5 Lego sets that should exist if there's any good in the world
After a successful pass through the Lego Ideas review board, a Lego Women of NASA set will hit toy store shelves at the end of 2017.
Designed by science writer and editor Maia Weinstock, her set includes minifigures of women who've broke ground in space exploration: Katherine Johnson, Mae Jemison, Sally Ride, Margaret Hamilton and Nancy Grace Roman.
Like Weinstock's Women of NASA set, fan-designed Lego sets have led to some truly delightful additions to the toy retailer's product lineup.
But of course, there are still plenty of sets — even the unlikeliest of candidates — that we're still holding out hope for.
1. The women of the Supreme Court
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Though Weinstock's Women of NASA may have passed the Lego assessment process, her previous submissions haven't always been successful.
In 2015, she submitted a proposal to model minifigures after women of the Supreme Court, featuring Lego versions of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Sandra Day O'Connor. Lego rejected the idea, as it violates its policy against building sets based on "[p]olitics and political symbols, campaigns, or movements," a rule we're still wishing they'd bend, if only for Ginsberg's collar alone.
2. The cast of Golden Girls
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For a few months back in 2015, we were hopeful a mini Lego Bea Arthur might be in our future. Alas, Lego rejected this Ideas proposal, leaving us to wonder what a Golden Girls all-brick living room might have looked like. Missed opportunity, Lego.
3. The cast of Hamilton
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For the musical theater geeks: a proposal for "Hamilton: A Lego Musical" just hit Lego's Ideas platform, and it's already gaining steam. It features a small reproduction of the original set, plus minifigures inspired by the cast, from Alexander Hamilton to the Schuyler sisters.
4. RuPaul's Drag Race
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When a Drag Race-inspired proposal hit Lego Ideas earlier this year, Twitter lost its mind over the possibility of a tiny, checkered flag-wielding RuPaul. The design includes brick versions of the show's most iconic set pieces, and minifigures for some of the competition's biggest stars.
Even the show itself gave the proposal its blessing.
We want it!!! And with detachable, snatchable wigs!!! https://t.co/Xq1Kgj6S6r
— RuPaul's Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) January 31, 2017
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) February 1, 2017
With about 4,400 supporters on Lego Ideas and more than 570 days left in the voting process, here's to hoping the proposal can pass through to Lego for evaluation.
5. Moonbase pioneers
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The Lego Women of NASA will need a sturdy ride after your kid straps them into her Lego rocket and sends them off for a moon landing.
This proposal — unrelated to Weinstock's proposal — imagines a rover big enough to carry all five of the upcoming NASA minifigures around on a mission to set up a viable moon base. Though the set has a long way to go before it reaches the 10,000 votes needed to undergo review, the folks at Lego Ideas labeled the idea a Staff Pick.
