LEGO Ideas 21370 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial revealed!

I haven't seen the movie in decades, so I don't remember, but a quick search shows the glowing finger on the right hand, like in the original design. I also think the flowers are a bit on the small side (the original has them somewhat on the large side), but good that they're still included. Overall a pretty good design.

I'm really curious about the engineering in this. How long will it take before the head and arms start sagging?

Home bound.

Looks like a great 'skin' collectable next to the Supergirl (2026) drinking cup!

He’s incredibly cute. No desire to have him in my home, but they nailed his look.

As someone who used to be a huge movie buff, I somehow never seen this movie. And probably as a result, have zero interest in this set.

When it comes to ugly movie creatures of that era, I had much rather seen a Gremlin to go with Gizmo....

Oh, something created to look perfect next Yoda's weird gaze!

Ah, there we go. The buildable Zoho Desk-logo we were promised. I'll admit it, it's pretty convincing.

I think I have the mini-fig somewhere… It’s from Dimensions I think… haha. Why do we keep getting statuettes these days? I only buy sets with mini-figs in them.

What, no phone? Unthinkable. Pass.

Looks great, but not something I'm interested in. Never liked ET, despite being a child of the 80's.

Sorry, not for 149,00 CHF when it is only £119.99 / €129.99

Really cool; not something I’d buy, but as a fan of E.T., I like it.

I went to see ET when the film came out and loved it at the time. It’s a good model. But something about it is rather horrible and I won’t be buying it.

Oh, no.

@WizardOfOss said:
"Look better: https://images.brickset.com/news/132946_21370_Lifestyle_Build_crop_dyKar6PrWJDf.jpg"

Bully, I say! Should've been the primary accessory.

I was 13 when the film was released, and remember it dearly and the phenomenon it became - including that terrible Atari game, which I played! But this just feels off for some reason, as well as being slightly overpriced. I also feel this is one occasion when LEGO really should have made those ball and socket joints in a colour other than grey.

@StolenEyes said:
"I was 13 when the film was released, and remember it dearly and the phenomenon it became - including that terrible Atari game, which I played! But this just feels off for some reason, as well as being slightly overpriced. I also feel this is one occasion when LEGO really should have made those ball and socket joints in a colour other than grey. "

I still own a copy of that game, that the family got for Christmas when it first came out.

Not a big fan of the movie but I think they did a good job on this set, kind of lame that they didn't include a Minifigure (they already designed the mould for dimensions)

@bondre said:
"Not a big fan of the movie but I think they did a good job on this set, kind of lame that they didn't include a Minifigure (they already designed the mould for dimensions)"

They did design it, but they definitely scrapped it by now. So not only would it require cutting a new mold, but also all the additional frames to make all the minifig parts.

Why does he look like he has a huge weiner

When will 21369 and 21372 be revealed? Those are coming out in August too. Might get delayed.

@pteric said:
"Why does he look like he has a huge weiner"

Buddies with 72163

Does it also fit a Smart Brick in it's groin bulge? If you place this on a rotating table it looks just like a Doner Kebab skewer. :))

@Kenmore said:
"This isn't for me, but it looks good and it's reassuring to know Lego can do eyes without them looking really creepy and wrong - looking at the recent Yoda bust 75438"

And it's looking at *you*.

I'm never going to find these sorts of sets appealing even if they're from an IP I'm a fan of but I have to admit this is quite well done. most of the brick built character statue sets are uncanny in some way but this one feels right, putting aside E.T's inherent uncanniness aside of course.

I think it looks pretty good. Might buy it (or the misses maybe) because i do love collecting ET stuff.

ET the Extraterrestrial is like saying ATM Machine. It just sounds wrong.

Also: no Reese's Pieces or a phone? Really, Lego?

@Goujon said:
"I miss when LEGO Ideas wasnt just "thing you remember from nostalgic childhood but now lego""

At least it's not just The Sitcom Theme anymore

@Murdoch17 said:
"ET the Extraterrestrial is like saying ATM Machine. It just sounds wrong."

ATM Machine. Minestrone soup.

@PurpleDave said:
" @bondre said:
" kind of lame that they didn't include a Minifigure (they already designed the mould for dimensions)"

they definitely scrapped it by now."

They brought Woody's legs back for Avatar, and they still had the Sonic head mold a few years ago. The OG Vader helmet for the 20th anniversary series. Certain I'll think of more examples. I know there's a ton of mid-G1 Bionicle pieces that occasionally pop up after like 15 years of non-use but I can't remember off the top of my head.

@ShilohCyan said:

"ATM Machine. Minestrone soup. "

Saying it more often doesn't make it any less wrong.

It doesnt look too good. Too bad they didnt bring back the dimensions minifig they had for ET

@ShilohCyan said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @bondre said:
" kind of lame that they didn't include a Minifigure (they already designed the mould for dimensions)"

they definitely scrapped it by now."

They brought Woody's legs back for Avatar, and they still had the Sonic head mold a few years ago. The OG Vader helmet for the 20th anniversary series. Certain I'll think of more examples. I know there's a ton of mid-G1 Bionicle pieces that occasionally pop up after like 15 years of non-use but I can't remember off the top of my head. "

The lead designers get together every year and decide which molds to scrap. They’ve confirmed that it costs as much to keep a mold serviceable for five years as it does to cut a new one. They can keep the digital design files on hand indefinitely, but you can pretty much count on any mold that hasn’t been used in five years having been scrapped, and any subsequent use of that shape being produced with a brand new mold.

We know for absolute fact that the original goat mold was damaged and unserviceable. And we can look at the cavity molded into the goat’s belly and see that it’s absolutely not the same mold. But the external design looks identical, so they almost certainly didn’t have to redesign the goat from the ground up, instead just pulling up the digital specs for the mold and working from there.

@WizardOfOss said:
"As someone who used to be a huge movie buff, I somehow never seen this movie. And probably as a result, have zero interest in this set.

When it comes to ugly movie creatures of that era, I had much rather seen a Gremlin to go with Gizmo...."

Yeah, I'm a big sci-fi buff, but I haven't seen it either. Speaking of Spielberg sci-fi classics, I haven't seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind either, although I have seen the original filming model of the spaceship in the Smithsonian Annex.

@WizardOfOss said:" @EtudeTheBadger said:"What, no phone? Unthinkable. Pass."

Look better: https://images.brickset.com/news/132946_21370_Lifestyle_Build_crop_dyKar6PrWJDf.jpg"
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That picture looks disturbing, what with E.T.'s disembodied eyes off to the side.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
"As someone who used to be a huge movie buff, I somehow never seen this movie. And probably as a result, have zero interest in this set."

Yeah, I'm a big sci-fi buff, but I haven't seen it either. Speaking of Spielberg sci-fi classics, I haven't seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind either, although I have seen the original filming model of the spaceship in the Smithsonian Annex."

I’ve seen both. Never understood the fuss about Close Encounters (I’d already seen Star Wars first), but the hype for E.T. was real. And read the crap out of the novelization (we never went to see movies twice, and home video wasn’t a thing). He eats M&Ms in the book, BTW, but Mars wouldn’t let them use their candy in the film.

" @WizardOfOss said:
" @EtudeTheBadger said:
"What, no phone? Unthinkable. Pass."

Look better: https://images.brickset.com/news/132946_21370_Lifestyle_Build_crop_dyKar6PrWJDf.jpg"
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That picture looks disturbing, what with E.T.'s disembodied eyes off to the side."

That’s the “What If” version, after the scientists get ahold of him.

@Murdoch17 said:
"ET the Extraterrestrial is like saying ATM Machine. It just sounds wrong.

Also: no Reese's Pieces or a phone? Really, Lego?"

By your logic saying "Woody the cowboy" would sound wrong. ET is his name and he IS an extraterrestrial.

And I know that E.T. is short for extraterrestrial but thats not the point. ET is his name.

OK, I know his real name is Zrek, but the kids don't know that!

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
"As someone who used to be a huge movie buff, I somehow never seen this movie. And probably as a result, have zero interest in this set."

Yeah, I'm a big sci-fi buff, but I haven't seen it either. Speaking of Spielberg sci-fi classics, I haven't seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind either, although I have seen the original filming model of the spaceship in the Smithsonian Annex."

I’ve seen both. Never understood the fuss about Close Encounters (I’d already seen Star Wars first), but the hype for E.T. was real. And read the crap out of the novelization (we never went to see movies twice, and home video wasn’t a thing). He eats M&Ms in the book, BTW, but Mars wouldn’t let them use their candy in the film."

I knew that. And thus did Reese's score a marketing coup.

@Muftak1 said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"ET the Extraterrestrial is like saying ATM Machine. It just sounds wrong.

Also: no Reese's Pieces or a phone? Really, Lego?"

By your logic saying "Woody the cowboy" would sound wrong. ET is his name and he IS an extraterrestrial.

And I know that E.T. is short for extraterrestrial but thats not the point. ET is his name.

OK, I know his real name is Zrek, but the kids don't know that!"

Also, based on how the logo is stylized, it really ought to be E.T.: The Extraterrestrial. It's a clarifying note.

@TheOtherMike said:
"I knew that. And thus did Reese's score a marketing coup."

Hershey's, and it was short-lived. M&Ms are definitely king again. Ironically, Hershey's biggest success was renting the Kit-Kat from Nestle, the contractual agreement of which has scuttled any attempt at selling the company (if Hershey's is ever sold, the Kit-Kat brand reverts back to Nestle with no financial compensation, and nobody wants to buy Hershey's and immediately lose their most successful candy bar).

@Andrusi said:
"Also, based on how the logo is stylized, it really ought to be E.T.: The Extraterrestrial. It's a clarifying note."

But that's not how it's presented. It's "E.T. the Extraterrestrial". Film titles get messy. There's a superstition that the longer you make the title, the less successful the film will be (pay no attention to any of the PotC/LotR films behind the curtain!), and part of that includes excising any extraneous punctuation. I'm sure they would have eliminated the two periods as well, except then everyone would have been saying "Eht" instead of "Ee Tee".

@Muftak1 said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"OK, I know his real name is Zrek, but the kids don't know that!" "

Is that like Slave 1, Ewok, Twi'lek, and Xenomorph where a lot of people know the name even though it's never said in the movie?

(I poorly formatted the reply string on edit but I'm not taking the time to fix it)

@ShilohCyan said:
" @Muftak1 said:
"OK, I know his real name is Zrek, but the kids don't know that!"

Is that like Slave 1, Ewok, Twi'lek, and Xenomorph where a lot of people know the name even though it's never said in the movie?

(I poorly formatted the reply string on edit but I'm not taking the time to fix it)"

Slave I and Ewok were easy, since those got used on toys. Even if you didn't ever see them in person, you absolutely saw them in Christmas toy catalogs. Also, there were two Ewok movies and an Ewok animated series. Twi'lek, I would guess came from the West End Games RPG, as did many of the character/species/planet names. Without checking, there's a possibility that both "Ewok" and "Twi'lek" show up in the end credits for Ep6. I don't actually remember hearing the term "xenomorph" until after being introduced to the internet, and as far as I know it's more just a descriptor than an actual species name anyways.

Plus, it was a lot more common that big budget movies got novelizations back in those days, so you could pick up a lot of information that way that you wouldn't get from the films themselves.

@PurpleDave said:
" @ShilohCyan said:
" @Muftak1 said:
"OK, I know his real name is Zrek, but the kids don't know that!"

Is that like Slave 1, Ewok, Twi'lek, and Xenomorph where a lot of people know the name even though it's never said in the movie?

(I poorly formatted the reply string on edit but I'm not taking the time to fix it)"

Slave I and Ewok were easy, since those got used on toys. Even if you didn't ever see them in person, you absolutely saw them in Christmas toy catalogs. Also, there were two Ewok movies and an Ewok animated series. Twi'lek, I would guess came from the West End Games RPG, as did many of the character/species/planet names. Without checking, there's a possibility that both "Ewok" and "Twi'lek" show up in the end credits for Ep6. I don't actually remember hearing the term "xenomorph" until after being introduced to the internet, and as far as I know it's more just a descriptor than an actual species name anyways.

Plus, it was a lot more common that big budget movies got novelizations back in those days, so you could pick up a lot of information that way that you wouldn't get from the films themselves."

Even today, people who haven't seen SW know of Ewoks the same way they know Vader, Yoda, and Jar Jar Binks, while the Ewok show and movies are more niche than most Glup... *remembers I'm on a toy site* Poopos.

side note, petition for a Glup ****to minifig tag

@ShilohCyan said:
"Even today, people who haven't seen SW know of Ewoks the same way they know Vader, Yoda, and Jar Jar Binks…"

But back in 1983, Ewoks were A Thing. And the parallel to Binks is perhaps more appropriate than you know. Moviegoers of a certain age were never really on board with the Ewoks, viewing them more as toy advertisements than a legitimate part of the story, which is partly why Ep6 doesn’t get held in higher regard (in spite of it having the most powerful scene in the OT). But for viewers of a younger age, particularly those who were of similar size at the time, they were quite popular. And if you spent any amount of time around kids back then, I’m sure you heard about them for days on end. I don’t get the fascination with Binks. I was a little outside the target demographic when Ep1 hit, but I did recognize that there was a similarity between the two. And again, if you spent any time around kids, it would have been impossible to not hear about him 25 years ago.

Pros:
-Articulation
-Printed eyes
-"Glowing heart" light feature
-Flower pot retained from submission

Cons
-no minifigure
-no phone
-no Speak & Spell
-no makeshift antenna

Considering purchasing if I can find it discounted around 30%.

@PurpleDave said:
" @ShilohCyan said:
"Even today, people who haven't seen SW know of Ewoks the same way they know Vader, Yoda, and Jar Jar Binks…"

But back in 1983, Ewoks were A Thing. And the parallel to Binks is perhaps more appropriate than you know. Moviegoers of a certain age were never really on board with the Ewoks, viewing them more as toy advertisements than a legitimate part of the story, which is partly why Ep6 doesn’t get held in higher regard (in spite of it having the most powerful scene in the OT). But for viewers of a younger age, particularly those who were of similar size at the time, they were quite popular. And if you spent any amount of time around kids back then, I’m sure you heard about them for days on end. I don’t get the fascination with Binks. I was a little outside the target demographic when Ep1 hit, but I did recognize that there was a similarity between the two. And again, if you spent any time around kids, it would have been impossible to not hear about him 25 years ago."

I grew up loving the ewoks too, but the only merch I ever saw on shelves was one plushie at a thrift store and 7139 don't blame me :P

Jar Jar was pretty much shoved down our jaw jaws, but not as bad as Maul. or Grogu, but tbf, he's a pikachu situation where he wasn't originally gonna be a mascot, but was popular first and THEN overcommercialized. Or I guess you could say the same thing for all of SW. As his father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate said, "Moichandising! Moichandising! Moichandising!"

Also Boba Fett was the same thing but it actually worked on you guys :P

Which will sell less units, this or the Atari videogame?

@ShilohCyan said:
"I grew up loving the ewoks too, but the only merch I ever saw on shelves was one plushie at a thrift store and 7139 don't blame me :P"

I had the Teebo action figure as a kid, and two of the neighbor kids had Logray and Chief Chirpa for sure. Someone might have had Wicket. One of my friends from school had the Ewok Village playset, and I know I got him one of the Ewok action figures (don't remember which one) as a birthday present. I guarantee at least one kid I went to school with had an Ewoks-branded lunchbox, and more than one had a RotJ lunchbox (which would have had at least one Ewok pictured on it somewhere).

"Jar Jar was pretty much shoved down our jaw jaws, but not as bad as Maul."

Darth Maul was actually well-received. Better than his successor by a hefty margin. I wouldn't say as well as Boba Fett, but it's worth pointing out that the only SW villain I can remember besides those two who was brought back to life was Palpatine, for the Dark Empire comics, and nothing else that ever happened. And Palpatine actually _died_ first. Like extra-died, because whatever scraps of him that might have been saved got blown up with the Death Star.

"or Grogu"

No love for punt-Yoda.

"Also Boba Fett was the same thing but it actually worked on you guys :P "

Boba Fett really wasn't, though. He barely has any screentime or lines in Ep5, and even less lines in Ep6 where George pointedly killed him off. It was other writers who came up with the idea of bringing him back, and Marvel probably helped out a bit with whatever appearances Fett made in the original SW comic series. Oh, and there was also the controversy around the original Boba Fett action figure that was marketed as having a working rocket launcher in the backpack, but had to be "disarmed" by the time it was actually released. Wild speculation about why that happened in the first place, and whether any functional copies of the action figure made it out of the factory would have fueled playground fervor.

@MandalorianCandidate said:
"Which will sell less units, this or the Atari videogame?"

I don't think this has the potential to nearly cause the death of all construction toys

@PurpleDave said:
" @ShilohCyan said:
"Also Boba Fett was the same thing but it actually worked on you guys :P "

Boba Fett really wasn't, though. He barely has any screentime or lines in Ep5, and even less lines in Ep6 where George pointedly killed him off. It was other writers who came up with the idea of bringing him back"

He was one of the first things about ESB revealed, IIRC originally appearing as a potential Stormtrooper commander in a parade in 1978, and then the Holiday Special cartoon. From what I hear from (no offense but) people your age, everyone wanted the action figure, and by the time things like Heir to the Empire were being written, people who were kids in 1977 were the ones writing the books. My assertion is that it's BECAUSE later authors brought him back that proves his fanbase was built on nothing but a cool action figure.

Anyway, so ET,

All pieces with bars have been replaced by walkie talkies

@MandalorianCandidate said:
"Which will sell less units, this or the Atari videogame?"

The issue was never how many units the Atari game sold. The issue was how many units they had left _unsold_ when the market was sated. Ep1 set records for both being the most successful (in terms of total product sold) and least successful (in terms of total product left unsold) film merchandising at the time, with one entire warehouse that contained nothing but unsold Jar-Jar and Darth Maul neckties.

I never watched the movie as a kid (or as an adult actually), so any magic and nostalgia is lost on me.

I think the designers nailed the aesthetic for sure. I could picture adding it to the Yoda/baby Yoda shelf if I really wanted to. But I'll save my money for something I care about.