Meet Harry. He is a brick-built Sock Monkey bobblehead, he already lives in a museum, and he might be the most huggable pile of bricks you see all year. Designer Snick Bombay based the Sock Monkey Bobblehead on the famous red-heeled Sock Monkey, that vintage stuffed toy first stitched together nearly 100 years ago. Now it stars on the LEGO® Ideas platform with 2,244 supporters and counting.

Here is where things get delightfully clever. Harry stands 14 inches (35.5 cm) tall in a sitting pose, from toe tips to the poof of his hat, built from just 1,403 pieces. That keeps him light, roughly 1.5 pounds, so holding him feels a bit like cradling a ventriloquist's puppet. His arms, legs, and tail all pose. His ears wiggle. His eyes move. And yes, the head does the full bobblehead bob (he is quite the STUD in front of the camera, as Snick puts it).

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Want to know the secret sauce? Snick tucked hidden features inside this little guy, including a "heart" and a "brain" you would never spot from the outside. That is the kind of design thinking that turns a cute figure into a proper puzzle box. Months of planning, sourcing, building, and rebuilding went into every curve of that classic Sock Monkey silhouette. How would you have shaped those round ears out of stubbornly square bricks?

The backstory is the best part. Snick Bombay originally built Harry for permanent display at the Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove, Illinois, home to the world's largest collection of handmade Sock Monkeys. Harry now sits among thousands of stitched cousins, the only one made of LEGO® bricks, soaking up shocked and delighted stares from visitors.

If a fantastic nostalgic mascot with a bobbling head and a hidden brain sounds like your kind of shelf sitter, the Sock Monkey Bobblehead needs 10,000 supporters to reach the review stage. Give Harry a nod, tell your building buddies, and help this sock star sock it to the big leagues.