You know how we keep sharing these amazing fan-made LEGO Ideas projects based on video games, hoping that one day one of them will actually be made into a real thing? Well, it's finally happened!
LEGO has today confirmed that the fan-made Sonic Mania - Green Hill Zone set we featured on the site last year has been given the green light. The company will team up with Sega to release a product based on the design, with its final look, pricing and other details to be confirmed at a later date.
The concept it'll be using, designed by LEGO Ideas user toastergr, can be seen in the images above and below.
"The review board has given Viv Grannell's (aka toastergrl on LEGO Ideas) Sonic Mania - Green Hill Zone the green light. We're excited to collaborate with SEGA and Viv to bring one of the most iconic game characters and brands to life via LEGO bricks on the basis of Viv's colourful and fun creation. Congrats Viv!"
Talking about the winning idea, Viv Grannell said; "I’ve been invested in the world of Sonic for almost my entire life, and it’s such a perfect fit for the LEGO system that I spent about a year rallying support for it to happen. Having 10,000 people back my design was overwhelming enough, even with friends and family behind me, but having it be selected for further development was the most exciting secret I have ever had to keep!"
With this, we now have official LEGO sets for both Mario and Sonic, which will surely do wonders for getting more video game-based LEGO products in the future. The awesome Metroid set we featured a little while ago has now also surpassed the required 10,000 user votes to be considered, so that should be reviewed by the LEGO team in the near future.
What other designs would you like to see? Will you buy this Sonic set when it eventually releases? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.
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Very cool! I’ll probably pick this up. I wish the Mario ones were along these lines...
I think I’m going to need this in my life
I’m so HYPE!!! So much cooler than all the Mario stuff! I’ve been supporting this set since last year, and I’m super happy it’s becoming a real thing! Whooooooo!!!
Obligatory “if only Nintendo treated their fans like this” comment.
I am not a Sonic fan BUT such news bring a smile to my face!
Sonic plus legos what's not to love?
This was probably an easy business decision thanks to Sonic's inclusion in Lego Dimensions.
It has a ton of already realised designs for things like the characters, the Death Egg Robot, the world, etc. There's a lot to work with.
This just makes me want that one LEGO Ideas concept of Samus' gunship to be turned into a set on its own as well
Hope it stays true to the original concept I can easily see Sega meddling with it because of their insecurities.
Fans are Sonic's last hope. Keep it up fans. You are the only ones that can keep the Hedgehog alive!
I loved this when it was originally brought up. I forgot about it. Seeing it again reminded me of my original thoughts. I love it all, except how Sonic looks.
Does she get the set for free?
@Ryu_Niiyama Yeah she does, but that is really really cool I'll have to pick that up myself
This is awesome news! I don't have too many LEGO sets aside from a Trolls one I got as a gift and some of the Dimensions stuff, I wouldn't mind adding this to my small collection since I like sets based off stuff I like.
@Ryu_Niiyama
She gets a (small) cut of the profits of all the sets sold.
Love Lego and Mario, and I know why the sets were aimed at younger audiences, but this is far more appealing to me than the Super Mario sets.
OMG IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING!
So Sonic got a proper Lego set before Mario
While the Lego Mario is kind of fun, is not really that buildable...
Finally, some good Sonic news...
I have nowhere to put this in, but I'm probably still going to get it.
That's really cool. There are a lot of passionate people out there in the world of video games and LEGO.
Hahahahaha, typical Sega, working with their fans and all. That's super weird, who does that?!
This looks so freaking cool but makes me really want to play Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) and it makes me sad that it's so difficult to do so, proper.
Doomsday zone.... Death Egg zone... all those amazing soundtracks... ugh.
I'm saying come on, release Sonic 3 and Knuckles properly on a current console, please. Settle whatever you have to, pay the money, give in, shake hands, release the game with original soundtracks and some cool additional features.It's probably in my top 3 games of all time.
Anyway, yeah this LEGO set I'll be buying if it's not at an outrageous price.
This is awesome, I'm trying to get rid of Lego but this will be a day one buy if it's less than £50
Sonic LEGOS! Sonic LEEGGOOOS!
Hoping for some Legend of Zelda official Lego sets now! There have been awesome fan-made ones based on that series.
Like usual, Sonic fans being better than Sega.
@victordamazio It's not like without the fans, Sonic would just go to an Indie studio, like ToeJam & Earl, who share an anniversary year with Sonic, this year. How come we don't got a Multiplatform re-release of the lost classic "ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth?"
Never thought I'd say this but this looks cooler than the mario sets
@Ryu_Niiyama
To be exact, she will get 10 free copies and 1% of the total sales of the set. So if the set costs $50, she would get $0.5 per sale of the set
I'm getting this no buts about it.
An original donkey kong set would be amazing.
Wow! Compared to the Super Mario LEGO debacle this looks really nice. I don't like Sonic, but the style is much more accurate.
I haven't bought Lego in a very long time but if this turns out nice I might have to!
@brandonbwii Every single time I see this kind of comment (inb4 or equivalent, which was cool-ish 14 years ago), I can't help but think this is exactly what you wanted to complain about. Also you're the only one who mentioned something like this in the comments...
I didn't buy Lego Mario, but I'll be all over this!
@ralphdibny Why on earth would you want to get rid of LEGO? It deserves to be kept!
@Zeldinion haha I've just got too much of it to be honest. I'm going to keep the best ones like most of the marvel and DC sets, the toy story sets but I want to get rid of City, Ninjago and probably most of my Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Lego. I'll probably get rid of Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones too
@Rhaoulos Well, the complainers aren’t really wrong exactly.😉
@ralphdibny Yeah i suppose it could be hard if there isn't anywhere to put it, although I've always preferred the Lego originals like City and Ninjago, they tend to just be better designed in my opinion
Why have a plane and not have Tails?
@Zeldinion the creator ones are really good too! I'm just trying to downsize a lot of my stuff at the moment and Lego is something that kind of holds value so it's worth selling. I guess I'm trying to only keep the "display pieces" and as I'm a huge fan of marvel and DC, the minifgures and some of the sets are pretty much the only ones I want to keep for definite.
It is a bit heartbreaking to be cleaning up the Lego City hot dog seller for sale though! I can't keep talking about it or I will lose my nerve about selling them😅. I need to be ruthless!
Not that interested in Sonic but it looks AWESOME!
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