 Rather than cars or buildings, the latest Lego set features three colourful insects, with designs inspired by ordinary Lego fans. For 15 years one of Lego's most popular toy lines has been sets inspired by fans themselves, ranging from a working piano to Disney's Winnie The Pooh. The Lego Ideas concept encourages people to send in their own creations to the official website and there other fans can vote on which they think should be turned into an official set. Any that gets over 10,000 votes is automatically considered by Lego and after a redesign by expert builders they're sold as a normal set, with the original creator getting a small cut of the profits. This week Lego have announced the 50th such set, with The Insect Collection. A trio of models which even those that don't usually like creepy crawlies will find strangely beautiful. The main insects featured are a Blue morpho butterfly from South America (Morpho peleides), a Hercules beetle from Central America, (Dynastes Hercules), and a female Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis). Each comes on their own display base, representing the kinds of environments they live in and including tons of neat details, with the beetle even having attachable wings. Since it's Lego you could always change the wing design yourself (Picture: Lego) There's also a smaller honeybee and a ladybird, which were part of the original pitch, but which Lego redesigned to be more in scale with the other three, which is the sort of thing they often do with Lego Ideas. As an extra bonus the set also comes with a specially recorded ASMR playlist called Green Noise, created by Emmy-nominated Foley artist Sanaa Kelley. Foley artists create movie sound effects using surprisingly mundane objects and in this case Kelley has made the sound of Lego clicks and clacks resemble insects noises. It's pretty but you wouldn't want to find one in your bathroom (Picture: Lego) 'I studied science and f){kind=link}
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Rather than cars or buildings, the latest Lego set features three colourful insects, with designs inspired by ordinary Lego fans.
For 15 years one of Lego’s most popular toy lines has been sets inspired by fans themselves, ranging from a working piano to Disney’s Winnie The Pooh. The Lego Ideas concept encourages people to send in their own creations to the official website and there other fans can vote on which they think should be turned into an official set.
Any that gets over 10,000 votes is automatically considered by Lego and after a redesign by expert builders they’re sold as a normal set, with the original creator getting a small cut of the profits.
This week Lego have announced the 50th such set, with The Insect Collection. A trio of models which even those that don’t usually like creepy crawlies will find strangely beautiful.