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 ? ) ....

It is by a brief press release on his blog that the LEGO Cuusoo team announces the news: The project Winchester Shaun of the Dead that had reached 10.000 supporters will not happen. Point.

The advanced explanation holds up: The project, or in any case the film from which it is inspired, is not compatible with the manufacturer's target clientele: 6-11 year olds. End of the discussion. A whole paragraph follows praising Yatkuu, the MOCeur behind the project, and the thing is folded.

In short, I suspected a little, and even if some wanted to believe it because of the popular and media enthusiasm that this MOC will have generated.

LEGO's argument is still a bit dubious: It would have been enough to identify the product as Collector for Adults, and voila ... In short, once again LEGO is more about its own image as a manufacturer respectful of its pseudo non-violence policy, than the demand of its potential customers ...

After the fiasco, or the success of your choice, of the MOC-based project The Winchester (Shaun of the Dead) by yatkuu which reached 10.000 supporters largely thanks to the support of actor Simon Pegg, too happy to see himself immortalized in minifig format even though he has publicly declared that he does not receive royalties on the sale of derivative products from the film, LEGO Cuusoo's thinking heads change yet again The game's rules so as not to have to deal with this type of unexpected success which poses big problems for politics moral from the maker of Billund.

The new rule is simple: Filtering and censorship.

From now on, any project submitted must be approved before appearing online. In short, LEGO will eliminate anything that can pose a problem: Licenses that cannot be produced, projects that are too gory, violent or based on competing universes, delusions of young TFOLs eager to obtain buckets of minifigs, fans of Transformers and Hasbro , disturbing projects supported by the media buzz, demands disguised as projects, etc ....

In short, I can tell you without getting too wet that in a few weeks we will hear more about Cuusoo, and that in a few months LEGO will announce the end of the games. As was already the case with many of the manufacturer's initiatives that did not meet the expected success ...

But ultimately, if Cuusoo was diverted for other purposes than the simple goal of promoting a realistic project supported by the fan community, it is undoubtedly because it lacks a space of free expression for all those who have something to say or defend around their passion without risking being censored ... And when I speak of space for expression, I de facto exclude most of the English-speaking forums, locked by LEGO which does reigning order and morality via an army of moderators whose objectivity sometimes leaves much to be desired ....