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 €).

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?

Friendly project presented by WWWally on Cuusoo that this Death Star 2 which acts as a pendulum and which will find its place without any problem on our desks or on our bedside tables ... The spherical aspect is very well rendered and this exclusively using plates, except the elements to fix the dish and some tiles used for the trench.

The built-in clock mechanism is everything more standard and powered by one AA battery. Before proposing his Death star 2, WWWally had designed a first generation Death Star as a prototype, just as successful, although I much prefer the version "in construction".

You can still do like me, i.e. support this project, even if we all already know that the road is very very long up to 10.000 supporters, and that the path will be paved with pitfalls that risk leading to the classification without follow-up to this initiative.

But now is not the time for defeatism, so go on the page dedicated to this project and vote if you want to keep a (slim) hope that one day this original clock will land on your desk ...

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.

It was on track, and the case was just folded in a few hours: M.togami's Back To The Future project has just reached 10.000 supporters and is therefore taking the next step, just like Eve Online's Rifter Project which also reached the objective a few days ago and of which I still wonder how this ship, correct MOC but which is not great, could generate so much buzz ...

What will be the excuse given by LEGO for refusing to produce the DeLorean: Rights Issue with Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale? Films too old to attract a clientele of young people between the ages of 6 and 11?

The Back To The Future saga has a large base of fans who have seen or replayed the three films released between 1985 and 1990 in a loop. The youngest will discover the adventures of Doc and Marty on M6 which rebroadcasts them regularly on Sunday evening. But that will probably not be enough to convince LEGO to produce a set on this theme.

The next projects best placed in the race for 10.000 supporters should also meet with a refusal on the part of LEGO: Zelda, LEGO won't produce a whole range of new accessories just for a set, StormTroopers' bucket would cost customers too much, the project My Little Pony is a big joke and the Modular Western Town is still the one that has the most chances of seeing the light of day in the form of a set, undoubtedly to please the real AFOLs who have softly mobilized to support it ... But my little finger tell me that it will not stay big something modular in the version possibly produced by LEGO (Maybe something in the style of the 10230 Mini Modulars ? ) ....