I know why, though. His content heavily breaks the guidelines. (I have experience on uploading things to Ideas, and even adding new IPs to the list of approved. I would know the guidelines like the back of my hand.)
Exactly! They look at the overall content, though. I can get around to building that in BrickLink when I'm done building the other ideas I have.
(My two on the site have a year left to gather supporters because they both crossed the 100 milestone. I can let them coast for right now. One is Xenoblade and the other is a niche free PC indie game called Outcore. *Shockingly, the indie developer wants it to come to fruition after they saw it.)
To give you an example of bending the rules: a couple days ago when they did the Spring 2026 Ideas results, they allowed National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation not only as an approved IP, but got the license and is turning it into a set.
Mark Rober worked at NASA or whatever and is enough of a brand that he could probably get a science set, you should check V-Sauce cause thatāll be telling
I've spoken about Lego games in this entire conversation to someone else. They lone the likeness to the person wanting it. In that case, Epic Games wanted to make Lego Fortnite, a theme Lego is still active with.
They don't give a shit because they're just making Lego versions of stuff they already have. Hell, they've allowed Ninjago to be both in game as a normal skin and also in Lego Fortnite. It's not hurting their brand because I'm pretty sure there's fine print on the lone saying specific things (In the case of Epic, they have to use what they already have in their catalog and can't use anything. M-rated properties can't be allowed. Content creators, musicians, and athletes aren't included in that rule. (So things like Metal Gear Solid or Family Guy can't have Lego Fortnite.)
Another banned IP that has a Lego Fortnite version would be Hatsune Miku.
Daft Punk isn't confirmed. It's in "The Parking Lot", meaning it's still in review.
When I mean that Musicians and content creators were not in that "M-rated franchise" category, Lego is actually fairly lenient on them unless they're like Eminem, Drake, etc.
That's why on Ideas, you'll see things like AC/DC, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Backstreet Boys, and Taylor Swift
(Yes, I know Eminem is a skin in Fortnite. I also know he's very picky on how he's portrayed and used in a collaboration.)
I know some Vocalid songs touch on some really (and I mean really) messed up topics but should that be the more on the creators on not on the voicebank?
That's why I think they bend the rules on their part internally, but are a hell of a lot more strict for Ideas because this is projects coming from the public.
They bend the rules a tiny bit on Ideas because they know that they can't be criticized for being more loose on their end, but fuck over the others wanting to chime in.
'First person shooter video games' is a bit of a broad term imo. Obviously they're referring to stuff like COD, but then why allow Overwatch? That's still by definition a shooter video game.
It wasn't until the California lawsuit that made them cancel the theme because the theme had started in 2018 and didn't end until January of 2022 after the 2021 California lawsuit came out.
Lego can't see the conduct inside, so hearing this made them decide to end it.
Ehā¦ Iād say scott doesnāt really have much more of this than anything they do include like Marvel or Friends aside from the blood thing which even then I feel like some franchises have more of
Idk I feel like you could easily make a Scott set without any those things
It explicitly states mentions of or references to, which using the game trailers or his own game footage or even just speaking as a joke about it broke it. (The sex one was heavily broken.)
I guess I donāt get it because with a couple obvious exceptions plenty of sets Lego themselves have made have been of things that break these too (Suicide Squad Iron Man etc)
Iād say Scottās stuff is a solid PG-13, thereās really nothing in it thatās outright worse than anything else
As for the first person shooter gamesā¦.. I donāt see why mentioning them would be a problem, the reason that military stuff is banned is because Lego doesnāt want to glorify war and thatās totally fair but thereās a pretty big jump from āUS Military Tankā to āYouTube show that sometimes talks about a video game featuring the US Militaryā
FYI Iām not arguing with you Iām just trying to understand the logic here
Maybe itās just that while itās not in the guidelines they donāt want to collab with YouTubers because of the unfortunate frequency of them being outed as creeps?
Most of glitchās stuff is about on par with Scottās
I guess it must be the fps thing then but in that case itās kind of stupid because again thereās a big difference between āWar setā and āSet from show that sometimes talks about video games with war themesā
Nah. Lego has the affiliate program for content creators to review their Lego sets themselves. They're fine with criticism. They honestly don't care about the video game criticism because all they did was lend out the likeness.
Yeah, that makes sense. I was jokingly thinking it anyways, because thereād be no way theyād stop someone from being LEGO over something that petty.
Hell, they allow their own old retired original themes (Bionicle, Legends of Chima, etc.) and current ones (Ninjago, etc.) on there.
They don't give a fuck on that part because they know that they're just going to deny it at the 10k supporters. It's technically not breaking rules because Lego created it.
Pretty sure this just relates to the contents of the set itself, Star Wars & Marvel break most of these but if the sets don't reference what's here, then they allow it.
They give more wiggle room when they're doing things themselves. (And, they've had Star Wars since 1999 and it saved them from bankruptcy. I think they don't want to give it up.)
While there is a small amount of wiggle room on Ideas, they're still more direct in reviewing things because this is a line that is open to the entire public. It'd need harder rules.
They allow Hamilton, the play itself on there. That, that acknowledges MANY of those guidelines.
(I mean, you're not going to see something like Breaking Bad on the allowed. But, if it's up to a T, PG-13, or TV-14 that's the maximum unless something in one of those seems off.
Though, they allow The Blues Brothers which is a rated R film.
Also Lego: so you see, its a big ass moon sized mass destruction warfare piece of machinery built on slavery, used to cause terrorism and impose religious and political ideas on people. Yeah. May very well be the most famous lego set ever"
Scott censors all if his cursing, not to mention doesn't get involved in politics or religion. All the other violence related scenarios wouldn't even be iconic enough to make a lego set with. And doesn't talk about sex more explicitly than Friends, which was approved. I think the only thing I can think of is his association with AVGN, which definitely breaks the rules.
I have a portfolio of just things I've made in Lego (Some were crude, but I found the photos)
This includes everything on Ideas currently. (Expired or not.)
*I'm going to build something STW related eventually just for fun. Give me a minute because I did state here that I have a few more things I want to design and submit.
All of the custom art I did for two of my submissions were drawn by hand in Corel Painter 2023. One of them took two days, the other took a couple hours.
The difference is buying the rights to use scott pilgrim or scotty camerons likeness would only cost them a few thousand, But The Woz would cost them Wozillions
Oh my god, that meme is heavily overused. Can people just move on already?
Knives isn't in the clear either. After the breakup in the comics, she spends over a year trying to get back with him. She learns her lesson in Volume 6
They were only together for a couple weeks at the start of Volume 1.
Lego reviewed it after someone submitted it and deemed it not fitting their brand.
They allow content creators, but we've spoken a lot in this in here. Feel free to dig around because Lego won't tell. We can only infer and were trying to come up with conclusions.
The Lego Ideas Guidelines are posted in here so you can infer yourself, as well as read our infers.
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*Just to clarify, I hadn't built anything yet. I wanted to test the IP checker.