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RE: Classic Space set design and building contest
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Date: 
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:35:02 GMT
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Todd Lehman writes:
Some people are taking the above a little more literally than I'd
intended.
I hadn't intended on encouraging hoax-style designs where people fake up
catalog scans or instruction scans complete with realistic-looking set
numbers -- although I'm certainly not opposed to this so long as:

I understood that that wasn't the intention, it was just a great chance to
give my hoaxing skills a shot.  I don't think it fooled more than a couple
people.

* You don't intentionally or accidentally mislead anyone into thinking it
  was a real set -- for even if you think the distinction is obvious from
  the context or the image quality, it may not be obvious to everyone; and

Aww, it's so much more fun that way :)  (I only had one email asking me to
scan the rest of the manual:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1822
But I'm not up to making an entire instruction booklet...)

Going off to write a disclaimer to show I can play nice,
--Bram


Bram Lambrecht
BXL34@po.cwru.edu
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/



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