Designer Lego.cuusoo "Back to the Future" on sale from August 1

All geeks favorite company Lego officially announced that from August 1, the stores come in a new set of "Back to the Future."



The set was proposed on the project ideas.lego.com , which I wrote about last October. This is a crowdfunding service. Anyone can offer their project, and if he gets more than 10,000 votes, Lego begins to consider him as a candidate for production.

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Specifically, this project was created two years ago on August 1, 2011. 5000 supporters scored in March 2012, 10,000 votes were collected already in April. And in December, Lego announced that it would release a designer.



August 1, the designer appeared on the official websites of Lego in America and Europe. In Russia there is no.



But the video in which Tim says that the Lego.cuusoo team chose the typewriter from the movie for the fourth designer from the series.





 

Project creators

The creator of the project Masashi Togami is entitled to 1% of sales. But he has already stated that he transferred this money to the foundation of Michael Fox , the same actor who played Marty McFly in Back to the Future. The fund is funding drug development in the fight against Parkinson's disease.



True, there is one thing: Masashi Togami works at lego.cuusoo. So it may be that giving up royalties is an elegant way to get away from arguing about whether lego.cuusoo employees can participate in the development on an equal footing with ordinary fans.

 

What's inside?

The project has been thoroughly redesigned by Lego designers. Initially, the developers experimented more with the clothes of the characters and tried to implement the flight of the machine and the skating of Marty on an anti-gravity skateboard.



But in the future, the Lego designers (I want to remind you that in English the designer is more a designer than a “draftsman”) decided to focus on the typewriter and on its ability to change. In fact, we have a set from which you can build 3 slightly different cars, as they varied from series to series.







The set includes two Marty and Doc minifigures, in the clothes of the first series. Marty has a skate, how can you get to school without him?







The price has not yet been announced, but it can be assumed that it will be up to $ 50, in Russia it is about 2,000 rubles. Stay tuned for the best prices !



Let's hope that this designer will officially fall into Russia, unlike the previous three. Because buying a Minecraft set for 3300, with the official price of $ 35 in the States and Europe, this somehow violates the rights of Russian fans.

 

What's next?

On the Kuzu already appeared a project of the company Beef on a black Ford . The project has already gained a thousand votes in two weeks.







The designer is not big, but charismatic, and the probability of achieving success with him is higher than that of another project:







This paravoz from the third part . The locomotive is definitely cool, but:

- there are a lot of details, plus a control panel, as a result, dear,

- in terms of role-playing games, not so interesting.



Perhaps that is why I scored a little less than 3,000 votes in six months. The author of both projects is the same Togati . In his collection of projects, there is also a building model with a clock from the movie (almost 1,000 votes) and a dock time machine on the radio control (more than 5000).

 

Cuusoo next constructor

Already announced that the next designer Cuusoo will be the model of the rover Curiosity . When it goes on sale and how much it will cost is not known.







By the way, twice in a row in the competition for the next official designer lost a project based on the game Portal 2 .







Success (10,000 votes) was achieved a year ago. Twice the project competed, and twice remained outside the story. Maybe this time you are lucky?

 

ideas.lego.com

The Japanese project cuusoo.com lives and develops. Lego Company collaborated with him and made sure that the idea was viable. And she moved to her site ideas.lego.com .

Authorship

The author of the article is Vadim Galkin . When copying the material please refer to my personal site.