Já posso falar sobre ele!
Há mais de um ano que tenho vindo a trabalhar neste projeto com a LEGO e estou contente por finalmente poder falar mais abertamente sobre ele 

Rebrick é uma plataforma social online onde utilizadores com mais de 13 anos podem discutir e partilhar conteúdo relacionado com LEGO.

Esta plataforma permite partilhar imagens, vídeos e conteúdos criados pelo próprio no site.
podemos comentar, classificar e partilhar as criações nas várias redes sociais já existentes (Twitter, Facebook,etc), facilmente conseguimos encontrar e pesquisar conteúdos e temos sempre disponível os mais recentes, os mais populares e aqueles que são considerados os melhores .

Aqui podes criar o teu perfil onde depois podes seguir ou ser seguido por outros utilizadores!

Desde o início deste projeto que a Comunidade AFOL em geral foi convidado a participar onde algumas pessoas passaram as suas preocupações/ideias/conteúdos/sugestões para que de certa forma a plataforma estivesse algo identificada pelo AFOL´s.

Apesar de não existir nenhuma versão em específico para telemóvel, eu já experimentei no meu Tablet e funciona

Façam bom uso da plataforma!

É a notícia LEGO do momento. No programa LEGO Cuusso, um projeto da responsabilidade do Mojang, que está envolvido no jogo Minecraft, chegou aos 10000 supporters em apenas dois dias. Por isso poderá estar próximo o dia onde veremos conjuntos LEGO Minecraft!

Fica aqui o press realease oficial:

BILLUND, Denmark – A project backed by Minecraft developer Mojang has become the first user-sponsored project to reach the 10,000 vote threshold on the new global version of LEGO® CUUSOO, opening the way for a LEGO set featuring Minecraft to become a reality.

It took the project only 48 hours to gather votes from 10,000 fans of the project from around the world.

“We’re really excited to see the fantastic enthusiasm of the Minecraft community. This is what LEGO CUUSOO is all about, connecting people’s passion to the LEGO brick,” says Paal Smith-Meyer, Head of the LEGO New Business Group. “It is still too early to say whether a Minecraft play set will become a LEGO product as it still needs to go through a review and approval process to ensure it meets our usual LEGO standards, but it is certainly a lot closer.”

A go/no-go decision should be reached within the next few weeks. Assuming it is given a “go,” then development on any new sets will begin. During this time, LEGO model designers refine the product, while packaging, instructions, and marketing are developed ready for a production run. This will take several months.

LEGO CUUSOO is an idea collection system that asks the Danish toy manufacturers’ consumers to submit and vote for their favourite ideas for new LEGO products. It can be found at http://lego.cuusoo.com . The site is currently in “open beta” and has been well received by fans and niche interest groups eager to see their ideas become official LEGO products.

CUUSOO, which means ‘imagination’ or sometimes ‘wish’ in Japanese, has been developed with CUUSOO SYSTEM, a subsidiary of Japan-based Elephant Design that has worked with open innovation and crowd sourcing for more than 10 years.
The LEGO Group has worked with CUUSOO since 2008 on a Japanese site that has attracted hundreds of ideas and seen thousands of votes cast by a 35,000-strong community. Now the time has come to test the concept internationally.

The first Japanese product, the Shinkai 6500 submersible, went on sale in Japan in February 2011. The next Japanese LEGO CUUSOO model will be the Hayabusa unmanned spacecraft launched in the first quarter of next year.

It took the Shinkai 6500, 420 days to reach 1,000 votes in Japan. Hayabusa took 57 days to 1,000. With the launch of the LEGO CUUSOO worldwide site the threshold was raised to 10,000 to reflect the larger audience.

On LEGO CUUSOO, ideas that are supported by enough votes will be examined by a LEGO jury that will check that the models meet LEGO standards of safety and playability and support the LEGO brand. Consumers who have their ideas chosen for production will earn 1% of the total net sales of the product.

In the case of the Minecraft project, Mojang and the collaborators have offered the 1% CUUSOO royalty to a charity of Mojang’s choice.

Via BrickJournal.

Via ModelBuildingSecrets fiquei a saber que a LEGO lançou uma banda desenhada sobre o tema Ninjago.

Fica aqui o press release oficial.

Last May, Papercutz, the graphic novel publisher of GERONIMO STILTON, THE SMURFS, BIONICLE®, and DISNEY FAIRIES, announced that its newest series of licensed graphic novels would be based on the red-hot toy line LEGO NINJAGO. Three short months later, Terry Nantier, the publisher of the Papercutz, details that pre-orders for the first LEGO NINJAGO graphic novel, LEGO NINJAGO #1: The Challenge of Samurkai ($6.99) “are the strongest we’ve ever seen.” So strong in fact, that the pre-orders top 150,000 copies. This is a record-breaking achievement for Papercutz.

The LEGO NINJAGO graphic novels are written by Greg Farshtey, who penned the BIONICLE graphic novels (based on the LEGO property) To date, Papercutz has sold over 250,000 copies of its BIONICLE line. Paulo Henrique, who has illustrated Papercutz HARDY BOYS graphic novels, will provide the art for the new line.

The first 64-page, full color, 6”x 9” Ninjago graphic novel will have a cover price of $6.99 ($10.99 in hardcover) and will be released on November 8th, 2011. Three additional volumes are planned for 2012.

O nome Paulo Henrique (desenho) salta logo à vista para um português. É brasileiro como é referido neste página.

Fico curioso quanto ao comics, visto que já vários conhecidos afirmaram que a história deste tema é mais interessante do que se inicialmente pensa.

A Wikipédia sobre o tema OutroMundo encontra-se novamente on-line neste novo endereço. Como na altura que apresentei o meu último MOC (Niveus Sanctus) a antiga morada da wikipédia iria desaparecer, fiz o artigo desta embarcação agora. Podem lê-lo aqui.