Pizza, tokens, and that one animatronic mouse with a guitar. Chuck E. Cheese has arrived on LEGO® Ideas, and he is ready to strike a pose. Built by designer bunnathy, this cheerful mouse stands close to a foot tall and brings back every memory of childhood birthday parties in one brick-built package.

What makes this build so much fun? Ball joints. A whole series of them, tucked through the figure so that Chuck E. Cheese can bend, twist, and strike almost any pose you dream up. Want him mid-wave? Done. Want him strumming an invisible guitar on your bookshelf? Also done. That kind of articulation is a genuinely smart bit of building, and it turns a static display piece into something you can actually play with.

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The scale is the clever part here too. At roughly a foot tall, this Chuck E. Cheese lands right in the sweet spot, big enough to admire on a desk, small enough to pick up and pose like an action figure. Translating a flat cartoon character into a chunky 3D form using LEGO® bricks is no small feat, and seeing those simple curves come to life in plastic is the sort of thing that makes you want to grab your own pile of pieces and start experimenting.

Designer bunnathy describes the project as a way to combine two icons of childhood, both of which sparked creativity and a love of bringing cartoons into three dimensions. There is a child fanbase and an adult fanbase for this mascot, much like LEGO® itself, and both groups would happily make room on the shelf for a mouse this charming. The project currently sits at 41 supporters with 15 comments, so there is plenty of room to grow toward that 10,000 goal.

Fancy a slice of nostalgia you can build yourself? Head over and lend Chuck E. Cheese your support, because who says you need tokens to have a good time?