Category: LEGO Ideas/CUUSOO (Page 228 of 282)

LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) Side-by-Side Look

January 22, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

As we know by now, the LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) will be on store shelves on February 1. I’ve already done a comparison post showing some of the differences between Jake Sadovich’s model against the official set which he received a few days ago and pictures speak louder than words. He has posted a side-by-side look over on the AFOLs of Facebook page and we can easily see the differences between the two. Jake has even stated that the official set is “more user friendly than the original” which is reassuring for those who are on the fence about getting it.

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Is a LEGO Star Wars UCS Cloud City Set Coming Soon?

January 22, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Earlier today, LEGO announced that no projects passed the LEGO Ideas Second 2017 Review Stage. LEGO gave a pretty thorough explanation of some of the criteria they look at to see if a project meets that requirement. One of the criteria listed was New (and confidential) products currently being developed internally. Hasan also talked about it a little more in the video below and at 2:20, he says something that’s censored out.

If a project, let’s call it “X,” is not approved in the review because it is too similar to a product that’s been developed internally, then naturually we wouldn’t be able to share that news with everyone that “X” has not been approved due to the giant (bleep) that’s coming out.

Hasan also says the censored words again at 2:29 as the camera zooms in a little. I don’t know about you but these are major hints at something that’s coming out soon. If you look at the projects that qualified for review, one of the projects is I Am Your Father which is the scene where Darth Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that he is his father. Now going back to the video, to me it appears that Hasan says either “Bespin City” or “Bespin set” and it has been rumored that there is a D2C set (75222) that is reported to be the UCS Cloud City. Given that the project scene is from Cloud City, I would say that it matches up nicely.

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LEGO Ideas Second 2017 Review Stage Winner Announced

January 22, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has just announced the latest winner of the LEGO Ideas Second 2017 Review Stage. There were six projects that qualified for the review and the winner is…nobody. I could be wrong but as far as I remember, this is the second time that no projects have passed a review stage with the first one being the First 2015 Review Stage. The review board takes into account various factors on whether or not a project passes including:

– Products currently available in stores
– New (and confidential) products currently being developed internally
– Licensing possibilities and conflicts
– Production capacity
– Build quality
– Feasibility
– Playability
– Expected demand
– Brand fit

You can read more about the explanations of each category in the link above. If you watch the video below of Hasan giving a brief explanation, you can see a hint of a future set that’s coming out that has been bleeped out at 2:20. If any mouth readers can tell what he said, let us know in the comments below.

The Third 2017 Review Stage is well underway and those results will be announced this summer. The projects that qualify for the review are included in the image below.

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LEGO Ideas Embraer A-29 Super Tucano Achieves 10,000 Supporters

January 19, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The Embraer A-29 Super Tucano (Smoke Squadron) by Alex Paschoaletto is the latest project to get 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The project wasn’t really on the top supported projects list until the beginning of the year when some high profile social media accounts picked it up including the Brazilian Air Force and Aviões e Músicas. As for the project itself, the build is the Brazilian Air Force’s Embraer A-29 Super Tucano and it has some features including a retractable landing gear, moveable rudder and flaps, as well as a removable canopy. The overall build consists of about 400 pieces and is 1:39 scale. It is the first project to reach the First 2018 Review Stage.

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LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) Signing Event

January 18, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

As with some of the recent LEGO Ideas sets that have been recently released, LEGO likes to hold signing events with the sets’ respective designer. LEGO has announced there will be an event that will be held for the upcoming Ship in a Bottle (21313) which will be held at the Fashion Place LEGO Brand Store at Murray, Utah on Saturday, January 27 at 10am-1pm MST. There, you’ll be able to meet Jacob Sadovich, who came up with the design on LEGO Ideas, as well as have your set signed by him as well. Plus, you’ll be getting the set a little early as it is scheduled to be released on February 1.

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Build Your LEGO Ideas Logo Contest Winners

January 12, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Way back in November, LEGO ran a building contest to create your own LEGO Ideas logo to celebrate 10 years of the launch of LEGO CUUSOO. There were more than 600 entries and the winners have been chosen. Some of the submissions, including those who didn’t win, will be used later this year to celebrate the event. There’s no word whether it will be in future sets or on the website. Check out the link above for the judges’ commentary on each of the winning choices.

Grand Prize Winner: Switch on the Ideas by L87R85

Runner Up Winners: A journey with Lego Ideas by Totomio

Creativity! by ExeSandbox

Bonus Prize Winners: Fantastic Ideas by Swan Dutchman

The Designer’s Journey by Micro_Mini

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Comparing LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) to Original Project

January 11, 2018 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Yesterday, LEGO announced the new LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle (21313) and today we take a look at some of the differences between the official set and the project that was proposed. The original project by Jake Sadovich had about 1,800 pieces with the whole bottle being 15 1/2″ long, 9″ tall, and 7″ wide. The set that is coming out in February is quite smaller with the dimensions of the bottle on the stand being 3″ tall, 12″ wide, and 3″ deep.

The piece count comes in at 962 pieces which is about half of what the project consisted of. Keep in mind that there are over 280 trans-light blue studs used for the water so there are around 682 actual pieces used for the ship and the bottle.

The Leviathan itself is much smaller and does not include any rigging like the original Leviathan had. It looks okay but it doesn’t have the beauty that the submitted one had. I’m sure fans already have plans to modify or change out the ship when the set is released.

The bottle, however, looks better than the original one. The bottle neck and the cork looks great and it wax seal gives it more detailing. I feel the bottle itself look more structually sound using some larger window pieces instead of the 1x4x3 window pieces.

The stand looks similar but the official one has more of a classy and refined look to it. The compass in the middle as more to the depth of the stand … Continue