As most mini-brick construction aficionados will no doubt know, Lego is a Danish toy company which can trace its history all the way back in 1932. Manufacturers 🍨of their world-famous toy construction products, consumers both young and old have collectively spent countless hours snapping together small plastic bricks to form either a prefab structure or some fantastic design of their own. In the modern era, it would be tough to come across anyon𝓡e lacking at least a passing familiarity with this innovative brand.
Though their line of products would be successful enough on their own, Lego has acquired dozens of pop-culture property licenses over the years and has made hundreds of toy sets dedicated to famous media brands like Harry Potter, Marvel Comics,ꦿ and Star Wars. Dedicated Lego fans may prefer to sculpt their creations free of instruction, but lots of junior builders appreciate constructing sets with the help of an instruction manual.
That said, the company has, in the past, released a few sets which boggle the mind so thoroughly that it may actually take a certified engineer to put them together. Everyone is well aware of infamous mega-sets like the iconic Death Star from Star Wars or Legꦑo’s elaborate recreation of London’s famous Tower Brid💙ge.
It gets even more bizarre than that, of course: from an 🌳all-assembly-required sports ca♛r to a scene-for-scene recreation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Lego has come out with some really strange stuff over the course of their 86 year history.
30 🌳 🐼 LEGO Star Wars Porg
From the annoyingly childish Jar Jar Binks to the teddy bear-like Ewoks of Endor, the Star Wars films often seem to try to incorporate some sort of adorable character to invest younger audiences. In the case of 2017’s The Last Jedi, it was the puffin-like porgs of Ach-To. Though they may work well as plushies, their designs aren’t totally conducive to Lego structures. That, of course, didn’t stop the folks over at Lego from making an . It may be worthwhile for any hardcore fans of both Star Wars and Lego𝐆, but, on the whole, this set is ugly and slightly jarring. Lego, as evidenced by this set, is clearly willing to milk their more prominent licenses for all they are worth.
29 NHL Slammer Stadium Set꧒ 𓃲
Seasoned Lego fans will likely remember the company’s professional sports gambit on which they embarked a short time after the turn of the millennium. It looked like a pretty neat idea on paper: a series of miniaturized on which could be placed movable💧 pieces which could roughly replicate the feeling of playing foosball on an all but broken table. Unfortunately, Lego opted to nix their traditional Lego minifigures in favor of a weird set of heads which appear to have been modeled from the Easter Island monuments. What’s more, these sets were notoriously flimsy and didn’t stand up to the sort of wear and tear a typical child’s toy 𓃲might experience.
28 Dr. Fox’s Ma💫gnifying Machine 🙈
Part of Lego’s child-friendly Unikitty line, seems like a cool concept at the outset: a simple yet surprisingly functional microscope toy. While it is relatively innovative, it’s a bit expensive and difficult to come by these days, and it doesn’t even include a minifigure. What it d🍰oes come with, however, is a pair of cheap paper glasses that we’re assuming users must wear at all times during the construction process. Lego also provides a set of four plastic tiles they expect builders to peer at under the makeshift microscope, but, given that they’re just small prints of simple images, it isn’t all that exciting.
27 LEGO Star Wars: Betraya♏l At Cloℱud City
Lego has proven time and time again that they are willing to mine any intellectual property of content until there is absolutely nothing left, and such is very much the case when it comes to their handling of the Star Wars license. While a surplus of these sci-fi toys may be wonderful for some dedicated collectors, a few of these sets leave the rest of us raising our eyebrows. Of the myriad props and sets seen in The Empire Strikes Back, why did Lego elect to make a scene-for-scene remake of Luke, Lando and friends’ run in with Darth Vader in Cloud City? This th🌼ing is detailed to a nearly unpleasant degree and simply begs a𓆏n explanation.
26 🦂 ▨ LEGO Powerpuff Girls’ Bubbles Playground Showdown
Though there may be a select few out there clamoring for Powerpuff Girls themed Lego minifigures, this seems like a really odd inclusion to the Lego lineup. It doesn’t feature any truly prominent villains from the property and seems to come mostly pre-assembled, which sort of defeats the purpose of Lego in the first place. This may be a re-telling of a , but, even so, it’s such a weird piece of the show to adapt into a physical medium. The recent Powerpuff Girls reboot doesn𒈔’t seem to be all that well-liked, either, so this small set seems totally unnecessary.
25 🍸 LEGO Bugatti Chiron ﷽
For those who don’t have the money to buy a real-life high-performance concept luxury vehicle—which is just about everyone—Lego’s recreation may be the next best thing. While it is a neat concept and the final product does admittedly look pretty cool, this seems like a weird property for Lego to tackle. What’s more, , this set is absolutely massive. It’s actually a 1:8 scale replica of the real car, which means that this ൩thing could still hog up a serious amount of real-estate in the living room. Those willing to put a countless number of weekends aside to assemble this thing are certainly welcome, but buyer beware.
24 LEGO BrickHeadz Princess Leia Organa ꦜ
The BrickHeadz line of products is a curious endeavor for everyone’s favorite Danish company: a clear attempt to rival the popularity of Funko’s Pop line of vinyl figures, these appealing Lego re-designs of famous characters are more garish to look at than the company probably intended. While the blocky, stylized cast of Pop characters comes off as cute and appealing, Lego’s BrickHeadz is just downright ugly. No product makes this more apparent than the set. This looks a bit like Star Wars ala Invader Zim, and it can’t have gone over all that well with th♉e film series’ community of fans.
23 ܫ LEGO Statue of Libeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrty
To celebrate the turn of the century, Lego released a massive 2882 piece model of . Now a rare and valuable collector’s item, this piece is insanely difficult to get your hands on in 2018. Though it may be a sought-after novelty, it doesn’t look all that much like the Statue of Liberty. In fact, at first gla♛nce, it looks like a poor 8-bit re-imagining of what the monument may look like were it drastically less detailed. Lego sets are much more competently designed today, and the company has since released a . Yet, though it looks like it was created by someone with only a rough idea of what the real 🌳thing looked like, this 18 year old Lego set remains one of the most highly coveted.
22 ꧃ LEGO Mobile Police Unit 𝔍
This one is a real head-scratcher: to , Lego released a series of toys in keeping with the sporting tournament. However, among these sets was a miniaturized riot police unit complete with helmets, megaphones, and mobile detention cells. Soccer is known for its rowdy fans and occasional international brush-u🐲ps, but that doesn’t mean these things need to be turned into child-sized playthings. Curiously, the set was also endorsed by Shell Oil Company, which only made the whole thing that much more perplexing. While the concept may have been fine enoug🦄h on its own, all these weird tie-ins made this a highly questionable release.
21 LEGO Sღtar Wars Sandcrawler
In the past, Lego has put out some pretty awesome sets based on the Star Wars film franchiseಌ, and this replica Sandcrawler from the first movie is certainly one of the best. It’s also massive: with over 3,000 pieces, this would have taken the average pre-teen a considerable amount of time to construct. In fact, this thing may be too detailed. It comes with a functional droid processing station inside and offers enough room to store multiple Lego minifigures. Similar in scope to the awesome Lego Death Star model, the is a formidable build which should only be attempted by those with a good amou🍷nt of time on their hands.