





Whether you love building bricks in real life or in the digital landscapes of Minecraft, this is going to be very good news: Minecraft is officially going to be coming to a LEGO set near you.

LEGO approved the idea on Tuesday and will start turning Minecraft objects and items into official LEGO box sets to be sold across the world.

The idea didn't, however, come from LEGO. The Minecraft ideas were pitched to the LEGO through CUUSOO, its homemade platform where users can submit product ideas to the brick manufacturer. Any idea that gains 10,000 votes from the public will be reviewed by LEGO to see if it makes sense as a toy. The good news came back Tuesday that Minecraft was approved and that LEGO was coming up with designs to sell.

While several CUUSOO pitches were made for Minecraft designs, the winning petition came from Mojang, the studio that created Minecraft, a cult-smash game that lets players fashion and mold a blocky, low-res world much like a massive, digital LEGO set. The open world gameplay lends itself to creation and free building, two aspects key to the LEGO brand, says the Mojang team:

Minecraft is about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine in the virtual world. You can build anything you imagine with LEGO bricks in the physical world. Minecraft and LEGO were meant to be together.

The project was so popular that it actually broke CUUSOO records. It took just 48 hours for Minecraft LEGO to reach 10,000 votes, making it the fastest project to do so.

The announcement on CUUSOO explained that the LEGO team would start cranking out designs with more details on the final products to come:

We're happy to announce that the Minecraft project on LEGO CUUSOO has passed the LEGO review and we are now developing a concept that celebrates the best aspects of building with the LEGO system and in Minecraft and we can’t wait to show it to you — but we aren’t ready just yet.

LEGO reserves the right to decide what the final products will look like including packaging and promotion. However, with a fan community the size of Minecraft's, it's safe to say they won't stray too far from type. All approved CUUSOO projects will kickback 1% of sales to the project creator. Mojang says it will donate that 1% to charity.

Is LEGO Minecraft a win for everyone? What kind of sets do you think LEGO will create? Sound off in the comments.







Image courtesy of Mojang