Lego’s “Ideas” line—based on user-created and fan-backed design suggestions—is always in cycles of review, with plenty of sets confirmed but still in the long queue to actually get made. So it’s perhaps not too surprising that Lego’s latest review has only added a few more to that list… especially since the latest review period smashed a huge record for submitted ideas.
Today Lego confirmed the results of the second wave of 2025 submission reviews for Lego Ideas (of three overall for the year), the aftermath of the largest-ever review period for the line since it began as Lego CUUSOO in 2008. A whopping 146 candidates qualified for the review period after the platform and several ideas started going viral on social media during the submission process—more than doubling the last record for most candidates, at just 71, which came in 2023.
It’s a bit of a shock then, with so many ideas to review, Lego only decided to lock in 3 of the 146 to become official sets: An Edward Scissorhands display by Ideas user Castor-Troy, a National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation set by twrt0es, and a non-licensed pitch, inspired by the canal houses of Amsterdam, by Brickmaster_85. As always, the designs below will be tweaked in the process of becoming official sets, so don’t take these images as a guaranteed look at the final product.
While those were the only 3 to make it out of this round of reviews, they weren’t the only sets confirmed this time. Lego also announced a fourth set, pulled from what the brick-maker calls the “Parking Lot”—a list of Ideas projects Lego was interested in potentially pursuing, but needed more time outside of the review period to do so. That set was Iyan ha‘s diorama based on the 1952 Ernest Hemingway novella, The Old Man and the Sea, which was actually added to the lot in just the prior wave of reviews from earlier in 2025. Replacing it in the lot from the latest round was a Lego art piece submitted by DallasBricks, inspired by the famous 1932 photograph known as “Lunch atop a Skyscraper”, depicting workers taking lunch during construction of the Empire State Building.
Knocking out 142 submissions in one fell swoop might seem like a lot, but it’s clear Lego can’t add too much to its backlog of confirmed Ideas sets as the review cycle keeps marching on. As of writing, there are still 13 sets (with another 3 kept in the Parking Lot) already confirmed before today’s additions, including sets inspired by Godzilla, ET, Power Rangers, and more.
The third and final set of submissions from 2025, 75 in total, will be reviewed to potentially become sets later this year (you can see the list of eligible candidates here), likely adding even more to the Ideas backlog. Are you excited for any of today’s confirmed sets? Let us know in the comments!
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