(For your information, Seinfeld is on there because that's also a winning and approved LEGO Ideas project, and LEGO was able to successfully acquire that licence.) Sonic was once on the no-list years ago, then was removed and made fair game, and now toastergrl used the chance to get her idea through. Sonic the Hedgehog is already on there, updated right after their announcement. LEGO maintains a whole list of licence conflicts that they know won't be valid for the LEGO Ideas platform, either because they've already been done, or because they know they can't do it. Back in 2014, someone else submitted a Sonic the Hedgehog Green Hill Zone project, and the LEGO team aborted it 1,000 supporters in, saying that another non-LEGO company has the licence to Sonic construction toys and LEGO can't possibly get it. You should also understand that it's extremely common for people to submit designs based on third-party franchises that they have no rights to. I don't think I'm authorised to repost the clean image on KoopaTV, so here's this version. Then the announcement that it'll be a real product happened February 2021. She got to 10,000 supporters as of March 2020, which is a timeline entirely before the LEGO Super Mario announcement ever happened. In the case of the Sonic Mania Green Hill Zone by Viv Grannell (also known as toastergrl), she opened it up in February 2019. Then the LEGO company will meet three times a year to consider any project that has met the 10,000 supporter threshold and decide whether your idea should become a real product. (60 days to get 100 supporters, another 365 days to get 1000 supporters, 182 days afterwards to get 5,000 supporters, and finally another 182-day extension to reach a total of 10,000 supporters.) There's the skill of taking photos and having structural LEGO integrity, and then there's the skill of being able to market and promote your campaign. ![]() The LEGO set, which gets a description and updates akin to a Kickstarter campaign, has a certain number of days to get supporters, in several different stages. Per some guidelines, creative LEGO fans (and these are an intense and dedicated bunch) can submit LEGO sets for community voting, and it takes very little to join the community and be eligible to vote. ![]() ![]() I'll share what I've found out with you so you can have complete and good reporting, which leads me (and will lead you) to the conclusion that this is nothing like the LEGO Super Mario project.Īt the core of understanding this announcement-LEGO and SEGA are working together to develop this design, which currently has no defined price point or release date-is understanding the LEGO Ideas platform. After all, you look at the harm caused by the collaboration between LEGO and Nintendo with LEGO Super Mario (which is summarised from KoopaTV's GOTY 2020 article's Best KoopaTV Series of 2020 award), and the idea that SEGA could be joining in for double mascot trouble is terrifying.īut then I actually read LEGO's press release about the LEGO Sonic Mania Green Hill Zone set, and I thoroughly investigated the backstory of their announcement, instead of relying on incomplete (and bad) gaming media reporting. W hen I first heard that there would be a Sonic the Hedgehog set by LEGO, I was worried. By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Unlike the plumber LEGO sets, this one appears to be pure in intent.
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