Tips for LEGO Ideas Success - Part 3 - The Build

[@Sometimes_I_YT]

Thank you for doing this series Brent. All of them have been a bit like "Finally, someone said it." Super inspired with your work.

[@WallerCustomsLegoCreations]

I do worry I get too opiniony with some things but it'd probably be a pretty dry video if I didn't haha

[@LegoTheOffice]

Another great video breaking down LEGO Ideas! A great point made at the 4:00 mark, there is a fine line between inspiration and copying another designer’s work. I have seen designers copy a previous submission with minor tweaks and I never see that work out for them. If someone copies another designers work, that will likely be held against you by other designers and LEGO as well.

[@WallerCustomsLegoCreations]

Yeah back in the early days of LEGO Ideas when it was LEGO Cuusoo I had someone take one of my MOCs I gave instructions away for, only slightly modified it and then tried to pass it off as their design.

[@LegoTheOffice]

@@WallerCustomsLegoCreations dang I’m sorry man. I’ve seen people try to take credit for your work on Reddit in the past too. Yeah the 2nd time I submitted my design it was because someone had made a design suspiciously similar to my first design but with some recoloring, this included all the Easter eggs/Jokes I spent 2 years coming up with. I didn’t feel that was a coincidence, but I just tried to ignore them and run my own race. It did suck that I would get accused of copying his work. The craziest part was some random “fan” approached me and kept harassing me to find out what my design improvements would be (which I refused to share until I submitted it), eventually he told me he was working with that other designer (don’t know if that was true because it was some random person). I feel there is an unsaid ethical boundary most LEGO designers follow because the community does frown on plagiarism but there are people who will still try claim others work for their own.

[@Gecko_builds]

Not sure if I’m supposed to see this yet, but I’m really loving these tips, hope to put these in practice soon!

[@WallerCustomsLegoCreations]

Haha, how are you even seeing it?

[@Gecko_builds]

@@WallerCustomsLegoCreations watched the first video and then went to your playlist!

[@WallerCustomsLegoCreations]

@@Gecko_builds Ah that explains it, it would have been fine to watch, it just may have been still processing the High Quality verson

[@jvdybsjnsjh]

1:09 Who do I have to terminate??

[@WallerCustomsLegoCreations]

John Connor