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This is what the set that LEGO will launch of the Fender Stratocaster looks like!

Oh yeah, LEGO did it again. As much as we want to save our fortnight or manage it wisely, the Danish toy company always knows how to get many people around the world to spend what they have on one of its spectacular sets. And we don't blame them, because they almost always blow the whistle with the news that it brings to all of us and unfortunately for our wallets this is not the exception.

As you may remember, every year the Swedish company launches a call for anyone who has ideas inspired by its popular building blocks in mind. Despite how chaotic 2020 was, it did not prevent them from doing the contest last year and the winner was the one who was inspired by one of the most popular instruments in music history to take the other participants out on the street.

Jimi Hendrix playing his iconic white Fender Stratocaster/ Photo: Getty Images

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The Fender Stratocaster will now arrive in a LEGO version

If we ask them to imagine a guitar, iconic models will surely come to mind. But perhaps your first choice is a Fender Stratocaster, the legendary lyre that has been used by true legends like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Ritchie Blackmore, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more. But now and if you are not a musician, you can have one of these jewels thanks to the fact that it will have its LEGO version.

It turns out that the winner of the contest, called TOMOELL, took this instrument as a reference and, using blocks, recreated all the parts of the guitar. Yes, from the body, the pickups, the neck, the frets, the headstock, the bridge (with everything and the tremolo lever) and even the strings, all made with the bricks that we once used as children to play and the The result is spectacular, since he sent several proposals in different colors and to complete the kit he also made an amplifier.

This is what the Fender Stratocaster set that the contest winner sent in looked like/ Photo: LEGO

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We already have the prices and release date for this guitar!

LEGO Ideas Design Director Sam Johnson said they were excited to release something about this guitar: “Everyone has seen the Fender Stratocaster guitar, it's super famous and we think it's going to be exciting to bring it to life with the bricks. from LEGO. Music is a relatively new place for LEGO to play, so we're really excited to see how we can do this."

As if this were not enough to break the pig and buy this wonder, in addition to the Stratocaster that you will have the chance to assemble in red or black and that has six strings, mobile tuning pegs, pickup selector and tremolo bar , the set includes a Fender mini amp – which you can build complete with tubes, speaker, reverb unit and even a pedal – a baldric, a base to rest it on and rubber cords to connect to the lyre.

Photo: LEGO

Photo: LEGO

The Stratocaster comes with everything and an amplifier/Photo: LEGO

After a long wait – almost a year to be exact – we finally have the prices and the release date of this little gem that every music lover will want to have in their collection. The collaboration of LEGO and Fender will be available from next October 1 and you can buy it through the official website of the toy company (HERE you can fix the set) and it will cost 2 thousand 399 Mexican pesos. So now you know, if you're a fan of the Stratocaster and the guitar company, this is for you.

Photo: LEGO

It even includes a whammy bar and the whole thing/Photo: LEGO

Photo: LEGO

Of course, this Stratocaster could not miss a Fender baldric/Photo: LEGO