LEGO have just announced a new Fender Stratocaster brick set, the first of a new music-themed series of releases aimed more towards their adult enthusiasts. The guitar set is based on a fan-submitted design by user TOMOELL for this year’s LEGO Ideas ‘Music To Our Ears’ contest.
LEGO Ideas Design Manager, Sam Johnson told Brick Fanatics: “Everyone has seen the Fender Stratocaster guitar, it’s super famous and we think it’s going to be exciting to bring this to life using LEGO bricks. Music is a relatively new place for LEGO to play in so we’re really excited to see how we can execute this.”
The Fender Stratocaster, often just called a “Strat” – designed by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares – was first released in 1954 and remains one of the the most popular guitars among players to this present day, thanks to its double-cutaway and extended top "horn" shape for balance. Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Holly are just a handful of the many guitar heroes to have wielded the classic axe over the years.
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The Fender Stratocaster brick set does not have an official release date just yet, but according to Brick Fanatics, “will be adapted by a LEGO designer and released” sometime in 2021.
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