Zelda: Ocarina Of Time – the leaked set will let you build the Great Deku Tree from either Ocarina Of Time or Breath Of The Wild (Picture: Nintendo)



YouTube videos covering a leaked Lego Zelda set are apparently at risk of being struck down for containing confidential information.



Towards the end of 2022, it was discovered that Lego wasn’t accepting fan submissions for sets based on The Legend Of Zelda anymore, sparking theories that this meant it was now working with Nintendo on officially licenced sets.



Those suspicions appeared to be confirmed when images of a Lego set based on the Great Deku Tree (a recurring character in the Zelda series) popped up online earlier this month.



While the Lego company itself hasn’t officially announced anything, it does appear to have confirmed the set’s existence by filing a copyright claim against a YouTube video covering the leak.



This is according to YouTuber NintendoPrime, who shared on Twitter a notice they received about their video being removed due to a copyright takedown request.



Said notice states that it was indeed Lego A/S aka The Lego Group that issued the copyright strike and that it was for including a ‘confidential unreleased novelty,’ obviously referring to the aforementioned Lego set.




Hey @ZeldaUniverse and anyone else who covered the The Great Deku Tree lego set – take down your videos ASAP. LEGO ain’t messing around, even though we aren’t the sources. Also: By doing this, they just CONFIRMED IT’S REAL. So there you have it. pic.twitter.com/kBa6dAGpko — Nintendo Prime (@NintyPrime) February 18, 2023




The irony is that in trying to clamp down on the leak, Lego is only legitimising it. After all, it wouldn’t issue a copyright strike if the images were fake.



We’ve seen this exact sort of thing before with other such leaks. Just last year, a report that leaked details on Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima’s next game was temporarily taken down at Kojima’s request , which just confirmed that everything the report contained was accurate.



The next question is when Lego intends on releasing the set. It would make sense to time its release alongside May’s The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom since that’s the next major Zelda game.



Plus, the leaked set is said to be a two-in-one design that lets you build either the Deku Tree from Zelda: Ocarina Of Time or the one from Zelda: Breath Of The Wild , the latter of which being Tears Of The Kingdom’s predecessor.



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However, there’s no guarantee that it’ll be out this year. The leaked design may not even be finalised, so the set could look completely different when Lego officially announces it.



Coincidentally, this comes around the same time as another Zelda related leak. Over the weekend, someone was able to get their hands on an artbook for Tears Of The Kingdom and has shared a lot of unseen concept art .



Lego has been receiving fan pitches like this one for Zelda sets for ages (Picture: Lego)



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