Check Out 'Crazy Arms' Custom Minifigure Arm Poses on Kickstarter
Posted by Meiko,
Crazy Bricks is nearing the end of their Kickstarter for 'Crazy Arms', a new idea to allow for minifigure arms in multiple poses. With only a mere $1800 left until they reach their $15000 goal, they just need a few more pledges until they make these custom minifigure arms a reality. Crazy Arms offers a variety of new shapes of minifigure arms—something many fans and customisers have probably wished for at least once in their lives. The poses shown in the Kickstarter offer a world of possibilities and have great potential for builders looking to create scenes and vignettes featuring minifigures. If you are a MOCist, brickfilmer, or any other LEGO hobbyist, definitely check out this Kickstarter, as well as Beyond The Brick's episode 162 where they interview Crazy Bricks creator Guy Himber and go into detail about Crazy Arms.
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Geez, another post about this? The creator will just donate the difference himself in the final hours, just let it be.
This was just posted about a couple days ago...
Post it on the forum, not on the home page a second time.
It's a worthwhile post. The clock is ticking down, and these look like they'll be very useful for MOCcers, customizers, etc. It'd be a shame to let the project fail for a lack of $1,800. (Or, rather, $1,510 as of this comment.)
Since I'm a purist I have no interest in these.
I agree, I think this site should be "real" LEGO only, I am getting slightly annoyed by news like this or "yay, another LEGO t-shirt". It feels like a sell-out, I get that this site needs constant funding to keep it up and maintained, but there should be ways to do that without straying from the main theme. Let's see when the first Megabloks news pop up here...
Whilst I understand the Lego community has many different members who have many different interests, I'm growing tired of the amount of articles and features that are not about Official Lego products. For me, and it would appear by the other comments that I'm certainly not alone, the peripheral news items don't seem relevant. As a community we are happy to slam Lego competitors like Megabloks but then expected to support what in essence is the same thing on Kickstarter, Brickster Tees, Blocks Mag et al. When is non-Official Lego acceptable and when is it not? Isn't it trying to cash in on our passion regardless of who's doing it? A couple of individuals or a knock off toy company: it ain't Lego if it ain't Lego!
Another product of dubious quality parasitically leeching off of LEGO.
Please keep these sort of articles coming. I like to read here about everything that's going on in the wider LEGO community.
But for the purists maybe there should be a 'notofficiallego' tag to filter out these stories from their feed.
Interesting points of view, thank you.
We'll never post articles about clones (unless in parody, like the recent Chinese rubbish one) but will support the 'wider community' of producers of products that support the hobby and provide something LEGO doesn't which we feel are of interest to readers.
Obviously there will be those that won't buy a No Starch book about LEGO simply because it's not an officially endorsed product, or those that won't buy TeeFury shirts for the same reason but I believe those of us that like books about LEGO or shirts with LEGO on them don't worry whether it's endorsed or not. But, correct me if I'm wrong.
Wow, i rolled my eyes a little at seeing a repeated article, but seems some people are really over sensitive to stuff like this. Remeber people you can always take the misc news off of your news feed preferences.
It was unfortunate that another news contributor posted this article days after the original, but I won't lose any sleep over it and besides, it does seem a worthwhile project given it solves a problem that LEGO itself won't be solving any time soon and is likely to be of major interest to, for example, photographers and brickfilmers.
Isn't there a copyright infringement here? These arms are clearly made to fit Lego minifigures, using the same design...seems odd that it's allowed. Not that I'm against it, I care little for copyright law, I also don't care about clones. As long as people know the difference and clones aren't being misrepresented as genuine Lego.
@Huw Your reasoning that, because Lego aren't interested in producing a similar product and thus it doesn't effect Lego's business doesn't seem right. If that's the case, what's wrong with clone brands producing minifigures that aren't currently licensed, such as fantastic four or minifigures that are no longer produced, such as Mr Gold or the comic con exclusives?
I don't believe LEGO can prevent people making 'LEGO compatible' products as long as no patents have been infringed. If you want to make a lightbulb with a hole in the bottom to fit on a minifig neck I don't think LEGO can stop you, for example.
However, if I want to make a replica minifig that does infringe, *and* attempt to sell it in the west, then it can.
^ It's different because these and other custom lego-compatible accessories (brickarms, brickforge etc) are original items, whereas clone/bootleg brands are merely copying existing lego products or infringing licenses that they don't have the legal right to (eg unlicensed marvel figures) hence why brickset would endorse one but not the other.
I think a tag filter would be an easy solve for those that want purely TLG products and news.
On topic, I like the crazy arms, and backed their last kickstarter but this one is just too pricey for me as a non-US resident.
My bad on the duplicate post. I must have missed the previous one and was reached out to yesterday about making a post here about it, so I did without realizing it was already posted about before.
I mean this is basically a third-party LEGO Compatible mod just like BrickForge or Brick Warriors, but I really don't get why this is news here. You'll just wind up having to take arms off and put new ones on..
TLG has made use of a third party part, one by BrickForge, on at least one occasion. If TLG supports third party vendors, why are purists trying to be more catholic than the pope?
TLG has used third party gear? News to me... care to share incriminating details?
I'm in favor of articles promoting high quality LEGO compatible products as I believe it expands our MOC horizons and fosters community. High quality is the key word there.
As for things like t-shirts, I'd like to see those as ads on the side. I haven't seen one yet that was awesome enough to warrant my purchase, so they do clutter the feed IMHO.
Lastly, I'm excited to see funding for this KickStarter project surge before the deadline. I think this post is well timed and contributed a great deal to that.
Keep up the great work Brickset Team!
^ Great work like QC not noticing redundant "news" stories from only 2 days prior?
If they want to promote it, fine. We just don't need these things to be repeated. And yea, quite the surge in the 11th hour! Maybe they'll even make that $30,000 stretch goal and get a new mold!
kickstarter is a project, where you donate thousands of $ to questionable people just so those people can become millionairs without actually needing invest or pay out the dividends to the investers. The best benefits the investers are getting is the ability to PURCHASE the final product (which may cost 0.10$ to produce) at a special price of 50$, while the rest of the world can buy it for just 100$.
@DanRSL Yes, great work despite a redundant article.
I can analyze my entire collection in almost anyway I choose, including graphs. I can easily find any set, its minifigs, its parts, and far more...easily. I can do all this from desktop or mobile because the site is so responsive. This site is amazing and I am grateful for the work behind it.
PS, Dan, is RSL for Real Salt Lake?
@gev When TLG was marketing the CMF series 2 to retailers, distributors and the media, not all the prototypes were ready. So they used a BrickForge helmet for the Spartan.
I really don't understand the negativity of some readers lately. There seems to be a lot of complaining about the silliest of things.
I am not interested in everything. I don't care for Friends sets or Scooby Doo. But instead of moaning, I simply skip by the article.
You can't please all the people all the time.
@Revenant It's funny, I've been asked about RSL a few times, and before then I never knew about the Salt Lake acronym. Just a coincidence, I don't even really know what "Real Salt Lake" means.
@The Sly Fox
The irony is that you're complaining about complaining. Something I don't understand at all, either.
I welcome news about custom LEGO items. I have bought such things before and, whilst I am unlikely to get these arms, I will buy custom parts in the future.
I think this is a very clever solution to the "problem" of minifigures not having fully rotatable shoulder joints; I supported the offer as soon as I heard about it and I'd much rather have heard about it twice than not have heard of it at all! Obviously using custom-made parts to supplement Lego is a personal choice, but I'm still kicking myself for not supporting the Munchkins offer; wasn't going to make the same mistake twice! Please continue to run articles like this in the future!!