Picture a whole village balanced on an ancient brick bridge, then imagine that bridge folding in half to become a busy two-sided street. That is the clever trick behind The Bridge Village, a LEGO® Ideas project by CoasterZoom that just reached the full 10,000 supporters and now sits in the review queue. Thirteen furnished houses, fourteen minifigures, a waterfall, and a secret laboratory. Where do you even start?

Let's start with that fold, because it is the heart of the whole build. Open the bridge flat and you get an 83cm landscape, colourful buildings down one side and a winding pathway down the other. Fold it closed and the two sides swing together into a cozy 56cm street with houses facing each other. That is a genuinely smart bit of hinge engineering, and it means you get two completely different displays from one model (two sets for the price of one, in a sense!).

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Each of the thirteen houses earns its spot on the bridge. The Coral house hides an ice cream shop and a comfy bedroom. The Light Lavender building runs a French pâtisserie downstairs, complete with a croissant, a pretzel and cookies, then a reading nook with a beanbag upstairs. The three-storey Bright Yellow apartment packs a music shop, a storage room and a painting studio with real brushes and paint. Even the four bridge pillars are furnished, and one hides a ladder running top to bottom.

The best surprise waits underneath. Tucked below the grassy hill with its waterfall and wooden stairs sits a large chemistry laboratory, crammed with equipment and completely out of sight until you go looking. Want more flexibility? Lift the whole village off the bridge and drop in train tracks instead, turning your centrepiece into a working railway crossing for your city.

With 10,000 supporters already behind it, The Bridge Village now faces the LEGO® review board, where it could become an official set. Whether you build it flat, fold it into a street, or swap in a railway, this is the kind of build that proves there is never just one right way to play. Which of those thirteen little homes would you move into first?