{"id":1683,"date":"2015-02-05T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T14:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2023-07-29T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T14:07:36","slug":"dr-who-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2015\/02\/05\/dr-who-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Box in Bricks: Official Doctor Who Lego Set Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not even the Celestial Toymaker could have captured the Doctor like this! LEGO has announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.lego.com\/blogs\/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6\/post\/498dfe13-4339-435e-8a5a-34397980c2c9\">production of an official <em>Doctor Who<\/em> set<\/a>, via their fan-created <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.lego.com\/\">LEGO Ideas<\/a> brand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.lego.com\/blogs\/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6\/post\/498dfe13-4339-435e-8a5a-34397980c2c9\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/drwholego.jpg?resize=720%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Image of set concept art via https:\/\/ideas.lego.com\/blogs\/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6\/post\/498dfe13-4339-435e-8a5a-34397980c2c9\" title=\"Image of set concept art via https:\/\/ideas.lego.com\/blogs\/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6\/post\/498dfe13-4339-435e-8a5a-34397980c2c9\" border=\"0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The existing <a href=\"https:\/\/merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk\/lists\/doctor-who-character-building-collectors-list\/\">Character Building <em>Doctor Who<\/em> range<\/a> is rather nice&mdash;several of their Doctor figures and their TARDIS stand guard at the base of my monitor&mdash;and I hope they will continue to be produced as well, but there&#8217;s something about LEGO that speaks quite directly to the nostalgic part of the brain. These will sell quite well, I imagine (and indeed, a glance at the prior LEGO Ideas productions shows almost all of them to be sold out).<\/p>\n<p>From the look of the fan-created concept art above, the focus seems (as ever these days) to be on new-<em>Who<\/em> with a cursory nod to Tom Baker&#8217;s Fourth Doctor. I will, of course, gleefully snap up whatever set <em>Doctor Who<\/em> sets LEGO produces, but I hope that demand for earlier Doctors and companions is sufficiently strong that we eventually get the entire cast.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO William Hartnell and LEGO Maureen O&#8217;Brien, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>(Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.lego.com\/blogs\/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6\/post\/498dfe13-4339-435e-8a5a-34397980c2c9\">LEGO Ideas<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not even the Celestial Toymaker could have captured the Doctor like this! LEGO has announced the production of an official Doctor Who set, via their fan-created LEGO Ideas brand. The existing Character Building Doctor Who range is rather nice&mdash;several of their Doctor figures and their TARDIS stand guard at the base of my monitor&mdash;and I &#8230; <a title=\"Blue Box in Bricks: Official Doctor Who Lego Set Announced\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2015\/02\/05\/dr-who-lego\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Blue Box in Bricks: Official Doctor Who Lego Set Announced\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,108],"tags":[14,212],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-toys","tag-doctor-who","tag-lego"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-r9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}