I wonder if it’s meant to be 1% of the profits?

As far as i know that is what all LEGO ideas finalists have been receiving since the beginning. So the 1% thing isn’t unique to that D&D contest specifically.

 

[Laurefindel]

D&D would be a great theme for one set of their blind bag mini-figures. I believe they've done the Lego Movie sequel, Disney (two or three times) and Harry Potter that way. D&D, as you say, lends itself to mixing and matching with those figures.

That third rogue you got is now a dragonborn rogue! Its head is now on the storm sorcerer body!

I recall hearing that other than large baseplates, minifigs torsos are the most complex and expensive part to produce, which is why anything involving a lot of minifigs is doomed to be borderline unaffordable.

Single blind bags would work though, and I’m convinced that their annual minifig series will exclusively be made of D&D adventurers and villain.