User blog:GhostsSpector/Fall Review

So I was thinking to myself the other day, and then it hit me. I figured out why I felt the review was taking so long. The Lego CUUSOO blog did had an article about how long it takes for them to do a review. Now I was thinking, "Well this means the current CUUSOO review has been going on for five months to long! Right?" No! It takes the Lego group about two months to review each project (if you know math, 3 X 2= 6). Although they do the review for all projects at the same time, if you look at the time spent on each project individually you would see that each project takes about 2 months. For instance, the Summer Review started on June 4, 2012, and ended on December 20, 2012. That's just about 7 months, which the blog post shows is possible. So even though we have technically been in review since the end of August last year, TLG has only had about 5 months to really focus on the projects. So we are probably looking at about a month to two months tops (hopefully).

But what (if anything) could make current review longer? Which project do you think would be the one that could take longer to review? Could it be the Mars Rover, negotiating a contract with NASA maybe? Or maybe it's Thinking with Portals, would it be hard to get a license, or could it be something about turrets or portal guns (basically new molds, although the project currently does not ask for them, could Lego be thinking of tanking it for this reason? Or are they going to make new molds?!? Probably not the second one). Or is it the UCS Sandcrawler, could it take a long time to design a model?

EDIT: So now it is May 29th. I was hopping to hear the results this month or next month, but it looks like I will have to wait. There is and new blog post on CUUSOO that says that they are still reviewing it. I want to point this part of the post out, "Especially in cases where we are negotiating with third parties, we won’t share news about some projects earlier than others." Interesting huh? That almost seems to say that they are down to the negotiating contracts part. Also notice that the blog mentions third parties. Valve and Star Wars are not third party so this makes me believe that they are negotiating with NASA (which makes sense because many companies worked to build/supply parts/or were involved in the Mars Rover project. Hopefully we will see the results soon.

What project could make the review take so long? Thinking with Portals UCS Sandcrawler Mars Rover I don't think the review is taking too long