The results of the second LEGO Ideas 2018 review round have been revealed and a Steamboat Willie design is among the winners chosen to be released as an official LEGO set.
This nostalgic design celebrates over 90 years of Disney’s Iconic True Original Mickey Mouse and of the ten product ideas that qualified, Steamboat Willie by Máté “szabomate90” Szabó was one of the designs that made it through.
If you aren’t familiar with LEGO Ideas, it’s a program that lets fans of the building blocks pitch their own design to the company. A model needs to be created, photographed, and submitted—alongside a convincing proposal as to why the set should become an official LEGO product.
This proposal is inspired by the beloved Mickey short of the same name and the creator of this set argued a convincing case as you can see below:
“Steamboat Willie is the first fully synchronized sound cartoon directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was the debut of Mickey Mouse in a cartoon, the first to be distributed and the third to be produced,” he says. “So as an animator and a LEGO fan I’d like to pay my respect to that marvelous production, which…inspired a lot of talented artists.”
This set, which will include 156 bricks, received the required 10,000 votes and earned the chance to be reviewed by the company and it will now be an approved new LEGO set.