Comments on: Streetfighter Custom Minifig Combo!

By: antibolo

antibolo — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:07:34 +0000

@Catsy
As a Street Fighter fan I feel the need to correct your misguided “morally-ambiguous characters” comment. Only 20% or so of all SF characters are evil. Everyone else is a good-natured martial artist, and in some cases a member of law enforcement.

By: jabadala

jabadala — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:23:56 +0000

Lego needs to be little more forthcoming on their rejection statements. Sick and tired of the bullshit they throw around.

By: levork

levork — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:20:20 +0000

As Catsy guessed, CUUSOO did indeed reject my submission based on the theme. They didn’t tell me which guideline they thought it violated. I did read their list prior to submitting the project (http://lego.cuusoo.com/guidelines), and I thought the only aspect that might cross the line was “blood” – but I figured Street Fighter might get a free pass since Nintendo was already notoriously uptight about any blood in the home console ports.

I’m also a little disappointed that Lego is applying their own guidelines inconsistently about licensed properties. The Lord of the Rings are incredibly violent movies full of death, yet there are lots of sets with pointy weapons being released this year.

By: Catsy

Catsy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:40:07 +0000

Gotta agree. As magnificent as these customs are and as much as I’d like to see all these wonderful new minifig parts, not only is the minifig-only aspect unlikely to play at CUUSOO, there’s the theme: a violent video game where the sole focus is a bunch of morally-ambiguous characters graphically beating the tar out of each other.

Never. Gonna. Happen.

By: JasBrick

JasBrick — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:37:10 +0000

@manfromporlock Totally accept and agree with your evaluation of this with regard to Cuusoo…. but that won’t stop me supporting it. I would be interested to see what playsets could be developed around the Streetfighter concept. Maybe this is a challenge for those more inclined to building than customising.

Cuusoo has made things very interesting and you never know when a snowball might stand a chance in hell ;-)

By: manfromporlock

manfromporlock — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:52:45 +0000

These figures are very well done, but this is another one of those Cuusoo projects that just won’t ever happen. This is another new licensed IP (yet another video game-based one) and there’s no build here which makes these all “action figures” and a non-starter.

If there was a good build that came with them, maybe I could see it happening through Cuusoo, but it would be outrageously expensive. I will just say that I respect all of the hard work that he obviously did.