Sweet LEGO Ideas 10K project highlights the humble honeybee

The latest LEGO Ideas 10K project hopes to highlight the plight of the humble honeybee, combining a brick-built beehive with three sweet vignettes charting the journey of honey.

In what’s probably the sweetest LEGO Ideas project in recent memory, builder RobertVII has constructed a series of vignettes on hexagonal plates, all framed by a huge, brick-built beehive with countless LEGO bees. Each of the smaller models represents a stage of the beekeeping process: a backyard hive, honey extraction machinery (with honey jars), and a market stall.

The frame, meanwhile, is double-sided: one side shows golden, raw honey, while the other more realistically reflects how bees will enclose each segment of the honeycomb in wax. It’s manned by worker bees and a queen bee.

“I came to this design because I wanted to bring something to life with LEGO that I’m passionate about,” RobertVII wrote on the project page. “We know bees are a vital part of our world so I would love to see this set bring attention to them.”

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Sweet Honey becomes the second LEGO Ideas project in the first 2023 review, and is now in contention to become an official LEGO set. It’s up to the LEGO Ideas review board to give it the green light, though: and given the qualifying window for this review has only just opened, we’ll be waiting a while to learn whether they bee-lieve it’s sweet enough to make the cut.

Every LEGO Ideas project in the first 2023 review

NumberLEGO Ideas projectLEGO Ideas userDate qualified
1Dr. Seuss and LEGOLegoFan_506January 2, 2023
2Sweet HoneyRobertVIIJanuary 4, 2023

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Chris Wharfe
I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

Chris Wharfe

I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

One thought on “Sweet LEGO Ideas 10K project highlights the humble honeybee

  • 12/01/2023 at 09:14
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    “L’ultima LEGO Ideas Il progetto 10K spera di evidenziare la difficile situazione dell’umile ape mellifera, combinando un alveare in mattoni con tre dolci vignette charting il viaggio del miele.”

    Contando che Apis mellifera, animale allevato non più presente in natura con la genetica originale, cresce del 12% annuo, come dimostrano tutti i dati FAO, a scapito delle altre api impollinatrici (>23000 specie diverse) che invece si stanno estinguendo a causa della pressione competitiva delle api mellifere, direi che la lego stia dando una certa disinformazione. Almeno, se non quella della natura e della biodiversità, avranno la gratitudine del settore commerciale.

    Salvare Apis mellifera per salvare le api è come allevare intensivamente maiali per salvare i suidi in natura dall’estinzione…

    Suvvia.

    Perché non fare informazione corretta?

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