What is your favourite LEGO IdeasProduct Idea(besides your own of course)?Are there any Product Ideas you think have been overlooked? How long was the process of making the project did, and what did you have to research as well. What kind of prep, research and design phases did you go through to produce your creation? Is there a LEGO designer (official LEGO designer or fan designer) who you are inspired by and look up to? Who and why?

Out of all the SpongeBob LEGO sets, our favourite is the Bikini Bottom Undersea Party. It’s really good fun to build, play with, includes 5 minifigures, and many other fantastic items (totalling 471 pieces). Let us know your favourite set in the comments section below, which do you already own? Better still, can you fully replicate Bikini Bottom? Tags What is your favourite building techniqueor part/sectionthat you’ve incorporated into your Product Idea? What is it about the platform that attracts you? What tips would yougive to anyone who is thinking about uploading an idea?What is yourfavouriteLEGO theme (current or past)? Why? And has any theme inspired your building style or preference in anyparticular way? So many to name! Throughout my LEGO Ideas journey, I’ve met so many great talented friends all with amazing builds of their own! One that comes to mind is ExeSandbox, who made a previous Krusty Krab model on LEGO Ideas! That definitely inspired the work on my own rendition of the building. LEGO doors and windows only come at different fixed sizes, so I also had to scale every furniture based on them. Coupled with the 3,000 parts limit, it was a real headache.

Like with all my builds, I first built the model in LEGO Digital Designer. However LDD is a bit outdated, so I then move it to Stud.io to add any newer released parts and fix it up to finalize for the renders which were done on Blender. It took quite a while to build for sure! There was a LOT that went into this project, from all the reference images of the building, all the countless weeks spent refining the model to be its very best, and the renderings were a whole other can of worms to work out. I’m very, very happy with the final product, however! I wish I knew just how difficult it is to build the Krusty Krab. There was a time during the development phase of the project where it got so difficult that I questioned if I was even able to complete the model, much less be of quality standards. Thankfully I didn’t throw in the towel, and I managed to complete the project with a sense of satisfaction. Next time I should really analyse what I plan on building to know what I’m really getting myself into.As fun a challenge it was, it was for sure a challenge! The Krusty Krab isn’t your typical LEGO house. With a curved roof and arches, netted flags and the works it was all very difficult to recreate! Lots of time was spent on the roof mostly. But I took my time with the model and it came out just how I’d imagined it. If you could talk to yourself before you started on this project, what would you tell him? What do you know now that you wish you knew then? The process took nearly 3 months in total. There wasn’t much prep and research to do aside from getting as many reference images as possible. Since the Krusty Krab already existed and I just had to recreate it as faithfully as possible, I didn’t have to make any major creative decisions which negated the need for planning/sketching and I could just go straight to building. (Admittedly I had trouble figuring out where to start building.) The rest was just one long trial and error phase of building until the model was completed. Then comes designing the decals and rendering, which still took quite some time. The final construction I used for the doors was possible when I tried out a building technique used in the front seats of the 10252 Volkswagen Beetle set, and it’s amazing just how perfectly it worked. There is also a gap just wide enough for the door to open too, sounds funny because doors should always be able to open but I remember making a version that couldn’t open/close because it compromised on the looks. Thankfully I managed to make it look good and still function in the end. Have you created anyLEGO MOCs (my own creations) that you’re particularly proud of? What is it, why are you proudit and do you have a photo of it?

It took roughly 2 and ½ (almost 3 months if I’m counting the prep work plus rendering.) The amount of time I spent promoting was around 2-3 weeks, which is measly compared to the time I spent developing, mostly because I didn’t know how to promote my project further. Thankfully it was able to gain enough momentum to take it to 10K. That wraps up our list on all of the LEGO SpongeBob sets. In total there are 14 fantastic sets that fans will continue to collect and play with for many years to come. LEGO presents the perfect opportunity to explore Bikini Bottom and that’s exactly what LEGO have achieved with this theme.Yes definitely, after the success of this project I’m quite excited to try out another Product Idea. Something a lot riskier and also not based off a license. I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes! My favorite so far has to be “ Workshop in the Woods” by LEGOTREE. It’s so well built and I absolutely love the vibe and aesthetics. At the time of writing this, the project doesn’t seem to be that popular, so if you’re reading this, give that Product Idea some love, it’s truly beautiful.

The build originally had just about 3100 or 3200 pieces, but LEGO Ideas states your submitted builds must be below 3K parts total. So I had to refine it, which was hard to choose what wasn’t needed. The final model has 2999 parts. That’s a tough question! I could say a number of licensed themes, including SpongeBob, but I remember every year I’ve always been excited for the new Creator line releases. They’ve always fascinated me, and what’s so inspiring is the multiple instructions to rebuild the set into something new! Very creative! The most difficult part to recreate was the detachable roof. The angle of the curve had to line up at very specific points, and then there was the horizontal and vertical gaps that goes in between the planks. I also needed to make it really neat and compact so that it won’t look ugly from the inside. I thought hinges was the way to go at first, but it wasn’t sturdy and could move around, which would mean adding more parts to brace it, and then it wouldn’t be neat and compact anymore and would also exceed 3,000 pieces. I then turned to using technic parts which immediately solved the sturdiness, but there was still so many other problems like the gaps, the curves, etc, etc. I just had to keep trying and trying until I eventually got it. To this day, I’m still baffled that I managed to do it though. How long was the process of making the project, and what did you have to research as well? What kind of prep, research and design phases did you go through to produce your creation? A very tough question, with so many to choose from! To narrow it down, it would for sure be one of the modular buildings, or something in a similar vein. The huge advanced models that make for great display pieces have always caught my eye. Maybe even one of the Ninjago City sets?Have you created any LEGO MOCs (my own creations) that you’re particularly proud of? What is it, why are you proud of it and do you have a photo of it? I absolutely love listening to music whenever I can, cooking (because I love food), and of course, LEGO! (But I’m aspiring to make it into more than just a hobby.) What special challenges did you face creating the model? What was the most difficult part to recreate? There were so many challenges I had to face that I consider this to be the most difficult model I’ve ever built. The biggest challenge was the size of the furniture/objects. They were always too big, and I constantly had to shrink them down, and doing so would mean compromising on detail and accuracy. If you could talk to yourself before you started on this project, what would you tell them? What do you know now that you wish you knew then?