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'''LEGO''', sometimes spelled '''Lego''', was a children's building game that produced "ordinary [[space]] LEGO", as well as ''[[Star Wars]]''-themed sets. They didn't have [[spaceship]] LEGOs when [[Braudy|Tom Braudy's grandmother]] grew up. [[Tom Braudy|Tom]] thought that space 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]]: {{cs|Memory Lane (audio story)}})


LEGO figures were tiny in comparison to real people. ([[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]]: {{cs|The Tsuranga Conundrum (TV story)}})


[[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 Swan]] dubbed him "a [[hormone]]-secreting, Lego-obsessed ''[[Sesame Street]]'' monster". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blue Box]]'')
== History ==
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]]: {{cs|Memory Lane (audio story)}})


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


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]]: {{cs|History 101 (novel)}})


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 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]]: {{cs|Trading Futures (novel)}})


[[Liz Shaw]] compared the [[Seventh Doctor]] sifting through [[laboratory]] equipment to a child receiving a new set of LEGO. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]'')
[[Joseph (Salvation)|Joseph]] similarly compared the skyscrapers of [[New York City]] to LEGO buildings when atop the [[Empire State Building]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Salvation (novel)}})
 
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]]: {{cs|Blue Box (novel)}})
 
[[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]]: {{cs|Beige Planet Mars (novel)}})
 
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]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}})
[[File:LEGO room.JPG|left|thumb|[[The Doctor]]'s [[LEGO room]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Sky Jacks (comic story)}})]]
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] kept a [[LEGO room]] in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Sky Jacks (comic story)}}) LEGO products were avaliable at the [[Sanderson & Grainger]] in [[Colchester]] in [[2011]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Closing Time (TV story)}})
 
According to [[Toshiko Sato]], the two halves of a [[quantum transducer]] fit together like LEGO. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Ghost Machine (TV story)}})
 
[[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]]: {{cs|Seeing I (novel)}})
 
[[Liz Shaw]] compared the [[Seventh Doctor]] sifting through [[laboratory]] equipment to a child receiving a new set of LEGO. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Heat (novel)}})
 
[[File:LEGO Thirteenth Doctor.jpg|right|thumb|The desktop icon with the LEGO version of the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Zygon Isolation (webcast)}})]]
[[Gideon Crane]] mockingly referred to [[Gallifrey]] as [[Legoland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Minuet in Hell (audio story)}})
 
The [[Celestial Toymaker]] created a [[castle]] in the sky above [[Stockbridge]] which appeared to be made of LEGO. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Endgame (DWM comic story)}})
 
On Osgood's desktop, there was a icon with a picture of a LEGO-like [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Zygon Isolation (webcast)}})
 
=== Other realities ===
==== Parallel univeres ====
===== ''Ghostbusters'' (2016) World =====
In [[Ghostbusters (2016) World|one universe]], [[portal (LEGO Dimensions)|a portal]] leading into [[the Vortex (LEGO Dimensions)|the Vortex]] had the LEGO [[logo]] on it. ([[WC]]: {{cs|New Adventures Await! (webcast)}})
 
===== ''The A-Team'' World =====
The LEGO [[logo]] was present in various locations on [[B.A. Baracus]]'s [[B.A. Baracus's van|van]] when he [[driving|drove]] it through the [[Land of Ooo]] in [[Adventure Time World|one universe]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|New Adventures Await! (webcast)}})
 
<gallery>
LEGO logo (New Adventures Await!).png|The LEGO [[logo]] on [[portal (LEGO Dimensions)|a portal]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|New Adventures Await! (webcast)|timestamp=0:26}})
LEGO logo on the back of B.A.'s van.png|The LEGO logo twice on the back of [[B.A. Baracus]]'s [[B.A. Baracus's van|van]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|New Adventures Await! (webcast)|timestamp=1:01}})
LEGO logo on the front of B.A.'s van.png|The logo twice on the front of B.A.'s van. ([[WC]]: {{cs|New Adventures Await! (webcast)|timestamp=1:02}})
</gallery>


== 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.]]
=== In non-valid sources ===
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>
[[File:LEGO logo.jpg|thumb|[[Unikitty]] in front of the [[LEGO Gateway]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Endless Awesome (webcast)}})]]
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]]: {{cs|Endless Awesome (webcast)}})
 
=== Other matters ===
[[File:DWM 279 We're gonna be bigger than Star Wars!.jpg|thumb|LEGO ''Doctor Who'' ([[DWM 279]])|left]]
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]], {{cs|LEGO Dimensions (video game)}} 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.
 
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 {{iw|thelegomovie|The Rexcelsior|a single time machine}}.


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'' toys.<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>
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>


On 4 February 2015 {{w|Lego Cuusoo|LEGO Ideas}} announced that they will be creating a [[Doctor Who]] set and it will be released some time in 2015. [[Doctor Who]] characters will also appear in the videogame [[LEGO Dimensions]] with newly recorded audio from [[Peter Capaldi]], [[Jenna Coleman]], [[Michelle Gomez]] and [[Nicholas Briggs]] and archive audio from [[William Hartnell]], [[Patrick Troughton]], [[Jon Pertwee]], [[Tom Baker]], [[Peter Davison]], [[Colin Baker]], [[Sylvester McCoy]], [[Paul McGann]], [[John Hurt]], [[Christopher Eccleston]], [[David Tennant]] and [[Matt Smith]].
== External links ==
* '''[https://en.brickimedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor The Doctor]''' at [https://en.brickimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Brickipedia]
{{iwx|Doctor Who|wiki=lego-dimensions|wiki name=Lego Dimensions Wiki}}


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
=== Sources ===
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== External links ==
* [http://en.brickimedia.org Brickipedia, the wiki that covers all LEGO products]
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You may be looking for the LEGO Group, the real world company or the Doctor Who LEGO Set.

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 [+]Loading...["Memory Lane (audio story)"])

The Thirteenth Doctor claimed she was a Doctor of LEGO. (TV: The Tsuranga Conundrum [+]Loading...["The Tsuranga Conundrum (TV story)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

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 [+]Loading...["Memory Lane (audio story)"])

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 [+]Loading...["Set Piece (novel)"])

LEGO minifigures were tiny in comparison to real people. (PROSE: History 101 [+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)"])

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 [+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"])

Joseph similarly compared the skyscrapers of New York City to LEGO buildings when atop the Empire State Building. (PROSE: Salvation [+]Loading...["Salvation (novel)"])

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 [+]Loading...["Blue Box (novel)"])

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 [+]Loading...["Beige Planet Mars (novel)"])

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 [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])

The Doctor's LEGO room. (COMIC: Sky Jacks [+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)"])

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

According to Toshiko Sato, the two halves of a quantum transducer fit together like LEGO. (TV: Ghost Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"])

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 [+]Loading...["Seeing I (novel)"])

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

The desktop icon with the LEGO version of the Thirteenth Doctor. (WC: The Zygon Isolation [+]Loading...["The Zygon Isolation (webcast)"])

Gideon Crane mockingly referred to Gallifrey as Legoland. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell [+]Loading...["Minuet in Hell (audio story)"])

The Celestial Toymaker created a castle in the sky above Stockbridge which appeared to be made of LEGO. (COMIC: Endgame [+]Loading...["Endgame (DWM comic story)"])

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

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

Parallel univeres[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ghostbusters (2016) World[[edit] | [edit source]]

In one universe, a portal leading into the Vortex had the LEGO logo on it. (WC: New Adventures Await! [+]Loading...["New Adventures Await! (webcast)"])

The A-Team World[[edit] | [edit source]]

The LEGO logo was present in various locations on B.A. Baracus's van when he drove it through the Land of Ooo in one universe. (WC: New Adventures Await! [+]Loading...["New Adventures Await! (webcast)"])

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

In non-valid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]

Unikitty in front of the LEGO Gateway. (WC: Endless Awesome [+]Loading...["Endless Awesome (webcast)"])

A LEGO Gateway on a table in a child's house had the LEGO logo displayed on it. (WC: Endless Awesome [+]Loading...["Endless Awesome (webcast)"])

Other matters[[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 [+]Loading...["LEGO Dimensions (video game)"] 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]

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Sources[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 13th Doctor - Custom Design Minifigure on minifigs.me
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