Art Featured In The LEGO Instruction Manual

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How can someone get their art featured in the LEGO® Instruction Manual? It sounds impossible with all the thousands of submissions they must get, right? Well I am proud to say it happened to my daughter, Marissa. Here are the details…

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This article was written May 2018, updated November 2018 and August 2019

Marissa is a member of Lego Message Boards Eternal, which is a fan run site. She posted a story along with a drawing (a cover photo she made of her original character, Zephyr) on the NINJAGO® Gallery on the official LEGO® site.  When you sign up to be on the Gallery, you give Lego permission to use posted items for promotion of their products. She was perfectly okay with that. She says this story is still a work in progress, but it is on the Lego Message Boards Eternal (Under the Ninjago section in the Ninjago Stories sub-forum) without the drawing.

Her cover photo was originally a mixed media drawing made of colored pencil and ink drawn on white sketch paper. She then took a photo of the picture she drew and edited it and then posted it as the cover for her story.  This story is also posted on Wattpad, a site for reading and posting stories with a different cover photo.

Marissa received a message from a message board friend. He was just opening up one of the newest LEGO® NINJAGO® Sons of Garmadon boxed sets and was looking in the instruction manual, when he recognized Marissa’s artwork in the manual. He scanned the photos below and messaged her (through the Lego Message Boards Eternal) to tell her about it.  That is how she found out!