LEGO Cuusoo: The Sandcrawler hits the mark ...

Brief visit this morning on Cuusoo to verify that marshal_banana's Sandcrawler is still doing just as well and should quickly reach the 10.000 supporters required to hope to move on to stage 2: the review by the LEGO staff.

The LEGO team's comments on this project speak for themselves: ''... As you can see from our Exclusive line, we're always open for a new challenge to produce big models ...'' or ''... Though we'd love to have one of these things to drive around the office, we'll wait to produce a concept model during the Review process ... '' which is to say in summary that they love, that LEGO loves to produce UCS, but that if the project goes into phase 2, the designers will come up with a model adapted from this MOC of more than 20kg and which brings together more than 10.000 bricks, with undoubtedly a little less parts ...

Obviously, one would have to be naive to believe that this project could end at Toys R Us as it is. I don't even dare to imagine the retail price of the thing, let alone the motorization and lighting functions integrated by marshal_banana ... but I'm curious to see how the LEGO team will approach this project and what they will do. be the conclusions of the review phase. This is a device from the Star Wars universe, and the LEGO Star Wars range being the most popular from the manufacturer, this Sandcrawler should have the chance to be considered with at least some benevolence.

For the rest, I do not feel any enthusiasm in front of the projects of the type Portal 2, Zelda and Company. These projects are not representative of the wishes of the LEGO community. They were worn, as was the case for the set Minecraft, by communities of fans, some of whom have probably never touched a single brick, just because the buzz generated had a snowball effect. Buzz who fell back as dry as soon as each of these projects reached the threshold of 10.000 supporters, which means that very long months will pass before LEGO gives its opinion. And in the meantime, the fans move on.

I'm like most of you, I love cinema and video games, I'm nostalgic for some good movies or games that kept me busy for many hours in my youth, but I'm not a hysterical fan who dreams of seeing everything that mattered in his life converted into LEGO bricks ...

By the way, one question, who among you bought the Minecraft set?