 | | Questions About Selling Custom Model Instructions: Confirming LEGO/LDraw Consent
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Hi! Here are three questions: one about LEGO trademarks and two for the LDraw community. The questions stem from a casual interest in selling custom LEGO kits with instructions. Because there are existing vendors of excellent such kits - and books (...) (16 years ago, 17-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Ebay auction... (suspect?)
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(...) Plus the four Lions Gate Models CDs of original model building instructions, which I produce. Kevin ---...--- Custom LEGO building instructions and models: (URL) Instructions (URL) instructions ($$) (URL) (16 years ago, 27-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) If the eBay powers-that-be would have been involved you would get a page that says the auction number is not valid or does not exist. Since you can see the auction ended it is because time ran out for the auction with no bids. In terms of a (...) (16 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ugh. That's pretty crappy. What a jerk... Dave! (16 years ago, 24-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) he has more running right now of the same thing. John P (16 years ago, 24-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Alexander Farlie wrote: ***big snip*** (...) On the plus side, the auction ended without a bid. I only glanced at it, so I don't know if it was terminated by the eBay powers-that-be, or if it truly lapsed without interest. (...) (16 years ago, 24-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I've email Lego about this several times. They don't seem to care. (16 years ago, 24-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Ebay auction... (suspect?)
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(Note to Moderators, If this post is not appropriate please fell free to remove it.) Dear TLG, I note the following EBAY auction: (URL) seller claims: "THIS DISC IS NOT AN UNAUTHORISED COPY.THE COPYRIGHT OF THE CONTENT IS EITHER, OWNED BY THE (...) (16 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: wrong e-mail addresses
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(...) I have one other option left. If that one brings no results, I think I'll just follow your suggestion. Thanks, Maarten (17 years ago, 31-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: wrong e-mail addresses
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(...) In what capacity are you looking to contact them? These days, there's a very wide variety of ways to contact Lego-- I dunno if they would have a "general contact" e-mail address. I guess one way of going about it would be to e-mail Steve Witt (...) (17 years ago, 22-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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In August 2004, I asked for an e-mail address to contact TLC. I asked this in LegoLand Billund (the parks weren't sold at the time). The e-mail address didn't work. Last month, I was back in Billund. I mentioned this and asked for a new e-mail (...) (17 years ago, 22-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Parts, Parts, Parts
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www.bricklink.com or www.ebay.com (...) (17 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Parts, Parts, Parts
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(...) Hi Jordan, After an attic sort out we've been rebuilding all our lego to sell on ebay or similar (my daughter discovered her grown up brother's collection and has pursuaded him to sell to buy Playmobil). We have quite a lot, including a (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Parts, Parts, Parts
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(...) I think the catch was that while AFOLs were quick to jump at the chance to own one of these sets, they were NOT so quick to buy *more* of these sets. It seems as though a lot of AFOLs who owned the original set were passing up the opportunity (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Parts, Parts, Parts
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(...) Hi Damon, I enjoyed reading your post and share many of the same sentiments. I recall LEGO saying somewhere that generally speaking, sets re-released as Legends do not sell very well. This seems odd to me, since I would jump at the chance to (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Parts, Parts, Parts
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Dear Lego Direct; With the introduction of the Lego Factory/Pick a Brick site you have given to us a huge resourse. Thank you. There are some items that I, personally, would love to see reintoroduced to the Pick a Brick assortment. I understand that (...) (17 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 10183 instructions in PDF please?
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(...) I'm caught with a older operating system, too. I just realized that I won't be able to run LDD and see any of the instructions. This won't prevent me from buying the hobby train set, but it will prevent me from buying any other set with LDD (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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| | Re: 10183 instructions in PDF please?
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(...) While LDD 2 does have a HTML export, it has a couple of drawbacks: It produces fairly low-res images The images are all from the same viewpoint (wherever you're viewing from in LDD when you export I think) The images are clipped if the (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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I have reported this situation to a contact within LEGO CAnada, and hopefully they can work it up the chain/get someone to quickly create PDFs, surely LDD 2.0 can be used to just generate a printable version of the instructions. Heck I'd do it (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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| | Re: 10183 instructions in PDF please?
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(...) I completely agree with the above statement. I can NOT run LDD on my computer due to its operating system. This problem has kept me from buying sets before and will likely again unless an alternate format for instructions is implemented for at (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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