A Daft Punk Lego Playset Is Being Crowdsourced

An internet user is attempting to crowdsource the necessary support to see their vision of a Lego-based Daft Punk playset brought to life using the international playtime juggernaut's Lego Ideas platform.

The campaign's creator, "Autorazr", indicates that, far from being "just" icons in their own right, Daft Punk "are content creators on another level, and their look and visual style is instantly recognisable".

"Through costumes, elaborate stage lighting/structures and even vehicles, Daft Punk have created a visual history that lends itself to Lego," Autorazr wrote on the project's page. "All, if not most, can be recreated with pre-existing Lego parts."

Autorazr includes in his submission suggestions for possible sets or themes, including Tron-based creations, the Alive 2007 stage, environments from classic videos such as Around The World or Robot Rock, Electroma-inspired sets, and, of course, the wild world of Interstella 5555.

"The set should include instruments (as pictured, maybe turntables, sequencers, mixers, controllers and a guitar for robot rocking), a simple stage with simple lighting and speakers," Autorazr wrote. "Having the Robot Helmets and some new printed tiles with instruments would open the door to all the custom options."

Lego itself seems to be on board with the idea, which currently has 4469 of the necessary 10,000 signatures to progress to the next developmental stage, with just less than 140 days remaining for the project.

"This project is speeding and it isn't stopping," an official Lego commenter wrote once the project hit 1000 supporters. "This project didn't just get lucky, the detail and thought behind the project speaks for itself. Just make sure you celebrate 1,000+ supporters by losing yourself to the dance!"

Lego started the Lego Ideas website in 2008 in order to allow its customers to submit their own ideas for possible Lego sets through crowd-sourced support campaigns, and so far has wrought such sets as Back To The Future's DeLorean, the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 30th anniversary set and, most recently, a set based on bafflingly successful sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Rejected properties — usually those containing what Lego deems to be objectionable content — include sets based on Firefly and Shaun Of The Dead.

At present, the Daft Punk set sits just outside the top 30 most-supported projects, behind other proposals such as Lothlorien, from The Lord Of The Rings, the RMS Titanic, a Jaws playset (good luck), and — the #1 project — a grand piano.