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LEGO GTI Could Actually Make it to Stores

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A few weeks ago we features a rad Mk1 Golf GTI project on LEGO’s user recommendation site. The project needed 10,000 supporters to be reviewed by LEGO, and boy did you guys come through.

Not only has this project reached its target of 10,000 supporters, it’s the third most viewed project on the site. Only the Minecraft and Back to the Future projects have been viewed more.

“That’s quite an impressive feat!” wrote LEGO in a message to the GTI’s creator, LEGO Ideas user hasskabal.

The LEGO letter goes on to praise hasskabal’s “clever use of elements such as the rubber band to create the red accent on the front grills or the pistol that serves as the exhaust pipe.”

Now that the project has reached its 10,000 supporter goal, the official review process can begin.

Reviews are performed in batches, three times a year. Since this project gathered its supporters in the final third, the actual review doesn’t begin until January.

According to LEGO, the review process for projects submitted through “Ideas” is, broadly speaking, similar to the review process for internally generated projects. Basically, the company is looking for projects that aren’t dangerous or inappropriate and that will actually sell.

Unfortunately, to complete that process on all the projects that make it to 10,000 supporters takes about five months. So from this points, we won’t know much more about whether or not a LEGO GTI will make it to toy stores until May 2017.

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