LEGO Ideas Discussion

[x105Black]

You can tell the fairytale to an audience.

And you can build your own stories to tell!

Like Horror stories for Halloween (Headless Horseman, Frankenstein, Dracula, etc...)

Or Christmas stories for the holiday season (Grinch, A Christmas Carol, etc...)

This thing is amazing!

All true.

I also love the idea of keeping this on a bookshelf with other books, just to be pulled out by a visitor to find some really cool build inside.

[Tariq j]

Indeed, its something new, original and something that I'm sure everyone can use and relate to. And I think the general design is so clever and intricate.

Edited August 27, 2016 by Tariq j

[AFOLguy1970]

The pop up book was at 400 votes this morning and now is over 1000 within just one day. This could make it to 10000 quickly at this pace. Hopefully it will become a staff pick. That always gives things a boost.

When this makes review, it is going to be a juggernaut. Lego is geared to kids, as are pop up books. Now you have an intersection of the two. As a teacher, I can imagine this will become popular at the elementary level as well.

Edited August 28, 2016 by AFOLguy1970

[BrickJagger]

The pop up book was at 400 votes this morning and now is over 1000 within just one day. This could make it to 10000 quickly at this pace. Hopefully it will become a staff pick. That always gives things a boost.

When this makes review, it is going to be a juggernaut. Lego is geared to kids, as are pop up books. Now you have an intersection of the two. As a teacher, I can imagine this will become popular at the elementary level as well.

It'll probably slow down somewhere around 5000, and take at least a few months to get to the goal. However, once it gets in I think it has a pretty good chance.

[Robert8]

Lovelace & Babbage is the eleventh project to accrue 10,000 supports and enter this batch!

It seems Spooky Girl found something more interesting to do than haunting people

Good for her

Edited August 28, 2016 by Robert8

[Faefrost]

Another project highlighted in media

Caerphilly Castle

I think it looks nice but it's tiny to be a set on its own

I wonder if LEGO will take away those 20 votes and send the project back to the gathering support section

Tiny is not necessarily a negative. I would not be surprised to see an Ideas based Polybag set at some point

[Robert8]

Plum Creek - The Little House on the Prairie, by SeigneurFett (Jul 10, 2015) got the 10000 supporters and is the 12th project to enter to the next review

Edited August 29, 2016 by Robert8

[CM4Sci]

Jeez, that's like 4 projects this week. I'm gonna wait a bit to repromote my project and try for January

[Blondie-Wan]

The latest blog post 10k Club interview is also up, featuring our own PepaQuin of Johnny 5 fame.

[AFOLguy1970]

Jeez, that's like 4 projects this week. I'm gonna wait a bit to repromote my project and try for January

It could very well be possible that trying to avoid a certain review batch could be a good strategy. In theory, if I submitted something, I probably would not want to go up against the likes of Saturn V, the labryinth maze, or even something like the up and coming pop up book. Yes, I know they could approve more than one set, but still, it would be disheartening to go into review with the feeling like there is one or more projects in that batch that would probably top my entry. Sometimes, it is all in the timing. This cannot be proven, but I strongly believe that in an alternate universe, if Birds, Labyrinth, Wall-E, Dr. Who, Saturn V, and Yellow Submarine were in the same batch, we would not be getting some of these.

[Blondie-Wan]

I've had the same thought, but I think there are also a few problems with that strategy. For one thing, it's hard enough for most project creators to get their projects fully supported at all, let alone do it targeting a certain timeframe. For another, you never know when a rocket like Women of NASA, Voltron - Defender of the Universe, Minecraft, the two main Doctor Who projects, that Golden Girls project, etc. will just show up out of nowhere and zip all the way to 10k in less than a month, making a batch turn out larger than one had foreseen. And on the other hand, again, we don't know for sure just how many projects they might approve from a single batch anyway, so such planning could be for nothing.

Not that it keeps me from considering such factors with my own projects, of course.

[x105Black]

Plum Creek - The Little House on the Prairie, by SeigneurFett (Jul 10, 2015) got the 10000 supporters and is the 12th project to enter to the next review

I love all of the pieces, but not necessarily the theme. Looks to big to pass review, though.

[PicnicBasketSam]

If they offered that as just a generic old-timey home thing, I'd be cool with it... but I'm not convinced by the Little House on the Prairie theme at all. Also, again, it's very big. Cut it down to size and remove the branding and that would be a solid set.

[x105Black]

If they offered that as just a generic old-timey home thing, I'd be cool with it... but I'm not convinced by the Little House on the Prairie theme at all. Also, again, it's very big. Cut it down to size and remove the branding and that would be a solid set.

You stated that better than I did. Thank you.

[PicnicBasketSam]

You're welcome. Glad that English class has actually done me some good. There would probably have to be a fair bit of negotiating with the project creator if they actually took those suggestions, though...

[CM4Sci]

Do you guys have any ideas on how to promote my project that's so far at 5000 supporters? Not many supports in the past few months. I'm thinking of adding more minifigure options and another optional build or something? I'm not sure what else I can do.

[Blondie-Wan]

If they offered that as just a generic old-timey home thing, I'd be cool with it... but I'm not convinced by the Little House on the Prairie theme at all. Also, again, it's very big. Cut it down to size and remove the branding and that would be a solid set.

Perhaps, but the Little House on the Prairie "branding" is undoubtedly responsible for a great deal of the supporter interest. It's part of what people voted for, and they can't take it away now, whether they approve or decline they project.

Do you guys have any ideas on how to promote my project that's so far at 5000 supporters? Not many supports in the past few months. I'm thinking of adding more minifigure options and another optional build or something? I'm not sure what else I can do.

I hear updates are a way to sustain interest. Id also try sharing it with more communities devoted to the game.

[x105Black]

Do you guys have any ideas on how to promote my project that's so far at 5000 supporters? Not many supports in the past few months. I'm thinking of adding more minifigure options and another optional build or something? I'm not sure what else I can do.

I'm sorry, I have no such ideas. Maybe try another project with more appeal?

[Tariq j]

There is this site: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/283797213994227995/ Which promotes Lego ideas sets to help them get 1K, I myself haven't used it and I don't know how it works but it may be worth the try.

Edited August 30, 2016 by Tariq j

[Sarah]

I love all of the pieces, but not necessarily the theme. Looks to big to pass review, though.

Laugh. Whereas I love the theme and not this project.

[legonerd54321]

Do you guys have any ideas on how to promote my project that's so far at 5000 supporters? Not many supports in the past few months. I'm thinking of adding more minifigure options and another optional build or something? I'm not sure what else I can do.

I guess try to contact the mods at ROBLOX (Who are very friendly, but you probably already know that ) and I think they could post another blog post about the project, maybe put the banner back up on their website. Other than that, maybe post it on the ROBLOX subreddit? Maybe some other ROBLOX forums?

[BrickJagger]

Do you guys have any ideas on how to promote my project that's so far at 5000 supporters? Not many supports in the past few months. I'm thinking of adding more minifigure options and another optional build or something? I'm not sure what else I can do.

Contact your local news agency. I've seen them report on Ideas projects created locally, so you might be able to pick up a few hundred supporters that way.

[Blondie-Wan]

It's official - the second 2016 batch has closed, with twelve projects now entering review (joining nine projects from the prior batch nearing the end of review, for a total of 21 projects currently under review). The new twelve are:

Voltron - Defender of the Universe

The Addams Family Mansion

Star Wars UCS XP34 Landspeeder

Spaceballs - Eagle 5

Plum Creek - Little House on the Prairie

Women of NASA

The Large Hadron Collider

LEGO Observatory - Mountain View

Lovelace & Babbage

Modular Construction Site

Merchant's House

Lamborghini Veneno Roadster

We have highly detailed minifigure-scale buildings, a single much-smaller-than-minifigure-scale construct, a couple minifigures-and-vignettes-like combos, and three vehicles - two from science fiction and one from reality, two (not the same two) at much larger than minifigure scale and one not. And fully a third of the projects pertain to SCIENCE!, while just over a third are from pop-culture entertainment properties. All in all, a fairly representative selection of the sorts of things Ideas users most love to submit and support, yet once again a fresh new assortment with stuff we haven't seen before, as well as being the second-largest review batch to date, IIRC.

Which projects will be approved (if any)? This feels like a tougher call than the last two, to me, but I think the four likeliest are the three smallest real-life SCIENCE! projects (all of them but the Observatory), plus the Voltron one. I find it difficult to pare down beyond those four, though, and of course I'd love for a slew of these to be approved - in fact, I believe I supported all of them except Voltron - Defender of the Universe, and the only reason I didn't back that one is because it was posted and got fully supported in a brief time, while I was still getting caught up on other, older projects I'd missed while taking a support break (i.e., I just didn't get to it in time, but I would have happily supported it if I had). I think it'd be awesome if someday, they had a huge review batch full of terrific projects, and actually approved the whole lot. It probably won't ever happen, of course, but you never know...

Also, the latest 10k Club interview is up, in which we hear from Jurassic Park Visitor Center creator LDiEgo.

[x105Black]

Awesome!

I'd love to see Voltron, Addams Family, Lovelace & Babbage, and the Merchant's House.

Of those, I can only see Voltron and Lovelace & Babbage making it through. So I'm really hoping for Voltron.

[Khscarymovie4]

Voltron and the Women Of NASA sets are the most likely to pass review I think. Though my personal favorites are the Lego Observatory and The Merchant's House.