The potential reason for the LEGO Group’s mysterious Brick to the Future trademark has been revealed, and it’s bad news for anyone hoping for more Back to the Future sets.
Earlier this year, the company filed a trademark for the phrase ‘Brick to the Future’ at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, which is (at the time of writing) still awaiting examination. That led to some speculation at the time that the LEGO Group was possibly intending to pursue more Back to the Future sets, following this year’s LEGO Icons 10300 Back to the Future Time Machine.
A video published to the official LEGO YouTube channel has now revealed the potential purpose behind that trademark, however – and at this stage, it doesn’t seem to be for more Back to the Future sets. Instead, the LEGO Group celebrated Back to the Future Day earlier this week by uploading a short animated film titled ‘Brick to the Future’.
It’s the same clip that was originally available on the set’s product page in March, just ahead of its release on April 1, and which gave us our first glimpse at this year’s
The two-minute-long clip starts with a live-action Doc Brown and Marty McFly building a copy of 10300 Back to the Future Time Machine, which then – with the addition of the flux capacitor – rockets up to 88mph and back in time to a brick-built world. The LEGO duo must then race across different time periods to repair their malfunctioning time machine and return to the present day.
It’s a fun animated feature, but if this really is all the LEGO Group has up its sleeve for ‘Brick to the Future’, we probably aren’t looking at any follow-ups to 10300 Back to the Future Time Machine any time soon. Still, never say never…
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