"The best choice to be honest": Fans vote to make Lego Yu-Gi-Oh Exodi…

The search for an official Lego Yu-Gi-Oh set is over, because the community has voted in a fan-made Exodia model to become a real kit. musojam.blog

Designed for the "It's time to Duel!" challenge, "The Heart of the Cards - Exodia" by Step_on_a_Brick beat four other contenders in a final fan vote to win the grand prize (as seen via the Lego Ideas announcement). That means it should theoretically be turned into an actual, real-life Lego Yu-Gi-Oh set you can buy.

Depicting franchise protagonist Yami Yugi summoning Exodia, it's a larger set with two massive brick-built figures. While these Lego versions are cool enough, the fact that Exodia is actually 'emerging' from the cards and going from 2D to 3D is a really clever effect. I can see why fans were so taken with it, as it's the kind of creativity normally reserved for the best Lego sets.

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"The best choice to be honest, in terms of brand representation it has the monster, the cards, and the main character," Neither-Simple1119 writes on a reddit thread discussing the set. "This will look absolutely incredible!"

There's plenty of agreement in the thread (albeit with some concern over price), and seeing as this Exodia model won the fan vote, I'd say it's a popular choice. However, not everyone is on board. In the same thread, there's some disappointment that it's not minifigure-scale and we aren't getting Blue Eyes Dragon instead. However, I guess that goes to show how much potential there is in a Lego Yu-Gi-Oh range. Maybe we can expect to see more in the future, considering how Lego seems to have the license to make toys based on Yu-Gi-Oh?

In the here and now, it's unclear when The Heart of the Cards - Exodia would hit shelves… but considering the turnaround for the new Lego Wallace & Gromit, which took just over a year to become an official set and will be available to buy from Lego this October 1, I think we can expect it around this toward the end of 2027.

This isn't the only nostalgic kit heading our way in the not-so-distant future; a Lego Downton Abbey set has been revealed with a stately 4,711 pieces and 13 minifigures.

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Dungeons & Dragons has had a rough handful of years. A new version of the Open Game Licence (OGL) leaked in 2023, portending doom for independent creators and giving Wizards of the Coast a licence to rug-pull any third-party creator it didn't like (among other such horrors). This began the long and arduous process of mending burned bridges and un-pissing everybody off, starting with an immediate walk-back.

Since then, there have been upsets, ones I've been plenty critical of myself. But in late 2025, D&D got a new head in Dan Ayoub, who is now in charge of the D&D franchise at Wizards of the Coast. And his words last August gave me hope—and continue to do so, given the refreshingly straightforward candor of them.

In an interview with Wargamer's Mollie Russell, Ayoub doesn't mince words: "Bluntly, we're recovering from a lot of missteps—very loud, very public missteps. And we're not going to fix it in one year. I can talk 'til the cows come home, but we've got to show more than tell, and that is going to take some time. I'm very conscious that it's going to take a lot of time to win back the trust to the extent that I would like.

"Having said that, I think we've started strongly, and a lot of these things are still happening behind the scenes." To Ayoub's credit, there've already been some solid signs of change. After bungling its weird 3D tabletop in Sigil, D&DBeyond has focused on its already-present 2D offerings and incrementally improved it considerably.

Rather than trying to muscle out third-party competition, Wizards has also been doing extensive partnered content with those same creators, which is genuinely lovely to see. It's not all roses, mind—Hasbro has been engaging in some nasty union busting behaviour. Which didn't take, as UWOTC-CWA was formed thereafter.

Still, overall, Ayoub does seem to genuinely be walking the walk, not just talking the talk: "Honestly, if I would give myself good grades on one thing in particular over the past year, I think it's been listening. We established the community council. I've personally spent a bunch of time talking to not just fans, but retailers and consumers."

Regarding the OGL itself, Ayoub states that: "D&D is about, for, and by the fans. That's the first fundamental point that we can never lose. I think, over the course of several years, we lost sight of what was important. We lost sight of who our audience was."

Ayoub admits that the OGL fiasco "was a rug pull, right? A lot of people and businesses were built up around a specific thing. Trust was given to the brand, and people rightly felt the rug was pulled from under them. In some cases, it's caused damage we are still trying to fix today. So I understand the hesitancy of 'okay, here's this new guy saying all these things'."

"My biggest takeaway as I step into this role is that trust takes a long time to build and a second to break. I'm keenly aware it's going to take me a long time to repair this, but my hope is people will give the benefit of the doubt as we continue to show that lessons have been learned. This is a new direction, a new voice, and a new spirit and energy behind D&D."

While the grotty old cynic in me is still tutting and shaking my fist at recent crossovers, I still feel more optimistic about the system's future than I have in a long time. For one, just having its current head speak so candidly is kind of jarring—let alone the actual enthusiastic collaboration with third-party sources. The future's looking brighter by the second. Or, as Ayoub puts it, talking about bringing in partners to help write core source books:

"What was rewarding for me was, when we laid out that we want to bring all these voices back, I was thrilled with the level of excitement from these partners. It was almost like this exhale of relief."

Apple TV's sensation Widow's Bay has broken an Emmys record to win the most awards for a comedy show in a single year.

The show picked up 14 wins at the Emmys, with eight won at the Creative Arts ceremony and another six coming during the ceremony on September 14. That means Widow's Bay beat The Studio's 13 Emmys to set the new record.

Altogether, Widow's Bay won awards for:

• Best Comedy Series
• Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Matthew Rhys
• Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Stephen Root
• Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Kate O'Flynn
• Guest Actress in a Comedy Series – Betty Gilpin
• Directing for a Comedy Series – Hiro Murai
• Writing for a Comedy Series – Katie Dippold
• Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series – Allison Jones, Emily Buntyn, Lisa Lobel, and Angela Peri
• Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) – Christian Sprenger
• Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) – David Fleming
• Outstanding Music Supervision – Toko Nagata
• Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour) – Steve Arnold, Peter Borck, and Jennifer Engel
• Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation – Matt Yocum, Sang Kim, Goeun Everett, Ryan Sullivan, Nate Underkuffler, Leslie Bloome, and Shaun Brennan
• Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation – Tim Hoogenakker, Larry Benjamin, Kevin Parker, Scott Michael Smith, Judah Getz, and Leslie Bloome

Widow's Bay follows Rhys's Tom Loftis, the mayor of the titular New England town who aims to boost its tourism – despite an ancient curse that plagues the area.

The show has been incredibly well-received, with legendary director Guillermo del Toro tweeting: "If I may - in my estimation - #WidowsBay may very well be the best streaming series in a long time… and hands down one of the most mesmerizing acts of narrative prestidigitation in Horror."

All episodes are streaming on Apple TV now, and Widow's Bay has also been renewed for season 2. For more, check out our guide to the best shows on Apple TV to fill out your watchlist.