LEGO Celebrates Women in Science With Upcoming Set
On the one hand, and I need to note this up front, this announcement means you won’t be getting the LEGO Legend of Zelda set, or the Sherlock, Back to the Future, and Macross sets that were submitted as ideas for the Winter 2014 LEGO Ideas competition. But although previous winners in the contest have been based on licensed properties, the fact that LEGO would have had to make licensing deals lowered your likelihood of getting those anyway. And isn’t inspiring future female scientists more important than getting a tiny little LEGO Link that can you can build tiny little LEGO dungeons for? Don’t answer that, hardcore Zelda fans. Some dark places are better left unexplored. Instead of picking any of the licensed sets, or a nice-looking Japanese history set, LEGO went backed and pulled a still under consideration entry from a previous contest, the “Female Minifigure Set” concept by Ellen Kooijman. Kooijman, a geochemist, was driven by her desire to see more relate-able female LEGO figures, as she wrote on her blog.