You know the trio. Three monkeys, one covering its eyes, one its ears, one its mouth, spelling out that age-old proverb: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Builder BRICKUP has rebuilt those famous figurines in plastic bricks with The Three Wise Monkeys, a project now gathering votes on LEGO® Ideas.
The concept splits into three separate blocks, each holding one posable monkey. Meet Mizaru, Kikazaru, and Iwazaru (the see, hear, and speak crew, respectively). Every little primate can move and strike a pose, so you decide exactly how sheepish, secretive, or silent each one looks. Want them all covering their eyes for a laugh? Nobody is stopping you.
The whole set rests on a round base that pulls the trio together into a display piece for a desk, shelf, or bookcase. It is compact by design, which means you can slot it almost anywhere without giving up half your building table. Have you ever tried to capture curved monkey faces out of rectangular bricks? That kind of shaping is a genuinely fun puzzle, and BRICKUP has clearly enjoyed cracking it.
What makes this one sing is the idea underneath the build. It reproduces an ornament many of us grew up seeing at home, then turns a centuries-old cultural symbol into something you assemble with your own hands. That mix of nostalgia and hands-on play is exactly the sort of thing LEGO® Ideas was made for.
Right now The Three Wise Monkeys has 1,882 supporters and 190 comments, with a long road still ahead to the 10,000 votes needed for a shot at the review stage. If a posable, brick-built version of the world's most famous trio speaks to you (or at least does not tell you to keep quiet about it), your vote could help it hop closer to a real box. Ready to give these monkeys a hand?
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