Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is getting its first LEGO set. LEGO Ideas has picked Minibrick41587’s Ranger for production: the wedge-shaped landing craft from Interstellar, with Cooper and Dr. Brand minifigures and brick-built versions of robots TARS and CASE.
The first review of 2026 drew 97 fan projects into formal review, and three made it through. Alongside the Ranger, LEGO greenlit Tulip Field Windmill by HisBrickMaterials and Chinese Cork Carving Art by GenericBrix, with 92 of the 97 going home empty-handed. Two more projects landed somewhere stranger than a yes or a no.
LEGO Ideas runs on fan votes, and the bar is hard. Any builder can post a design, and 10,000 supporters moves it into formal review alongside the rest of the round. The board weighs the model as a product: the build, the audience, the license. Most projects that clear the bar still get a no, which makes this round’s shape unusual.
A second try at the Ranger
Minibrick41587 has stood on both sides of this decision. Their Polaroid OneStep SX-70 Camera already sits on shelves as set 21345, one of the Ideas line’s cleaner hits. An earlier Ranger of theirs reached 10,000 supporters, went through review in 2024, and got passed over without a public reason. This run uses a reworked design, the one LEGO’s review listing tags as a re-entry, and it took the yes.
As submitted, the Ranger runs 561 pieces. White plating over a black frame forms the two-tone wedge. The roof section lifts away, and both astronauts sit inside ahead of a rear hatch. TARS and CASE stand as gray slab robots, close kin to the film’s walking filing cabinets.
The submission stages the Ranger’s Miller’s planet landing, the shallow-water touchdown from the film. Neither Interstellar nor The Fifth Element has had a LEGO set before, which gives this round an odd distinction: two cult sci-fi properties arriving at the same gate in the same round. It is a small set by Ideas standards, and that is the appeal.
One ship, two crew, two robots, nothing wasted.
What reaches shelves will not be this exact model. LEGO’s designers now rebuild it to production standards, and piece counts, prints, and details can all move before a box exists. The fan build is the blueprint, not the product.
The taxi did not get a no
MarinBrickDesign’s Korben Dallas Taxi came out of the same review with its fate undecided, which on LEGO Ideas is a category of its own. The build recreates the cab from The Fifth Element at 31.4 centimeters long, checker band and roof sign included, on a display stand with Korben and Leeloo figures and a Multipass the size of a billboard. The 1997 film underperformed on release and then turned into a cult staple, the exact profile Ideas voters reward.
LEGO calls the holding pen the Parking Lot. In the company’s framing, projects that need a little longer to work through the review process land there and wait until a final decision is made. No fresh 10,000-vote campaign, no starting over, no re-entry queue. The taxi joins five projects already waiting, among them a Hollow Knight journey, an iMac G3, and a Naruto ramen shop. A parked project keeps its place in line.
The round’s other newcomer to the lot, DistinguishedCrow’s 304-piece Peashooter from Plants vs. Zombies, waits there too.
Windmills and cork carvings
HisBrickMaterials’ Tulip Field Windmill is that designer’s second trip through this process, after the Floating Sea Otters set reached shelves. The blades turn over a furnished interior, and rows of brick tulips do the color work out front, built with LEGO’s newer tulip piece. It also hands the line a second Dutch landscape in a row, after the Amsterdam Canal Houses pick.
Chinese Cork Carving Art takes the opposite approach to spectacle. GenericBrix packed 1,273 pieces into a framed diorama of a temple, a bridge, and a tree, modeled on real cork carvings and rendered in four shades of nougat and tan, with 14 recolored elements folded in, a display piece in the most literal sense.
What happens next
All three winners go into development, with no prices and no release dates set for any of them. Selection-to-shelf on Ideas usually runs a year or more, since the design team reworks each model and licensed subjects need approvals, so the wait is part of the format, not a delay.
For the other 92 projects in the round, the run ends here. The Ranger took the round, and the taxi is now the program’s best cliffhanger.
