Innovative idea for the LEGO company - What do you think?

[balazsdavid1987]

Hi!

I have submitted an idea to the LEGO company. I got no reply which makes me feel that they are completely ignoring me. I'm curious whether you find my idea worthless or not. You can find a short video presenting my idea at

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Thanks for any comments!

Regards,

Balazs David

[JopieK]

I think it won't work since the brushes (the way they are placed and directed) play a large role and a LEGO ghost doesn't have brushes :)

Some links:

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Tooth-Brush-Robot/

and

http://www.instructables.com/id/RC-Bristle-Robot/

[balazsdavid1987]

Yes, obviously a plate with tiny brushes should be added :) It's a concept, not a ready-to-manufacture product!

[Hoboman]

While I think the idea is interesting, I am unsure I would want to pay what it might cost to get my ghost to move like that.

As a side note: In the video you said you have not heard back in 5 days. I think you greatly overestimate how fast a major corporation will respond to an unsolicited idea. If I were you I would not have posted the video so quickly. Just an opinion.

[Clone OPatra]

Unfortunately, I've read that LEGO will purposefully not use ideas submitted by anyone who is not staff. They do this for obvious reasons, to ensure that nobody can later sue them claiming that they should get a cut of the profits, or just so that they can claim creative control over all of their products.

Anyway, I see what you're describing more of something that a third-party manufacturer would sell to be compatible with LEGO. It's not a bad idea, but it just doesn't seem like the sort of thing that LEGO would actually incorporate into its sets.

[brickmack]

As Clone O'Patra said, LEGO normally doesn't take ideas from fans (Except the few times when they were taking suggestions for new parts). However, I think even without that rule LEGO might not use the idea anyway. For minifigures, LEGO hasn't had much success with putting motorized bits in if I remember correctly (Light up lightsabres for Star Wars and flashlights for Police). Also a minifigure would have to be on a flat surface for it to work, and without studs to grip onto, minifigs are hard enough to balance. A vibrator would make it fall over before it even moved a centimetre. For sets, they might do it, but it would take a few of them to make anything larger than, say, the Raid VPR set (From SP3) move, and it just doesn't seem like a very good play feature. Why spend a few dollars extra on a set to have it slowly move across a table (While making an odd humming sound also that's likely to annoy the kid's parents enough to throw it out the window) when you can simply pick it up and swoosh it around (More fun anyway).

[Siegfried]

This isn't a new idea; Bristlebots have been around for years...

[Hrw-Amen]

It may work for some vehicles, maybe a hoovercraft in something like the recent harbour sets, but for a minifig I don't think it would good. How would you get them to stand up, they would fall over the moment it was activated? With a vehicle it could be OK, but would need a lot more control over itr motion.