LEGO Reveals Nike Air Force 1 Set With a New Version of the Classic Spaceman Minifigure

LEGO has revealed a caller acceptable based connected Nike’s iconic Air Force 1 sneaker.

The acceptable contains 1,093 pieces and volition beryllium released connected September 1. Preorders volition not beryllium available, but LEGO has already confirmed the acceptable volition beryllium priced astatine $99.99, equating to conscionable nether 10 cents per brick. Several images of the acceptable are present disposable connected LEGO's website and tin besides beryllium seen below.

This whitethorn travel arsenic somewhat of a surprise, but this is acold from the archetypal clip LEGO has collaborated with the athletics giant. This is, however, the archetypal LEGO acceptable based connected what I see 1 of the champion acceptable of sneakers successful the game.

Like erstwhile Nike sets, LEGO isn’t conscionable giving you a achromatic footwear to build. Instead, the Air Force acceptable is simply a full ‘scene,’ which has the sneaker taking disconnected similar a rocket. A existent winning constituent for maine is the minifigure, a caller instrumentality connected the Classic Spaceman who you tin airs to sprout hoops connected apical of the AF1 logo.

A Nike-themed mentation of a classical minifigure.

The sneaker itself seems to beryllium based connected the low-top variant of the AF1. While that is 100% what I person successful my closet close now, I bash deliberation it could person had a spot much property if LEGO tried to seizure the strap you get with the mid oregon high-top versions. Of course, it shouldn’t beryllium immoderate astonishment that the institution went with the basal achromatic colour scheme, but it looks similar you tin swap retired the Nike swoop to beryllium either grey (like the archetypal colorway from 1982) oregon orange.

Display implicit play?

Whether you telephone them sneakers, trainers, runners, oregon thing other I astir apt won’t hold with, Nike’s a classic. I bought my archetypal brace of Air Forces backmost successful mediate school, and alternatively of increasing retired of them, I’ve ended up conscionable buying the aforesaid brace each mates of years. Yes, I cognize determination are ways to instrumentality attraction of them, but these are genuinely my everything shoes, truthful I deterioration them until the heels are a genuine danger.

Whether this acceptable captures the Air Force magic, oregon whether I would person ever asked for the sneaker successful LEGO form? Those are antithetic questions.

This acceptable decidedly seems portion of a continued inclination toward show implicit play, but that conscionable mightiness beryllium the inclination among sets I’m paying attraction to. The institution is seemingly trying to marque sets for virtually each procreation and fandom, truthful I don’t deliberation 1 much sneaker country is going to instrumentality distant from monolithic architecture builds oregon much interactive sets for kids.

Blythe (she/her) is an Audience Development Coordinator astatine IGN who spends mode excessively overmuch clip successful quality customization screens and tracking down collectibles.