Faefrost Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 Does this mean that our species, in general, lacks imagination? :) No it means creating something wholly new and non derivative that will appeal to people enough to be a viable product is harder than it looks. People who are good at it typically do it for a career. Quote
AyliffeMakit Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 Just found this short video teaser on the Lego Club website for the Doctor Who set. Something worth noting about it: No Lego Ideas logo in sight. Maybe a sign of getting more sets? Quote
Robert8 Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 The race for the 10000 supporters in LEGO Ideas is getting exciting as the great purge is just around the corner https://ideas.lego.com/discover#search/f:state=Gathering%20Support/s:most_supported&scroll=136 Quote
BirdOPrey5 Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 (edited) Golden Girls hit the news shows in the USA today, 5000 votes or so in the last 8 hours- https://ideas.lego.com/projects/98263 Edit- Actually I think it's over 8000 votes in 8 hours- there hasn't even been 1 official LEGO comment and it's going to hit 10k within 60 minutes. Edited April 8, 2015 by BirdOPrey5 Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 (edited) It got featured on The Mary Sue, and seems to have really taken off since then. Has it been featured elsewhere? The Mary Sue's readership must be either much larger and/or much more interested in The Golden Girls than I'd have suspected. Their story, posted a couple hours ago, reports it having a little over 5000 votes (which is already great for a project posted just three weeks ago), but then (while I was writing this!) it hit the 10k mark, getting close to 5000 additional votes in just a few hours. Wow. Edit: I just remembered it was also today's Staff Pick, which certainly gave it additional exposure, but I don't remember the Staff Pick status ever giving a project that much of a boost before. Edited April 8, 2015 by Blondie-Wan Quote
BirdOPrey5 Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 It was on my local news (on the TV) in New York City at least 20 minutes before it was posted to Mary Sue, and it had already received over 5000 votes by that time, so it was something well before the Mary Sue post that started this. Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 Well... wow. I certainly wouldn't mind some of my planned projects getting TV coverage. I should be so lucky! Anyway, it's now the ninth project to make it into the next review batch, and the fastest of those nine to get the required votes, so even though it's kind of an odd subject for a LEGO set, it probably actually has a good chance. Even without having closed yet, this batch is I believe already tied for the largest review batch to date. There are also a number of other projects that still have a good shot at getting 10k while this batch is still open, so it could easily become the first one with a two-digit number of projects. I think it goes to show how widely popular and embraced the Ideas program has become. It's cool to see it taking off like this. Quote
jonwil Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 Anyone want to speculate which of the projects for the next review batch have a chance of being approved and which ones wont be approved and why? Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 (edited) Anyone want to speculate which of the projects for the next review batch have a chance of being approved and which ones wont be approved and why? Which batch do you mean - the batch this Golden Girls project just went into (the one still coming together), or the one currently under review (with the Piano, Labyrinth Marble Maze, etc.)? Edited April 8, 2015 by Blondie-Wan Quote
Robert8 Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 What happened today with the Golden Girls set was beyond crazy.... And the Legend of Zelda: King of Red Lions Play Set achieved the 10000 supporters today as well! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/2082 Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) Looking around a bit more, I see the Golden Girls project was incredibly fortunate - after getting today's Staff Pick, it also got covered not only by local NY TV and The Mary Sue, but also MSN, E! Online, Time Magazine online, and who knows how many other sites. The creator got really lucky. There's also a much older Golden Girls project - one due to expire in the forthcoming Great Ideas Purge, three weeks from now - that is very similar to the one that found such wild success today. It's close enough that quite a few people seem to feel the creator of the later set ripped off the previous one, which could be awkward, but the two project creators are graciously communicating with one another in the comments, and the maker of the earlier project appears genuinely pleased simply to see a Golden Girls project do so well, regardless of who made it, so that seems good. The earlier project, plus a third one different from the other two (depicting the exterior of the house, rather than a living room / kitchen interior), both seem to be benefitting from the latecomer's success as well, so perhaps they'll all wind up hitting the 10,000 mark and entering review, which would be wild. Edited April 9, 2015 by Blondie-Wan Quote
Robert8 Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 It seems another project will make it before the great purge: The RMS Titanic! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/1319 Unless there will be another miracle like the Golden Girls set, I think this will be the last one to achieve the 10000 supporters. Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 I don't know. The Great Purge is still about three weeks away, and that Titanic is just one of three projects with over 9000 votes as of this writing, and a number of others have over 8000. And there's no telling what other project might get a flash of media attention and be showered with a ton of votes in a short time. Quote
AFOLguy1970 Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 If sitcoms is now the way to go, how about the Brady Bunch? We can finally get that house with three bedrooms and one bathroom! I would also like to see a Good Times set. JJ could be in his Kid Dynomite outfit. I vignette based on the projects would be interesting. Oh, the possibilities. One project with a large growth spurt is the HMS Beagle (Darwin's ship) It is more recent, but looks like it is on pace to get 10,000 without too much trouble. Quote
lightningtiger Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 Golden Girls......hey I'll buy a set......I use to watch the show and laugh my head off. Now someone just wrote JJ and Good Times.......hmm, not sure about that one. Maybe Dad's Army ? My opinion of Lego Ideas has changed, it seems to be just an ideas harvesting machine now and even you get the 10K you basically have only a 10% chance still to get through. All my projects die in a few weeks, I still might post a few new ones but I totally give them no hope. Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) Really.. Golden Girls?!? Okay then... Golden Girls... wow.... just wow... Well... Yeah. Look, I know it's not the usual sort of show that LEGO does, but it is a popular, beloved series with a lot of fans. There's probably not a huge overlap between GG and LEGO fandom, true... but that consideration might actually work in the project's favor, since TLG could see it as an opportunity to sell sets to people who don't normally buy LEGO. I know it's totally bizarre that a project based on a thirty-year-old sitcom about the friendship of four mature women who share a home in Miami just became the third-fastest project to amass 10,000 votes in CUUSOO / Ideas history (!), but that's what happens when a project gets the Staff Pick and coverage on NY local TV news, MSN, Time.com, Moviefone, E! Online, People, EW, The Mary Sue, Golden Girls Central, and who knows where else all on the same day, I guess (it was even on The Huffington Post a day or two before getting the Staff Pick and all the rest, it turns out). Once again, the lesson of our story: promotion is important! The key to getting mad numbers of votes for an Ideas project is getting it seen by lots and lots of people, including ones outside the LEGO fan community. And if one can self-promote it, that's great, but just plain freakishly good fortune helps, too. Edited April 9, 2015 by Blondie-Wan Quote
AFOLguy1970 Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) Apparently, Golden Girls does have some sort of cult following, but the real question is, how many of the people supporting will actually buy it? You are pretty much relying on a certain adult population to buy this. In theory, if it was made into a set, the interested parties will have to either go into a Lego store, buy it online, or go to a Toys R Us that carries it. In other words, they are probably going to have to actively seek it out. It will not be on a Walmart end stand as they make their usual store run. Then, are they prepared to pay the retail price. No doubt, some of these people who just saw it on Yahoo are expecting it to be below $20. What are they going to do when they find out it is $50? Are they that interested in Golden Girls? Yes, I know some people will buy it, whether they are collectors, fans of the show, or what not, but this seems like a very narrow target audience. I can visualize this on the Ideas shelf collecting dust. Just an opinion of course. Still no official comment from Lego. They are probably looking up the term "Golden Girls" to figure out what this is. Edited April 9, 2015 by AFOLguy1970 Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) Still no official comment from Lego. They are probably looking up the term "Golden Girls" to figure out what this is. Since they're the ones who made it their Staff Pick yesterday, and commented on it on Facebook when the LEGO Ideas FB account featured it (as it typically posts Staff Picks), and they also did post an Official LEGO Comment on this other Golden Girls project when it passed 1000 a while back, and both those comments indicate clear knowledge of the show, and this other Golden Girls project (yes, there are at least three different Golden Girls projects on Ideas) also got Staff Pick (four months ago, even), I highly doubt they're "probably looking up the term "Golden Girls" to figure out what this is". If anything, I think it's more likely one or more people on the Ideas staff are outright fans of the show themselves, given the combined interest they've shown in the three different projects, and knowledge of the show they've shown in those comments. Edited April 9, 2015 by Blondie-Wan Quote
Dorayaki Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) I do think this license is something we've never seen in LEGO before, the fact is that golden ages, and even golden ladies, are almost never the stars of LEGO products. This makes the set a good addition to any of the LEGO city MOCs. Like TBBT, it doesn't necessarily sell to normal kids, although the market is probably and arguably smaller than the fanbase of any previous Ideas license. I don't expect it to get through, but it's a nice try. Edited April 9, 2015 by Dorayaki Quote
Sarah Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 It got featured on The Mary Sue, and seems to have really taken off since then. Has it been featured elsewhere? The Mary Sue's readership must be either much larger and/or much more interested in The Golden Girls than I'd have suspected. Their story, posted a couple hours ago, reports it having a little over 5000 votes (which is already great for a project posted just three weeks ago), but then (while I was writing this!) it hit the 10k mark, getting close to 5000 additional votes in just a few hours. Wow. Edit: I just remembered it was also today's Staff Pick, which certainly gave it additional exposure, but I don't remember the Staff Pick status ever giving a project that much of a boost before. A friend posted it on Facebook as "This project just needs 10K votes to be made" and I was trying to educate as to what Lego Ideas was. Quote
Robert8 Posted April 10, 2015 Posted April 10, 2015 The RMS Titanic made it! 10000 votes! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/1319 But.... we already know it won't pass the review for being way too big Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 10, 2015 Posted April 10, 2015 The review batch cutoff is at the end of this month (or the beginning of May - whichever way you'd like to say it), right? With three weeks left in April, there's still plenty of time for a few more projects to make it. Interestingly, the Great Ideas Purge comes just a couple days earlier; the two deadlines are pretty close together, making for a kind of Super-Deadline. There are currently five projects gathering votes that have over 8000 already; two of them have over 9000. Still other projects have fewer, but are gathering votes quickly, and with the Great Purge looming over everything I could see a general burst in voting coming. I don't think it's at all out of the question that we could have upwards of a dozen projects make it into this one batch. Quote
Faefrost Posted April 10, 2015 Posted April 10, 2015 Looking at it, I think the only ones that are at the 19 day cutoff point, that currently have a hope of hitting 10k are the Adventuretime set, the Nathan Sawaya one and likely the other Golden Girls set (just because it will ride the sudden interest in the property now that the one hit 10k.) not much else in the 19 days left group would have any organized push to drive them home. Quote
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