[RSS]: Review: LEGO Forma 81000 Koi

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To get you quickly up to speed: LEGO Forma is a new initiative for the company. An experiment in crowdfunding, on the Indegogo platform. The first project launched last September and a total of 6,674 'perks' were claimed before it ended in November.

I believe the general idea of launching a product in this way was that the company hoped to attract people who would not normally think of buying a LEGO set for themselves and who haven't touched a brick since they were kids: young trendy creative types, perhaps. How many were actually bought by those new to the product and how many by seasoned AFOLs, I don't know...

Essentially, the perks were a LEGO set of an animatronic fish, 81000 Koi, plus three skin packs that wrap around the mechanism in the main set to create other species.

My perk, the super box containing the main set plus the three add-on skins, arrived this morning, so I hereby bring you one of the first reviews on the 'net...

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