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Thank you both, @RichardGoring and @BrickBob Studpants. As the former mentioned I will be sharing alternate builds ala the original pitch's second model some time in January, when I get the opportunity to put instructions together, and will make sure to note them here.

Thank you very much @adwind!! It is a tremendous excitement for sure, even with the shift in focus. I do remember you saying that - I should have trusted you in that moment rather than kept on worrying about it :P I hope everyone enjoys 21331 as it is released ^u^

Oh, wow. Nice part usage for both the pullback motorisation and the interesting neck angles - this little robot is wonderful for sure!

I've been a bit busy, but god that Home Alone set is solid. They took a great concept model and made it way better, and I wish I had display space for something like that ^u^;; Absolutely up there with Barracuda Bay as the pinnacle of large play-focused Ideas sets, methinks.

It's legal, but whether it's permitted by the Ideas moderation staff is a different question. There was inconsistency on this beforehand. I had my Sonic project returned to me at the very start because I'd used an official logo, while other projects seemed to get away with this - but the rules changed in February to prevent this kind of thing entirely. Your product concept has to stand on its own merits without an on-site logo. This doesn't prevent you from using a logo in offsite promotion, though. On that topic... This is just an aside, but I couldn't help but note that your account is pretty new. Understand that this isn't an accusation, but iit's worth getting to know this space and not just post your project somewhere without learning. For example, with just a little look around you could have discovered that there is a LEGO Ideas thread in the "General LEGO Discussion" subforum. It's now considered bad form to post your project in there yourself (I'll leave the place you should post it if it's approved as an exercise for you to find), but the thread I linked is the perfect place to ask questions like these if you run into any more problems. In any case - welcome to Eurobricks, and good luck with your next steps!

Holy dang, these are magnificent. Exemplary work!!

Jeepers creepers, this is incredible. I really love how it deliberately plays up being a monster of staggering scale compared to that of the minifig skeleton! The combination of cloth and machinery brings me back to the original Bionicle material, too. Great work!

I really like the way curving has been combined with smaller details to create a machine that looks both cuddly and greebly at the same time - plus the cake gun! Very nice work :D

Thank you very much ^u^ I've been pretty frazzled by the warm reception. It got LEGO trending on twitter...

Thank you everyone :D Pretty gutted that my survival in both rounds I've been in has been at the cost of practically every other project... but congrats to legotruman for their Starry Night project's success! That design is like nothing else, incredibly interesting for sure.

Second stage of voting is up. Of particular note is that the Ideas team noted their mistake with splitting the Castle vote but didn't want to crowd out Pirates, so it's now a Top Four rather than a Top Three. Classy stuff!

I saw this on Twitter and instantly RT'd (not to mention on-site supported)! Positively charming, and fingers crossed for it ^u^

Precisely my reasoning why I didn't pick Classic Space or Paradisia (which lives on in Friends)! Ice Planet 2000, Rock Raiders, and BIONICLE for me. First two should be self-explanatory, and while an entire reboot for the last is definitely nonviable a second time, a single adult-aimed collector set is right up my alley.

Downright charming set, they knocked out of the park! Not sure about the 18+ branding here, but the entire thing is pretty magnificent if I say so myself. The designer is allowed to publish the instructions for the original concept, but they are not allowed to put them up for sale (ie, money).

I mean, it also happens with non-licensed projects. whatsuptoday and Spacemd's Saturn V Launch Tower is a particularly high-profile example, but if you'd use the same arguments that it's a recognisable "location"/set concept, GabKremo's Dock was knocked off as well - and that's a hundred percent original idea, insofar as it's a structure that wouldn't draw high attention outside of being well-built. I've done my research, and in many ways I'm thankful that my own project only attracted the attention of hobbyist minifig cloners working through Amiami. I think you're letting your distaste for license-based Ideas cloud properly understanding this topic. (I wrote this before Peppermint_M's post, but I think it's still appropriate to share.)

Under regular cicrumstances you might be in trouble on account of LEGO legally owning any submitted Product Idea (for 3 years) so you can't take legal action yourself, and there are unfortunately multiple examples of clone brands taking Idea concepts and selling them themselves where the company has not seen it necessary to take the KO down. However since you're in review they have a vested interest in protecting the concept in case they place it into production, so I advise you contact a LEGO Ideas representative about it to discuss. If you've already been contacted about the 10k interview everyone gets I'd recommend shooting off an email to the person who sent you that; otherwise, support DOT ideas AT lego DOT com is your best bet. How do clone brands end up recreating these things so thoroughly, anyways? Have you shared the instructions or CAD model(s) online, or is it some scummy builder's job to go through promising concepts and attempt to recreate them brick by brick to try to snipe the opportunity?

Definitely thrown me for a loop, but there being no news regarding my set is good news - means they're giving the decision their full attention. Thanks for the well wishes @JintaiZ! It's a bit of a shock to see only one confirmed project from this review, but that's how the cookie crumbles with a crowdsourcing (or is it crowdbuilding?) platform - with a lot of choice for the Ideas team, it is a mathematical inevitability that some people will lose out, even if the quantity is staggering right now. I'm also sure the Music contest's timing may have taken up some production capacity as well. In any case, I am quite excited for that Globe! Congratulations to Disneybrick and the winner of the contest (dunno if he's on Eurobricks), and my condolences to everyone else in this session. Hope things work out for more people in the next one!

I believe it was confirmed during the Steamboat Willie reaction that new molds for Ideas have been possible since Doctor Who, the bill just needed to be footed by another department (Dimensions and CMF) rather than themselves. They still kept the rule of "no proposals that require new molds" so that if nobody wants to pick it up a proposal that'd otherwise sell wouldn't fall at the last hurdle. We going to see a Sesame Street CMF in short order, then..?

That's a really great approach. I didn't quite get the appeal of LEGO Mario's digital aspect at first, but I can see that it really helps with MOCs like these. Maybe I just need to get into power functions :P

Huh, that's interesting. I thought it was rumoured that the Seasame Street set would be the next to be revealed. Guess that was wrong! Not that I'm complaining - the Piano is definitely one of the concepts I've been looking forward to, even if it's not exactly the kind of thing I'd want to display. Anything with mechanical arrangement in System is particularly delicious.

Typewriter's my favourite of the ones that got picked, and I totally love the idea of the Home Alone set but probably not enough for the sheer cost of that big house, but I'm totally struck by how much of a miss Seinfeld is. Is it really that popular worldwide? It has zero cultural impact over here, versus something F.R.I.E.N.D.S. and Big Bang Theory being strong examples of the genre. A huge shame about BIONICLE and Ratatouille as well, but what can you do - two solid picks out of three is a pretty solid spread already. In any case, congrats to everyone that made it, and condolences to the ones that didn't!

Yeah, I was going to say - the Simpsons being on air for decades and being shown in so many different countries has almost certainly done incalcuable harm to the PR image of LEGO's "yellow is race-neutral" stance. No matter how consistent and well-intentioned LEGO have been with their intent, intent isn't a watertight defense against some major outside context like that. In my eyes, if LEGO were to consider fighting this outside brand deterioration a lost cause, leaning into that approach would be the least disruptive thing they could do. It'd prevent another overwhelmingly base-breaking moment like the introduction of the standard fleshies or bley in that it'd maintain a large deal of compatibility with pre-existing collections, and not have a major increase in development/storage costs. Having the several-step spectrum go from tradtional yellow to the existing fleshie reddish-brown, so those faces can be used across both licensed and unlicensed themes, would be the smart thing to do. As an experimental extra potentially incorporate some sort of skintone randomisation in sets (or at least Build A Minifig stations), where the shade of bonce differs between multiple uses of the same faceprint. That of course comes with a whole heaping of caveats, including the fact that it would cast serious shade (pun not intended) on previous lines. The current situation of incorporating multiple cultures' features, outfits and other details into yellow figures with a focus on not being an unrepresentative caricature has a lot going for it, and I think it's an admirable approach, but the damage is done and I think there's a real chance they might finally decide to rip the band-aid off and take a move towards something like the second paragraph... maybe not this decade, but the one after? You never know.

I was almost thinking the opposite - that they're leaving the door open to call things early and start a smaller session with slightly less time assigned to it? Admittely it'd still potentially be more throughput than usual, but it might prevent so many Ideas being considered in the same moment. Thank you very much ^u^

The blog post is up! No sign of any changes to the system, so maybe they're waiting to see how things go for the next one - but of potential note is that while the January writeup told us the end of the session was today, this one doesn't tell us when the end of the session beginning today is. Keeping their options open..?

That's pretty interesting to know. Guess I know my Ideas history less than I thought, considering I was under the impression the previous max was 12 (the last session of 2019!) - I followed the site's western launch a lot in its earliest Minecraft and Portal days (RIP to the latter project... ), but was off the ball until relatively recently. As expected, the submission period for the first review session of 2020 is over, since all the projects have been progressed to the "In Review" stage. Blog post likely forthcoming later, it'll be interesting to see whether there'll be any special handling of this session due to how jam-packed it is or potential changes to the Ideas format as a consequence.