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'''LEGO®''', sometimes spelled '''Lego''', was a children's building product that produced plastic bricks in sets, as well as little toy men called "LEGO Minifigures™". They didn't have LEGO sets during many elder's youth. Often, most children thought that LEGO was for boys only, while girls liked building [[hairdresser]]s and [[flower shop]]s. He built a ship to go to [[Mars]], and then a bigger one to go to [[Jupiter]] the next week, before the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[companion]]s [[materialise]]d [[the TARDIS]] in their sitting room. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane]]'') Space-themed sets were produced in [[Ace]]'s time as well, who crashed spaceships into LEGO [[Police]] stations in her early youth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece]]'')
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'''LEGO''', sometimes spelt '''Lego''', was a children's (and often adult's) building block system that produced "ordinary [[space]] LEGO", as well as ''[[Star Wars]]''-themed sets. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane (audio story)|Memory Lane]]'')


LEGO Minifigures were much, if not ''minuscule'' in comparison to their real life counterparts. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101]]'') In fact, ''all'' LEGO models were significantly smaller than their real world equivalents. According to the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Toronto]] in the summer looked like "a giant LEGO set" from above the [[CN Tower]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures]]'') [[Joseph (Salvation)|Joseph]] similarly compared the skycrapers of [[New York]] to 'LEGO buildings' when atop the [[Empire State Building]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salvation (novel)|Salvation]]'')
The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] claimed she was a [[Doctor]] of LEGO. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tsuranga Conundrum (TV story)|The Tsuranga Conundrum]]'')


[[The Savant]], a great [[alien]] hacker of both [[computer]]s and the [[human]] [[brain]], enjoyed both eating LEGO as a snack, and [[bath]]ing in it. [[Sarah Swann]] dubbed him "a [[hormone]]-secreting, LEGO-obsessed ''[[Sesame Street]]'' monster". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blue Box]]'')
They didn't have [[spaceship]] LEGO when [[Braudy|Tom Braudy's grandmother]] grew up. [[Tom Braudy|Tom]] thought that space LEGO was [[gender|for boys only]], while girls liked building [[hairdresser]]s and [[flower shop]]s. He built a ship to go to [[Mars]], and then a bigger one to go to [[Jupiter]] the next week, before the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[companion]]s [[materialise]]d [[the TARDIS]] in their sitting room. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane (audio story)|Memory Lane]]'')


[[Bernice Summerfield]] at some point did an [[archaeological]] dig in an [[Earth]] [[Legoland|LEGOland]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nobody's Children]]'') She frequently had [[dream|dreams]] of a bearded villain turning her into LEGO. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beige Planet Mars]]'')
Space-themed sets were produced in [[Ace]]'s time as well, who crashed spaceships into LEGO [[police]] stations in her early youth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece (novel)|Set Piece]]'')


The [[Eleventh Doctor]] kept a [[LEGO room]] in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'')
LEGO minifigures were tiny in comparison to real people. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'')


According to [[Toshiko Sato]], the two halves of a [[quantum transducer]] fit together like LEGO Bricks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'') [[Incopolis]]' streets were filled with buildings to similar in design that they looked like "they'd all been assembled from the same LEGO kit". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I]]'')
In fact, nearly all LEGO models were significantly smaller than their real world equivalents. According to the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Toronto]] in the summer looked like "a giant LEGO set" from above the [[CN Tower]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'')


[[Liz Shaw]] compared the [[Seventh Doctor]] sifting through [[laboratory]] equipment to a child receiving a new LEGO set. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]'')
[[Joseph (Salvation)|Joseph]] similarly compared the skyscrapers of [[New York City]] to LEGO buildings when atop the [[Empire State Building]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salvation (novel)|Salvation]]'')
 
The [[Savant (Blue Box)|Savant]], a great [[alien]] hacker of both [[computer]]s and the [[human]] [[brain]], enjoyed both eating LEGO as a snack, and [[bath]]ing in it. [[Sarah Swan]] dubbed him "a [[hormone]]-secreting, Lego-obsessed ''[[Sesame Street]]'' monster". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blue Box (novel)|Blue Box]]'')
 
[[Bernice Summerfield]] at some point did an [[archaeological]] dig in an [[Earth]] [[Legoland]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nobody's Children]]'') She frequently had [[dream]]s of a bearded villain turning her into LEGO. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beige Planet Mars (novel)|Beige Planet Mars]]'')
 
The children's toy [[Parablox]] was made of several multicoloured interlocking bricks made of [[plastic]] polymer and threaded with a minimum-lode [[biodata]] stream. Sets included the [[Universe in a Cardboard Box]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
[[File:LEGO room.JPG|left|thumb|[[The Doctor]]'s [[LEGO room]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'')]]
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] kept a [[LEGO room]] in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'') LEGO products were avaliable at the [[Sanderson & Grainger]] in [[Colchester]] in [[2011]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
 
According to [[Toshiko Sato]], the two halves of a [[quantum transducer]] fit together like LEGO. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'')
 
[[Incopolis]]' streets were filled with buildings too similar in design that they looked like "they'd all been assembled from the same Lego kit". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'')
 
[[Liz Shaw]] compared the [[Seventh Doctor]] sifting through [[laboratory]] equipment to a child receiving a new set of LEGO. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'')
 
[[File:LEGO Thirteenth Doctor.jpg|right|thumb|The desktop icon with the LEGO version of the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Zygon Isolation (webcast)|The Zygon Isolation]]'')]]
[[Gideon Crane]] mockingly referred to [[Gallifrey]] as Legoland. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'')
 
The [[Celestial Toymaker]] created a [[castle]] in the sky above [[Stockbridge]] which appeared to be made of LEGO. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'')
 
On Osgood's desktop, there was a icon with a picture of a LEGO-like [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Zygon Isolation (webcast)|The Zygon Isolation]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:TT Games - We'd love to do LEGO Doctor Who|thumb|Arthur Parsons discusses the prospect of a ''LEGO Doctor Who'' video game.]]
[[File:DWM 279 We're gonna be bigger than Star Wars!.jpg|thumb|LEGO ''Doctor Who'' ([[DWM 279]])|left]]
Although LEGO initially could not produce ''Doctor Who'' sets to due licensing issues — and [[Character Options]] already making similar products — {{w|LEGO Cuusoo}}, a website where users get to vote on potential future products, accepted ''DW'' submissions in February 2014. This means that there is no longer a licensing conflict.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://legocuusoo.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/325064-license-conflicts-and-resolutions|title=License Conflicts and Resolutions - Help, FAQs & Support|date of source=25 February 2014|website name=Lego Cuusoo|accessdate=26 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/29466/are-doctor-who-lego-sets-on-the-way|title=Are Doctor Who LEGO sets on the way?|author=McEwan, Cameron K|date of source=25 February 2014|website name=Den of Geek|accessdate=26 February 2014}}</ref> A ''Who'' project attained 10,000 supporters on 13 March 2014, and therefore entered the review phase.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/16291|title=Doctor Who|date of source=13 March 2014|website name=Lego Cuusoo|accessdate=13 March 2014}}</ref>
In 1999, the article "We're gonna be bigger than Star Wars!" in [[DWM 279]] included a CGI render of LEGO versions of the [[Fourth Doctor]], a [[Neomorph]] [[Cyberman]], [[Ace]], the [[Seventh Doctor]], the [[Tremas Master]], and the [[Seventh Doctor]]
 
In [[2015 (releases)|2015]], [[The LEGO Group|LEGO]] began releasing products related to ''[[Doctor Who]]''. On [[29 September (releases)|29 September]], ''[[LEGO Dimensions (video game)|LEGO Dimensions]]'' was released, with [[the Doctor]] and a [[weapons-grade Cyberman]] as playable characters. The plot of ''LEGO Dimensions'' showed the [[Doctor Who universe]] as existing within the "LEGO [[multiverse]]". Later that year, a [[21304 Doctor Who|LEGO set]] was released, with six minifigures and a TARDIS minifigure, which could be converted into a scenario.


Arthur Parsons, of TT Games, stated in 2011 that he and the team would love to add ''LEGO Doctor Who: The Video Game'' to the list of {{w|List of Lego video games#Licensed properties|LEGO video games}} of their design, should LEGO begin manufacturing ''Doctor Who'' sets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/31876/lego-doctor-who-would-be-epic-tt-games/|title=LEGO Doctor Who would be epic - TT Games|author=East, Thomas|date of source=25 October 2011|website name=Official Nintendo Magazine|accessdate=15 March 2014}}</ref>
In 2017, ''The LEGO Batman Movie'' continued the trend of ''Doctor Who'' being in the LEGO multiverse by showing [[Dalek]]s as one of many villains imprisoned in the interdimensional Phantom Zone. 2019's ''The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part'' briefly features [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] from the official LEGO set as one of many pop culture time machines which are taken apart and rebuilt into [[w:c:thelegomovie:The Rexcelsior|a single time machine]].


== Footnotes ==
The LEGO Thirteenth Doctor pictured in ''The Zygon Isolation'' is real, as it's a custom produced by a website called [https://minifigs.me minifigs.me]. Since ''The Zygon Isolation'', minifigs.me has updated the design to make it more accurate.<ref>[https://minifigs.me/products/13th-doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-custom-lego-minifigure 13th Doctor - Custom Design Minifigure on minifigs.me]</ref>
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[[File:LEGO logo.jpg|thumb|[[Unikitty]] in front of the [[LEGO Gateway]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Endless Awesome (trailer)|Endless Awesome]]'')]]
=== Information from invalid sources ===
A [[LEGO Gateway]] on a [[table]] in [[Child (Endless Awesome)|a child]]'s [[House (Endless Awesome)|house]] had the LEGO [[logo]] displayed on it. ([[WC]]: ''[[Endless Awesome (trailer)|Endless Awesome]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{iw|lego|LEGO Wiki|Brickpedia, the wiki that covers all LEGO products}}
{{iwx|The Doctor|wiki=lego|wiki name=Brickipedia|wiki description=the LEGO wiki}}
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{{iwx|Doctor Who|wiki=lego-dimensions|wiki name=Lego Dimensions Wiki}}
 
==Footnotes==
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[[Category:Toys from the real world]]
[[Category:Toys from the real world]]
[[Category:Businesses from the real world]]
[[Category:Businesses from the real world]]
[[Category:Foods and beverages]]

Latest revision as of 12:20, 15 September 2023

LEGO, sometimes spelt Lego, was a children's (and often adult's) building block system that produced "ordinary space LEGO", as well as Star Wars-themed sets. (AUDIO: Memory Lane)

The Thirteenth Doctor claimed she was a Doctor of LEGO. (TV: The Tsuranga Conundrum)

They didn't have spaceship LEGO when Tom Braudy's grandmother grew up. Tom thought that space LEGO was for boys only, while girls liked building hairdressers and flower shops. He built a ship to go to Mars, and then a bigger one to go to Jupiter the next week, before the Eighth Doctor and companions materialised the TARDIS in their sitting room. (AUDIO: Memory Lane)

Space-themed sets were produced in Ace's time as well, who crashed spaceships into LEGO police stations in her early youth. (PROSE: Set Piece)

LEGO minifigures were tiny in comparison to real people. (PROSE: History 101)

In fact, nearly all LEGO models were significantly smaller than their real world equivalents. According to the Eighth Doctor, Toronto in the summer looked like "a giant LEGO set" from above the CN Tower. (PROSE: Trading Futures)

Joseph similarly compared the skyscrapers of New York City to LEGO buildings when atop the Empire State Building. (PROSE: Salvation)

The Savant, a great alien hacker of both computers and the human brain, enjoyed both eating LEGO as a snack, and bathing in it. Sarah Swan dubbed him "a hormone-secreting, Lego-obsessed Sesame Street monster". (PROSE: Blue Box)

Bernice Summerfield at some point did an archaeological dig in an Earth Legoland. (PROSE: Nobody's Children) She frequently had dreams of a bearded villain turning her into LEGO. (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars)

The children's toy Parablox was made of several multicoloured interlocking bricks made of plastic polymer and threaded with a minimum-lode biodata stream. Sets included the Universe in a Cardboard Box. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

The Eleventh Doctor kept a LEGO room in his TARDIS. (COMIC: Sky Jacks) LEGO products were avaliable at the Sanderson & Grainger in Colchester in 2011. (TV: Closing Time)

According to Toshiko Sato, the two halves of a quantum transducer fit together like LEGO. (TV: Ghost Machine)

Incopolis' streets were filled with buildings too similar in design that they looked like "they'd all been assembled from the same Lego kit". (PROSE: Seeing I)

Liz Shaw compared the Seventh Doctor sifting through laboratory equipment to a child receiving a new set of LEGO. (PROSE: Blood Heat)

The desktop icon with the LEGO version of the Thirteenth Doctor. (WC: The Zygon Isolation)

Gideon Crane mockingly referred to Gallifrey as Legoland. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell)

The Celestial Toymaker created a castle in the sky above Stockbridge which appeared to be made of LEGO. (COMIC: Endgame)

On Osgood's desktop, there was a icon with a picture of a LEGO-like Thirteenth Doctor. (WC: The Zygon Isolation)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

LEGO Doctor Who (DWM 279)

In 1999, the article "We're gonna be bigger than Star Wars!" in DWM 279 included a CGI render of LEGO versions of the Fourth Doctor, a Neomorph Cyberman, Ace, the Seventh Doctor, the Tremas Master, and the Seventh Doctor

In 2015, LEGO began releasing products related to Doctor Who. On 29 September, LEGO Dimensions was released, with the Doctor and a weapons-grade Cyberman as playable characters. The plot of LEGO Dimensions showed the Doctor Who universe as existing within the "LEGO multiverse". Later that year, a LEGO set was released, with six minifigures and a TARDIS minifigure, which could be converted into a scenario.

In 2017, The LEGO Batman Movie continued the trend of Doctor Who being in the LEGO multiverse by showing Daleks as one of many villains imprisoned in the interdimensional Phantom Zone. 2019's The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part briefly features the Doctor's TARDIS from the official LEGO set as one of many pop culture time machines which are taken apart and rebuilt into a single time machine.

The LEGO Thirteenth Doctor pictured in The Zygon Isolation is real, as it's a custom produced by a website called minifigs.me. Since The Zygon Isolation, minifigs.me has updated the design to make it more accurate.[1]

Information from invalid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]

A LEGO Gateway on a table in a child's house had the LEGO logo displayed on it. (WC: Endless Awesome)

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]