{"id":9844,"date":"2015-02-04T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9844"},"modified":"2015-02-04T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:12:45","slug":"lego-hubble-telescope-model-misses-selection-for-commercial-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9844","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Hubble Telescope model misses selection for commercial production"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer I wrote about<\/a>\u00a0a LEGO scratch model of the Hubble Telescope, which could become an official production model by LEGO if it was popular enough. (See\u00a0The Hubble observatory in LEGO<\/a>.) \u00a0LEGO allows LEGO modelers to post about their creations on the\u00a0LEGO Ideas<\/a>\u00a0site. Visitors can vote on the models they like best. Those models that exceed 10,000\u00a0votes will be considered for commercial\u00a0production.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Russo posted his impressive\u00a0Hubble Telescope<\/a>\u00a0model at the LEGO Ideas site last year:<\/p>\n

\"HubbleTelescopeLego-GRusso\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It received the 10000 votes but Robert Pearlman reports that it was nevertheless not selected by LEGO :\u00a0LEGO passes on fan-voted Hubble Space Telescope model –\u00a0collectSPACE<\/a><\/p>\n

LEGO on Wednesday (Feb. 4) revealed the outcome of its most recent review of fan-suggested model kits submitted through its LEGO Ideas website. The Danish toy company passed on making the Hubble telescope, selecting<\/a> a Pixar animator’s WALL-E robot and a “Doctor Who” set instead.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We reviewed eight amazing projects that reached 10,000 supporters between June and September,” Signe Lonholdt with the LEGO Ideas team said in a video announcing the results of the evaluation. “Reaching 10,000 supporters is a tremendous accomplishment, but the journey [for the sets] is far from over.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Here were two previous posts about the HST model:<\/p>\n