LEGO Ideas Updated Rules And New Possibilities Announced!

LEGO Ideas has announced updated rules and new possibilities for creators, including increased piece count! 

From today, builders will be allowed more possibilities for their new projects, with the maximum number of elements for each submission upped from 3,000 to 5,000, as well as a new minimum of 200 elements. LEGO Ideas has also provided a handy Minifigure ratio guide, which gives you a rough idea of how many characters to include in which sized builds, this isn’t compulsory but merely a suggestion.

The changes listed come into effect today, they are not retroactively applied to current submissions. Read more about the changes below, via the official statement. Please share your thoughts on the via the comments section. 

Official LEGO Ideas blog post

Official details:

LEGO Ideas is about to get bigger, more detailed, and better than ever! We want to empower all our amazing fan designers to unlock their next level of creativity and us to showcase the best and brightest of the LEGO Ideas community.

We’ve listened to your feedback and are excited to announce some updates to our Product Ideas rules and guidelines:

• The maximum number of elements a build can feature will be raised from 3,000 to 5,000 elements.
• A minimum 200-element count will be required for submissions.
• A minifigure-to-element ratio guide will be made available.

We know building constraints can be tough. Especially when it comes to adding the finishing touches and decoration, only for you to realize you’re at 3,000 elements. Well, now you can elevate the scale and detail of your designs with far fewer creative constraints as we increase the maximum element limit to 5,000. We’re hoping this gives you the tools to make the absolute best version of your idea possible, with plenty of scope for creative building and decorating techniques, without worrying about how this will impact the element count.

We’ll also be implementing a 200-element minimum for Product Idea submissions. This is to push the boundaries of creativity and uniqueness in each build and make sure our community has the best submissions available to give their support to.

Finally, we’ll be introducing new guidelines for the suggested number of minifigures in relation to a build’s element count. This will help you to determine the most appropriate number of minifigures for your build.

While this guide is designed to provide a framework, there may be situations in which submissions outside of this are approved. Each submission is evaluated within its own context, meaning if there is a compelling or narrative reason for including those minifigures approval would be at our discretion. This is a guideline and is not designed to prevent builders from including all the minifigures needed to accurately recreate a scene or limit their imagination.

These changes will not be retroactively applied, and so will not affect submissions currently gaining support on the platform. This means any current submissions under 200 elements will remain active and be submitted for review, should they reach 10,000 supporters.

This also means that previously submitted projects will still be bound to the 3,000-element limit. Project Edit rules will not be changing, meaning project edits should only be for small incremental improvements. As such, if you wish to add to an existing project, or reimagine it with this new limit in mind, the original submission will have to be deleted and resubmitted as a new project.

Excitingly, builds previously rejected for being over the 3,000-element limit will now be welcomed on the platform. However, this is not an automatic process, and these submissions will need to be manually resubmitted by their creator.

As an extra note, our current ‘Build From the Heart’ challenge uses the Product Idea rules and guidelines, with some exceptions. This challenge was launched with the previous guidelines in mind and so will continue under the old rules and guidelines. Meaning there will be no minimum brick count for this challenge and the current stated maximum of 1,000 elements will remain the same.

We hope you’re just as excited and inspired as we are by these new changes! And we can’t wait to begin seeing the influx of ingenious new submissions hit the site and start gaining support from this fantastic community!

These changes will take effect from today’s announcement.