Here is a bird you have never seen strut across a table: a fully motorized LEGO® Walking Dodo. Built by AnimalBrickBuilds, this colorful reimagining of the famous flightless island bird waddles forward, blinks its beak open and shut, and generally behaves like it never went extinct at all. As the designer cheekily puts it, this might be the first walking Dodo in 300 years.

The clever part sits under the plumage. Two motors do all the heavy lifting here. One drives the walking motion, tilting the body side to side so the Dodo shifts its weight from one foot to the other while a linkage keeps the head standing tall and proud. Have you ever watched a bird walk? The bobbing, the swagger, the confidence of a creature that clearly owns the beach. This model nails it.

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The second motor works the beak, letting the Dodo yap away on command through remote control. That mix of motion and expression gives the whole thing a surprisingly lifelike personality, and it turns a static display piece into something you actually want to switch on and watch strut its stuff.

Beyond the mechanics, the Walking Dodo simply looks the part. Its bright colours and rounded, feathery shaping make it a happy centrepiece even when standing still, so you get a display model and a working automaton rolled into one plump package.

So far AnimalBrickBuilds has gathered 4,102 supporters on LEGO® Ideas, with 246 comments cheering the bird along. That leaves plenty of room to help this Dodo reach the 10,000 mark and waddle into the review stage. Fancy giving extinction a run for its money? Head to LEGO® Ideas and add your vote to the flock.