CUUSOO Pick #1: The Legend of Zelda

This new blog category will be the place where I post about those CUUSOO projects that I personally like the most. I know that there is a specific thread like this already in the forums, and TOK does a great job summarizing some of the best ideas, but I wanted to make this a more personal and regular type of thing. With the new blog system, I think it is the best place to do it!

The Legend of Zelda is my all time favorite video game series, so it made sense for me to pick the CUUSOO project scheduled for review as my first entry of this section. Some of you may remember that not long ago the first Zelda based project that was considered by LEGO was in fact rejected, with the argument that multiple new molds for new pieces would need to be produced for this set alone.

Ragaru's Zelda project was designed after the rejection of the previous one, and according to the creator works mostly if not completely with parts and colors that LEGO has currently in production, so hopefully this won't be the reason for yet another rejection in the review stage. Other than that, I think the appeal and fan base of the series is proven already, and in my opinion would be an extremely successful model that would probably cause at least the same initial reception that Minecraft got when first released. The Zelda series has been around for way longer than Minecraft and has several different games on several different Nintendo platforms, as well as books, comics, etc. so I really think the customer base is there for LEGO to justify this set's production.

The set itself is pretty cool, and is closely related to the most realistic looking game of the series, Twilight Princess. Even though it may look like just a bunch of ruins and some foliage, it really manages to capture the feel of some of the dungeons and locations of the video game series, and the inclusion of some iconic enemies like the Deku Baba and the Stalfos further make this set an accurate, but small, representation of what the Zelda series is.

As far as the minifig is concerned, there would only be one included: Link. There is no way to produce this set and not include him, so LEGO would need to figure out a way to make him look as accurate as possible, as his inclusion is what really will be carrying this set in the market. He would include a couple of iconic items that in my opinion are not that hard for LEGO to have in the set. A common bow, a lamp, a sticker for the Hylian shield and the Master Sword would be more than enough for me to be satisfied as far as items is concerned. Epona (horse) would in theory be included as well, but to me that is not particularly essential if we need to choose among that or some other elements.

Like the creator of the project says I am really disappointed that a couple of other iconic minifigs had to be excluded, but if it helps this first set pass the review stage and be produced, I think that LEGO will experience first hand what kind of a popular theme this is and would eventually produce a couple other small sets like they are more than likely doing with Minecraft now. To me, a potential Zelda mini-theme would be pure gold!

We will have to wait and see how this project turns out in the review, but I have really high hopes it will go through. I'll leave you with some images of Ragaru's work:

Thanks for reading!