Community Guy – Jake McKee

LEGO Space Returns!

It warms my heart to see news like this: LEGO has apparently been working with fans to design new LEGO Space sets via LEGO Factory. I can’t wait to buy mine, they look very cool. Congrats to Chris and Mark! Check out more pics at Gizmodo.

LEGO Factory Space is lifting off soon! Are you a Space Skull or a Star Justice?

2 sets launching on April 16:

10191 Star Justice
10192 Space Skulls

Both retail for $99.99 USD, available at www.LEGO.com or through LEGO Stores.

Space Skulls (designed by LEGO fan Mark Sandlin from Georgia)
- Skullfighter features opening cockpit, freem blasters and fuel cells
- Skullbot features freem blaster and grasping claw
- Skullmecha features heavy freem cannons and missiles
- Skullmecha has 12 mobile arms and is the chosen vehicle of the Space Skull Commander
- Hover skull transport features dual frap cannons and troop transport area

Star Justice (designed by LEGO fan Chris Giddens from Georgia)
- Cosmic Peace Keeper and Hypersled have sliding landing gear
- Mobile Cargo Transport has eight wheels with suspension and carries equipment over any terrain
- Star Outpost 7 has storage and reloading place for the energy units
- Four Justice bots with scanner-tool
- Cosmic Peace Keeper has a sliding cockpit

Video: There’s a New Conversation

A couple weeks back, I was honored to join an event in NYC organized by Ted Shelton from The Conversation Group. The event, “There’s a new conversation” focused on what’s happened in the 10 years since the launch of The Cluetrain Manifesto. More on the event, as well as clips of the other speakers on the official site: CluetrainAt10.com.

Ted invited me to speak and I happily jumped on board. Of course, he failed to mention I’d be following up the incredible Doc Searls. Thanks, Ted. It turned out fine though, even though I was having an off day. If you’re interested, the video of the session is embedded below.

I was also interviewed at the event by Blog Talk Radio’s John Havens, if the video isn’t enough Jake for ya.

To be clear, the presentation presents my opinions, and my opinions alone.

Huge thanks to the Creative Commons or otherwise licensed photos. LEGO set images are copyright The LEGO Group.

• Back to the Future Delorean – Flicker404
• Wal-Mart – (link evades me, found on flickr…will update as soon as I can find)
• Stop sign – Drawings of Light
• Castles made of sand – mijasper
• Fans are weird – LostArt.ws
• Air cover – public domain
• Who’s listening – electricinca
• X marks the spot – Keith Goldman

All others were taken myself.

Want to know more about LEGO Universe?

As you may know, I’ve been working with LEGO on their LEGO Universe project, helping drive and implement strategy for community relations. It’s all highly, highly top secret stuff, but if you’re interested in learning more about this very cool Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) head to the Ypulse Tween Mashup. My client and friend, Mark Hansen is part of a panel called “Old School to New School”.

The Ypulse Tween Mashup lineup just keeps getting better and better. Late last week we confirmed two more speakers for the Old School To New School panel. Mark William Hansen is a director at the LEGO group who has been leading the development of their new Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) called LEGO Universe.