15 Years of LEGO Ideas
Idea Intake
It's time to share your ideas with the community. We look forward to your contribution!This phase is currently closed to further activity.
We’re celebrating a huge milestone: 15 Years of LEGO Ideas! With millions of members and over 50 sets released, we need to celebrate. In style!
Could you show us what LEGO Ideas means to you in brick-built form? However, it must include the number 15 somewhere in your model and not include the LEGO Ideas logo.
If you are the Grand Prize Winner of this challenge, you’ll receive the following:
- Win a 3-day 2-night trip for 2 people to Billund, Denmark – the Home of the Brick - with a variety of activities and tours including:
- Two spots on the LEGO Fan Tour. Specific dates in 2024 to be confirmed. The Fan Tour includes tours of:
- The Billund LEGO factory
- Ole Kirk Kristiansen’s home (also known as the Idea House)
- The LEGO House
- LEGO Campus tour
- Lunch and "Meet and Greet" with the LEGO Ideas team
- Two spots on the LEGO Fan Tour. Specific dates in 2024 to be confirmed. The Fan Tour includes tours of:
- 15 different LEGO Ideas sets, including 21338 A-Frame Cabin, 21339 BTS Dynamite, 21340 Tales of the Space Age, 21341: Disney Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters' Cottage, 21342 The Insect Collection and 21343 Viking Village
- A custom-built trophy
ENTRY DEADLINE: Submit your entry no later than 5th December 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. If you’re not sure what time zone you’re in, here’s a time zone converter.
How it Works
The challenge will consist of 4 phases:
- Submission Phase - Create and submit your entry before the 5th of December 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. We recommend submitting your entry 2-3 days before the deadline in the event we have to return it to you for changes. If your entry is submitted before the intake closing date but is sent back to you for changes, you will have until 6th of December 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. to resubmit. Resubmissions after this will not be accepted.
- Voting Phase - LEGO Ideas members will then have the opportunity to vote once, for their favorite entry from the 6th of December 2023 until the 13th of December 2023. This vote will help determine the Top 30 submissions for our judges to evaluate.
- Judging Phase - Our judges review the Top 30 entries and choose the winning entries by the 15th of December 2023.
- Winners Announcement - We share the Grand Prize winner and two Runner Up winners here on LEGO Ideas no later than the 21st of December 2023.
How to Enter
- Submissions may be in either physical bricks or by using a digital building tool such as Bricklink’s Studio. You’re welcome to use image editing tools, such as Photoshop, to create your images.
- Take up to five photos of your creation and submit them to the challenge. Make sure to show off all angles and any features or functions of your creation. Please submit your photos in as high a resolution as possible so that we can see all the details clearly. If possible, the shortest edge should be at least 1080 pixels.
- Add a title and short description.
- Upload your entry to the challenge using the blue Submit Your Entry button on this page.
Challenge Rules
Acceptable Entry Content
- You must be the original creator of all creative work you submit (the model, images, photographs, description text, etc.) and you must have the exclusive right to submit your model to this LEGO Ideas Challenge. You may not submit a model or any other content made by, or on behalf of, someone else.
- Submissions may not include past, present, or future LEGO Ideas sets.
- Submissions may not include any LEGO Ideas Logos or 1x1 bricks that represent the logo.
- Submissions may only use the Arabic numeral system (0,1,2,3,4, etc) to indicate the number 15. Roman numerals or other systems are not permitted.
- Entries must be new creations and not previously posted online or submitted to any other challenge or contest.
- You are allowed to use any official LEGO element (LEGO System, LEGO DUPLO, LEGO TECHNIC/Constraction) in your entry. The LEGO elements must be genuine (not cut, glued, or otherwise modified).
- Entries should not contain copies or references to any existing third-party work or creation or infringements of any third-party intellectual property right such as Ford.
- You may use Minifigures in your entry. Please only use generic Minifigures that do not use any third-party intellectual property.
- Challenge entries related to the topics below do not fit our brand values and will not be approved for publication on LEGO Ideas:
- Politics and political symbols, campaigns, or movements
- Religious references including symbols, buildings, or people
- Sex, nudity, drugs, or smoking
- Alcohol in any present-day situation
- Swearing or profanity
- Death, killing, blood, terrorism, horror, or torture
- First-person shooter video games
- Warfare or war vehicles in any modern or present-day situation, or national war memorials
- Large or human-scale weapons or weapon replicas of any kind, including swords, knives, guns, sci-fi or fantasy blasters, etc.
- Racism, bullying, or cruelty to real life animals
Entry Quality Standards
- You may submit digital entries using Bricklink’s Studio, which is free of charge to download. You are also welcome to create digital entries using third-party LEGO CAD software.
- You may use photo editing software, such as Photoshop, to enhance your entry’s presentation. Entries containing photos that are too dark or blurry will not be approved.
- To ensure easy judging of your entry, we recommend taking pictures on a neutral background free from background clutter, with your model well framed.
- Please do not include people or limbs in pictures you submit. Also, please don’t include any copy or logos in your photos. Photos containing such will be removed.
Submission Requirements
In order to get your submission approved, your submission must include the following:
- A title*.
- Photos of your build
- A description*.
- Entries may have tags, if you wish*.
* - Submissions should have correct capitalization and not have any spelling mistakes.
House Rules
- Entries containing defamatory or degrading elements will not be eligible for the challenge.
- Any cheating or harassment of other participants will result in disqualification from the challenge.
- Your challenge entries and comments on challenge entries must follow the complete LEGO Ideas House Rules.
Judging
A panel of judges consisting of members of the LEGO Ideas team, will choose a Grand Prize Winner and two Runner Up Winners:
- Overall coolness and originality: 25%
- Most inspired details: 25%
- Relevance to challenge theme: 25%
- Best use of LEGO elements: 25%
The Fine Print
- You must be at least 13 years of age to participate and enter.
- You may submit multiple entries to the challenge, but only one entry per person will be considered when winners are selected. This means you cannot win as a semi-finalist and as the grand prize winner with two different entries.
- Winners will be contacted on the email address associated with their LEGO ID account after the 15th of December 2023.
- Winners will be announced on LEGO Ideas when all winners have returned the signed Winner’s Certification Documents. A winner who does not return their Winner’s Certification Document within one week (5 days) of receiving it will be disqualified, and a new winner will be selected.
- Active participation by way of submissions of any kind to this challenge is not open to residents of Iran, North Korea, Myanmar/Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Syria, Russia or any other country which is subjected to sanctions and where prohibited or restricted by law, for as long as such sanctions remain in place. Submissions in active challenge by residents of Russia will unfortunately not be eligible for prizes as long as sanctions remain in place.
- If you are a resident of Ukraine or Belarus and are selected as a challenge winner, your prizes will be shipped at a later date once shipping resumes normal operation.
- By entering the challenge, you agree to follow the rules on this Challenge Brief page and you agree to the LEGO Ideas Terms of Service.
- Any submissions which feature AI-generated content, will not be accepted and entries containing AI content will be disqualified.
- This challenge is offered, organized and run solely by the LEGO Group. Participants should direct all queries and matters relating to the challenge to LEGO Ideas.
If you are the Grand Prize Winner of this challenge, you’ll receive the following:
- Win a 3-day 2-night trip for 2 people to Billund, Denmark – the Home of the Brick - with a variety of activities and tours including:
- Two spots on the LEGO Fan Tour. Specific dates in 2024 to be confirmed. The Fan Tour includes tours of:
- The Billund LEGO factory
- Ole Kirk Kristiansen’s home (also known as the Idea House)
- The LEGO House
- LEGO Campus tour
- Lunch and "Meet and Greet" with the LEGO Ideas team
- Two spots on the LEGO Fan Tour. Specific dates in 2024 to be confirmed. The Fan Tour includes tours of:
- 15 different LEGO Ideas sets, including 21338 A-Frame Cabin, 21339 BTS Dynamite, 21340 Tales of the Space Age, 21341: Disney Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters' Cottage, 21342 The Insect Collection and 21343 Viking Village
- A custom-built trophy
Two Runner Up winners of this challenge will win the following:
- 15 Ideas Sets
- A custom-built trophy
Frequently Asked Questions
For more information, see the Challenges FAQ.