Robot block: Daft Punk LEGO set lets you build their electro pyramid stage
Here’s hoping this LEGO Ideas set gets lucky and is green-lit for production
While we’re all still hoping that Daft Punk will find it in their mechanised hearts to tour one more time, those with with fond memories of the French dance duo’s 2007 Alive-era tour may soon be able to relive the concerts’ block-rocking beats with a block-rocking LEGO set.
The ‘Daft Punk Concert’ set has just been submitted to the LEGO Ideas program — the building-block maker’s fan-voted portal for user-generated submissions, each with a chance of being licensed as a real, buy-it-in-shops LEGO set.
Created by LEGO builder Patrick Harboun and his son, the Daft Punk Concert set re-imagines the group’s Alive tour staging as a 2,000 piece LEGO build.
It’s a perfect miniature representation of the iconic stage set up, complete with coloured transparent bricks, lighting rigs and even a motor-powered rotating base. Daft Punk themselves — Thomas Bangalter and Guy Maneul de Homem-Christo — even appear as a pair of minifigures.
Fans can now vote to see the set win a chance at being turned into a retail set (license holder permission pending, of course), but the set’s already been crowned the Grand Prize winner in LEGO’s global Music To Our Ears! Competition.
“Both huge Daft Punk fans, this build is a fusion of 2 passions,” Harboun says of the build. “I spent my teenage years listening to Homework on my Walkman, while my son’s 1st favorite baby song was ‘Get Lucky.’ It felt only natural to blend our love for Daft Punk’s music with our love for LEGO.
"This 2000-piece set was quite the challenge. Lego bricks are rarely used for triangular shapes, so we had to find creative ways to make all those angles click.
"The helmets are technically legal as they appear in the upcoming film Piece By Piece, however just to be on the safe side of the rules, here's an alternative version using regular helmet pieces."
As for Daft Punk’s next performance? You’ll see them turn up in the playful Parrell Williams biopic ‘Piece by Piece’, where the duo is also being immortalised in LEGO form.