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Link Loses Out To Marty McFly In Lego Cuusoo Review

Lego Cuusoo is a website that challenges brick builders to create sets that could potentially be turned into official Lego products. This process consists of three steps:

  • Have an idea? Create a project, share your product concept, and see what other people think.
  • Get 10,000 supporters. Projects with 10,000 supporters are reviewed quarterly by LEGO for a chance to become an official Lego product.
  • Receive royalty. If your project passes review and is chosen for production, you will receive 1% of the total net sales of the product. See the guidelines for more details.

Video game-inspired sets fare quite well with the Lego community. Last year, a fan-made Minecraft set passed approvals and was put into production. This year, sets based on The Legend of Zelda and Eve Online both made it to the review process.

Neither set was selected for production. They both lost out to the time-traveling DeLorean from the Back to the Future films. This is a tough loss for Link and Zelda fans, but I gotta say, that Back to the Future set looks awesome. I wouldn't mind adding it to my collection.

You can view Lego Cuusoo's winner selection in the video below.

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  • 1%!! if i spend time coin all that crap i better get 20.

    to bad zelda lost, i like that game.
  • A sad loss, but nostalgia hit home with Mcfly more for dem Lego boys than Zelda. Woulda preferred the latter but the former is pretty cool too.

  • I supported the Zelda Lego sets myself on the site and am massively disappointed. Curse Lego's cheapness. I suppose that the Delorean looks nice, but man, the Ocarina's the way to time travel!

  • Portal 2 Lego's would be awesome! I just hope the Lego sets they make aren't as rare and as expensive as the Minecraft one.
  • I suspect The Legend of Zelda actually won, but Doc and Marty jumped in the Delorean and went back to the time just before the votes were cast and altered the results.
  • portal 2 would be nice.

  • :) I love Legos.

  • Oooh, it's like picking between my children. ...Except I don't have any children, but you know what I meant. On one hand, it's Zelda, my favorite video game franchise. I wish it could have won, but... On the other hand, it's Back to the Future, my favorite movie of all time, so I'm happy it won. I guess I will be buying some LEGOs in the near future. HAHA GET IT BECAUSE BACK TO THE FUTURE
  • they said that the amount of new minifigs they would have to make would be too expensive for it to make sense. They should have picked Zelda but that set pictured is really not that interesting

  • Yeah, a Zelda set would be awesome, but as a child of the 1980s I can't be mad that it was BTTF that beat it out.

  • I love the Lego company. They seem to truly care about their customers and seem to solely be about improving all the Legos out there to make everyone happy.

  • Too bad lego products are so darn expensive! unless of course you make royalties from them.

  • *Looks at the Lego Zelda masterpiece... Goes out to buy Legos*

  • *Kanye West voice on*

    I'm sorry Back to the Future, but Zelda deserved to win!

  • Aw, I was rooting for The Legend of Zelda project :( I like BttF, but I would much rather see a TLoZ set.

  • Make all the sets!!!

  • Basically I'd want all of them to be made. "Thinking with Portals" would be wonderful. A really cool set for my little girl and I to play with together, but a really cool set in general. Not enough LEGO toys out there that speak to girls and boys at the same time. Not nearly enough LEGO toys out there that speak to girls and are actually cool. (Only for lack of imagination and trying.)
  • I think it's ****ing awesome that LEGO even does this. And it's awesome that we'll soon get LEGO Back to the Future... would've been nice if they made the anniversary, but whatever. It's great that they're throwing their royalty towards the Michael J. Fox foundation though. I don't think builders using another franchises' characters and items should get Royalty in the first place - it's not like they invented the idea for Legend of Zelda, EVE Online or Back to the Future, y'know? This is the right thing to do.

    We'll get Zelda eventually. I'm not too worried about that. But the Zelda set there looked bland as heck. It shouldn't look so bland - at best, it seems inspired by Zelda 2. Everyone's most hated Zelda game. It should look more like this: http://wes-talbott.deviantart.com/art/LEGO-Legend-of-Zelda-Ocarina-of-Time-318244682
  • What a nice move to donate the 1 % to parkinsons research. Kudos to the designers!

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