Lego Downtown Abbey set means there’s now a minifigure of Dame Maggie Smith

That’s the Lego one on the left (Credits: Mike Buck/Lego)

One of the grandest Lego sets ever has been unveiled, with a recreation of Downton Abbey that features no less than 13 minifigures, from Lord Grantham to Mr Carson.

You can get Lego sets based on just about anything nowadays but most of the really unexpected ideas come from the Ideas line, where fans design their own models and then after a lengthy voting process Lego decides which ones can be made into an actual product – that the original creator gets a small cut of the profits from.

That’s resulted in everything from sets based on Jaws to

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