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Love all these!

Thanks! Thank you! Combining transforming robots are my favorite thing ever, so I had to do it. 😁

23 Solar Surveyor - The Librarian 24 Spyrius Robot Retreiver - The Librarian 25 Futuron: Nova III - Transporter - the Inventor

Hey all! Here's my entry for the Classic Space Era contest. I hope you look at all the pictures because not all is revealed until the end. Thanks for looking! If you made it this far, thanks!

That Spy Track alt is a pretty convincing space ship! Probably better than any alt builds on the box. Cool Rebel Hunter alt build as well. Space needs more helicopters. The little control tower is great.

Niiice! I love how the two pilots get the side cockpit and this HUGE surprise robot lifts out of the central cockpit. And the foldout ramp. So rad. Also wheeled robot + saucer is about a Spyrius as it gets.

Wow! Lovely shape! I mean, everything about this. Beautiful.

In minifig themes? Hmm. I'm going to say no, until proven wrong.

And joints/hinges!

I have two of those to build! Thanks for reminding me. Reminds me of the old Chima set but with a denser build and more finished look. Stickers! 😡🤜

Corporations aren't going to, like, pay someone to check submissions. It's all done by algorithms and AI. They make some random megablocks decision based on the name and we humans are left to wonder what went wrong. Don't worry, there's not going to be any logic to it. I think you guys have figured it out though: edit and re-submit until approved.

Holy smokes! https://brickset.com/article/90825/2023-speed-champions-new-elements New 1x3 and 1x4 rounded plates with hollow studs! I hope the studs are truly hollow all the way through and not just open. If so, I already have plans for them! Also, the wedged slopes are rad. And of course the new rounded 1x1x2/3 with hollow stud, already known but still worth mentioning.

Nice! I always like those big girder/support pieces used in spaceships. And the usage of trans red in the tail fins here is much more inspired than just slapping on trans red tiles like they did in the official remake. And how cool are those |4| printed racing slopes? Futuron is scared because Invaders 1 through 3 must be around somewhere!

That is freaking cool! NPU everywhere.

Oh I definitely want them to "steal" techniques if it makes Lego sets better. I also hope that Ideas influences what kinds of sets and what aesthetics Lego uses in sets, since I generally like how AFOL MOCs tend to look. And I assume that has happened over the last few years.

Sculpting is superb! Per your usual. Man I really gotta buy a bunch of those gray shield pieces. I have all sorts of ideas for those!

I really like this. The overall shape, the main cockpit shape, the improved SP2 color scheme, and especially the engines. I always thought the SP2 color scheme was messy but I think your color blocking here fixes that. Making black primary and keeping the red as little pops of color really works. And the engines, love how the trans green is used there.

Dang. Really nailed that Masami Obari aesthetic. About as badass as a mecha can look, really.

Inject this into my veins!

I see what you're saying. I'm not a lawyer so I can only guess. So there are two main disagreements here I think. What makes a Lego set obvious/unsurprising vs a set that probably would have only happened due to an Ideas submission. And what should Lego do to make everyone feel better if there is a perception from enough fans that the latter kind of sets are being made often. I can give an example of a something that IMO would definitely qualify as a coincidence: if Lego made a Knight Rider car set. We know 80s cars are popular. Ecto-1, BttF Delorean, Optimus Prime, etc etc. A Knight Rider car would follow in those footsteps and shouldn't surprise anyone. If you submitted that idea to Ideas, well, honestly it wasn't very original anyway (unless it was submitted a long time ago).

I don't really have much of a dog in the ideas plagiarism debate but I think people are really ignoring some simple truths here. One, the agreement you sign when submitting something for ideas is supposed to cover coincidences. It's right in the language of the contract. When Lego releases a set pretty soon after a the same set idea is submitted and rejected, is that really a coincidence? Not just something from the same IP, but the exact same object/location in the same style and scale as the one submitted? If you expected a Snow White Lego set, it would not be even close to what was just leaked. You would expect a set focusing on, you know, Snow freaking White and the Castle. Not the seven dwarves. Not a side location. And you'd expect a set that matches the design of other Disney Princess sets. Something with minidolls. And you know what? They did release that set and it looks nothing like the leaked Dwarves Cottage set. That's a Juniors set. Here's another non-Juniors set related to Disney Princess. You get princess minidolls and a Castle. You know, the standard things you would expect. If someone put a set like that on Ideas, yeah, it would be a coincidence if Lego then made a similar set because those are the kinds of sets Lego typically makes. Focusing on princesses and castles. But just compare the Ideas set to the recent leak. The scale, style, the roof and chimney detailing. It's about as close as any Ideas set is to the original submission. Not a coincidence. Another thing people seem to be missing. Signing away your rights to Lego doesn't mean they can't give you recognition. Maybe you don't get the Ideas prize. Tough luck. But they could say "So and so made this popular and essentially gave us the idea." And another thing people have missed. Most fans who really want this set to happen are Castle/Fantasy fans. Those people couldn't stop talking about this set. They see it as another medieval/fantasy cottage. Nothing about it looks like it's specifically a Snow White, Disney set. But that's not something that you find out until you build the set in that style and put it on Ideas and see who reacts and how. That's an accident. That's info Lego benefits from only because of the Ideas experiment. Lego wouldn't have planned that set without the happy accident of the original submission. So, maybe they don't even release the dwarve's cottage. Or maybe they do and they actually do give some credit to the Ideas submission. I don't know. But the leaked set definitely would never have been planned/considered if it weren't for the original submission.

Unironically, this. Who the heck was clamoring for a Snow White Cottage before the Ideas entry? Nobody in the world, that's who. All the trains and motorcycles they could have made but happened to pick the same models from popular Ideas entries? Probably not a coincidence.

I agree but that doesn't diminish what @Lego David said about Lego stealing Ideas entries.

Just built 60393. A perfect set. Cute truck, cool minifig, cute side build, an animal mold, prints no stickers. Bam. Also built 71780. Nice looking off-road ninja car. Can always use more chunky wheels and red parts. Not a fan of the stickers; esp. since the red doesn't match the red of the plastic. And finally 71784. Bought it because it was cheap and had blue parts, but it's not very nice looking. The windscreen is just silly. Should have been enclosed. Also there are no thrusters to speak of so how does it fly? The rear/underside is unfinished. There are a couple nice printed tiles though! And strangely, it has only two parts (curved slopes) in dark blue, even though the same curved slopes are in the set in regular blue. Weird. Also the "Evo" gimmick is pretty lame. Like, you don't build the full set. Then you do. That's "Evo"? Okay...🤣

Nice color schemes! I always knew yellow & trans blue looked pretty good. But white & trans-neon green? That also looks good! I never knew... Looks nice with the purple as well.