The brick-building community is clamoring for instructions after a fan put together a custom Lego Final Fantasy 7 Midgar model.
Designed by hachiroku24, "Midgar, City of Mako" is inspired by the first few hours of the 1997 PlayStation game. It's already gathering a lot of support on Lego Ideas, a platform for community-submitted designs that may actually become real models if they get enough votes. Indeed, the Lego Final Fantasy 7 design has earned 1,009 votes already after just a few days, and the consistent feedback I'm seeing on the likes of reddit is "how do I make this myself?"
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If you want to make your own creations, you can either modify existing Lego sets or use boxes of bricks (usually available at a discount via Amazon) and Lego's official Pick A Brick service that lets you find exactly what you need.
Based on city sectors 5, 6, and 7, the model comes in two sections; it depicts the upper platforms used by employees of the villainous Shinra Electric Company, along with the slums underneath that house a rebellion against them. Like all the best Lego sets, there's been plenty of room for references – hachiroku24 notes that they "built the park where Cloud and Aerith have a moment together when going back to sector 7," alongside the chocobo carriage they find while on their way to the Wall Market (which is also present, if you look close enough).
That's not all, obviously; hachiroku24 managed to squeeze in plenty more fan-pleasing moments. In the top part of the build their "favorite part of this project: Midgar Expressway (that I built using a forced perspective technique, first doing that) and Cloud Strife, the main character of Final Fantasy VII riding the Daytona motorbike."
In terms of the minifigures that are featured here, there's Sephiroth (looming over the entire set), Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barret, a Shinra officer, Yuffie, Wedge, Biggs, Jessie, and Chocobo Sam.
While there's no guarantee that this will be made into a real set even if it garners enough public support (any design that wins enough support goes into a shortlist judged by Lego), we've got plenty of great designs out of the program before now. The Lego Tintin set that fans agreed was an instant buy came from Ideas, for example, as did the brilliant Nightmare Before Christmas kit that I'm still obsessed with. In other words, there's a chance we may get an official Lego Final Fantasy 7 model if the stars align.
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