Thousands of Mel Brooks Fans Are Demanding a ‘Spaceballs’ LEGO Set

The original Spaceballs jokingly promised to release a Star Wars-esque avalanche of useless tie-in products — from lunchboxes, to coloring books, to flamethrowers. But in reality, there was no Spaceballs merchandise — except for that one novelization by future Goosebumps author R.L. Stine — all due to a deal Mel Brooks struck with George Lucas.

Yeah, apparently Lucas didn’t care if people dunked on his artistic achievements, just as long as they didn’t hone in on his overpriced plastic crap racket. 

But just last year, Brooks suggested that he might go ahead and start making Spaceballs toys anyways. “To this day, I haven’t (broken the Lucas deal),” Brooks stated at the 2024 TCM Film Festival. “But in case there’s another Spaceballs, who knows? I think that’s an old contract, you know?”

Of course, we now know that there is another Spaceballs movie in the works. And a not insignificant number of fans have been clamoring for a very specific type of Spaceballs toy: a LEGO set that would allow children middle-aged folks with expendable cash to build Lone Starr and Barf’s flying Winnebago, the Eagle 5.

As we’ve mentioned before, the LEGO Ideas website allows the public to submit designs for potential sets. Visitors can then vote on which ones they’d like to see go into production. Any set that receives 10,000 votes is automatically “considered for production as a real-life LEGO set” with the creators receiving 1 percent of the product’s net sales if it’s approved. Some past successful designs include the Home Alone house, the Beatles Yellow Submarine and the Back to the Future DeLorean, which sadly didn’t come with tiny LEGO cocaine bricks.

Earlier this year, user BrickStability submitted a proposal for a LEGO Eagle 5, complete with minifigures of the two pilots, plus Princess Vespa, Dot Matrix, Dark Helmet and Yogurt. The design looks like a lot of fun, even though Yogurt appears as though he is preparing to feast on the blood of the innocent.

The set has already received nearly 3,500 votes. But, unfortunately, LEGO has a long history of shooting down Spaceballs sets. Back in 2016, an Eagle 5 proposal secured 10,000 votes, but it didn’t pass LEGO’s review. Then, in 2020 and 2021, new Eagle 5 designs similarly got the necessary votes, but ultimately died in the review process. 

LEGO doesn’t specify why projects don’t pass their reviews, listing several possible reasons for rejection, ranging from “brand fit” to “licensing possibilities” to “expected demand.”

Although, given LEGO’s long history of making Star Wars toys, it’s possible that they simply want Brooks to honor his terrible deal with Lucas.