LEGO Ideas / Licensed Sets

Licensed is where LEGO Ideas sets based on films, TV series, games, music and brands are filed. Each began as a fan design that reached 10,000 supporters on the Ideas website before LEGO reviewed it, and the fan whose design is made gets a share of the sales. Licensed ideas are harder to get made, because LEGO also needs an agreement with the owner, and many popular projects have stopped at that step.

The earliest go back to 2012, when the programme was still called CUUSOO, and early hits like 21103 The DeLorean Time Machine and 21108 Ghostbusters Ecto-1 showed how well film vehicles worked. Sitcoms became a steady source after 21302 The Big Bang Theory, and 21319 Central Perk came out for the 25th anniversary of Friends in 2019. Music, paintings and video games have all had their turn as well.