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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sat, 16 Jul 2005 05:13:56 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
   Hey all,

Somehow this one seems to have snuck under the radar. Jake is showing the microscale sets from the LEGO Factory contest winners on his blog. There will be three sets. No prices listed as of yet.

Bruce

WooHoo!...

but...what if someone gets these & doesn’t have internet access (the boxes say the instructions will only be online)? Or will the sets only be an online Shop@home exclusive? These sets are too good to be limited to catalog or online only sales tho’. I can’t wait to get ‘em (several times over!)

Jeff


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:57:06 GMT
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but...what if someone gets these & doesn’t have internet access (the boxes say the instructions will only be online)? Or will the sets only be an online Shop@home exclusive?

Even if the person who buys them has internet access doesn’t mean you do. It would be a bit crap if as a kid your online grandma ordered it for you and then you had no instructions!

Tim


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:28:04 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Tim David wrote:
  
  
but...what if someone gets these & doesn’t have internet access (the boxes say the instructions will only be online)? Or will the sets only be an online Shop@home exclusive?

Even if the person who buys them has internet access doesn’t mean you do. It would be a bit crap if as a kid your online grandma ordered it for you and then you had no instructions!

Realistically, what kid doesn’t have internet access but his grandma does?

I agree that not having printed instructions in a 2000-piece set is lame, but I don’t think the concern above is too likely.

Best,
- Joe


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:45:47 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Tim David wrote:
  
  
but...what if someone gets these & doesn’t have internet access (the boxes say the instructions will only be online)? Or will the sets only be an online Shop@home exclusive?

Even if the person who buys them has internet access doesn’t mean you do. It would be a bit crap if as a kid your online grandma ordered it for you and then you had no instructions!

Tim

I read it that the 3D instructions would be online. I cant imagine LEGO releasing a set without instructions (if it needed them) ~J~


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:52:36 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
   Hey all,

Somehow this one seems to have snuck under the radar. Jake is showing the microscale sets from the LEGO Factory contest winners on his blog. There will be three sets. No prices listed as of yet.

Bruce

WooHoo!...

but...(again) i thought i saw some where that this set:


was a winner that was going to be made IRL (i don’t remember where i saw it- i think on lugnet, but i’m eating & too lazy to look it up). anyone else remember/ have any info?

  
Jeff


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:11:07 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
   Hey all,

Somehow this one seems to have snuck under the radar. Jake is showing the microscale sets from the LEGO Factory contest winners on his blog. There will be three sets. No prices listed as of yet.

Bruce

WooHoo!...

but...(again) i thought i saw some where that this set:


was a winner that was going to be made IRL (i don’t remember where i saw it- i think on lugnet, but i’m eating & too lazy to look it up). anyone else remember/ have any info?

  
Jeff

Apparently, it was a weekly winner, but (unfortunately) not a final winner:

http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/compete/competition.asp

I really wanted to get that one, too.

Marc Nelson Jr.

Marc’s Creations


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:19:43 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
   Hey all,

Somehow this one seems to have snuck under the radar. Jake is showing the microscale sets from the LEGO Factory contest winners on his blog. There will be three sets. No prices listed as of yet.

Bruce

WooHoo!...

but...(again) i thought i saw some where that this set:


was a winner that was going to be made IRL (i don’t remember where i saw it- i think on lugnet, but i’m eating & too lazy to look it up). anyone else remember/ have any info?

  
Jeff

Apparently, it was a weekly winner, but (unfortunately) not a final winner:

http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/compete/competition.asp

I really wanted to get that one, too.


In the latest LEGO Magazine, there’s a full-page ad for a contest about something, and they’ve been using images of this creation as a sample. I’ve seen this Town Hall used by LEGO in several places, I also hope they produce it at some point.


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Mon, 18 Jul 2005 03:25:10 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Kelly McKiernan wrote:

SNIP

  
  
  
   WooHoo!...

but...(again) i thought i saw some where that this set:


SNIP

   In the latest LEGO Magazine, there’s a full-page ad for a contest about something, and they’ve been using images of this creation as a sample. I’ve seen this Town Hall used by LEGO in several places, I also hope they produce it at some point.

Yep, that’s what got me thinking of it. maybe Lego is hinting at it’s usefulness? Well, i’m dfinitely hinting that Lego should make it IRL.

Jeff


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Mon, 18 Jul 2005 03:59:15 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Jeff Szklennik wrote:

  
  
  
   but...(again) i thought i saw some where that this set:


was a winner that was going to be made IRL (i don’t remember where i saw it- i think on lugnet, but i’m eating & too lazy to look it up). anyone else remember/ have any info?

Maybe my Toy Fair pics? It was definitely featured at Toy Fair ...

  
   Apparently, it was a weekly winner, but (unfortunately) not a final winner:

http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/compete/competition.asp

I really wanted to get that one, too.


In the latest LEGO Magazine, there’s a full-page ad for a contest about something, and they’ve been using images of this creation as a sample. I’ve seen this Town Hall used by LEGO in several places, I also hope they produce it at some point.

I too hope that, and sort of expect that maybe they will, based on nothing more than a hunch and the way they were talking at Toy Fair.


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sun, 7 Aug 2005 17:33:11 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, James Stacey wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Tim David wrote:
  
  
but...what if someone gets these & doesn’t have internet access (the boxes say the instructions will only be online)? Or will the sets only be an online Shop@home exclusive?

Even if the person who buys them has internet access doesn’t mean you do. It would be a bit crap if as a kid your online grandma ordered it for you and then you had no instructions!

Tim

I read it that the 3D instructions would be online. I cant imagine LEGO releasing a set without instructions (if it needed them) ~J~

There is no instructions included in the 5524-set I just opened. Only a card that shows how to find the instructions online.

Martin


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sun, 7 Aug 2005 17:47:02 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Martin Bruun wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, James Stacey wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Tim David wrote:
  
  
but...what if someone gets these & doesn’t have internet access (the boxes say the instructions will only be online)? Or will the sets only be an online Shop@home exclusive?

Even if the person who buys them has internet access doesn’t mean you do. It would be a bit crap if as a kid your online grandma ordered it for you and then you had no instructions!

Tim

I read it that the 3D instructions would be online. I cant imagine LEGO releasing a set without instructions (if it needed them) ~J~

There is no instructions included in the 5524-set I just opened. Only a card that shows how to find the instructions online.

Martin

That’s unfortunate. I’m sure the public will let the company know that they don’t approve. Call it a learning experience.

ondrew


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:02:45 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Martin Bruun wrote:

  
   There is no instructions included in the 5524-set I just opened. Only a card that shows how to find the instructions online.

Martin

That’s unfortunate. I’m sure the public will let the company know that they don’t approve. Call it a learning experience.

I read it (when I ordered) that there would not be any instructions included and that I would have to go online to get them. So, I knew that going in.

I agree with Ondrew though.... Whether the general public picks up on that point when they order, and whether they like it, or complain and feel like they were cheated, is an interesting experiment, potentially with larger implications.

If it helps reduce cost I’m for it I guess, I toss 90% of my instructions anyway. I’d suggest a separate sku for a version WITH instructions, perhaps for a bit more cost, but we know that LEGO seems to have trouble with a lot of excess SKUs...

I have my packages now and I’m impressed with the outside appearances, especially with the builder blurbs, which I thought were well done. I’m bummed at the lack of the mini roadplates though!


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
  
I have my packages now and I’m impressed with the outside appearances, especially with the builder blurbs, which I thought were well done. I’m bummed at the lack of the mini roadplates though!

Yeah, I was hoping for microscale road plates too. Guess that’s going to be the difference between buying a couple of sets ‘cos they are new and actually quite cool, and a bunch because I would do that to get loads of such new mini road plates. Oh well.

On the inline only instruction subject, I also realised that was to be the case although the almost 9Mb download is very tedious if you live out in the sticks like me with only a 56k modem for company and a rural phone company whose pops and burps on the phone line causes my PC to drop the connection every 20 - 30 mins.

JB


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

   I have my packages now and I’m impressed with the outside appearances, especially with the builder blurbs, which I thought were well done. I’m bummed at the lack of the mini roadplates though!

Does anyone know the future status of the mini roadplates? Will they be coming someday, perhaps in a company designed set? My belief (perhaps mistaken) was that since they were included with the LDD parts that the real versions were already being planned for production.

Best regards,
Allan B.
The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide


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Re: LEGO Factory sets
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In lugnet.build.microscale, John Barnes wrote:
   In lugnet.build.microscale, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
  
I have my packages now and I’m impressed with the outside appearances, especially with the builder blurbs, which I thought were well done. I’m bummed at the lack of the mini roadplates though!

Yeah, I was hoping for microscale road plates too. Guess that’s going to be the difference between buying a couple of sets ‘cos they are new and actually quite cool, and a bunch because I would do that to get loads of such new mini road plates. Oh well.

On the inline only instruction subject, I also realised that was to be the case although the almost 9Mb download is very tedious if you live out in the sticks like me with only a 56k modem for company and a rural phone company whose pops and burps on the phone line causes my PC to drop the connection every 20 - 30 mins.

JB

well speaking of the instructions....

since i am using dialup i figured i would check out the liberty instructions with the picture version of them. unfortunently there quite hard to follow due to there small size. now granted i’m using 8x12 resolution but they should still be understandable. i had to squint to make out some of the parts and placement. i would have tried the pdf file but i was not in a hurry to wait 10 mins for it to load.

on a sort of tangant does anyone have inventorys for the 3 sets?


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