Freddie Mercury in LEGO Bricks Is Pure Magic

A man in a yellow jacket. A fist in the air. A stadium roaring back at him. If you close your eyes, you can hear it. Freddie Mercury at Wembley in 1986. Now open them again, and instead of stage lights you’re staring at a wall of LEGO® bricks.

Designer Takesz has turned Mercury’s defining pose into a towering 3D LEGO poster, standing 65 centimeters tall and bursting with layered detail. This isn’t just a flat mosaic. It looks like Mercury is breaking through your wall, microphone in hand, ready to start “Radio Ga Ga”.

Brick by Brick, Note by Note

The build uses exactly 1,986 LEGO pieces, a wink at the year of the Magic Tour. Every fold of the white-and-yellow jacket is shaped from tiles and slopes. The stripes on his sneakers? Also captured in plastic. And thanks to clever joints, the figure looks alive, with that famous raised arm reaching toward you.

It’s not just the big poster, either. Takesz went further, adding a minifigure Freddie Mercury at a Steinway piano, recreating the quieter side of that same show. One second he’s leading 72,000 fans in a chant. The next he’s hunched over the keys, playing “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

The Long Road to LEGO Ideas Glory

Right now, the Freddie Mercury LEGO set lives on the LEGO Ideas platform, where fan designs battle for 10,000 votes. At just over 2,000, it’s far from the finish line. But Queen fans aren’t exactly known for staying quiet. If enough rally behind it, LEGO will at least consider giving Freddie a permanent spot on shelves next to LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Icons, and LEGO Art sets.

This is how Ideas works. Fans submit, fans vote, and if the numbers hit critical mass, the LEGO Group steps in. Some wild builds have made the cut before, from sitcom apartments to NASA rockets. So why not Freddie at Wembley?

We Will Brick You

The build works because it’s both playful and reverent. It’s a wall piece, a conversation starter, a shrine to a voice that shook stadiums. Forty years since Wembley and fifty since “Bohemian Rhapsody” Mercury’s energy still breaks through.

As Takesz puts it: “It’s not only a set to amaze others, it is a set to remind us of the limitless bond of music through generations.” Which, in LEGO-speak, basically means: music fades, plastic stays.

So what do you think? Would you buy a LEGO Freddie Mercury poster, or does this belong more in a fan’s collection than on a retail shelf?