LEGO’s debut into the music world (Not counting any incredible difficult to get out of your head movie soundtrack) is set to expand with the announcement that LEGO Vidiyo is getting a fresh wave of sets this summer.
Today, the LEGO Group and Universal Music Group (UMG) unveiled eight exciting new products for LEGO VIDIYO, including two Beatboxes, twelve Bandmates, and five unique Stage Models. Integrating with the LEGO Vidiyo app, these new products bring more play by increasing variety with new musical genres, special effects, and stage settings to serve as new fun backgrounds for their music videos.
Taking a page out of the Super Mario theme and integrating more technology into LEGO, VIDIYO launched in January 2021 as a video maker experience designed to help children unleash their creativity, an AR enabled play theme that allows children to dream big by directing, producing and sharing their own music videos, using tracks from UMG’s unrivalled artists across the globe.
Speaking about these sets, LEGO Design Manager Ross Christopher Haynes says:
“We’re thrilled to be unveiling these fantastic stage models as part of the LEGO VIDIYO line-up because they demonstrate the harmony between physical LEGO building and digital play. Not only are they fun to build and play with, with the minifigure band members, but they also serve as ideal backgrounds to add extra flair to kids’ videos!”
With this second wave, fans are introduced to two new Beatboxes, Metal Dragon and Folk Fairy, each of which contains a minifigure representing the musical genre, a scanning-stage, two special BeatBits (which are unique to the specific BeatBox) and 14 randomly-assigned BeatBits.
Also joining the line-up are twelve new Bandmates, each of which comes with one unique BeatBit as well as two randomly selected BeatBits.
With the addition of these Stage Models, BeatBoxes and Bandmates there are now 134 unique BeatBit effects that kids can add to their collection in order to make the most epic music videos they can imagine and dream up.
Here’s a full run down of what’s coming out:
43108 Bandmates
Each Bandmate has a distinct personality and comes with 3 BeatBits. Kids can scan the BeatBits in the app to unlock effects, sounds and more as they direct their music video. This line-up introduces: Zombie Dancer; DJ Beatbox; Slime Singer; DJ Captain; Alien Dancer; Karaoke Mermaid; Dragon Guitarist; Vampire Bassist; Puppy Singer; DJ Rasp-Beary; Discowgirl Guitarist; Carnival Dancer.
43109 Metal Dragon BeatBox
Includes a dragon singer minifigure, 14 random BeatBits and 2 special BeatBits (Monster Organ sound and burning Lava effects). The BeatBox is portable for fun on the move and can be decorated using the LEGO pieces. Styles include a castle, dragon head and microphone – or any design of own choice! Special effect BeatBits like the rock opera sound effect and exciting fire visuals come alive once scaneed in the app, just like in a real heavy metal concert. Measures over 8 cm high, 7 cm long and 11 cm wide.
43110 Folk Fairy BeatBox
Includes a fairy minifigure, 14 random BeatBits and 2 special BeatBits (a magic spell Beatbit effect that transforms bandmates into random objects and magic forest scene BeatBit). The BeatBox is portable for fun on the move and can be decorated using the LEGO pieces. Styles include fairy wings, a flower, or violin design – or any design of own choice! Special effect BeatBits include a magic spell which changes items into random objects and a fantasy world effect to make a magic forest appear in the scene. Measures over 8 cm high, 7 cm long and 9 cm wide.
43111 Candy Castle Stage
Includes 2 minifigures Candy Ballerina and Blue-beary Guitarist with accessories, 14 random BeatBits and 2 special BeatBits (carousel horses and top hat & cane dance). Make changes to the real-life LEGO model to change the scenery in your VIDIYO music videos – like switching the heads to create a digital ice cream forest or chocolate canyon background. Measures over 13 cm high, 14 cm long and 17 cm wide.
43112 Robo HipHop Car
Includes 2 minifigures Sing Bot and Bass Bot with accessories, 14 random BeatBits and 2 special BeatBits (robot sounds and graffiti artwork). Make changes to the real-life LEGO model to change the scenery in your VIDIYO music videos – like switching the heads to create a digital high-tech garage or graffiti car park background. Measures over 8 cm high, 18 cm long and 12 cm wide.
43113 K-Pawp Concert
Includes 3 minifigures Bunny Guitarist, Kitten Keytaris and Flying Unicorn Singer with musical accessories, 14 random BeatBits and 3 special BeatBits (matching costumes, black and pink filter and K-Pop dance poses). Make changes to the real-life LEGO model to change the scenery in your VIDIYO music videos – like switching the unicorn head for a cat head to see the video backgrounds change. Measures over 13 cm high, 14 cm long and 30 cm wide.
43114 Punk Pirate Ship
3 minifigures Squid Drummer, Shark Guitarist and Mermaid Violinist with musical accessories, 14 random BeatBits and 3 special BeatBits (surf on a shark, cannon salute and pirate dancing). Make changes to the real-life LEGO model to change the scenery in your VIDIYO music videos – like swapping the skull head for a shark head or changing the treasure chest speakers to cannons. measures Measures over 19 cm high, 24 cm long and 18 cm wide.
43115 The Boombox
Includes 4 minifigures Alien Singer, Leopard Guitarist, Fairy Singer and Vampire Guitarist with musical accessories, 14 random BeatBits and 4 special BeatBits (motorbike, magical fire, neon paint costume and synthwave style music). Make changes to the real-life LEGO model to change the scenery in your VIDIYO music videos with a choice of 4 different heads, speakers and lights, each inspired by a different music genre. The life-size Boombox model transforms into the biggest VIDIYO stage, measuring over 16 cm high, 23 cm long and 35 cm wide.
For more information on the new sets head to the Official LEGO VIDIYO page.
