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In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote:
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Wow. It’s been a week and a half since BrickFest PDX, and I’m just now
starting to get caught up. I went straight from PDX to Enfield and had some
terrific Community Development meetings with the team. Lots of good things
happening!
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Awesome!
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But the comic was such a huge success that I was able to secure a small
amount of funding to put it into print!
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Wow, very cool!
It’s a bit rough in places (as you know) and there’s a bit of repetition,
but I think it shows a lot of promise. An excellent first draft! I look
forward to more.
I love the badges on pp. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, and I think
the tip of the hat to the classic striped minifig torso on page 27 is
also a really nice touch. How about a cameo by Bill & Mary?
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Perhaps you can get this comic in front of them to show them how much
fun the community is.
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Hmm, I’m not sure that’s the primary message I’d get from the content.
What stood out most to me was the negativity: the kvetching about the
grays and stuff. True, the depiction is accurate and timely -- and
personally I definitely relate to it -- but I’m not sure that a non-AFOL
would grok the humor without having it explained to them (which would
draw extra attention to the negativity).
Don’t get me wrong, I think you need to have those for your internal
presentation -- and LEGO execs certainly ought to get the jokes -- and
I think presenting things accurately (with humor, of course) is better
than hiding the disdain. But have a quick look again at pages 2, 9,
11, 19, 23, 24, and 25 and ask: Who is the target market for
those pages? -- AFOLs or non-AFOLs?
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Many many thanks to Greg. He’s an incredible artist and a hilarious
writer. Take a minute to tell him how cool he is!
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Greg, you are the c00l!
j00r spelling sux0rs though. :) BrikWars is spelled with an s, not a
z.
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I’ve posted this draft to get your feedback. We’d love to hear your
thoughts on the comics, or ideas for strips we may have missed. What
other types of information can we put in along with the comics to help
pull in the “Sleepers”?
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If the goal is pulling in sleepers, I would yank anything negative and
keep the tone as positive as possible. You know, keep doing negative
strips and all, but publish ‘em only to AFOLs and the internal TLC
audience.
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We’d love to hear your thoughts on the comics, or ideas for strips we
may have missed.
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OK, here are some random thoughts... Not all of these are probably
suitable for a non-AFOL audience, but maybe one or two might be...
- 8-wide vs. 6-wide; punchline 2-wide.
- Castle/Space sabotages: moonbase compliancy, sheepnork attacks, etc.
- Someone that walks around at BrickFest and all they can say is “pleh.”
- Building a set and thinking a piece is missing, but it isn’t.
- Never having time to build because pieces aren’t sorted yet.
- Buying 10 copies of a set just to get 10 copies of one piece, THEN finding out that BrickLink exists.
- Playing with LEGO pieces at the dinner table.
- Reading a LEGO catalog in the loo.
- Stepping on a LEGO piece and drawing blood, but being happy because the piece didn’t break.
- Getting up at 7am, going to BrickFest, skipping breakfast and lunch, and something funny happens at the end of the day because of it.
- Something with DUPLO being oversized -- maybe a minifig AFOL bumps into a DUPLO or PRIMO fig or something.
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And the idea - is it a good one? Do you see yourself using this?
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Ya, I wanna see more!!
--Todd
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| (...) Or spending ten minutes looking for a piece you *know* was there a minute ago but now you can't find it and then you ask your SO if she can come help and the second she gets there, oh, there it is. Maybe that's just me. :) (...) Or building a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org)
| | | RE: AFOLs - The comic!
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| <snip> j00r spelling sux0rs though. :) {BrikWars} is spelled with an {s}, not a {z}. <snip> --Todd You missed one :( Page 17 Robot can not only play chess.... it can moveS the pieces... Other than that, I have to agree with everyone else, the color (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org)
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| (...) I got the feeling that the "Brickwarz" spelling, like "AFOLnet," was a move to avoiding stepping on anybody's copyrights. But I'm sure that it wouldn't be too hard to get usage permission from the copyright owners, for use in the comics? (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| Wow. It's been a week and a half since BrickFest PDX, and I'm just now starting to get caught up. I went straight from PDX to Enfield and had some terrific Community Development meetings with the team. Lots of good things happening! As mentioned in (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX) !!
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