LEGO CUUSOO is now LEGO Ideas

On April 30th, LEGO CUUSOO’s beta period ended, and has now became LEGO Ideas:

Today we are happy to invite you to join LEGO Ideas; a continuation of the former LEGO CUUSOO experience, more closely integrated with the LEGO experience online.

In the fall of 2008, CUUSOO Systems and the LEGO Group teamed up to launch the LEGO CUUSOO crowdsourcing experiment. Initially, the site was only available in Japanese. But the promising results from the pilot led to the launch of the international LEGO CUUSOO beta site in the fall of 2011. The LEGO Group is very happy to announce that the partnership with CUUSOO Systems, has been such a success that we have decided to integrate the CUUSOO concept more closely into the LEGO experience called LEGO Ideas. We are grateful for the many years of collaboration and experimentation between our two companies and wish CUUSOO Systems continued success, building CUUSOO as an open crowdsourcing platform for brands to connect with their fans on cuusoo.com.

 

Practical Information

All projects, supports, comments, profiles, and other data from LEGO CUUSOO have been automatically migrated to LEGO Ideas. You can sign in to LEGO Ideas with a LEGO ID, find your old LEGO CUUSOO account, and connect to it after clicking a confirmation link we will send you via email. You will need access to the email address associated with your LEGO CUUSOO account in order to access your old profile and projects on LEGO Ideas.

The LEGO CUUSOO domain will redirect to LEGO Ideas for 6 months. During that time, this blog will remain online as an archive and links to your projects on LEGO CUUSOO will automatically redirect to your project pages on LEGO Ideas. We recommend you update links to your projects because after November 1, 2014, all links to LEGO CUUSOO will stop redirecting.

 

What’s different on LEGO Ideas?

1. Your project now has one year from the day you post it to reach 10,000 supporters. Projects that don’t reach 10,000 supporters within 365 days of being posted will automatically expire and no longer accept new supporters. If this happens, you’re welcome to re-submit the project and work to gain 10,000 fresh supporters again within a one year period. Projects carried over from LEGO CUUSOO will keep their existing supporters and have until May 1st, 2015 to qualify.
2. If you are between 13-18 years old you can now create and submit projects. If your project reaches 10,000 supporters, we will require written permission from a parent or legal guardian before your project is considered in the LEGO Review.
3. Introducing “Clutch Power.” As you participate on LEGO Ideas, you will earn points and badges that become your “Clutch Power”. The more you support, share, or create, the higher your Clutch Power points will be, and the more badges you will earn.

 

Other Guidelines Changes

From time to time we may update the Project Guidelines and House Rules; here are a few other notable updates on LEGO Ideas:

• Projects can no longer be edited after you submit them. However you’re welcome to add updates to your project to refine or improve the initial concept. These appear in the new Updates tab.
• We no longer allow mockups of LEGO product boxes (“box art”) or marketing materials in your images. Mocked-up box art confuses people into thinking your project is something they can buy right now.
• You may only submit images which belong to you. This means no images created by others online, for example screen shots from a movie or TV show.

 

What you see today on LEGO Ideas is just the beginning. Over time, we are looking forward to adding new ways for you to participate with us in co-creating LEGO products together on LEGO Ideas.

 

Sincerely,

LEGO Ideas Team

I have also submitted my first project!

If you would like to support it, you can do so here: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/63480

LEGO TARDIS On CUUSOO

Hello everyone!

MaverickDengo here. Do you like Doctor Who? Do you like LEGO? What if you could have them together? I would like to present to you, the Large-Scale TARDIS!

I’m looking for support for my TARDIS project, and I would really appreciate anything you guys could do to help! I would love to have sets based on this series, and I’m sure there are many others who would love to own sets based on this theme as well. You can support it here:

http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/59234

If you like this set, please share it with as many people as you know! The more people who know about It, the more likely it will reach 10,000 supporters!

Lego Roundup: March 2014

 

I’m sandwiched in between 2 local Lug events and have been meaning to post about them…. and all the craziness that has been going on with Lego lately. I’m sure most of this has come across your radar but just might be some gems you missed. In no particular order, except as I go through my notes…

Have you seen the new 3d model viewer in bricklink? Go find a piece in the catalogue and open up the 3d viewer… pretty boss. I’m guessing it’s all the parts in all the available colours.

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A Bionicle fan made a record by spending the most on a single brick, 15k on a platinum mask.

http://lego.gizmodo.com/insane-lego-collector-spends-15-000-on-a-single-piece-1528631074

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Seen this Sandcrawler? Pretty amazing, packed a lot of play value into something that is essentially a lot smaller than it’s supposed to be

Lots more pictures and info here:

LEGO Star Wars UCS Sandcrawler (75059) Officially Announced

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Really good trailer for the Hobbit vidja game from TT, because the it’s a heist movie right?

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It would be pretty hard to avoid this new, the latest Cuusoo set is the Ghostbusters Ecto 1 with the full squad:

This is pretty beautiful and much like the Lego Movie I’m having a hard time finding anything wrong with it, and with it my estimation of Cuusoo has went up.

http://blog.lego.cuusoo.com/2014/02/16/lego-ghostbusters-revealed-toyfair/
Some candid Toy Fair pics of the set: http://news.toyark.com/2014/02/16/toy-fair-2014-lego-simpsons-ghostbusters-114890

For anyone counting, Peter Reid’s Exosuit which is set #6 is still in development.

Speaking of Cuusoo, looks like they took away some hurdles that were apparently in the way for approving Dr. Who sets. Release the Daleks!

https://legocuusoo.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/325064-license-conflicts-and-resolutions
This project seems to be the one to watch: http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/16291

Also, looks like there will be even more Minecraft sets coming out, I’m happy for you.

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Have you seen the new guns? They are in one of the Lego Movie sets and some of the new army builder Star Wars sets. They shoot great! You can fully lose the projectiles. Amazing new design, welcome to the future.

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This was confusing people a week or so ago

http://brickultra.com/lego-polar-bear-certified-professional/

Not a real set, but well made mockup.

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More info on the Simpsons minifigs! From Amazon:

Woo-hoo! It’s The Simpsons! The LEGO Minifigures series continues with this great collection of 16 of your favorite characters from TV’s longest-running comedy. There’s Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson, as well as Grampa, Ned Flanders, Ralph Wiggum, Nelson Muntz, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Chief Wiggum, Krusty the Clown, Itchy & Scratchy, Mr. Burns and Milhouse. Each The Simpsons minifigure comes in a sealed ‘mystery’ bag with its own special accessories, display plate and collector’s leaflet. Buy a bag, open it up and see which one you get!

Does this mean they will be in the Minifigures MMOG…?

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Did you hear… Mattel bought Megablocks? So after being bumped out the big #2 by a building blocks company, I guess they decided that they needed their own bricks to get back in the game. They’ve been obviously courting the idea for a bit with the Megablocks Barbie line so this is not a huge surprise. I welcome it as it will bring healthy competition, but it is just another successful Canadian company to be gobbled up by the States.

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I’m pretty chuffed about these new mini Hero Factory figs:

The Bionicle ones that came out years ago were great and still use them every year at our VicWars games. These sets look to have lots of nice parts too, looking forward to seeing more.

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In Lego Movie news, the sequel will be coming out tentatively in May of 2017 and check out this out takes video:

and almost can’t believe that this is on all the official Lego Movie feeds:

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There’s lots and lots that has been  posted from the recent Toy Fair, which is going to have to wait for another post, but this is really noteworthy. Not only do we have sets for the upcoming TMNT movie, but there’s this guy, wot:

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I’m sure I missed something. Will be back soon with posts about our various club events and the current ruleset for VicWars!

Lego Cuusoo #7 Revealed and Lego Chrome

Plus what is still under review and what got the axe. I’ll wait for the comments before any doing any spoilers, but if they do this right then there should be numerous happy pandas.

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Hey, have you seen this plugin for Chrome? Have you used it?

http://www.buildwithchrome.com/

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I’m getting all ready for a local Lug show this weekend, the WestShore Mall Hobby Show, something we haven’t done in maybe 4 years, but did for about 4 years before that. It conflicted with Gottacon which was booking us a year in advance. Westshore is a 3 day event where we take over an empty store and do our thing. We’ll have mocs on display, a builder’s corner and our public build and display zone. We are also going to try and make a mini VicWars setup to get brushed up for Gottacon in a month.  Plus some Lego Movie action this weekend….

Have you heard this version of Everything is Awesome? It’s pretty awesome.

Can’t you hear sentry turrets singing this? I feel enriched.

Lego News Roundup: Dec, 2013

The Cuusoo Mars Curiosity Rover set has been revealed, check http://blog.lego.cuusoo.com/2013/12/18/lego-nasa-mars-curiosity-rover/ for more info

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The 2014 Marvel sets are snoopable and there are some somewhat interesting tidbits.

This is pretty great for all the electrical zappy parts, but of particular interest is Electro’s transparent arms. We are that much closer to a Mythran fig.

I’m seriously not up on all my superhero variations, and have only watched a couple episodes of Ultimate Spiderman, so was not aware of this Green Goblin. Seems kind of useless outside the context of the character with this big dopey costume but maybe the head comes off.

This set looks like it will be of good value. The Modok looks hilarious and Falcon’s wings look to be the Egyptian wings in red.

http://www.brickset.com/browse/themes/?theme=Super%20Heroes&subtheme=Marvel%20Universe&year=2014

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http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=88428
White Fang has another great review, this time with the Lego Movie Minifigs. A couple of things that surprised me going through this that wasn’t clear from the previous photos:

Great coon skin hat and seperate beard, these look to be a lot of fun.

Gail’s hair is really cool

So that’s what scribble faced cop means

Abe’s hat and beard are one piece!

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New Chima sets coming out, which look interesting enough. Good figs, neat weapons.

What’s of real interest is this new type of joint, or at least a variation on an existing joint system:

Read more at the New Elementary ( which you should be checking out all the time of course ), and from the article it seems that the cup is where the friction is. Old cup and new ball is loose, new cup and old ball is tight.

http://www.newelementary.com/2013/12/new-legends.html

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http://gizmodo.com/this-amazing-life-size-air-powered-lego-car-hits-20mph-1485535767
This is going pretty viral right now, and rightly so.

I don’t know if the whole car is Lego, but it’s all pretty amazing.
More info here:

http://www.superawesomemicroproject.com/

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Let’s tie it up with the Hobbit game trailer.

Just saw the 2nd one a couple of days ago, and wondering if anyone else was assessing each scene as to how good of a level it will be?

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Ah, another roundup successfully tied up.

LEGO CUUSOO Winter 2012, Spring & Summer 2013 Review Result

Though not the result I was hoping for I couldn’t be happier for Peter. This is a very deserved creation and beyond worthy of support.

Cuusoo Watch!

I have a roundup of Lego news and there was just so much Cuusoo in it that it needs it’s own post. There is some stuff that is on the chopping block that I’m authentically jazzed about and even hopeful since BTF got the green light. First off is what is in production, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover

 hhttp://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/3431

I had a chance of seeing this in person at our last Tillicum Kids Show, someone brought it in from instructions posted here:
http://www.space.com/17058-mars-rover-curiosity-lego-instructions.html
I’m assuming that it’s going to be what ships, or pretty close to that. Whatever the case, the picture with the linked instructions make for a really tidy model.

Here’s what is up for review:
http://blog.lego.cuusoo.com/2013/09/03/congratulations-qualifying-projects-fall-2013-review/

Portal is still on the table…. I know everyone has their own fav they are rooting for, this is the horse I’m hoping for. I *know* I just went on about sets but I’d buy this one out of principle, just to let Lego know they are on the right track.

Thinking With Portals
http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/18258

There seems to be all manners of Portal projects included, like a big Portal umbrella, so not sure what one they might go with. Just dooo eeeet.
Go to the project page to see many more pics.

Added in the fall was:

Female Minifigure Set
ATLAS Mini Model – Education Outreach Project
FTL – Faster Than Light
Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary
Poptropica: Dr. Hare’s Lair
Ghostbusters ( moar! )
The Road to OZ

Plus all these other nice sets up for review. The UCS Sandcrawler did not make the cut and not totally surprised. It would be kind of odd if Cuusoo put out a licensed set that was already in an existing line on the shelf. I doubt they would be able to put it out even if StarWars had ended 5 years ago. Maybe if it was a dormant property, like Indiana Jones, but not something that they are actively producing a tonne of content for.

I’m also jacked for Ghostbusters natch and curious how the Oz one will do. I think it’s public domain so that one actually should be fairly easy to swing, unless the MOUSE has it’s teeny happy paws in it.

What are you excited about?

 

Turmoil and Drama on LEGO CUUSOO Posted on August 21, 2013 by Allen “Tormentalous” Tran –

I am reposting this because with all my heart …This is not in the spirit of CUUSOO! =(

As you may have read last week, I did a couple of posts here to help spread the news about BrickQueen’s Jurassic Park projects on LEGO CUUSOO, the Jungle Explorer T-Rex Encounter and the Triceratops Encounter. Besides the Jurassic Park projects, she also had a couple of Super Heroes sets that were doing pretty good as well such as her Killer Croc’s Lair project which was about to hit 5,000 supporters. Well I have some sad news to report. It appears that her account has been banned/suspended and all the projects were deleted and it wasn’t something she has done wrong. She has released a video (below) explaining what happened. Apparently another user, who I will not name here, recently posted another Jurassic Park project and has been flagging BrickQueen’s projects and also rallying his “supporters” to flag her projects as well.

We’ve had many projects that had the similar concepts and ideas going on simultaneously on CUUSOO before but we’ve never seen this happen. The video also goes on to explain that she has gotten personal messages from various individuals saying terrible things and it absolutely sickens me that people would go that far to ruin someone else’s hopes and dreams. You can hear the pain in her voice as she tries to explain the situation. The pain of something that you worked very hard on and it going down the drain by forces not of your control. We are all LEGO fans here, are we not? We’re here to support the creators and their designs, not to send people nasty messages and bringing people down. I’m not sure what The LEGO CUUSOO team will be doing, if anything, to resolve this issue but hopefully BrickQueen gets her account back soon. Please help spread the word to help Kristine and also letting people know that something like this shouldn’t be tolerated.

Update: Since yesterday, there’s been much speculation on what actually happened and what lead up to BrickQueen’s account being banned. You can read more about that at various outlets in the LEGO community. I will not be adding any more commentary until there’s some official news, if any, about the issue.

– See more at: http://www.thebrickfan.com/turmoil-and-drama-on-lego-cuusoo/#sthash.efEmPYiL.dpuf

 

Cuusoo Delorean Unveiled

 

 

So what do you think?

For me, on one hand here is the first Cuusoo model I’m actually interested in picking up. On the other… I’ve seen many better Delorean models…

I am very happily surprised though that the powers that be managed to play well and get through the licensing to make this happen. It gives hope for lots of neat other projects down the road!

Are these the first Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd minifigs?

2013 Lego pt. 4 Various

There’s a bunch of Technic freaks in my lug who are losing it over all the new sets. They really do look amazing, the sets the past couple of years have looked like they are right out of a fan convention.

Images open in new window to biggified versions.

42008 Service Truck

The Lego Architecture line is coming out with the Leaning Tower of Pisa

I wonder if they will give any kickback to this Cuusoo idea?

http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/2427

I’m curiously not going out of my gourd about Galaxy Squad, I really should be. This set looks good, it has some bizarre looking eggs

70709 Galactic Titan

I am however fascinated with this Lone Ranger set, 79109 Stagecoach Escape. Most of the Lone Ranger sets look wonderful but this one is now in the budget