A user-submitted LEGO PS2 set has gained enough support to be considered by LEGO to be made official and put on sale.
This comes from the LEGO Ideas site, where anyone can submit their dream LEGO project and hope to gain supporters. If they get 10,000 within a certain time frame, the project moves into a review phase at the Danish company, where a decision is made on whether it enters development.
RippleDrive's PS2 set, which would allow you to construct a plastic facsimile of Sony's second home console, just earned enough supporters in time to be considered in LEGO's 2025 review phase, which takes place in January.
The set itself, in its current guise, consists of over 2,000 pieces, and sees you build the console (original design), a DualShock 2 controller, and memory cards at "close to" 1:1 scale. Furthermore, the disc tray can be opened, and you can remove the memory card covers to insert your LEGO memory cards, as well as plug in the faux controller.
Even better is that the set includes internal components on the inside of the build, so you can take the top off and look at the parts and circuitry that makes the machine tick.
It's a super-detailed set that fans of PlayStation and retro gaming will definitely want to own.
However, it's got some hoops to jump through before that becomes a possibility. Even if LEGO does approve it for full development and production, it'll also need the go-ahead from Sony before it can get off the ground.
Some good news is that PlayStation and LEGO do have an established relationship now via LEGO Horizon Adventures, as well as a couple of official Horizon LEGO sets. Stranger things have happened, so we're hopeful this will come to pass.
Would you like to build this LEGO PS2? Follow the instructions in the comments section below.
[source ideas.lego.com, via thegamer.com]
Comments 16
I somehow passed up the Atari 2600 and NES sets because my wallet cried too loudly.
β¦my wallet will need to brace itself for this one, because I must have it.
Considering the games industry saved Lego from gaming under, then yes hopefully they put that set into production. I could see it sitting nicely beside my Lego tuxedo cat. Maybe his paws could even reach the sticks.
I was gifted an adult Hokusai Lego set for Christmas and itβs been such a joy to assemble that Iβm taking my time to complete. I would buy something like this in a heartbeat and considering that there was a NES set released a few years ago I think this could come to fruition. Be nice if they could add a tv screen with a classic game playing like the NES version
I would buy this, I've got the Atari Lego set and it's fantastic and this would make a nice addition to go alongside it
wow I am not a Lego guy at all but this thing is cool!
Would love to have but going to cause too much. Probably the price of a PS2 when it launched back in the day lol.
This is cool. I'd be tempted if it got made.
Just so people know. This is via lego ideas and the odds of it becoming a real set are very very slim if at all. Out of the last review period which featured 48 projects some of which have been brands lego has worked with before in the past only 1 of them was chosen to be an official lego set that set being a collection of mineral crystals. So yes while this project does look incredible please understand that it is extremely unlikely that this will become an official lego set.
This looks super cool, but knowing LEGO's pricing, I would never get it anyway.
@CaptainRPG Killjoy π
Man. This look so neat π Im definitely will buy it. Placed it near my Mario yoshi set
@get2sammyb so which one of u gets to build it and upload it to YouTube π
I bet a real PS2 will cost less
@Azuris I recently got a fully functional good looking silver PS2 Slim for 35 bucks... So yeah, the LEGO is going to be like 5x more expensive lmao.
Gotta have it
I like it! Except for the controller....
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