A Kaleidoscope Made of LEGO Bricks Is Both Genius and Trippy

What happens when childhood toys collide? You get a LEGO® kaleidoscope that’s equal parts nostalgia and optical illusion. MOC creator Milan Sekiz just pulled off the kind of project that makes you rethink what plastic bricks can do.  This is geometry, color, and imagination.

Mirrors, But Make It LEGO

The KaLEGOidoscope works like the real deal: three mirrors inside a cylindrical tube bounce light back and forth until your eye explodes with patterns. Sekiz ditched glass and scavenged reflective elements from the retired Assembly Square set. The reflections are fuzzier than traditional mirrors, it’s lo-fi psychedelia straight from the brick bin.

Build Your Own Patterns

Spin it, tilt it, shake it. Inside, translucent LEGO studs slide around to form shifting mosaics. You can lift the lid and swap colors whenever the mood changes. Go minimal with two shades or dump in the full rainbow bag. Just don’t overstuff it, unless your idea of fun is jamming your kaleidoscope with tiny plastic circles.

A Stand With Style

Sekiz didn’t stop at the tube. The build comes with a faux-wood stand, complete with a tiny drawer to stash extra studs. It’s part science kit, part home decor piece. The kind of object you’d proudly leave on a coffee table, waiting for a guest to pick it up and lose themselves in refracted brick magic.

Staff Pick Status

The project already has more than 2,300 supporters on LEGO Ideas and earned the coveted Staff Pick badge, LEGO’s way of saying “this is actually cool.” Ten thousand votes would push it into official review territory, meaning this trippy contraption could one day be a real LEGO® set. Until then, you can follow Sekiz on Instagram for more plastic wizardry.