We Love Sports contest winner announced!
Posted by CapnRex101,
LEGO has announced the winner of the recent LEGO Ideas 'We Love Sports' contest during LEGO Con. The chosen model will become a future LEGO Ideas product.
View the winning creation after the break...
The winning submission is the Foosball Table, created by Constructions by Donat!
The release date has yet to be revealed, although I imagine this will become available next year.
Does a LEGO foosball table interest you? Let us know in the comments.
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Funny sort of "sport"
I happened to enter a different Table Football entry into this competition - admittedly this one is a lot better - the pain of knowing how 'close' to success I was is real.
This is actually pretty neat!
Also I refuse to call it anything but Table Football because ‘Foosball’ sounds ridiculous :P
I have a hard time believing the final product will be that large. It’s neat, but when I imagine a smaller version of it loses a lot of the appeal.
"Foosball" is correct.
@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
""Foosball" is correct."
Fußball if you're being pedantic.
I absolutely love this, brings back memories of the old soccer sets from the early 2000s
High-speed backflips is the only way you can make soccer interesting.
The foosball is neat! I'd like to have it. In the meantime, I'll continue playing with the LEGO soccer sets I have. Edit: I question thought if it's a sport.
Is table football a sport?
They will likely reduce:
1. Total players.
2. Height
And I’ll still be buying. Just for the nostalgia factor. I played a lot of variations of this game in college. Many fond and also hazy memories.
@TDRM said:
"Is table football a sport?"
If you've ever been a drunken college student, then yes.
My roommates and I had a table and believe me, it's a sport. Or at least can be as dangerous as a sport...
This was revealed way back on the Ideas website on March 4! Another un-reveal from Lego Con!
This is kinda disappointing IMO. It was an obvious entry, the build doesn't use any great techniques or anything, and it doesn't represent sports very well.
I do think it'll make a neat set, but I doubt it'll resemble the actual entry.
@Norikins said:
"This was revealed way back on the Ideas website on March 4! Another un-reveal from Lego Con!"
The grand prize winner was announced on the 4th of March but LEGO did not confirm which of the winners would be chosen to become an actual product until today.
@PurpleDave said:
"High-speed backflips is the only way you can make soccer interesting."
Hahaa, just wait for the inevitable England-Germany penalty shoot-out on Tuesday :D
(interesting if you like the sound of crushed dreams and 56m face-palms)
2 - 5 - 3 quite an attacking formation
'Football' in German is 'Fußball' - pronounced 'foosball'.
Perhaps Americans calling Table Football 'Foosball' suggests they know (subconsciously) that 'Foot-and-Handball' is the inferior sport...
The pre-1978 minifigs with the static legs and hands in their pockets would be ideal templates for this idea rather than standard minifigs!
Also agree that it will probably end up being smaller and with fewer minifigs.
I probably wouldn't buy it, but it seems like a neat idea nonetheless.
@ALSTDA :
And the term “soccer” came from the UK, _NOT_ the US, and so many people assume.
We call it Foosball so as to not conflate it with the form of unarmed combat that’s commonly referred to as football in the US.
Games in these can get pretty heated. I can see this breaking under pressure
In Germany, we call this kind of thing "Tischkicker". They are extremely popular as a group entertainment thing. Even companies, if they want to appear "hip" offer a Tischkicker at the office to keep the staff happy during breaks.
@ra226 said:
"My roommates and I had a table and believe me, it's a sport. Or at least can be as dangerous as a sport..."
Gotta watch out for those "gut punches" from a frustrated opponent.
I had given thought years ago to making a foosball table. I would say this likely would have been better than whatever I would have come up with.
And to people questioning if this is a sport, considering (at least here in the states) that e-sports a.k.a. video games is a thing...then yes, this is most definitely a sport.
In France we call those "Baby Foot" and given how wee this is gonna be it won't be a misnomer at all. I wonder how sturdy they're gonna make it if they plan on making it playable (I assume they do) because there's a reason they use steel rods instead of wooden dowels or something, games can be if not violent at least intense on the table itself
Quite an interesting concept, all depends on the final product and price and how sturdy it will actually be long term.
I had the 3409 : Championship Challenge set and sadly with the figs standing on the field long term, they lost most of their clutch/grip on regular studs :(
I think LEGO would probably scale this down, and focus on sturdyness instead of visuals.
The way those guys are hanging from the bars is kind of creepy.
I always thought foosball would be ideal for a Lego set. However, I much prefer Air Hockey, so I’ll be holding out until that set gets released.
I'm glad with this announcement, especially if it comes with 22 actual minifigs :D
I just wonder how the pitch will be sturdy enough, but I trust the designers will find a solution!
Some trivia regarding the name of the discipline: in Standard French it's called 'babyfoot' (which makes sense since it's a miniature version of football), but in French-speaking Belgium (Wallonia and Brussels) we also call it 'kicker'.
@TheBrickGuru24:
Then don’t lean on the table. As you grow older, and taller, and those “gut punches” drift further south, you’ll be more incentivized to stop interfering with your opponent’s sticks. Besides, that’s cheating. You usually only see it from two types of people. The first are those who are new to the game and haven’t learned to leave enough space. The second are those who can’t win and we’re just smart enough to figure out how to cheat, but not smart enough to really think it through all the way.
@jeanloup:
Well, foosball, like air hockey, is a game where you can often make up for lack of skill with an aggressive style of play. In air hockey, all you have to do is make sure the contact surfaces can hold up over time, but foosball tables have a more complicated design, which needs to be more durable. There aren’t many types of wood that could last even one game, but more than any concern that you’d need a steady supply of replacement rods, I think they’d be worried about people getting stabbed with broken shafts.
@blogzilly said:
"They will likely reduce:
1. Total players."
Why should they?
Just look at all the Chess sets they made over the years that had very decent RRPs, even though they contained far more elaborate minifigs (sometimes with lots of equipment) than would be needed here.