I was today years old when I learned that Nespresso doesn’t ‘make’ their own coffee machines. The machines are all partnerships with different bands like Breville, DeLonghi, and in this case, Krups. This particular build pays tribute to a classic Nespresso machine, namely the Krups YY5291FD, put together in fairly accurate detail. Although slightly smaller than scale, this LEGO Ideas Nespresso machine is built to be as functional as it gets. That means it comes with a lever, a pod chamber, and even adorable LEGO Nespresso pods!
Built by LEGO builder CorporalSpikyCockroach (sounds like a LEGO-generated name if you ask me!), this build turns the act of making coffee into something even more fun. Sure, you don’t get caffeinated in the process, but you do come out of the experience feeling slightly more enriched and energized. The MOC (My Own Creation) doesn’t have an official brick count, but it’s surely in the 1000s if you ask me. Each coffee-maker even comes with a tiny espresso cup from which to relish your golden brew.
Designer: CorporalSpikyCockroach
For its compact size, the build is pretty detailed. It sports the machine itself, along with as many as 3 pods, a demitasse (espresso) cup with coffee inside, and other details like the water chamber at the back, a drip tray, and that lever that lets you lock and load your pods before brewing. Personally, even though this entire machine is merely a LEGO-based recreation, I wonder what it would be like to build an actual coffee maker out of LEGO. Something that uses LEGO bricks to crush pods and extract coffee – the logistics would be challenging (especially around the hot water, coffee, and the non-food-grade nature of the plastic LEGO bricks), but we’ve seen people build absolutely mindboggling real devices from LEGO… like .
“I built this model to combine two of my passions: quality coffee and creative building. Krups coffee machines represent a refined and elegant design that I thought would translate beautifully into LEGO form,” says MOC builder CorporalSpikyCockroach. “I wanted to challenge myself by recreating the curved surfaces and fine details using only bricks, and the result was both fun to build and visually satisfying.”
The LEGO Coffee Machine Nespresso Krups build is currently a fan-made submission on the LEGO Ideas website – an online forum where creators and mavericks build their own unique creations and share them with the global LEGO community. People vote for their favorite designs, and MOCs that hit the 10,000 vote mark are then sent to the LEGO internal team for review before being potentially turned into a box set. If you’d like to see this build witness a similar fate, head down to the and give it your vote!
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