Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar Gets First Lego Set Featuring the Ranger

The Lego Ideas Team has announced that a popular fan design based on Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar will become an official Lego set.

The design depicts the scene in which Coop, played by Matthew McConaughey, and Dr. Amelia Brand, played by Anne Hathaway, visit Miller’s planet in their Ranger spacecraft. The robot TARS also appears. Lego has not confirmed the price, release date or final build.

The set is the latest to be approved through the Lego Ideas program. Fan Designers can submit prototype builds for new products, including designs based on intellectual property that Lego may not currently have a contract for. Recent examples include a Godzilla set and a Daft Punk homage. Each submission has a set amount of time to reach a supporter threshold before it can move to the next phase.

After the Interstellar design reached 10,000 supporters, it entered a review process. A board of designers and product managers reviewed the design, created prototypes and assessed whether the concept “meets our high standards for what it takes to be a Lego product.” The assessment “includes factors such as playability, safety, and fit with the Lego brand.”

Minibrick41587 first submitted the Interstellar design on Dec. 11, 2024. It entered review in May 2026. The Lego Ideas Team also announced approval for two other fan designs: Tulip Field Windmill and Chinese Cork Carving Art.

Interstellar’s growing reputation

The Lego set arrives more than 12 years after Interstellar reached theaters, and the film’s reputation has grown over time. Critics were divided on its release, praising the scale of its science-fiction vision while criticizing its narrative as emotionally empty.

The film may also have benefited from the glowing response to Nolan’s last two movies, Oppenheimer and The Odyssey, which arguably rank among his best work. Oppenheimer won Nolan his first Best Picture and Best Director Oscars, while The Odyssey is an early frontrunner for the next Academy Awards.

Source: Polygon