Lego Rejects Fan Ideas For New Sets, Including Golden Girls And Daft Punk

Everything is awesome, except if you’re a fan of The Golden Girls.

Or Daft Punk. Or The Legend of Zelda. Or dinosaurs. Or Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Or the International Space Station.

All of the above have one thing in common: they have just been rejected as ideas for new Lego sets.

Lego has just reported the results of Lego Ideas, in which it crowdsourced suggestions from Lego lovers for new products. And the news is bad.

Not one of the ideas, all of which received the required 10,000 supporters, has been given the green light.

In total, 13 ideas were rejected, including a Lego set that replicated the living room from ‘80s sitcom The Golden Girls; minifigures of the two elusive members of dance act Daft Punk; a scene from the Discworld novels; a Tyrannosaurus rex; the International Space Station; video game The Legend of Zelda and an ice palace from Disney movie Frozen.

Each suggestion received at least 10,000 backers between January and May this year, making it eligible for Lego Review.

But the Danish company decided not to forward any of the projects to the production stage, an unwanted first in Lego history.

Lego did not divulge the reasons behind its decisions, although one factor could be the challenge of securing intellectual property rights on certain ideas.

In the case of the ice palace from Frozen, Lego already has a similar product on the market.

The results of the second Lego Review for this year will be announced in early 2016.

In a statement, Lego said: “Usually we happily announce project(s) will become the next LEGO Ideas product(s), but unfortunately this time we’re not able to do so.

“For a number of reasons, none of the projects that qualified during this period were selected in the Lego Review; this has never happened before and we’re very disappointed to pass on this news, especially because we know the huge amount of effort each member put into creating the models and campaigning for their projects.”

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