Brick By Brick
As part of our ongoing celebration of Psychonauts 20th anniversary, we've shared cool merch and featured amazing fan art but that's the tip of the iceberg. Among the many things sent our way were all kinds of cool ideas from cookbooks to toys. We'll feature more of that over the next few days along with some extra special videos and treats. Today I wanted to call attention to one specific thing.
A lovely fan named Yaroslav Bakhmutov sent us something that really excited everyone here at the studio: Psychonauts LEGOs! The folks at LEGO have something called LEGO IDEAS, which is a kind of concept-making site where folks can submit the play sets and builds they want to see.
Yaroslav has pitched a pretty cool set based on the first Psychonauts! It's the Whispering Rock camp and features all sorts of great stuff. There's cabins and trees along with the psycho-isolation chamber and the camp docks as well as mini-figurine versions of the cast. It's pretty dang cool!
It's very fun to imagine what the wider world of Psychonauts goodies could look like. These LEGO figures are amazing!
"After looking hard enough around the Psychonauts community I found somebody working on a LEGO Psychonauts set," Yaroslav told me via email correspondence. "But there's one problem, this person's work has been frozen for 3 years. That's when I said out loud to myself: "Oh well, guess it's only up to me now."
Pitched on the LEGO IDEAS page last as long as a certain number of folks express their interest. At a certain threshold—around the 10,000 supporter mark—they are sometimes considered to become real things you can buy at stores. That's a lofty goal and if you all want to show Yaroslav some love, I think that would be pretty amazing. Seeing Psychonauts re-imagined like this is incredible.
We'll continue to celebrate Psychonauts and probably extend that into next week. For the moment, we hope you enjoy this little bundle of bricks!