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Lego is going to make Canadian's wildly viral labyrinth game

A Lego master builder from Ottawa will see soon his tilting table-top maze game in stores around the world, the makers of the familiar interlocking bricks announced Thursday.
Jason Allemann's Lego labyrinth game features interchangeable mazes, such as this one featuring a medieval village and a dragon. (Jason Allemann/Lego Ideas)

A Lego masterbuilder from Ottawa will soon see histilting table-top mazegame in stores around the world, the toymaker announced Thursday.

Jason Allemann of Ottawa submitted theproject to the Lego Ideas website more than three years ago and the accompanying YouTubevideo has been watched more than two million times.

The project reached 10,000 votes last September, making it a candidate to be considered foran official Lego set.


TheLegoIdeas program has previously brought fan-designed setsto store shelves featuring theGhostbustersand their car, the Back to the Future time machine and a research institute featuring three female scientists.

Allemann'slabyrinth marble maze will be the thirteenth Lego Ideas set, but he's got a lot more ideas up his sleeve.

His Da Vinci-inspired flying machine can be hooked up to a motor to make the wings flap.


His latest project is a working scanner and printer in which aLegoelectronic eye scans a photo and a robotic mechanism builds a mosaic of the picture out of tiny tiles.


There are still a few bugs to work out on that project, though.