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Lego Ideas Boeing 747 Cockpit Achieves 10k Supporters

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Re: Lego Ideas Boeing 747 Cockpit Achieves 10k Supporters

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Victerius wrote: post #13
Tomte wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's where fans can submit their own creations. At 10k supporters Lego takes a closer look (fitness for the Ideas series, cost of production, IP rights etc.). If Lego decides to build it, the fan gets a share of the profit from the set. Lego Ideas is the premier adult Lego series, with lots of cool sets at high price points.

10,000 people on a website looks like an easy number to reach, and one that bots or a group of loosely organized trolls (4chan) could easily game. Maybe 50,000 should be the requirement?

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Re: Lego Ideas Boeing 747 Cockpit Achieves 10k Supporters

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Post by Tomte »

Victerius wrote: post #14
throwaway889900 wrote: post #7

Probably not going to pass by LEGO's review board, like a lot of these aircraft projects.

Would Boeing be entitled to a share of the proceeds from the sale of 747 sets?

That's part of the review happening at 10k supporters.

For all practical purposes the answer is yes. It would have to licensed from Boeing. This set doesn't make sense (at 150 to 200 Euros, based on the number of pieces) without being able to call it a "Boeing 747". Few people would buy a no-name airplane cockpit. So Lego needs the trademark license.

Re: Lego Ideas Boeing 747 Cockpit Achieves 10k Supporters

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Post by [deleted] »

Victerius wrote: post #13
Tomte wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's where fans can submit their own creations. At 10k supporters Lego takes a closer look (fitness for the Ideas series, cost of production, IP rights etc.). If Lego decides to build it, the fan gets a share of the profit from the set. Lego Ideas is the premier adult Lego series, with lots of cool sets at high price points.

10,000 people on a website looks like an easy number to reach, and one that bots or a group of loosely organized trolls (4chan) could easily game. Maybe 50,000 should be the requirement?

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Re: Lego Ideas Boeing 747 Cockpit Achieves 10k Supporters

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Post by loudmax »

The Boeing cockpit looks awesome, but still waiting for Lego Van Gogh's Starry Night to be made available: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/acc7c4c8-3967-4563-8fb5-a498...

It was approved in 2020 but no release date yet. There's evidently a long lag between approval and actual release.

Re: Lego Ideas Boeing 747 Cockpit Achieves 10k Supporters

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Post by t0mas88 »

Daneel_ wrote: post #25

For those interested, a second aircraft-related Ideas submission that has a higher likelihood of making it to production is this "aircraft engine workshop": https://ideas.lego.com/projects/224b606d-44d0-452e-9693-88be...

Nice! And very cool to see the photos and videos done with KLM.

Re: Lego Ideas Boeing 747 Cockpit Achieves 10k Supporters

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Post by flyinprogrammer »

andyford wrote: post #15
flyinprogrammer wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clearly not Web Scale. Edit: this was a poor attempt at humor

It's one guy with a Lego fan hobby blog. Not everything needs to be Web Scale all the time

I 100% agree!
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