Sweet LEGO Ideas 10K project highlights the humble honeybee

The latest LEGO Ideas 10K project hopes to highlight the plight of the humble honeybee, combining a brick-built beehive with three sweet vignettes charting the journey of honey.

In what’s probably the sweetest LEGO Ideas project in recent memory, builder RobertVII has constructed a series of vignettes on hexagonal plates, all framed by a huge, brick-built beehive with countless LEGO bees. Each of the smaller models represents a stage of the beekeeping process: a backyard hive, honey extraction machinery (with honey jars), and a market stall.

The frame, meanwhile, is double-sided: one side shows golden, raw honey, while the other more realistically reflects how bees will enclose each segment of the honeycomb in wax. It’s manned by worker bees and a queen bee.

“I came to this design because I wanted to bring something to life with LEGO that I'm passionate about,” RobertVII wrote on the project page. “We know bees are a vital part of our world so I would love to see this set bring attention to them.”

Sweet Honey becomes the second LEGO Ideas project in the first 2023 review, and is now in contention to become an official LEGO set. It’s up to the LEGO Ideas review board to give it the green light, though: and given the qualifying window for this review has only just opened, we’ll be waiting a while to learn whether they bee-lieve it's sweet enough to make the cut.