Douglas DC-3 Reaches 10,000 Support

Congrats on making it to 10K - and good luck in the review. Ssorg's DC-3 was very well designed, like his other projects.

My grandfather flew Douglas DC-3 Dakotas during the war, so I'd be thrilled with a Lego model of it. It'd be a rather unique set I feel, though the piece count concerns me a little- it would be the must expensive Cuusoo set by some way if released at the suggested size, and it can't go any smaller really.

I love the 85-155 USD price range estimated for the DC-3. Try 119.99 to 149.99 USD.
Are many of these projects great? Sure, but many are also going to be rather expensive if produced and LEGO really has not shown any willingness to go that expensive on an Ideas set.
Want your idea set to be made?
Make sure it can be produced for 49.99USD, otherwise chances of it getting made are likely going down after this price point.
The Log cabin is a prime example. Great idea, great set, but unlikely as the changing seasons creator house is coming out. Combine that will how detailed it is and how large the set appears it would be at least 99.99 if not again around 119.99 USD-149.99 USD.
maybe LEGO should make a nother website to show off MOCs and have an Ideas site with some better parameters as to what will likely be made.

@madforLEGO: You've got the point, however I wish some people bringing up that point would also take a look on the date a project was created. I made my projects some decent time ago, back when CUUSOO had gone international just recently, barely any projects yet having hit 10k and then rejected or accepted, and so there wasn't much general experience around of this then consistent practice by LEGO to favor around max $50 concepts. So what you're saying *today* wasn't that evident back then.
And this is precisely why I have presented alternative more affordable approaches to the core concept both for DC-3 and Titanic (and just now yet another even more affordable concept for Titanic). And I had the very intention to do the same for the log cabin at 5k halfway - it just never got that far.
Indeed, if I'll ever make new projects again, they'll definitely be around $60 max, for the very reason of improving chances in the Review. :P

EDIT: P.S. And I actually HAD a $40-50 sailboat concept, but staff removed it recently due to the new rule around Ideas which doesn't allow new elements of any material (sailboat had sails made of paperboard, in the final set intended to be cloth like those pirate ship sails). I've removed sailboat images from my Flickr page, but you can still spot the sailboat in this image:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/51369236 @N06/10810861764/sizes/o/

YAY! I wasn't super excited for the others in the review cycle, so now I have a clear favorite! I know some Forest Service smoke jumpers would love one, as the FS's last DC-3 is being retired after this season.

I really, really hope they take this design, I absolutely love WWI/WWII era aircraft. Too bad Lego hasn't produced too many olive drab colored bricks, it'd be cool to recolor this thing to look like the war-era C-47.
By the way, great looking Titanic model!

I feel silly... I didn't even realize you could link to the update directly. That's very effective for Ssorg's Titanic project.

Finally! It's been one of the first projects I supported on Ideas. Very happy for it to have reached 10k.
Let's see how it fares in the reviews (predictions are not that optimistic it seems).

I'm sorry the "Lovely Sailboat" got removed. I can't remember if I supported it, but if not I was certainly following it. I know I would have bought the set--perhaps even more than one!

Good luck with the DC-3 in review! It's a beautiful model of a great airplane.

@Ssorg, et al,

That is true, and it brings up a critical question for the future... In the wild early days of Cuusoo/Ideas, they were definitely encouraging us to be ambitious, and so everyone was putting up very large sets. So, is there REALLY an "invisible ceiling" of $50 for Ideas sets now? I know that we have discussed this before, but we have a lot more data to crunch now.

So if we go back and make a list of all of the Ideas sets that were rejected that look like they would have cost more than $50, can we say DEFINITIVELY that is was just their size that killed them, or were there more SUBTLE issues of marketing and licensing that stopped them, or simply a matter of conflicts with sets that Lego already had in their production pipeline.

And if there really is an invisible ceiling of $50 in place, then perhaps we would need to "think small". There is "The Great Purge" coming on Lego Ideas in T-minus 58 days, and so I am sure GlenBricker and others will be writing about the future of the platform. This is an issue that needs to be addressed, and it could play a big role in the future of Lego Ideas!

- Ghostbusters Firehouse HQ (maybe they decided it didn't justify a whole theme?)
- Wayne Manor (was it just too similar to something they are planning to make?)
- The X Mansion (again, was it just too similar to something they are planning?)
- BTTF Jules Verne Train (again, maybe they decided it didn't justify a whole theme?)
- UCS AT-AT (this looks bigger than the largest set they've ever produced, so maybe.)
- The Hubble Space Telescope (I was sure this would win. Did it's size alone kill it?)
- Modular Apple Store (maybe the aesthetic was too minimalist and monochrome?)
- BTTF Motorized UCS DeLorean (was it purely an issue of Technic gear limitations?)
- The Invisible Hand (just too similar to The Malevolence, or "imminent discovery"?)
- Japanese Old Style Architecture (was it just too similar to Ninjago sets? I think so.)

Have I missed any? I'm sure GlenBricker could write a definitive article on this question!

@therealindy: well as for me, I just take the strong hints from now on and make ONLY affordable scale projects if I'll put up anything new there. :)

Some would argue that the log cabin has already been made as a set. 31038 Changing Seasons. I think this will be the fate of many submissions on Ideas. The general concept picked up and run with, while only a few select projects get the official tick of approval.