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[1] It started in 2008 as an offshoot of the Japanese website Cuusoo. Lego Ideas was first introduced as an offshoot of the Japanese website Cuusoo, produced as a collaboration between that company and The Lego Group. Titled Lego Cuusoo, the site was labeled a beta site and remained so until the unveiling of Lego Ideas as a finished product.[2] In 2014, the platform moved to Chaordix. Users express their idea by combining a written description of the idea and a sample Lego model that demonstrates the concept into a project page. Once the page is published it is viewable to other users. The goal of every project is to be supported by 10,000 different users, which would then make the project eligible for review. At first, projects would be kept on the Cuusoo/Ideas website for up to two years and then taken down if the project did not reach the 10,000 required votes of support. Lego Ideas later changed the threshold to include a minimum number of 1,000 votes in the first year after submission or the project would expire, followed by six months to reach 5,000 and then another six months to reach the 10,000 supported votes.
Originally, project submissions were allowed to be about anything and had no limits on the size and style of project. After sets began to be rejected with stated reasons, Lego Ideas announced restrictions on content including the use of no new part molds, banning intellectual properties owned by competing toy companies, and adult content. Lego Ideas further restricted project submissions in June 2016 by limiting the size of the project, any project replicating a life-size weapon, and any project based on an intellectual property already produced as a set by Lego Ideas/Cuusoo. All eligible projects are collectively reviewed in the order of whichever projects hit 10,000 supporters within any of the three tri-annual deadlines of May, September, or January. Due to the increasing number of project submissions based on ideas that the Lego Company would reject, Lego Ideas has refined its submission standards over the years. Since its inception, a number of sets that have reached the 10,000 vote threshold have been rejected during the review for various reasons.
Some rejected sets have been based on specific intellectual properties were rejected due to the content matter presented. Anything which contains alcohol, sex, drugs, religious references, post-World War II warfare or based on a first-person shooter is deemed inappropriate for younger Lego fans.[1] IPs that have been rejected for this reason have been based on Firefly[5] and Shaun of the Dead. Other projects which have been rejected include ones based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic due to the property being owned by rival toy manufacturer Hasbro,[7] certain sets based on The Legend of Zelda due to the need to create too many original molds, although Lego did not completely rule out other projects based on the franchise,[8] and a Sandcrawler set for the Ultimate Collector Series due to The Lego Group's ongoing collaboration with Lucasfilm on Lego In the first 2015 review, announced in October 2015, no projects were selected for the first time[10] as the many projects were rejected for various reasons.
Many of these projects would not have met the revised submission standards issued in June 2016. If the product is cleared for production, it is developed and later released as an official set under the "Lego Ideas" banner. Users that have their projects produced receive ten copies of the final set, as well as a 1% royalty of the product's net sales. Currently fifteen sets have been produced and eighteen sets have been announced: Set based on an original idea Set based on an existing theme/license or intellectual property Bold line indicates when branding changed from Cuusoo to Ideas ^ a b cThe Marvel Super Heroes line continues to be as popular as ever and recent sets based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe have given us some of the best sets yet not to mention some pretty cool Minifigures. Later this year the Marvel universe takes a step into the cosmic zone with Marvel Studio’s Doctor Strange. Ahead of the films release this October, the honour of the first piece of merchandise to hits stores, goes to a LEGO set.
It’s officially released on Monday and we have been lucky enough to track one down. But how does it shape up? Here’s our review of set 76060: Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum. Banish the portal beast from Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum! Team up and expel the portal beast from Doctor Strange’s mysterious headquarters with some super-heroic supernatural action! Fend it off with Doctor Strange’s mystical artifacts, and evade being captured by the portal beast’s tentacles using the cape of levitation. Send in Karl Mordo to battle the beast with his quarterstaff, and help The Ancient One strike with the powerful magical fans at her fingertips! The set is made up of three sections each of which make up a wall of Doctor Strange’s Sanctum. As you build it feels like the sections are really weakly connected but as you progress through the build this is soon rectified with other elements. The focal point of the set is the large window section in the central wall, which has been quite prominent in most of the early promotional material.
The detail of the window is cleverly achieved with four large sword blades, they look a little odd to start with as they are slightly misaligned due to the shape of the element but once the surround has been build around them it’s works really well. The right-hand section of the build features a portal to another dimension and from within it a monstrous beast is trying to break through. This has a little gear system built into the back of it which allows for the beasts mouth and red tentacles to be turned around with a twist of handle. But this isn’t the only ‘play’ feature in the set, the designer has gone to great lengths to include a host of magical abilities, from a couple of clear rods, hinged into the wall, to allow Minifigures to ‘levitate’ in the air. There’s a also a ball on the wall on which you can place Strange’s cape and wiggle it around as it had a life of its own. The rest of the build is mainly set dressing, but this is where the build gets quite fun.
The bookshelves make great use of elements and build techniques to create the finished article. You’ll find many text books filled with ancient spells and various props connected to the character, such as a top hat, magical crystal, and a couple of candles on the table. I really like these, they are simply made from a couple of goblet elements, 1×1 round bricks and a couple of flame elements. There’s a number of flat tiles in both 1×2 and 2×2 formats included, oddly these are a mixture of printed and stickered. The printed ones are older elements which have appeared in previous sets, but at least stickers are easy enough to apply. These elements do offer a couple of fun easter eggs including a letter from Stark Industries and the Wi-Fi password. There are three Minifigures included with the set each one based on the MCU version of the characters. Of course the best of the bunch is Doctor Stephen Strange, who we’ve previously seen in Minifigure form in the LEGO Marvel video games.
The version included here is a little different from the digital one but is just as cool. Doctor Strange is played by Benedict Cumberbatch so if you’ve ever wanted to own a mini Cumberbatch now is your chance. He includes a funky new cape element which is a little tricky to fold correctly in order to achieve the iconic collar the character is known for. Collared capes are nothing new but previously they have been achieved with two separate pieces of material. Strange’s hair is a new variant of the Joker hair, now in black with white streaks. The head element has a double-sided face, both equally beardy. The Minifigure also makes use of a new 2016 element dubbed the ‘Stud with knob’ it’s basically a 1×1 round stud with an additional bar which is the perfect size to fit a Minifigures hand. These are connected to a couple of ‘bin lid’ disc which are transparent with print detail. It’s a fun way of trying to portray Strange’s magical abilities and I’ve have liked to of seen a few other coloured discs to represent different magical spells.
The other Minifigures represent Tilda Swindon’s The Ancient One, a bald magical mystic who mentors Stephen Strange in the ways of ancient arts. The Minifigure is a OK recreation of the character, with print detail around the entire head. But the legs and torso are a little questionable, they are mainly purple and pearl gold coloured on the Minifigure but from what we’ve seen of the character in trailers etc, this outfit doesn’t match with anything seen so far. In fact the outfit looks more like Mads Mikkelsen’s character Kaecilius. That said the pearl gold colour does go quite well with the purple. The Ancient One also includes two fan elements complete with gold detail to represent eldritch calligraphy. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Baron Karl Mondo fairs a little better, but feels the plainest of the included Minifigures although it looks more like the on-screen character. He includes a double-sided head and a quarterstaff weapon. The set has some fun detail and I really like the way magical elements have been built into it.