The first visuals of the set 21110 Research Institute in final version were unveiled by its creator who offers in passing a review of the LEGO version of his lego ideas project.

I won't go back over what I think of this box, I'll let you make up your own mind on the subject.

As for the content, nothing very spectacular, the final set is very close to the initial project.

MOCeurs will undoubtedly find their happiness in the inventory of this box.

Marketing planned for August 2014 with a price around $ 20.

Things are also clear for the other LEGO Ideas set this summer, the 21109 Exo Suit box, with an event organized in the presence of the project designer (Peter Reid) scheduled for July 26 in a LEGO Store in Great Britain (see Store Calendar UK).

(via Alatariel's Atelier)

Here are two really interesting videos which show on one side the Australian Brent Waller, creator of the Cuusoo Ghostbusters project, and Marcos Bessa, designer at LEGO who took over the initial project to adapt it to the codes and constraints of the brand. before being marketed as a set 21108 Ghostbusters.

The exchange between the two speakers, a talented MOCeur and a designer who has largely proven himself at LEGO, allows us to obtain some detailed information on the work of the designers in charge of adapting a Cuusoo / Ideas project. .

The conversation is in English, but it is easy to follow thanks to the many elements that Marcos Bessa presents to support his point.

The first part below focuses on Marcos Bessa's answers to Brent Waller's questions.

The second video sees the roles reversed: Brent Waller responds to Marcos Bessa.

http://youtu.be/q7c9nEe5srg

This is a project that I told you about on the blog before and it deserves a new spotlight even if I don't give a lot of his skin in the next step: Scott Peterson was finally able to put together, after more than 2 years, 10.000 supporters around of his project Lightsaber Shafts at LEGO Ideas.

I am not, however, fooled by what the future risks of this idea that I have always found very original because it has the merit of leaving the usual triangle of proposals made by fans around the Star Wars license: Vaisseaux already seen and reviewed - improbable buildings or dioramas - oversized MOCs for wealthy AFOLs - which we have become accustomed to on Cuusoo now LEGO Ideas.

The concept is very simple, but you had to think about it and materialize it. Star Wars is full of lightsabers with aesthetically very successful sleeves and it is time for LEGO to follow in the footsteps of other manufacturers of derivative products and offer us a few sets paying homage to this iconic weapon, a link that links all existing and future Star Wars content.

We'll see what LEGO decides, or what excuse based on the new rules in force will be put forward to reject this idea, but I confess that I keep a very small ray of hope and I want to believe that a day I will be able to collect these creations ...

This project therefore joins three other ideas in the very closed circle of proposals that will participate in the next review phase: Assault on Wayne Manor, X-Men: X-Mansion et Invisible Hand.

The results of the last phase of the LEGO Ideas review have fallen: Everything goes by the wayside (Zelda, BTTF DeLorean UCS, etc ...) except the project "Female Minifigure Set"whose review has lasted more than reason, which therefore becomes the set 21110 Research Institute and whose marketing is scheduled for August 2014 (as if by magic, the set should have been ready for a very long time ...) with a price around $ 20 ...

What to say ? Not much. LEGO undoubtedly gives us a political corrective blow with this set including three female characters with scientific profiles, just to counterbalance the takeover of idle teenage girls from the Friends range on the shelves of toy stores and to calm things down with feminist associations which began to have them regularly after the manufacturer.

Was it really necessary? I'm not sure of it.

The set will be released during the summer, it will probably go almost unnoticed, but LEGO will have solved the problem. It’s well done.

(Thanks to Sub533 for his email alert)

Another project dating from the Cuusoo era which reached the fateful threshold of 10.000 supporters required for a passage in the review phase.

It is therefore the "Modular" X Mansion de DarthKy which joins the two other projects already validated for the next review phase scheduled for next September: Assault on Wayne Manor whose DarthKy is also the author and L'Invisible Hand de LDiEgo.

These three projects should not survive the next phase of review by the LEGO Ideas team. Their only merit was ultimately to offer great visibility to the Cuusoo / Ideas concept by mobilizing fans from all walks of life. Next ...