Update: first milestone reached!
This now gives the project a whole year to get to the next milestone. I wonder if any of the gear blogs might be interested in covering this…
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I randomly came across this and thought it was yours so I clicked the link but I guess not?? Did you resubmit a different design or did someone bite your idea?
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…nice…
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Ah yes… I’m still a little salty about this one. 
Not that someone else made a Lego Minimoog; I obviously don’t have any unique claim to the idea. The thing is, they designed this one at nearly 1:1 scale, something I rejected early on as impractical; this would be a $500 Lego set and take up tons of space on a desk… and yet this impracticality means they had much more freedom to add detail and make it look more like the real thing.
And I can’t deny, the creator is quite talented and did a fantastic job. It looks incredible! It looks so much more impressive than my micro-scale model that it has succeeded everywhere mine has failed – it got covered on synth and design blogs, it made Staff Pick at Lego, and currently has 10x as many votes as mine.
It’ll probably make the 10k vote threshold and go into retail product consideration, but after all that, I doubt it will go any further, given the combination of high price point / huge footprint and relative niche interest compared to other high-end Lego sets like the Star Wars Ultimate Collectors’ series. Mine probably would have cost under $100 and fit between your keyboard and monitor.
TL;DR: All I wanted was a tiny Lego Minimoog for my desk, but it got upstaged by a huge one that looks cooler, yet is probably too impractical to ever become real.
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My bad.
Fwiw @presteign I much prefer yours and would definitely have bought it.
For me, yours embodies the spirit of Lego; imagination and interpretation.
Accuracy is good but not always necessary.
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I also thought it was cute and was surprised to see that you had changed it. In reality you hadn’t.
You made the best damn mario you could make with 8 bits and you made him super, what more could anyone ask for?
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At least! Prob cost way more than the Behringer clone. Impressive but fkn massive. I’d be amazed if it makes it to production.
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