An interesting new partnership has been struck between LEGO and the DFB which will see the German National Football Team produced in a minifigure series.
To tie in with the upcoming Euro 2016 championships, 15 players and coach Joachim Low will be available priced at €2.99 from May 14 2016, but sadly only in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
This is a very interesting development. I have always been surprised at the lack of sports licensing that LEGO has managed, although they have had NBA and NHL in the past.
I collected all the Lego Football kits from the late 90s, and was gutted there were no more in production.
I did hear at some point late last year that there were plans to have a Premier League licensed range of minifigs, although haven’t heard of anything since.
Either way, this is a step in the right direction.
And here’s the press conference announcing the Lego players https://t.co/EedezPwM81
— brickstand (@brickstand) April 12, 2016
The list of Germany players available are:
- 1 Manuel Neuer
- 2 Shkodran Mustafi
- 4 Benedikt Höwedes
- 5 Mats Hummels
- 6 Sami Khedira
- 7 Bastian Schweinsteiger
- 8 Mesut Özil
- 9 André Schürrle
- 13 Thomas Müller
- 17 Jerome Boateng
- 18 Toni Kroos
- 19 Mario Götze
- 20 Christoph Kramer
- 21 Marco Reus
- 23 Max Kruse
- Bundestrainer Joachim Löw
Check out the official announcement (in German), and there is also some additional information at Jay’s Brick Blog.
