{"id":229,"date":"2012-04-20T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/20\/little-guys-in-space\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T02:02:21","slug":"little-guys-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/20\/little-guys-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLittle Guys\u2026 In Space!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of you know about LEGO’s Cuusoo<\/a> web-site.  On one level, it’s a neat way of crowd-sourcing product ideas; separating out the “wants” from a few individuals, from ideas that are potentially in demand. The down-side to it: people’s taste are fickle and most of the current ideas proposed are more licensed products (not very many original ideas).  But there have been projects that I do support, for instance the Palette Buckets<\/a> (a similar idea I had many years ago when I was looking to build larger castle structures), the Buket ‘o Plate<\/a> idea (because honestly who has enough plates?), and LEGO Phineas and Ferb<\/a> (’cause I like the show).<\/p>\n

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The Minecraft Cuusoo project reaching it’s goal of 10K supporters, really didn’t surprise me; I’ve been playing the game and following it on reddit<\/a> for some time.  I see how much of a fan following it has, and one word from Notch can make\/break a web-site; so by Notch tweeting the project, I knew there would be no problems hitting that goal.  I was a little surprised by the Shaun of the Dead project; other than Simon Pegg<\/a> mentioning it on Conan, I didn’t realize it had a cult following that big.  \ud83d\ude42  Don’t get me wrong, I like Simon Pegg and Nick Frost films and TV shows, but wow… that’s amazing!<\/p>\n
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On another topic, our LUG had been approached about doing a large scale model; turns out that finding funding to start building the model has been difficult to secure.  One of the ideas I had back in October was to find funding via Kickstarter<\/a> — I hope to post more details later if we decide to take this route.  But in general, I think this is a great venue for raising money to help fund future LEGO projects — in theory, I’d hope they be charitable in nature, but I can see helping out the occasional ‘starving artist’.  But I can also see it help fund art projects that a small group of people couldn’t accomplish alone… assuming other people believe in the idea and pledge their support.<\/div>\n
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If you haven’t seen this yet, please check out David Pagano’s Kickstarter project, \u201cLittle Guys\u2026 In Space!<\/a>\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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