Before you can vote for cool new LEGO sets, or submit your own you'll need to sign in with or register for a LEGO ID: You're currently signed in to LEGO ID as . Would you like to sign in to LEGO Ideas with this LEGO ID? LEGO Ideas is designed for older builders. We’re sorry, but based on the birth date we have on file for you, this means we can't let you have an account here. Create and Share Galleries as a place to share your models with other LEGO builders like you. Are you sure you want to log out of LEGO Ideas? Buffalo Airways / Ice Pilots DC-3 Official LEGO Comments 4 This is a COLLABORATIVE project byMikey McBryan (the idea for this project, concept model funding, promotion) andSsorg (concept model design & build, running the project on CUUSOO).Description text by Mikey with added bits by Ssorg.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As Seen On TV!You have asked for it and now we need your help!
After countless hours of painstaking designing and detail collaboration with the real Airline we are proud to present this concept model for an official Buffalo Airways DC-3 LEGO set!And it is up to your support that this can become reality!CLICK THIS to see the main image above in HI-RES!And THANKS to Glen Bricker for photoshopping the main image above now with Buffalo logos! :)CLICK THIS to see the model from another angle in HI-RES!CLICK THIS to see the image above in HI-RES!The attention to detail and ultimate playability of this aircraft was at the forefront during the painstaking design phase. From the ground up our team has kept true to real life specifications of the real Douglas DC-3. The greatest challenge was to keep it close to minifig scale while not cutting corners on the recreation of this historic aircraft in the LEGO format.CLICK THIS to see a little VIDEO demonstrating the model functions!With hundreds of thousands of Buffalo Air fans worldwide we know this set will be a hit.
In addition, this fine combination of display & play value should greatly appeal to both regular folks and dedicated LEGO fans out there.Buffalo Airways has been flying real life DC-3's in Canada’s northern Territories for over 40 years and is the subject of the worldwide hit television series, ICE PILOTS NWT. Buffalo operates the last schedule year around service passenger with the DC-3 has been doing so non-stop sense 1982 (Hay River-Yellowknife).Mikey McBryan from Buffalo Airways (also seen on Ice Pilots NWT) has been collaborating of this project from the beginning and is personally spearheading the campaign to promote this project worldwide.This isn't the first time he has worked with the LEGO team, in April 2012 Buffalo Airways and Mikey were part of the new LEGOLAND Polar Expedition section in LEGOs birth place, Billund Denmark. There is an ICE PILOTS School which is modeled after Buffalo Airways hangar up in Yellowknife NWT. There is even a 3 foot LEGO Mikey and Buffalo Joe at the entrance to the ride.
Our team is very excited but the work isn’t even close to being done yet!The most important thing is we need YOUR help!! How you might ask?--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------THIS is how it works:LEGO CUUSOO is an official program which allows people to freely suggest and support new ideas for future LEGO products. If a project, like this one, gets 10,000 "supports" the LEGO company will carefully study the concept and considers turning it into a product available for anyone to buy. All you need to do is1) create a CUUSOO user account OR connect via FB or Twitter, and2) click the "SUPPORT" button on any projects you wish to see produced.A few important pieces of advice:1) Liking the project on Facebook or sharing it via Twitter, while helps the project become known, does NOT count as a "support" and will not contribute to the actual commercialization process.2) When clicking "support" this website then asks how much would you be willing to pay for such a product;
this does NOT bind you into buying the product for such price, it is merely the company gathering anonymous data which helps to determine how commercially viable a product like this would be.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please cast your supporting vote and spread the word, inform your family, your friends, and anyone you know who could be interested in supporting this LEGO set idea - the path to 10,000 supports is a long one and this mission needs any help it can get! :Dl THE ORIGINAL DC-3 PROJECT l AIRSHIP l SAILBOAT l TITANIC l LOG CABIN lThe Stuka airplane soaring over the Transportation Gallery at the Museum of Science and Industry has been grounded, at least for a few more days. It has been lowered to the floor by its cables and is undergoing a deep cleaning and inspection.The Stuka, or more specifically the 1941 Junkers Ju-87R-2 Tropical Stuka, a German WWII-era dive bomber, is exceedingly rare, one of two such intact aircraft left in the world.
While it is undergoing servicing, which includes a 3-D computer scan, museumgoers can watch the crews work and get a closer look. They might notice the airplane is in less-than-perfect condition, though that's no fault of the MSI. There are bullet holes in the fuselage, which is part of the explanation of how it came to Chicago, says Kathleen McCarthy, the museum's director of collections. The Stuka was forced down in fighting over North Africa and made an emergency landing in Libya just before the British captured the German air base. After the war, it came to America as part of a tour of war relics put on by the British Information Services and was donated after the tour. That's also how the exhibit's companion plane came to be hanging at the MSI, McCarthy says. "About a year later," she says, "the British thought, 'Well, you ought to have an Allied aircraft too. Would you like a Spitfire as well?'"The historic aircraft on display in the hall also include the British Supermarine Mark 1A Spitfire (regarded by some as one of the prettiest planes ever built, a praise few would heap on the Stuka), as well as a 1917 Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny" biplane, a 1928 Boeing 40B mail-transport plane and the 1930 Texaco TravelAir Model R racing plane.