Heads up: This post is 11 years old. My thinking may have evolved since then — read it with that in mind.
In the fall of 2008, CUUSOO SYSTEM and the LEGO® Group teamed up to launch the LEGO® CUUSOO crowdsourcing experiment. Initially, the site was only available in Japanese but this first step led to the launch of the international LEGO® CUUSOO beta site in the fall of 2011. This crowd sourcing platform, which led to a number of successful product launches for LEGO®, such as LEGO® Shinkai 6500, LEGO® HAYABUSA, LEGO® Minecract, LEGO® Back to the Future, LEGO® NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover, and LEGO® Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary set. With success of the platform, following agreement with CUUSOO, LEGO® now runs the site as <a href=“https://ideas.lego.com/“ target=“_blank">LEGO® Ideas, based on the LEGO® CUUSOO platform. All projects, supports, comments, profiles, and other data from LEGO CUUSOO has been automatically migrated to LEGO Ideas. You can sign in to LEGO Ideas with a LEGO ID, find your old LEGO CUUSOO account, and connect to it on LEGO Ideas We are grateful for the many years of collaboration and experimentation between our two companies and wish continued success of LEGO® Ideas.
Thank you very much again for your great support !
What is CUUSOO ?
CUUSOO was founded in 1997, has been connecting consumers with creators and creators with manufacturers to bring new product ideas to life as one of the first crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform for the mission “To Help User Get What They Want”. We have provided crowd-sourced solution to empower consumer-driven product development through interactions between user communities and corporations and brands. For further information, please visit our corporate site CUUSOO SYSTEM
CUUSOO, founded in 1997, is one of the first crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform based in Japan. If you are interested in having a look on our platform, please visit our site. You can also find our newly released unofficial brick community page, CUUSOO BRICK, where all brick fans can enjoy sharing brick MOCs in the world. VISIT CUUSOO BRICK (ここはボタン) We are looking forward to seeing you again !
We are happy to announce that CUUSOO collaborate with Bricklink MOCShops to create a new platform, brand new media for all brick fans in the world.
In this platform, you can recommend any brickworks like your microblog such as tumblr or pinterest.
Once the number of votes reaches 100, the MOC will be reviewed by BrickLink for commercialization. Alternatively, you can directly upload to MOC Shop if you already have your own creation.
– CUUSOO + BrickLink Staff