The LEGO Group just pulled back the curtain on the LEGO Ideas Motorized Lighthouse. The inspiration for the set comes from a 20-year-old LEGO fan from Canada, Sandro Quattrini. Quattrini submitted the original concept on the LEGO Ideas platform, where it received 10,000 votes. The LEGO Group then commissioned the concept to make it into a real set.
This buildable lighthouse is approximately 20-inches high and features life-like details like an interior kitchen, a boat with a minifigure and their feline friend, a pirate cave with hidden treasure, and so much more. The 2,065-piece set is designed to mimic a real lighthouse in appearance and functionality. It is displayed on its own island, with a winding staircase leading to the lightkeeper’s cottage. The set also features a battery box, a medium motor, and a cable with lights to power the lighthouse’s rotating light and the cottage’s glowing fireplace.
Quattrini, an animation student, was motivated to design the set by a childhood trip to the lighthouse. He states that during a trip with his mother to a region in the province of Quebec, he viewed several enormous stone lighthouses that have influenced him to design the lighthouse set LEGO has created.
“Sandro’s design really evokes the solitary role of the lighthouse and the motorized light adds a beautiful dimension to the set,” says Federico Begher, global marketing vice president at the LEGO Group. “I love the attention to detail with the lightkeeper’s cottage and the boat. It’s a really exciting and challenging build that creates a fantastic display piece.”
The LEGO Ideas Motorized Lighthouse set will be available September 1 at retailers and at lego.com/lighthouse.
