Fancy a menhir with your morning coffee? A builder going by Osoro107 just carried one straight into the LEGO® Ideas spotlight with Obelix, a 1,061-piece display model of the beloved Asterix hero. Published on June 9, 2026, the project already carries 466 supporters (and a suspiciously heavy stone slab).

You will spot Obelix at once, because that is the whole point. The build captures his big-bellied stance, his blue-and-white striped trousers, and of course the famous menhir slung casually over one shoulder, as if it weighs nothing at all (which, for a man who fell into the magic potion cauldron as a baby, it basically does). Getting a comic character's exaggerated proportions to read correctly in brick form takes real shaping skill, and this model nails the round, cheerful silhouette that generations of European readers know by heart.

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At 1,061 pieces, Obelix works as a collector's centrepiece rather than a playset. Every curve of the character has been coaxed out of standard elements, from his ginger pigtails to that unmistakable menhir. Want to try recreating a cartoon figure in brick yourself? Studying how a build like this handles bulging, rounded forms is a masterclass waiting to happen.

Here is the fun bit of trivia: despite Asterix and Obelix ranking among the most famous comic characters ever drawn, they have never had an official LEGO® set. Osoro107 wants to fix that, opening the door to a whole classic comic universe of Gaulish villagers, Roman legionaries, and wild boar dinners.

The road to 10,000 supporters is long, and every vote counts like a swig of magic potion. If a brick-built Obelix sounds like your kind of hero, why not lend him a hand carrying that menhir the rest of the way?