9398 - shortlist
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- Published on Friday, 04 January 2013 20:10
- Written by Allard van Efferen
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This weekend I reviewed the entries and made my own shortlist of the entries for the "You design it, We make it!" Lego contest for a new coach on the 9398 set. What a great work everybody made and what a huge amount of professional Lego designers we have amongst us. Lego company has a luxury, they will NEVER run out of suited personnel in this live time!! My first approach was to eliminate all entries that didn't match the rules set out by Lego COmpany. What is a pitty because I saw a lot of great designs of Lego vehicles, for all those please post them on sites like Flickr or Mocpages.com to share them with an even bigger Lego fan community, if not already done so.
During browsing the entries, I decided to make two different lists. One list for designs most suitable as alternative set and one list with great designs. I reviewed based on my opinion would suit, ones I should buy as alternative set. But due to my own set limitation I would have to left out so many other great designs I liked to show so I came up with a third list "Creative Designs" to contain funny, odd and creative designs.
What strikes me was the enormous amount of SUV like creations. Some with additional attributes like little cranes and a lot with winches. Besides the winches missing another thing is that apparently a lot of people miss an engine in the original design because an engine was added by a lot of people even working ones with an additional PF to make it turn. Also the wheels were a lot of time replaced by the Unimog ones, to be honest I like those more myself as well.
What I really liked were the few ones coming up with a total different approach like a big quat including hero factory driver or space vehicles.
Finally people made a lot of good combinations with other models like the Unimog set 8110 or the Supercar 8070 and the 8081.
What to my opinion would be a big improvements is adding PF-lights to the alternative design. Alltogether some more functionality in the body of the car would make me buy an alternative model like; PF lights, wing doors, winch and/or pneumatics for either the wing doors or additional attributes like a little crane.
Below you will find my point of view on the designs. The 'Great Designs' I distilled based on thoughts as; awsome design, a lot of detail, nice body curves, a lot of functionality but too complex or too many parts to get chosen as an alternative design. The 'Creative Designs' I selected based on originality, funny, extraordinary, even suited as an alternative design but to explicit, so for a small audience. Finally the list with 'Alternative Sets' I determined based on what I should buy and what I consider as a suitable one for a bigger crowd.
Enjoy!!
