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This Creative Tool Fan Is Trying To Get LEGO Of The Band Made

Check out this incredible Tool LEGO set, complete with all four members, a stage and instruments.

This Creative Tool Fan Is Trying To Get LEGO Of The Band Made

It's no secret that we all had to wait a really bloody long time for the new Tool album, Fear Inoculum. But you know what might have helped passed the time during those 13 years? If we had a LEGO set of the band to play with.

Through LEGO Ideas – an initiative to "share your cool creations and creativity, enter prize competitions, showcase your proposals for new LEGO Ideas sets and vote for awesome models dreamt up by your fellow fan designers" – one very creative fan has uploaded a pitch for a Tool LEGO set, with a customised stage set-up featuring Danny Carey, Adam Jones, Maynard James Keenan and Justin Chancellor. There's some incredible attention to detail in regards to Danny's drums in particular.

Read what the creator, blocksandmocs, has to say about it:

"Ready to rock'n'roll?

"This project is a tribute to the legendary rock band Tool. I was inspired from the recent fulfilment of a long anticipation, 18 years off wait that Tool will release a new album. Tool have accompanied me throughout my life, as a meaningful and integral part in the soundtrack of my life, to this day and on.

"I think a series of a musical stages and artists would appeal to many lego fans. It would be a unique way to connect and show the musical influences you may have, your favourite rock bands, even a good show you watched or wish to visit. Music is a fundamental element of life, it accompanies us In so many different ways. The possibility of integrating music with lego is fantastic! Upgrading the interactive and displayable features of Lego.

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"When I published these models on social media it achieved high interest and request to purchase. I was gladly surprised to find out that even among music fans which are not a regular lego buyers the interest was high. I believe that a series of this kind would enlarge lego kits buyer due to versatility and collectable qualities of this sets."

With 480 days left of the campaign there's almost 2,000 supporters so far, so head on over to this link to show your love for this brilliant Tool LEGO set.

Catch the real, non-plastic Tool live at the following dates this year:

February

14 Perth, AUS, RAC Arena
17 Sydney, AUS, Qudos Bank Arena
20 Brisbane, AUS, Entertainment Centre
22 Melbourne, AUS, Rod Laver Arena
28 Auckland, NZ, Spark Arena

March

9 Spokane, WA Spokane Arena
11 Portland, OR Moda Center
12 Eugene, OR Matthew Knight Center
14 Boise, ID Ford Idaho Center Arena

June

12 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Festival 2020

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