With simply 1,000 votes to head, a fan LEGO fashion designer's dream of a sensible sewerage-themed set could quickly turn out to be fact together with your assist.
LEGO has never launched a sewerage-themed set - this fan submission should grow to be the primary.
LEGO IDEAS is an internet platform in which fan builders can post their very own fashions. Once the balloting phase begins, they aim for gaining as many 'supporters' as viable, trying to reach the remaining intention of 10,000 votes.
Only a few initiatives make it this some distance and enhance to the 'evaluate' degree, getting the risk of being launched as an legit LEGO IDEAS retail set – if the jury deems the model tremendous and nicely-made, suitable for the brand and marketable.
The first of its kind
Being an 'AFOL' (Adult Fan Of LEGO) building my very own tasks for decades, I submitted the primary-ever sensible sewerage-themed version 'Basement & Sewerage' on the IDEAS platform below my alias MOCingbird (within the LEGO international 'MOC' stands for 'My Own Creation') in September 2020.
My set not most effective focuses on a topic LEGO has never covered earlier than with any launch, except for some 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' play units, this model is likewise the primary-ever underground extension for the brand’s popular 'Modular Buildings' line.
LEGO sewerage workers.
Paying tribute to underground workers
Initially I was going to design only a basement, but soon I realised the model’s front needed something really worth seeing instead of just a dull basement wall. So I came up with the idea of integrating a sewerage at the front. It proved to be the perfect solution.
First of all, it looked very nice, secondly it was something LEGO had never done before. And last, but not least, it provided a good opportunity to pay tribute to all the men and women working underground every day, keeping everything running down there – that’s why I decided to also include two sewerage technicians on their routine checks, making them the main protagonists of the set.
In the end I wanted to incorporate a funny aspect, too, that’s when the (hidden) albino alligator got into the game. It took several months of designing, building and revising until I eventually finished the model and could finally make the project ready for upload on LEGO IDEAS.
LEGO basement sewerage model.
A set for everyone
'Basement & Sewerage' may be used as an underground extension for LEGO’s 'Modular
Buildings' and as a standalone set as properly. It makes for a nice display piece for person LEGO enthusiasts, however I also designed it strong sufficient and playable for kids to have fun with – furthermore there’s the educational aspect as children analyze something approximately the urban underground at the same time as playing.
Besides the sewerage section, there’s a whole basement on the back, of direction, with distinctive cubicles, a mechanical room, a janitor’s room (together with the mysterious janitor and his cat), a secret 'Safe Room', hidden stashes and lots extra to be observed.
The basement also has detachable outer walls, so you can get entry to and see the whole lot flawlessly even from the edges. It’s up to your personal imagination what memories may happen inside the sewerage or the basement, or which way you would like to display the version.
...And with masses of modification alternatives
Of path, aside from the prototype status beside me, all of this would stay not anything however a fan clothier’s big dream, as long as I didn’t persuade 10,000 humans to hit that important 'Support' button on the LEGO IDEAS venture web page.
When I started selling my submission on different online structures, I was in reality amazed approximately how enthusiastic human beings from very one of a kind organizations commenced commenting and helping the submission proper away. It changed into as though this became something they had continually been expecting (which honestly is the case due to the fact the whole underground extension concept is an all-new idea no LEGO set and no IDEAS submission has ever addressed earlier than).
Supporters also mentioned dozens of additional change alternatives for the set – starting from train tunnels (front) to underground garages (again) to all sorts of movie settings like financial institution heist movies or scenes from 'Ghostbusters' or 'The Mandalorian'.
How to advantage 10,000 supporters
In a current dialogue about my project in a Facebook institution, one member who favored the sewerage angle of the version instructed me that he and 3 of his pals had been designing waste water infrastructure for decades, and he referred to that from his point of view my venture became really worth sharing with ICE.
So I concept, all right, even the experts like my version, so why no longer provide it a attempt to just attain out to ICE? A few days later I were given a friendly reply, telling me they favored my 'Basement & Sewerage', too. Furthermore I became invited to to write an editorial about my mission for their internet site weblog (that's what I’m doing proper now).
If you like my model and want to see it as an reputable LEGO set soon, feel unfastened to vote for it with the aid of
hitting the Support button right here. Otherwise. LEGO will maximum probably never come up with a fixed like this in their personal accord.
So it’s up to all of you currently to allow them to understand there’s sincerely a call for and to lead them to think about it with the aid of pushing my submission into the 'LEGO Review'. An super 9,000 votes are already in, only a short manner to get to the specified 10,000.
Thanks plenty in your aid!
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