LEGO Announce Fender Stratocaster Brick Set

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Everyone’s favourite construction toy, LEGO, is set to release a Fender Stratocaster brick set based on a fan submitted idea. The idea was submitted to this year’s LEGO Ideas ‘Music To Our Ears’ contest.

The guitar brick set was designed by LEGO Ideas user TOMOELL, and will be the first in a new music-centric line of LEGO sets, as the company look to focus on its adult consumers.

Talking to Brick Fanatics, LEGO Ideas Design Manager Sam Johnson said “Everyone has seen the Fender Stratocaster guitar, it’s super famous and we think it’s going to be exciting to bring this to life using LEGO bricks, Music is a relatively new place for LEGO to play in so we’re really excited to see how we can execute this.”

The original build by TOMOELL shows a variety of different coloured Fender Stratocaster guitars. The new set will likely be released in 2021.

In other news, Fender recently announced that it is set to have biggest year of sales ever. Fender reported record days of double-digit growth in e-commerce sales and beginner gear sales. The company also added that it’s Fender Play instructional apps user base grew from 150,00 in late march to 930,000 in late June.