The 10 Rejected Lego Sets

Howdy! What sort of Among Us lego set was being planned? What's the story behind Anatomini? Let's find out!

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Produced & commissioned by Josh Strider (Phantom Strider)

[wizwitch]

My immediate reaction to the Among Us set being rejected was "it's literally a game about secretly being a murderer/looking to find the person that's secretly a murderer"

[BradyTheAlien]

Here’s what I think they should do with “small yellow”: have the set come in two bags. One for the main build, and another for the bricks that spill out of the chest!

[animationstation]

If any rejected Lego set should've been on the list by default, it's without a doubt the Krusty Krab

It was such an amazing set and it got every single detail from the show with 100% accuracy! And it's been years since we've gotten a Lego SpongeBob set so this could've been used to revitalize the line!

It's a huge disappointment that it got rejected, but at least we're finally getting a Sonic The Hedgehog set!

[Cyclone_J-_-J]

Maybe the among us one got rejected because the whole ship would have been too big as one whole set. But it would have been cool if rooms of the ship were sold separately or in packs for the small ones and you could mix and placement of the rooms and combine it with rooms from other maps.

[aeroblu]

Strider: how could they reject Yellow? Could it be because of the structural integrity?

Yellow: *is about a person ripping their chest open and spilling out their organs and blood, being pitched as a children's toy*

Me: it's a mystery.

[dfx]

I feel like the Among Us set was rejected due to how they had no idea if its relevancy would fare during the redesign period. It takes up to a year and a half for approved Ideas sets to come out and if the IP chosen fizzles out in that time (for example, Fall Guys), it likely wouldn't sell how LEGO would want it. Apologies if my wording is off

[ciji]

i'm actually surprised that among us was gonna get a lego set

[nprnilk]

2:18 I think it is the other way around. Innersloth is an indie studio, and Lego asked too much from then. And going by a financial standpoint, innersloth could not take the risk.

[phantomstrider]

Howdy! Thanks for dropping in 😀 If you have any suggestions for future lego videos, feel free to comment them here 🙂

[carolynpage]

PhantomStrider: maybe anatomy was removed for the 2128 bricks, The Lego deathstar: 4016 bricks

[nokopanda]

My best guess for the among us set was that lego sees it as a fad so they don’t want to make a big set that will be super dated in 2-3 years

[rickdaniel]

Lego: Rejects Futurama set idea

Bender: Yeah?! Well… I’m gonna go build my own toy company… with blackjack. And hookers!

[MREEELEEE]

Speaking of the LEGO Mario line. It’d be pretty cool to finally get a bomb boo (or as I like to call them, Boombs) in one of the sets. So we will all finally have a small LEGO version of Boo himself in our collections. We have too many regular LEGO boos anyways.

[AstralDragoon]

My guess as to why Yellow was rejected has to do with legal issues. The original Yellow, as a sculpture, is a copyright of the artist, the same man proposing that it be made a reproducible set. I suspect LEGO would owe him royalties on every set sold, and that they didn't want to be in the position of an individual potentially leveraging his copyright if, for whatever reason, he ended up dissatisfied with the arrangement.

[zsomboregri]

The animated Boo at the beginning was precious

[HegeRoberto]

11: Among Us - Lego officially doesn't want to license violent videogames thus they probably never even contacted the creators of Among Us.
10: Futurama - The cartoon portrays large amounts of alcohol and tobacco consumption.
6: Little Yellow - that can't be the reason, the ship in the bottle set also has just a bunch of pieces dropped in as "water". I think its just that the head doesn't resemble a human head enough.
5: Surf and Rescue - I bet it was just the theme. Lego didn't consider the cancer message at all, just that they have already a line of beach sets and they probably had already other guard tower sets in mind.
4: Fall Guys - my theory: Damage. Legos are durable but maybe lego was concerned that the set would encourage kids to throw and drop the figures more that they could handle.
1: Anatomini - It's funny, but I would wake up screaming seeing it at night. I bet there are kids out there this thing gave nightmares to

[Eaglewing]

“While fall guys isn’t as big as among us, well pretty much nothing is”
Minecraft: am I a joke to you?

[nanquest]

"what would lego gore look like?"
*then proceeds to show lego organs and lego skeleton as a transition*

[legojedi]

I'd heard that LEGO actually tried Legend of Zelda sets, but Nintendo kept rejecting them.

[shadownode]

I thought about the idea of an Among Us set. And the plan I had was that there could be all 4 maps with 3 of the original skins each (there are 12 original skins). I was also thinking about hats and fabric costumes so you could customise crewmates. I was gonna do a vent system too, but it might be difficult for anything that isn’t the Skeld or that ice planet. The Airship could be vertical, opening up and having the moving platforms moveable. Still stuck on how to make MiraHQ unique, though. Maybe I could make a vent system for that too, but it’s not connected enough like the Skeld or the ice planet.