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  "company": "LEGO Group",
  "headline": "LEGO invites fans into first cross-universe Star Wars and Marvel mashup challenge.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PAPER · Community co-creation campaign · LEGO Group\n\nLEGO invites fans into first cross-universe Star Wars and Marvel mashup challenge.\n\nThis is early-stage. LEGO Ideas has proven the model works, but most brands haven't copied it because it requires letting go. The operator who does—who says 'you design the next colorway and if it wins, we make it and you get a discount'—builds an audience that has skin in the outcome. It costs less than hiring a designer and moves faster than focus groups.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/lego-group-2026-10-11t18-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/lego-group-2026-10-11t18-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/lego-group-2026-10-11t18-7",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PAPER · Community co-creation campaign · LEGO Group\n\nLEGO invites fans into first cross-universe Star Wars and Marvel mashup challenge.\n\nThis is early-stage. LEGO Ideas has proven the model works, but most brands haven't copied it because it requires letting go. The operator who does—who says 'you design the next colorway and if it wins, we make it and you get a discount'—builds an audience that has skin in the outcome. It costs less than hiring a designer and moves faster than focus groups.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/lego-group-2026-10-11t18-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/lego-group-2026-10-11t18-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/lego-group-2026-10-11t18-7",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PAPER · Community co-creation campaign · LEGO Group\n\nLEGO invites fans into first cross-universe Star Wars and Marvel mashup challenge.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/lego-group-2026-10-11t18-7",
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      "title": "LEGO invites fans into first cross-universe Star Wars and Marvel mashup challenge.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nThe LEGO Group launched an LEGO Ideas challenge inviting fans to design a first-ever Star Wars and Marvel universe mashup in bricks, per PR Newswire.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): the community co-designs and pre-funds validation. LEGO doesn't guess which mashup fans want; fans build it, vote for it, and prove demand. The move: if you sell a customizable or build-able product (modular furniture, apparel colorways, collectibles), run an open design challenge on your platform and let the audience vote. The top 3 to 5 designs become actual SKUs. You move design risk to the community and turn voters into buyers.\nWhat that means for you: This is early-stage. LEGO Ideas has proven the model works, but most brands haven't copied it because it requires letting go. The operator who does—who says 'you design the next colorway and if it wins, we make it and you get a discount'—builds an audience that has skin in the outcome. It costs less than hiring a designer and moves faster than focus groups.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — PR Newswire: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-lego-group-invites-fans-to-mash-up-star-wars-and-marvel-universes-for-the-first-time-ever-in-lego-ideas-challenge-302905159.html.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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