So recently found a interesting lego youtube channel, that I had never seen before, and thought a thread on cool online resources would be helpful to member's. If you find something cool while browsing feel free to share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRn5waE0qfk Can Lego BREAK a Steel Axle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUVvQk7XLd4 Making a Drone with Lego Motors and Propellers

This guy is a bit more famous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZxTXKQ6C4 Office Worker - LEGO Automaton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5y1pdPVDx8 The Ultimate LEGO Machine Returns!

Hi everyone,

Those of you who have been following my post in the MOC section about my experiences with designing Lego MOC's digitally with Stud.io and Mecabricks, have seen some snippets of my latest creation. Today I am proud to present to you my proposal for the next Lego Ideas set, the Rosefinch Keep. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/98293548-02a7-4898-b333-db3d17f8271e

Welcome to Rosefinch Keep the northern stronghold of Sir Rosefinch noble knight of the Wolfpack kingdom. While the Wolfpack was originally advertised as a small faction of rogues, renegades, and bandits; to me growing up they were knights from a distant northern kingdom. The Keep is home to Lady Astrid, Squire Hans and Sir Rosefinch, who is instantly recognizable by the red bird he wears atop his helmet. The Keep is guarded by two strong Wolfpack warriors, and like every good old building is home to a ghost.

I designed the Keep out of Black and Medium Stone Grey bricks, reminiscent of classic castle sets. The Keep is located in the northern frontier of the Wolfpack kingdom, and is built upon rocky islands off the shores of a lake, for protection from rival Kingdoms and roaming monsters. The buildings that make up the Keep are connected via stone bridges over the cold water below. The Keep is not just a decorative structure; it is functional too with all rooms accessible for play through moving walls and floors.

Reasons why the Rosefinch Keep would make a great LEGO set:

1st The kids who grew up playing with the classic black and grey castle sets, are now Adults with children, and money to spend reliving childhood memories.
2nd The bricks and pieces used to build this set are universally applicable to build multiple alternative MOC’s with for extended play by children and AFOL’s alike.

3rd The size of Rosefinch Keep is just right for a set. It is large enough to fit in among modular buildings. Yet has a small enough part count that keeps the price affordable for regular people not just AFOL’s.

4th Lastly the Wolfpack kingdom deserves to have its story told with their very own full size castle set.

Details:

Part count 1275
6 Minifigures (1x Sir Rosefinch knight, 2x Wolfpack guards, 1x Lady Astrid, 1x Squire Hans, 1x Ghost)
5 Animals (1x dog, 1x horse, 1x goat, 2x seagulls)
4 Rooms (1x bedroom, 1x armory, 1x kitchen, 1x secret vault)
1 Tree minifigure scale
Building was built using Stud.io
Minifigures were built using Mecabricks

Thank you:

Thanks for your support and comments. If you would like to see the Rosefinch Keep become a LEGO set please share with friends and family.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/98293548-02a7-4898-b333-db3d17f8271e

Update, Have passed the 100 mark and now have 420 days to go! Thanks for all the support.

I am going to hijack this thread and post some pictures of Milug @ Brickcan 2018. If you have pictures feel free to share.

@Krista Early morning, is that is the best time to call any call center. lunch time and dinner time are the worst times to call a call center. Lego's call center people with the southern American accents seem to be more friendly and helpful then the other reps I have spoken too.

@Krista it varies between 15 minutes to the longest was on hold was 40min. I have had to call them several times this year, something has gone wrong with every order so far.

1st call was due to the new VIP rewards center they have separated the redemption of point between over the phone vs online, I clicked the redeem over phone by mistake so was forced to call in to get them to reverse the vip issue. ( I dislike the new vip points system, having to go to another website to get a code that if you don't use within 30 days you forfeit the points is not rewarding at all IMO)

2nd call was the fact I was that the shop at home would not allow me to complete a order with the redemption code for the castle vip coin. (they had to manually order it separately for me with my code)

3rd call was for the above missing gwp issue

Hi, all If you have purchased the Lego blacksmith shop like I did today. https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/medieval-blacksmith-21325
Check your order confirmation. While your shopping cart shows you will get the Valentines gift for spending over $40 and the year of the Ox set for spending over $85. The order confirmations are showing only the year of the Ox gwp added to the order. You will need call Lego customer service in order to get it added back to your order.
1-800-835-4386
Monday to Friday 8am - 10pm ET
Saturday and Sunday 10am - 6pm ET

@MyBrickYard the general publicly viewable comments are at the bottom of the page below the pictures https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/fd5cc3b8-284f-4520-825f-7c3f5e4a50fe

the Lego only comments were below the 30 click boxes, but you can only vote once

If you read the comments on the first page with the pictures, bionicle and classic space are in the lead. There is a comment section after you pick your 3 favorites, on the space forums they are asking space fans to request monorail. Lego is getting flak for missing some classic themes, Islander and Western fans feel left out. But to each their own. Who knows maybe they will see the enthusiasm and do this retro set things more often.

Please head over to Lego Ideas to help the Wolfpack and some other classic castle themes get revived for the 90th anniversary in 2022. https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/fd5cc3b8-284f-4520-825f-7c3f5e4a50fe

If you haven't seen the latest Epic rap battle of history, check it out here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ver1OZdK2bA

The Prizes are always cool for the contests but the competition is always top notch. I find the Activities section is much more toned down. The physical build requirements is going to reduce entries though to people already working on a moc.

Update, Have passed the 100 mark and now have 420 days to go! Thanks for all the support.

@scotth510 Thanks for the support! After you vote on the Lego Ideas website here https://ideas.lego.com/projects/98293548-02a7-4898-b333-db3d17f8271e Please share with your social media friends.

I have calculated it out that I need a minimum of 30 support votes per day to make it to the 10,000 mark. However Ideas that generate 10,000 supporters faster seem to have better chance at passing the review stage to become a real set then those that take close to the 18 month time limit.