Back in May we showed you this stunning mockup of The Addams Family Mansion built using Legos. The good news? It’s gained enough supporters via the Lego Ideas website to enter the Review phase, which begins in September! Thanks, horror fans!
What that means is: A “LEGO Review Board” composed of designers, product managers, and other key team members will examine the idea. They’ll build concept models and determine if the concept meets their high standards for what it takes to be a LEGO product. This includes factors such as playability, safety, and fit with the LEGO brand. Every potential LEGO product goes through a process like this and must meet the same standards. The Review is a thorough process and from its start can take several months. When finished, they will make a “go/no go” decision to develop and sell a product based on the Addams Family Mansion. If green-lit, this project goes into the longest phase of the project: the Development phase.
It’s easy to see why it got so much support. Just look at it! It’s the Addams Family Mansion through and through, down to the most minute details. They even included the polar bear.
We’ll keep you posted on developments.
About the Lego Addams Family Mansion:
From the 1964-66 TV sitcom “The Addams Family,” this is the Mansion and Family! The project is an “end of series” anniversary tribute to the last new episode aired on April 8, 1966 – 50 years ago!
The Addams Family was a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams and includes Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Thing. They lived in this mansion at 001 Cemetery Lane.
Construction details:
– 3-Floor Mansion; each floor is a removable segment
– Sits on two 15”x10” base plates (for a total of 3,072 studs)
– The Mansion separates into two halves through the center
– A full glass greenhouse out back
– All original Lego pieces with no modifications
– All floors are covered in tiles and “carpet” tiles
– All ceilings are covered in inverted tiles
– The Mansion is 22” high
– The entire build is comprised of 7,200 pieces
– Look for these special characters and details:
* Tish relaxing in her large rattan chair, with her black fan
* Gomez practicing fencing in the living room
* Lurch and his harpsichord
* Beware of Thing…delivering mail from his table
* Cleopatra, the meat eating plant, and others in the greenhouse
* Kitty Kat, the lion, by the grand staircase
* The tall stuffed polar bear watching over all the proceedings
* The NYSE stock market ticker tape machine
* Call for Lurch… with a black rope noose butler bell call
* Suit of Armor – who is hiding inside?
* Massive fireplace, with a moose head on the mantle
* Have a rest on the bed of nails!
* Grandmama and Uncle Fester with his light bulb and dynamite
* Cigar Store Indian watching over Pugsley and Wednesday
* Back upper porch with cannon, cannonballs, and a catapult
* Backyard cemetery with unknown inhabitants
* Attic spider web
* Family automobile
* Special guests include bats, owls, spiders, snakes, and parrots