The Legend Of Zelda Might Finally Be Getting Its First Lego Set This Year

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Nintendo and Lego continue to enjoy huge amounts of success together through their Super Mario Lego sets, and in March that world will expand via the release of the first waves of Animal Crossing sets. Animal Crossing being the first Nintendo series to get the Lego treatment after Mario makes sense considering New Horizons' massive sales numbers. It has felt like there must be a Zelda set or two coming though, and four years after the first rumors surfaced, 2024 might finally be the year that happens.

Almost a year ago, it was rumored that The Legend of Zelda's first Lego set would be The Great Deku Tree, complete with proper Minifgures which would be a first for Nintendo if true. 12 months later, it still seems as if a Great Deku Tree set is the way Lego and Nintendo are going with it. Lego aficionados 1414falconfan and brickmerge (thanks, VGC) have shared details about the set, including a potential release window.

According to the new details, Zelda's Deku Tree set will be 2,500 pieces - so pretty big for a Nintendo set - and be released in September 2024. No other new information has been shared, but if the set has remained the same since the leak in 2023, the Deku tree will be a two-in-one set with Zelda fans able to build the tree as it appears in Breath of the Wild and Ocarina of Time. It will also include Link Minifigures from both games. Again, only if both leaks are accurate and nothing has been changed since the last we heard about the set.

The Nintendo Lego slate is currently pretty bare after the Animal Crossing sets hit the official store on March 1, 2024, so it would make a lot of sense for a new, pretty significant series to enter the fray later this year. Some have connected the Deku Tree's potential release window and the rumored arrival of the Switch's successor. There's a very slim chance there's a connection there, but Mario sets haven't tended to line up with video game releases, nor is it likely a new Zelda game will launch with the next