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LEGO CUUSOO female minifigure mini-sets

by Thita (admin) on December 31, 2012

Here is a LEGO CUUSOO project I have found recently and thought was a great idea: LEGO Female Minifigure Mini-Sets. After so much requests and bugging LEGO finally started adding more female minifigures to their sets and product lines, but the ratio of male/female minifigures is still way off. I guess LEGO is on the opinion that their toys are more appealing to boys, so they have been hesitant to add more female minifigs. Anyhow, they are doing better in this regard, and this LEGO CUUSOO project can also help to get things right. Check it out below and let me know what you think! 😛

Here is what CUUSOO project creator Alatariel says about her idea: “Although recently LEGO has started to design and add more female figures to their sets, they are still a minority. A small set of minifigures, which LEGO has made in the past for different themes, would provide a great opportunity to add women to our LEGO Town or City communities. I have designed some professional female minifigures that also show that girls can become anything they want, including a firefighter or a paleontologist (main picture). Being a scientist myself (geochemist) the geologist and chemist figures are actually based on me. 🙂

Each figure comes with a 6×4 baseplate and a corresponding setting to enhance the building experience and stimulate creativity. The sets also come with lots of accessories, such as birds, buckets, tools, bones, etc. I have designed 13 sets so far, but I imagine a selection of 3 would make a good box size. If the project would come close to 10,000 supporters perhaps a vote could determine which ones are most popular!”

Below are more of Alatariel’s ideas for the LEGO Female Minifigure sets. In this first picture there is a Falconer with two birds, a Geologist with compass and pick-axe, and an Engineer designing a robot-arm.

Then, in the second picture you can see an Astronaut in space (I really like the little rockets!), a Judge, and a Scientist working in the laboratory. Note how ingeniously the scientist’s elongated torso combined with short legs create a long lab-coat effect! I would love LEGO to make these!

In the third picture we can see a Zookeeper with an awesome brick-built tiger, a Business Woman in her office, and a Mail Carrier with her bicycle.

In this last picture there is a female Mechanic, Firefighter, and Construction Worker, all with plenty of tools to do their job.

The LEGO Female Minifigures CUUSOO project already gained some momentum with 1,469 supporters as of this writing. That’s a great achievement, but there is still a long way to go to reach 10,000 votes for LEGO to consider production. If you like this project and you think your LEGO minifig collection needs more girl-power, please support this LEGO project here: VOTE FOR LEGO CUUSOO FEMALE MINIFIGURES

So what do you think of this LEGO project? Do you think it is a good idea and would be successful? Would you buy them? Which ones you like the best? And if you don’t like them why not? I would love to hear your opinion, so please feel free to share in the comment section below. 😉

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LEGO Modular Palace Cinema coming!

by Thita (admin) on December 30, 2012

in LEGO Modular Buildings

Great news for LEGO Modular Building fans and collectors; the next LEGO Modular Building has been revealed, thanks to Eurobricks member GRogall. The set is the #10232 LEGO Modular Palace Cinema. Take a look at it below. (Click on image for larger view.)

As you can see the Palace Cinema is a corner building, making it the 3rd corner building in the LEGO Modular Building series. (The other two are the #10182 LEGO Modular Cafe Corner and the #10211 LEGO Modular Grand Emporium). And overall it is the 8th building in the series.

Some noteworthy features of the LEGO Cinema are as follows (at least the ones we can detect from the picture); the roof built of 1×1 round bricks and plates in red and dark red looks awesome! The brick-built sign spelling out the cinema’s name; PALACE (although I’m not sure I like the mixed upper and lower-case letters). A nice combination of tan and dark tan for the walls – one can never get enough of those pieces! Movie-posters at the front – I really hope these are not stickers! Floodlights, a black convertible (at least I think it’s a convertible), and at least 6 minifigures.

The LEGO Cinema has an overall Chinese style that some LEGO fans assume are inspired by Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. Note the same curve at the center tower, similar colors and other similar details.

Also note the EXPERT logo at the upper right corner of the image. LEGO started to categorize all large sets that are not part of a theme and intended for more experienced builders as Expert Builder sets this year. For currently available LEGO Modular Buildings check out the Online LEGO Shop:

I’m so curious to see the inside of the LEGO Modular Palace Cinema, but unfortunately this is the only picture we have at this point. Hopefully more will be revealed soon! What do you think? How do you like this latest addition of the LEGO Modular Buildings line? And which one is your favorite LEGO Modular Building so far? Would love to hear your opinion! 😉

And you might also like to check out the LEGO Modular Houses section for more news and discussions, or select from the following recent posts:

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