LEGO Cuusoo: The Moment of Truth

It's certain the team blog who manages the Cuusoo project that the announcement has been made: The result of the review phase which began on June 4, 2012 will be communicated on December 20 in the form of a video message.

This interminable second phase concerning the 4 projects which reached 10.000 supporters in mid-2012 is finally reaching its goal and LEGO will have to take a stand at the risk of putting all the credibility already largely eroded of this initiative at stake.

In the running: The Modular Western Town, a project widely supported by the AFOL community, the Delorean from Back to the Future, The Legend of Zelda and Eve Online Rifter.

My prognosis? Everything goes by the wayside. Zelda and the Delorean for licensing issues, the Rifter because nobody cares and the Modular Western Town because The Lone Ranger.

LEGO will in all cases provide a valid excuse to justify the rejection of these projects, even if it means promising a subsequent realization which will never happen.

On the other hand, rejecting everything would mean that Cuusoo is a vacuum incubator and I don't see LEGO taking that risk. So if I had to save just one, I'd say the Modular Western Town is still the most likely to end up as a 250-piece System set in the LEGO Shop.

It's just an opinion, I'm waiting for yours in the comments.

PS: For those who are interested, the 21102 Minecraft set is back in stock in the LEGO Shop (34.99 €).