“The Simpsons” Gets A Lego Designed Episode

Briefly: With the success of all the Lego video games and the recent smash hit The Lego Movie crushing the box office, the team behind Fox’s The Simpsons are teaming up with the toy company to create an episode designed entirely by Lego.

Fox consumer products say that the episode will air on May 4. According to Retuers, The episode, entitled “Brick Like Me,” will see family patriarch Homer Simpson wake up in a Springfield where everyone and everything is made out of Legos, and he must figure his way out before he gets stuck in the plastic world forever.

The Lego company has already released a Simpsons House Lego set priced at $199.99, complete with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. According to reports there will also be more characters like Ned Flanders, Krusty the Clown, and others released in May.