LEGO® CRT TV Brings 1970s Tech Nostalgia to the Brick World

There’s something hypnotic about the glow of a CRT television. The soft hum. The curved glass. The color bars that meant your favorite show was over. Now that very moment in time might soon exist in bricks, as ejdxjd’s LEGO® Ideas CRT TV project has reached the fabled 10,000 votes on LEGO® Ideas and is officially under review.

The next stop? LEGO’s decision board in Billund, where the project will be evaluated for possible release as a real LEGO® set. If approved, the verdict will drop between May and June 2026.

A Pixelated Love

This is a love letter to a simpler tech era, one where entertainment came in chunky shapes and buzzing sounds. Built from 861 pieces in 13 colors, the CRT TV captures every analog detail: retro knobs, rabbit-ear antennas, and those famous signal color bars.

The design taps into the same nostalgic current that powered fan-favorite sets like the LEGO® 21329 Fender Stratocaster and the LEGO® 21327 Typewriter. Both turned classic icons into tactile art. The CRT TV follows that lineage with its proud devotion to a pre-digital world.

The Creator’s First Broadcast

For ejdxjd, this was the first serious creation submitted to LEGO® Ideas. Using BrickLink Studio, the designer rendered and refined the shape until it looked museum-worthy. The boxy body, subtle texture, and perfectly proportioned screen speak to someone who studied the quirks of 1970s design and rebuilt them.

The creator’s motivation is to celebrate the physical beauty of old technology. In an era where every screen is flat, the charm of the imperfect, those soft edges and static crackles, feels alive again in LEGO® form.