Author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran (Page 15 of 33)

LEGO has announced the winners of the LEGO Ideas First 2019 Review Stage and there are actually three winners this time. Two of them were from this review stage and the other one was from the previous one. And their winners are:

The Pirate Bay

123 Sesame Street

Playable LEGO Piano

Congratulations to all the winner! Which one(s) are you looking forward to the most? Sound off below.

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LEGO has announced that they will be revealing the next LEGO Ideas set tomorrow morning. This announcement will be for the First 2019 Review Stage that ended in May. There were nine projects that qualifed for the Review Stage and they include:

National Museum – Rio de Janeiro
Anatomini
The Office – NBC
The Pirate Bay
Kakapo
SpaceX BFR / Starship & Super Heavy 1:110 Scale
Addams Family Mansion
123 Sesame Street
Machu Picchu

The announcement will be at 9am tomorrow but I’ll report on it a little later since I’ll be at work. Which project(s) do you think we’ll be getting as an official LEGO Ideas set?

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Last week LEGO announced some new updates to LEGO Ideas. Some of the updates are smaller quality of life ones like the product ideas statistics in which you can see how many supporters your project gets per day. Also projects now require you to add at least one tag to improve categorization and discoverability of the submission.

The main update is the Product Idea Submit Flow. As we know by now, lots of projects and ideas may be tied to a certain intellectual property and requires LEGO to go out and try to get a certain license to be able to produce the set. LEGO has changed how you are able to submit a project if it is based on a certain IP. Now when you try to submit a project, you are asked if it is based on an IP. If it is based on something, a dropdown menu will list if it is allowed or not. If it is not allowed, you won’t be able to proceed but if it is allowed, you can continue on to the next step. They have given a quick explanation of how they evaluate what IPs are good to use or not.

-Overlap with currently commercialised LEGO products (i.e. Star Wars, Ferrari, etc)
-Have already been commercialised through LEGO Ideas (i.e. Beatles Yellow Submarine, Voltron, etc)
-Don’t fit the LEGO Brand (i.e. Game of Thrones or Call of Duty, etc)
-Contain a known license conflict that prevent us from commercialising the IP (i.e. Monopoly, Transformers, etc)

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Earlier today, the LEGO Ideas Second 2019 Review qualifying period ended and that means there are 10 projects that have moved on to the review stage. Technically there were actually 12 projects that qualified but two of them were archived and were disqualified from moving on for reasons unknown to us. LEGO last month released a statement about that. The projects that do move on include:

-UCS Space Shuttle Atlantis by Snelson42
-Thunderbirds Are Go by AndrewClark2
-Pursuit of Flight by JKBrickworks
-History Museum by Bricky_Brick
-The Office by Lego The Office
-Medieval Blacksmith by Namirob
-Winnie the Pooh by benlouisa
-Nasa Spacecraft by Micro_Model_Maker
-The Haunted Mansion: 50th Anniversary by GoodOlPrice
-The Seven Dwarfs’ House by Hanwasyellowfirst

Which project(s) do think will be made into an official LEGO Ideas set?

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LEGO has kicked off a new Harley-Davidson building contest over on LEGO Ideas. All you have to do is to build what a future Harley-Davidson motorcycle could look like. The Grand Prize winner will get a plethora of prizes including:

-One 10269 LEGO Creator Expert Harley-Davidson
-One 10265 LEGO Creator Expert Ford Mustang
-One 10264 LEGO Creator Expert Corner Garage
-A $500 shopping spree on shop.LEGO.com
-A $1,000 Harley-Davidson shopping spree at an authorized -Harley-Davidson Dealership or on h-d.com/store where available
-A Harley-Davidson Originals Cardigan Sweater directly from the Harley-Davidson Museum® in Milwaukee

Two Runner Up winners will get:

-One 10269 LEGO Creator Expert Harley-Davidson
-One 10265 LEGO Creator Expert Ford Mustang
-A $250 shopping spree on shop.LEGO.com
-A $500 Harley-Davidson shopping spree at an authorized -Harley-Davidson Dealership or on h-d.com/store where available
-A Harley-Davidson Originals Cardigan Sweater directly from the Harley-Davidson Museum® in Milwaukee

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Earlier this week, I reported that two projects that reached the Second 2019 Review Stage have archived for unknown reasons. These two projects are Gravity Falls and Japanese Tea Garden. LEGO has released a statement on the LEGO Ambassador Network regarding this and they said,

Although questions haven’t directly come in via LAN, I can understand there are some questions about the recent archival of the two LEGO Ideas 10K Club submissions Japanese Tea Gardens and Gravity Falls Mystery Shack.

It’s incredibly rare that we make the decision to remove submissions that have achieved the 10,000 supporter milestone and to not allow them through to the review stage. Unfortunately, after a thorough evaluation we made the tough decision (because we can clearly see that both models are incredibly well built) that in these two cases we had to do this as the submissions did not comply with our Terms of Service. We couldn’t, in respect to the LEGO Ideas community, move the submissions into the review stage as well as award prizes, whether the main prize or the consolation prize, to the members in question.

Although we know that you’re all very interested in knowing the specific underlying reasons for why we decided to archive them, this is not information that I can share with you out of respect for the privacy of the members in question. Should the members in question choose to share the reason for the archival of their submissions, then they are welcome to do so.

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It’s another day and there’s another controversy has popped up over on LEGO Ideas. Yesterday while I was reporting on The Seven Dwarf’s House hitting 10,000 supporters, I along with some readers noticed that a couple of projects that previously also hit 10k were removed from the list and have been archived. These two sets include Gravity Falls Mystery Shack and Japanese Tea Garden. The official LEGO comments for both projects said:

Regretfully, we have chosen to archive your project and no longer consider it for production for reasons communicated to you privately. Your project will remain visible on LEGO Ideas, but in a status where it can no longer be supported or commented on. This way fans can still admire your creation.

We’re sorry to be the bearers of this disappointing news!

Unless I’m wrong, I believe this is the first time that I’ve seen projects that have achieved enough supporters and have been archived even before the review stage has started. I’m not too sure of the reasoning to not consider them for production since they seem to be normal looking models.

The most logical guess is that LEGO has already planned to release them in the future and to avoid people accusing them of “stealing” ideas, they archive it before even going into review however going this route may be a dead giveaway. I guess we’ll never truly know why unless the fan designers say something but they’re probably under NDA not to say anything about it. Put your tinfoil hats on … Continue