LEGO Cuusoo Modular Western Town: Done.

It took time, unlike other projects which were able to quickly mobilize huge communities to reach 10.000 supporters. The project Modular Western Town enters its second phase, and LEGO will find itself in a big dilemma: accept the project by pretending to have had a choice or refuse it for obscure reasons and alienate Eurobricks and others, who must be recognize, make a little rain and shine in the small world of AFOLs.

Because it must be admitted, this western village is only a pretext for a balance of power between the manufacturer and a large part of the English-speaking AFOL community represented by various sites and blogs which took turns until the 'overdose to convince their members that it was necessary to save honor, to assert its cohesion and to put things in their place ...

Regarding the project itself, I don't feel anything. No feeling. This western village is well designed, it's a nice MOC, but from there to make a set, isolated moreover, without consistency of range ....
But LEGO does not have the means to reject the project of an entire community, a project which also meets all the moral criteria of the brand. 

So I have a vague aftertaste of covert blackmail, of exerted pressure, of claim and undoubtedly excessive community pride, all led by American AFOLs who seem to seek recognition from the manufacturer which they promote throughout. year with great complacency and submission.

LEGO will have the final say, but I don't see how the project could be rejected. After all, on this occasion, LEGO knows that the 10.000 supporters are almost all AFOLs capable of going to spend crazy sums to afford this trophy obtained through hard work.
As a sign of belonging to the gang which has succeeded in imposing its will on a manufacturer who cannot do without the American market.