support the macross lego project on lego cuusoo

[tipatat]

http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/638

if he gets 10,000 supporters it WILL get made officially by lego.

(this is not my project)

[frothymug]

Pretty cool work, but getting 10000 supporters is not going to get an official nod from Lego.

Is it just me, or do some of those parts look like they're rendered by a computer?

[tipatat]

i might have been a bit over enthusiastic, since technically, it still needs to go through the review process, but there is an official comment of support from the LEGO CUUSOO team on the vf page. there are also links to a youtube movie of the transformation and a ton more pict on flickr of different variants.

give some support!

[neoexcaliber]

Holy crap that's pretty impressive! I haven't played with Legos in a while but I'd definitely get this. The transformation sequence is pretty accurate too.

[Ganbare]

Look cool. Support it.

[Mommar]

The arms being so far back under the wings in Gerwalk is odd, but it's also kind of charming.

[MechTech]

Not bad! I'd love to see one of these on the shelf. - MT

[bigkid24]

Why can't he just upload it to the LEGO website so that people can buy the model. Do they still offer that service?

[tipatat]

@bigkid24 - unfortunately lego stopped that program and replaced it with this cuusoo project. so the best we can do is try and get 10,000 votes. get the word out.

[IScustom]

Now their aim is 13.52% complete. Very cool project!

[UN Spacy]

Let's keep those responses coming.

Come on folks!

[Graham]

Err, I wonder if Lego know about the licensing issue with Macross?

Graham

[Mommar]

$20 says they do not and will only find out about it if this thing reaches 10k votes then they try to make it and find out about the morose amount of red tape.

[ultraman zoffy]

I supported it, but even still, even if it doesn't become an "official" Lego release, couldn't the guy just create instructions on how to make this thing?

[Graham]

Well, it's either go to BW for the license and sell in Japan only (is Lego even popular in Japan.....no idea????).

Or go and deal with HG............

Graham

[Lobizon]

Armored Valkyrie with missile effect!

[SchizophrenicMC]

Pretty cool work, but getting 10000 supporters is not going to get an official nod from Lego.

Actually, Lego CUSOO is an official TLG website, and TLG will give official attention to any project that reaches 10,000 supporters on CUSOO. Most recently, this happened with the Lego Minecraft project (which was recently released)

Of course, this won't actually happen, because there's too much red tape. There's not enough of a market in Japan for sets of this scale to be one-offed for that country. (There is a large LEGO market in Japan, mind you, it's just not as big as, say, the US market)

As far as "putting up instructions", it doesn't help anyone, if he has access to parts that are rare at this point, or he changed any parts' colors. Bricklink is awesome, but it's not a lot of fun waiting for a million shipments of expensive, discontinued parts.

[anime52k8]

As far as "putting up instructions", it doesn't help anyone, if he has access to parts that are rare at this point, or he changed any parts' colors. Bricklink is awesome, but it's not a lot of fun waiting for a million shipments of expensive, discontinued parts.

It helps people who have giant stockpiles of legos themselves, maybe they have most/all the parts they'd need already. It can also serve as a jumping off point for people to create their own build using the parts they do have on hand. And it will help people who are so in to this that they'd be willing to hunt down all the parts they need in the right colors form various sources.

[SchizophrenicMC]

It helps people who have giant stockpiles of legos themselves, maybe they have most/all the parts they'd need already. It can also serve as a jumping off point for people to create their own build using the parts they do have on hand. And it will help people who are so in to this that they'd be willing to hunt down all the parts they need in the right colors form various sources.

I have a collection of over 16,000 elements. I can see 4 different types of elements, just in those pictures, I don't have, and most of the pieces I have that I'd need are the wrong color. If I had the instructions, I'd have to get all those pieces from Lego Pick A Brick, and whatever PAB doesn't carry, I'd have to get from individual sellers on Bricklink.com. That's inconvenient and overly expensive.

It's more convenient and economical for Lego to do something like this. Of course, licensing makes it impossible, but it doesn't help anyone to post the instructions. Anyone with all those parts is gonna have their own idea as to how to make one, anyway.

[Archer]

Threw my support for this as well. I agree about a lot of red tape to get this made though, although if anybody could do it, I think LEGO could. Furthermore, this would be a really fun product that I would totally buy considering the fact that I could transform the dazes out of it without fear of breakage, and I could even simulate battle damage

Fun product, and lots of potential....

EDIT: Why not put this on robotech.com? I'm sure there will be a lot of support there as well, regardless of whether it is macross or robotech...

Edited April 17, 2012 by Archer

[Zinjo]

This is something you want adopted for the 30th anniversary festivities.

It would be prudent to make up instructions on how to build these in case Lego Japan comes knocking on your door.

If not then hell it can be the Macross World contribution to the festivities and we can publish them on the official Macross fansite in Japan...

[Roy-Focker]

am i the only guy in the background who has ALOT of parts and peices to make this but is Confused how to do it and where to put it?

am i the only guy asking for Instructions? Someone please show us how to build it! i will do it totally! and give some away to my bros as gifts! lol