Assault on Wayne Manor approaches 10k
Posted by glenbricker,
With less than 100 votes to go Assault on Wayne Manor is poised to be the first "achieved" project of the new LEGO Ideas and the first in the May-September Review.
As this is Batman's 75th anniversary there is some pretty good timing on this.
Lots of people have pointed out that this is pretty over the top for a Modular. To this I say, Yeah, yeah it is. But then I also point out that LEGO has done scores of exo-suits, robots, and mecha-looking sets but nothing as over the top as the Exo-Suit, and we are lead to believe that LEGO is embracing its over the top appeal (of course to what extent will have to wait for its big reveal.)
Update: Assault on Wayne Manor has reached 10,000 Votes.
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I would love this model to become a reality, but cannot help but feel that it has everything a LEGO Ideas set should not have. The size of the set seems prohibitive, but if it inspires LEGO to do their own version of Wayne Manor in a similar style then I would be delighted.
I so want those Light Bley 1x1 round plates with hole.
I can see, and would certainly like this set to pass the review. However I think if it does, it will able majorly scaled down, to the 2-D scope of Arkham Asylum released last year.
I am supporting it.
So far the only Models to pass the selection procedure are the £30-£40 models, so I would be surprised if anything bigger is produced.
This looks like a wonderful model and maybe Lego will use it as an idea to produce the next modular or UCS type Expert model.
It could be produced in 3 sections but even these might not be small enough to meet the £30-£40 price mark.
I love it and are supporting it, and hope it at least past a modified version of it.
Nice project and voted! but lets not forget the star wars invisible hand is also only 100 votes away from hitting 10k. (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/6650)
Hopefully lego will approve and release both of these projects.
It could sell with few changes, it seems to be a good fit for the most part the series of $150-$200 modular buildings.
119 left for the Hand, 37 left for Batman.
I think Invisible Hand by Ldiego deserved it more
I'm really excited for the Invisible Hand.
I supported this project and would be thrilled to see it succeed in the review stage. I agree it is really large, but hopefully LEGO Ideas takes their concepts in a new (bigger) direction and is open to doing something other than $30 - $50 sets. I hope they don't make any cuts, but if they do I'd say focus on the Wayne Manor home over the cave (though the cave is awesome!).
I don't think that the Wayne Manor and Invisible Hand sets are in competition with each other. There are no limits on how many sets can be approved during a review. (I voted for the Invisible Hand too).
It has reached 10,000, although it looks as though the bar along the top of the page is still catching up with that fact!
Congrats on 10K!
This would be an amazing set.
Of topic: What program do people use to make these renderings of many of the sets on Lego Ideas?
@DarthWalle Are you sure? Every single review so far has only had one set pass.
Anyway, this is great news! I wouldn't buy it if it released, however.
^^ pov-ray
@GreenNinjaCP there have been umpteen official statements by now that there can be any number of winners in any given review, including zero projects, or all of them.
(And this must be the OVER 9000th time this exact comment has been posted here on Brickset.)
Of course nobody forces the Cuusoo team to play by the rules. That's another matter. Time and again they quite openly break them.
@Schwallex Yeah they say that the sets aren't in direct competition, and that there can be any number of winners. But all practical evidence seems to support the opposite. While it would not be impossible for 2 or more sets to pass the same review period, it is extremely unlikely and rather impractical. The simple fact is there are 3 apparent production slots per year. That is going to be the big limiter. What projects make the best use of those 3 slots?
The Wayne Manner set is interesting. I am really impressed with the way it folds out as a play set. Which might get it some extra attention from the design and reviewers for that element alone. The existing license and shear size and price point work against it some. Although that may be a safer risk for a large CuuSoo/Ideas set.
I hate to say it, but the Invisible Hand has little to no chance of passing review. Assuming it doesn't get outright vetoed by Lucasfilms for whatever reason, the fact that the somewhat similar Malevolence faired very very poorly, such that Lego had to blow it out themselves at 50% off! tends to poison the business case.
I don't know why this never registers my comments!!!!
Anyway, I love this set, but I don't see it passing. I think they would tone it down quite a bit. Probably similar to the Daily Bugle set. Have an exterior facade with some interior rooms and a few figures. It'd hit the right price point anyway. But I think it may fall under inevitable discovery.
great MOC, but I would be stunned, shocked, and flabbergasted if it passed review. too big, and it's for an existing license. If LEGO wanted to do a Wayne Manor, they certainly don't need Cuusoo/Ideas to do it, they would simply so it under the domain of the existing license.