![]() Maybe you find a crazy hairstyle, or maybe you’re a bit more conservative. Sam: We wanted to offer everyone the opportunity to see themselves in one of these characters so you can mix and match the characters however you want. Monica: We probably could’ve made it work with some new elements, but then we would launch in 2025. Everytime we’d solve one obstacle, we would hit another one. This is the biggest LEGO ball that we had, and we found that some of the minifigures could sometimes not reach the ball and there were some dead zones. We also wanted to give you the diversity that was offered in the original submission, and make it possible for you to build your own 11-a-side football team without having to buy all these sets.Īntica: One of the issues that we encountered with the larger models was the size of the ball. What we did from there is that we decided that we wanted to keep the fun, we wanted to keep the game intense, and make it possible to be a bit crazy, so we made it at this smaller scale. Sam: We really tried a lot to give you what you voted for, exactly 1:1. It was also a VERY orange room, hence the shade of the video! Unfortunately, the audio was corrupted in this short video, but here’s a look at how the LEGO Foosball Table works in a quick game I had with Antica. We even tried with beams! Antica even created this genius way to rotate square beams and we were like “that’s the one!” but it ultimately created other issues.Īntica: When we tried the axle version, it would just bend, so we ended just trying to lock things to stay put. This has been a really intense process – we’ve had every designer in the Adults team working on this to help us get to where we are today. Sam: We also had problems with minifigures flying up in people’s faces, which is why they’re connected the way they are. So we did a lot more testing on what next, like what could we do to strengthen the walls to stop this, and we ended up moving problems around. Sam: We found out that cross axles which are standard for LEGO were bending a lot, and actually breaking and snapping at some point because this isn’t what they were designed for – they’re designed to be on wheels. We’ve done absolutely every test that LEGO has in-house, we’ve done it on this table. We also did machine testing, where we subject it to the same motion over and over again with robots. We built maybe six, seven, eight of them and they all got completely destroyed, so this is what remained. They ended up wrecking the models we built. We invited hundreds of people from our office to come and play the game, we even had tournaments. We tested this a lot and we found out that when you play foosball, it’s not the most relaxed game in the world. We really wanted to give this set to the world at this specific time of year, where football is the biggest it’s ever been (a reference to the upcoming World Cup in Qatar). We’ve been through some really high highs, very deep low and at some point we were close to cancelling it. Sam: This set is probably the most tested LEGO set of all time. Samuel Johnson, outgoing LEGO Ideas Design Manager.Jordan Scott, Design Manager, LEGO Ideas.Monica Pedersen, Senior Marketing Manager, LEGO Ideas.Hasan Jensen, Engagement Manager, LEGO Ideas.To help illustrate some of the design thinking, and why specific design changes were made, here’s some snippets from the team that we shared. See below for regional pricing and linksĪt RLFM Days 2022, we were first shown off 21337 Table Football, which also included a short presentation by the LEGO Ideas Design Team, and I also got to have another sit down interview to talk about the LEGO Foosball Table in more detail. Simon says toy full#The 2,339-piece set packs an incredible amount of diverse minifigure options, but conversations about the set have been dominated by the set’s relatively high pricetag (US$249.99 / AU$379.99) and most contentious of all was the decision to scale down the size of the LEGO Foosball Table from the 11-a-side that fan designer Donat originally intended.Ģ1337 Table Football will be available on 1 November 2022, and I hope to share my full review before launch. Yesterday, LEGO unveiled the final LEGO Ideas set of 2022 – 21337 Table Football, which will be released on 1 November 2022. ![]()
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