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Hi Folks,
I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke.
Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
life now, because I have to declare:
I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
proud now.
I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool some
of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
readers too.)
But what happened here was succeeding all my imaginations by far. And I'm glad,
that enough people had their doubts about the faked catalogue: I would have
felt much worse if anybody had started to sell of his "old" stuff because of
the new sets, which will never come like this of course.....
One good thing I can see in all this is the following: TLC will surely
have been informed of the faked train program and they can see how much
exitement it caused under the train heads. And while reading all the posts of
the thread, they could filter a lot of information, wishes and requirements out
of them.
So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's at
least my hope.
I fear I will get a lot of response on this post now. I will try to answer all
questions, but I have a job and my english is not the best. So I beg your
pardon, if I'm not able to give satisfieing answers to all requests
immediately.
Ben
P.s.:
for some more information go here:
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
> strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke.
>
> Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> life now, because I have to declare:
>
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
I just posted about this myself. Too bad it was a fake. I was considering
getting into trains because of the "new" stuff. Excellent job.
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There are ha-ha jokes, and there are cruel jokes.
Yours, sir, was DEFINITELY the latter.
Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
> strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke.
>
> Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> life now, because I have to declare:
>
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
>
> I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool some
> of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
> readers too.)
>
> But what happened here was succeeding all my imaginations by far. And I'm glad,
> that enough people had their doubts about the faked catalogue: I would have
> felt much worse if anybody had started to sell of his "old" stuff because of
> the new sets, which will never come like this of course.....
>
> One good thing I can see in all this is the following: TLC will surely
> have been informed of the faked train program and they can see how much
> exitement it caused under the train heads. And while reading all the posts of
> the thread, they could filter a lot of information, wishes and requirements out
> of them.
>
> So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's at
> least my hope.
>
> I fear I will get a lot of response on this post now. I will try to answer all
> questions, but I have a job and my english is not the best. So I beg your
> pardon, if I'm not able to give satisfieing answers to all requests
> immediately.
>
> Ben
>
> P.s.:
> for some more information go here:
>
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
--
Tom Stangl
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***SF Bay Area DSMs
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In lugnet.trains, Tom Stangl writes:
> There are ha-ha jokes, and there are cruel jokes.
>
> Yours, sir, was DEFINITELY the latter.
True, but isn't it the day to try to FOOL people and not make people laugh?
Well done, well thought out ... kind of a bummer;)
-- pn
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> [...]
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
>
> I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool
> some of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the
> lugnet readers too.)
I thought it was full-on well done!!! Just realistic enough looking to give
someone an initial glancing doubt, but with plenty of clues, especially the
"© Logo" part at the bottom -- very nice!!! LOL!!!
I can't wait to see what you come up with next year!!!!!
--Todd
p.s. One small request, I hope it's not too pedantic -- now that the cat's
out of the bag, would you consider adding some sort of disclaimer into the
image files, noting that they're not real? I'd hate to see some prankster
putting copies of the photos up at eBay -- *that* would be cruel! Or people
submitting them to the sets database as if they were real sets. :-o
--Todd
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> I thought it was full-on well done!!! Just realistic enough looking to give
> someone an initial glancing doubt, but with plenty of clues, especially the
> "© Logo" part at the bottom -- very nice!!! LOL!!!
>
> I can't wait to see what you come up with next year!!!!!
>
> --Todd
I fear next years joke will not be mine: everybody would expect me to have done
it.
>
> p.s. One small request, I hope it's not too pedantic -- now that the cat's
> out of the bag, would you consider adding some sort of disclaimer into the
> image files, noting that they're not real? I'd hate to see some prankster
> putting copies of the photos up at eBay -- *that* would be cruel! Or people
> submitting them to the sets database as if they were real sets. :-o
>
> --Todd
Of course that's not pedantic: in three out of five published pictures there is
no Lego logo at all. I think they are quite ok, but I will add some comment
into the pics right now.
The two pics which had used the red Lego and "DB" logos, are already
published in changed version.
I will ask Egon Eiermann to remove his pictures and to give a link on my page
instead.
Just a few words to Egon Eiermann. He got the "scans" from a gmx mail in
Liechtenstein (near Switzerland). In the mail he was told that the sender was
working in a print shop in Switzerland and got the new catalogue there.
All other people, who knew about the hoax, have been quiet the whole weekend
long. I wanted to thank them all once again at this point!
Regards (going to change my pics now)
Ben
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
> strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke.
>
> Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> life now, because I have to declare:
>
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
I'm sorry, I don't believe you. I think you faked those pictures of the fakery.
Can you PROVE it was a hoax? I mean, extraordinary claims require extraordinary
proof, and as we all know, Lego is busily working to produce all this very good
stuff.
I think you just claimed to fake it for the publicity.
++Lar
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> Can you PROVE it was a hoax? I mean, extraordinary claims require • extraordinary
> proof, and as we all know, Lego is busily working to produce all this very • good
> stuff.
>
> I think you just claimed to fake it for the publicity.
>
> ++Lar
Hi Larry,
have you followed the link I gave in my post above? You would have found a lot
of pictures in higher quality showing the models I built and used for the
April fool joke.
It would have been a hard work to do these better pictures as a fake on real
ones, which would have been made by a still unknown third party....
I would have had only 36 hours to do this fake of a fake. No, I think that
would have been impossible to me. (The real joke took me over approximated 150
hours in preparation...)
What is in your opinion the best way to make it prove in yours and everyone
elses eyes?
Sincerely,
Ben
(And yes, I'm a little proud having fooled the big ++Lar for at least one day.)
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > Can you PROVE it was a hoax? I mean, extraordinary claims require
> > extraordinary proof, and as we all know, Lego is busily working to produce
> > all this very good stuff.
> >
> > I think you just claimed to fake it for the publicity.
> > ++Lar
I may have read between the lines incorrectly, but I read the above as a
tongue-in-cheek comment. I don't think Larry really doubts you -- he's just
giving you a hard time for the fun of it (IMHO!).
> It would have been a hard work to do these better pictures as a fake on real
> ones, which would have been made by a still unknown third party....
>
> I would have had only 36 hours to do this fake of a fake. No, I think that
> would have been impossible to me. (The real joke took me over approximated
> 150 hours in preparation...)
WOW!
> What is in your opinion the best way to make it prove in yours and everyone
> elses eyes?
IMHO, your work already speaks for itself...but you did want to prove it to
someone who actually doubts it, you might want to rally a few of the people
together who were "in" on your joke prior to it going live, and ask them to
post to that effect...
> (And yes, I'm a little proud having fooled the big ++Lar for at least one
> day.)
I would be too! Larry is about as keen as they come.
--Todd
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ARGH ! ! ! !
And I finally had convinced my NLSO wife to start with trains since these were
so cool and she loved them..........
Dave
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> What is in your opinion the best way to make it prove in yours and everyone
> elses eyes?
Send me the models. If you have them now, that's pretty definitive. Or just
send me the boxcab electric, I want to see how you did the technic motor
driving a vertical axle that carries motion to the LGB wheels, and how you did
current pickup. Or at least post better instructions...
I figured if these are fake, there was no way that the engine would actually
work. That you got it to work stretches credulity. WOW. So send it to me, right
now, I gotta see it.
> (And yes, I'm a little proud having fooled the big ++Lar for at least one
day.)
Ya, ya, you put one over on me. But I just got you back, at least a little
bit... :-)
Very nice work.
++Lar
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Since this thread resurfaced...
In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
>
> > What is in your opinion the best way to make it prove in yours and everyone
> > elses eyes?
>
> Send me the models. If you have them now, that's pretty definitive. Or just
> send me the boxcab electric, I want to see how you did the technic motor
> driving a vertical axle that carries motion to the LGB wheels, and how you did
> current pickup. Or at least post better instructions...
For the record Ben never did send these to me but I got to examine them
closely, in person. Amazing work. :-)
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<German Accent>
Some people say that we Germans have no sense of humor. But let me assure
you... we have ways to make you laugh.
</German Accent>
:-D
I think Ben missed the sarcasm.
Brian
In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> have you followed the link I gave in my post above? You would have found a lot
> of pictures in higher quality showing the models I built and used for the
> April fool joke.
> It would have been a hard work to do these better pictures as a fake on real
> ones, which would have been made by a still unknown third party....
> I would have had only 36 hours to do this fake of a fake. No, I think that
> would have been impossible to me. (The real joke took me over approximated 150
> hours in preparation...)
> What is in your opinion the best way to make it prove in yours and everyone
> elses eyes?
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
> strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke.
>
> Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> life now, because I have to declare:
>
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
>
> I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool some
> of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
> readers too.)
>
> But what happened here was succeeding all my imaginations by far. And I'm • glad,
> that enough people had their doubts about the faked catalogue: I would have
> felt much worse if anybody had started to sell of his "old" stuff because of
> the new sets, which will never come like this of course.....
Unfortunately, as real as Disneyland and for one moment we were all hoping to
see an announcement stating that the two systems were compatible!
Well done.
Jon
>
> One good thing I can see in all this is the following: TLC will surely
> have been informed of the faked train program and they can see how much
> exitement it caused under the train heads. And while reading all the posts of
> the thread, they could filter a lot of information, wishes and requirements • out
> of them.
>
> So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's at
> least my hope.
>
> I fear I will get a lot of response on this post now. I will try to answer all
> questions, but I have a job and my english is not the best. So I beg your
> pardon, if I'm not able to give satisfieing answers to all requests
> immediately.
>
> Ben
>
> P.s.:
> for some more information go here:
>
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
> [...]
Darn... Excellent work... I was almost got suck into an expensive hobby
known as LEGO trains...
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Target locking on... fire!!!!!
Good one, but I must say, DIE!!!!!!! ; )
Scott "Finally some colors I would like to use on trains! )S.
Scott E. Sanburn
Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> http://www.aeieng.com
LEGO Page -> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/legoindex.html
Coming Soon: The Sanburn Systems Company
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
Well, you sure got me for a sec there! Too bad the hoax suspicions were
already posted by the time I saw the "catalog", otherwise I would've bought it
completely. :-)
Nice job... ouch, you really got us all hoping... (I want a pitchfork!)
-Shiri
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> Nice job... ouch, you really got us all hoping... (I want a pitchfork!)
>
> -Shiri
Excuse my stupid question: what is so special with the pitchfork, that you
would by a 60 - 80$ set to get one? I supposed it to be rare, since I own
just two of them....
Regards,
Ben
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
>
> > Nice job... ouch, you really got us all hoping... (I want a pitchfork!)
> >
> > -Shiri
>
> Excuse my stupid question: what is so special with the pitchfork, that you
> would by a 60 - 80$ set to get one? I supposed it to be rare, since I own
> just two of them....
It's a great thing for castle, and it's VERY hard to get nowadays.
I probably wouldn't buy the whole set just to get 'em but that would make them
easier to get in general and thus cheaper for me to offer trainheads to buy it
from them; or alternatively, to buy the set and sell it off later w/o the
pitchfork (like someone did with 5542 train windows and doors :-)
-Shiri
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Great joke, Ben! And nice models too! You made this weekend a lot of fun
for me. I was surprised that no one admitted to it by the end of April 1,
but I guess the vacation would explain it.
Well done!
John Matthews
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> life now, because I have to declare:
>
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
Great models! But I saw it was faked almost immediately...for next year you
might want to get an image-editor with better text anti-aliasing :)
And maybe add a bit of color to the next engine--LEGO almost never uses just
one color...
I'm still impressed by the amount of work you put into this. Here's the only
set I've ever faked (and it's not very plausible):
http://www.chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/LEGO/wallpaper/6888-800x600.jpg
I wish I'd have thought to fake another for April Fools...
--Bram
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
> strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke.
>
> Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> life now, because I have to declare:
>
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
> <snip>
> Ben
>
> P.s.:
> for some more information go here:
>
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
Great Job Ben. I too was fooled, (only because I wanted to be fooled). Thank
you again for a look at what TLC could, and should do for themselves.
Rich
--
Have Fun! C-Ya!
Legoman34
*****
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to...)
Card carrying LUGNET MEMBER: #70
Visit http://www.wamalug.org &
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/1334
...(the wait is over...)
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Great Joke, ben. You should have put a "coming out middle of 2001" type of thing on
it, it would have made the fact that the pictures are very early prototypes seem
more believable. You were even able to fool people who see prototype pictures all
the time. How did you do some of these parts, like the silver wheels?
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In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> Great Joke, ben. You should have put a "coming out middle of 2001" type of • thing on
> it, it would have made the fact that the pictures are very early prototypes • seem
> more believable. You were even able to fool people who see prototype pictures • all
> the time. How did you do some of these parts, like the silver wheels?
Hi Jonathan,
the wheels with the silver rims of the 4460 electric engine are from a small
engine of LGB garden trains. They have been a little expensive (~ 50 $), but
they look great and you can put a technic pin with roundhead just between 2
spokes.
The smaller metal wheels are from LGB too (from a draisin or something like
that).
The black whhels are from Playmobil: you find a (updated) link from my page to
Playmobils service. I think they are produced by LGB also, since Playmobil used
LGB track in the past.
Regards,
Ben
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Cool joke! Did indeed fool me, and made me laugh!
Fredrik
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Hi!
Nice joke, amazing work, but...
now I'm wondering about this: Are the rumours about Lego developing their new
digital trains nonsense too, or is there really something going on? Were those
rumours only working for your April fool's joke? Did you Ben have something to
do with them?
Mika
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In lugnet.trains, Mika Karttunen writes:
> Are the rumours about Lego developing their new
> digital trains nonsense too, or is there really something going on? Were those
> rumours only working for your April fool's joke? Did you Ben have something to
> do with them?
>
> Mika
Hi Mika,
I fear this is a question only the Lego Company could answer, but I think they
will not do so.
In fact I have spread out one rumor about big wheeled trains 2 weeks ago, but
on the other hand I've heard wishes and rumors for digital stuff going round
since a long time. That's not started by me completely: I was just reacting on
those rumors.
Regards,
Ben
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"Mika Karttunen" <mika.karttunen@helsinki.fi> writes:
> now I'm wondering about this: Are the rumours about Lego developing
> their new digital trains nonsense too, or is there really something
> going on? Were those rumours only working for your April fool's
> joke? Did you Ben have something to do with them?
There have been some rumours that something new in the Train theme may
pop up:
http://www.lugnet.com/trains/?n=4304
But it's hard to say if we can expect DCC or somthing similar. Or if
the rumours are even true!
Fredrik
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Nice job Ben! I will admit that I was really hoping it was true, maybe
someday it will be. One can only hope.
jt
Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote in message ...
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
> strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools • joke.
>
> Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for • my
> life now, because I have to declare:
>
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
>
> I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool • some
> of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
> readers too.)
>
> But what happened here was succeeding all my imaginations by far. And I'm • glad,
> that enough people had their doubts about the faked catalogue: I would have
> felt much worse if anybody had started to sell of his "old" stuff because • of
> the new sets, which will never come like this of course.....
>
> One good thing I can see in all this is the following: TLC will surely
> have been informed of the faked train program and they can see how much
> exitement it caused under the train heads. And while reading all the posts • of
> the thread, they could filter a lot of information, wishes and requirements • out
> of them.
>
> So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's • at
> least my hope.
>
> I fear I will get a lot of response on this post now. I will try to answer • all
> questions, but I have a job and my english is not the best. So I beg your
> pardon, if I'm not able to give satisfieing answers to all requests
> immediately.
>
> Ben
>
> P.s.:
> for some more information go here:
>
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
>
> Hi Folks,
[snip]
Ben,
Absolutely Brilliant work!
You have set an exceptionally high (and achievable!) standard for TLC to aim
for.
KL
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
Go read this. He uses the term "ironical use" referring to using the LEGO
logo in the spoof. Normally one would say "fair use" or "parody" but
I his newly minted term is quite appropriate in this case :)
KL
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"Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message
news:FsEr2w.86L@lugnet.com...
> P.s.:
> for some more information go here:
>
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
Ben,
Excellent joke! I'm very impressed by your MOCs (I think most of us here
are). I read on your page that the red engine is powered by technic
motors... is it possible to post some more pictures of that? I'm very
curious how it is done.
Greetings,
--
Frank Buiting
Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
>
> Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> life now, because I have to declare:
>
> I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> proud now.
Well, you have nothing to fear from me! :) I thought it was a wonderful April
Fool's Joke! :) Of course, it makes me wonder why so many were fooled (I was
the first to post that I thought it was a hoax).
>
> I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool some
> of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
> readers too.)
And boy did you ever fool people! :)
>
> But what happened here was succeeding all my imaginations by far. And I'm
> glad, that enough people had their doubts about the faked catalogue: I would
> have felt much worse if anybody had started to sell of his "old" stuff because
> of the new sets, which will never come like this of course.....
I'd also like to know how many people changed their minds because of what I
wrote. :)
>
> So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's at
> least my hope.
That'd certainly be nice... :)
>
> I fear I will get a lot of response on this post now. I will try to answer all
> questions, but I have a job and my english is not the best. So I beg your
> pardon, if I'm not able to give satisfieing answers to all requests
> immediately.
Don't worry! We all understand! :)
Thinking about why it fooled so many people got me wondering if it was just my
cynical nature, my habit of studying Lego set images, my apathy towards trains
right now, or a combination of all three that led me to doubt your hoax. Did
die-hard train fans fall for it because their dreams and desires blinded them
to the inconsistancies? Well, it is something for me to ponder... :)
Oh, and I just want to say, *great* models! Even though everyone knows about
them now, I how you put them up on the web somewhere!! :)
Jeff
P.S. Next time you (or anyone) does something like this, analyze the logos and
font Lego uses, as that will make it more realistic. :) Also, I'd suggest
printing it out (on photographic paper maybe?) and rescanning it. That should
eliminate the uniformity of colors that tipped me off. :)
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In lugnet.trains, Jeff Stembel writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> >
> > Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> > life now, because I have to declare:
> >
> > I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> > proud now.
Grat job Reihnard
You brought some fun in LUGNET that tends to be too serious.
After all Lego has been made to bring fun to people.
A big smile from Italy
Marco
PS anyway you did not catch me, but you had a good number of fishes even in
Italy :))
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I saw the post first on Sunday night. I pulled up the page and was amazed; I
couldn't believe that LEGO had made everything that everyone had been saying they
wanted, so I was fooled for a bit. But then I thought about April Fool's, and kept
flipping through the news posts and the images at the same time. When I read a
post from Jakob I really started thinking it was a hoax. Shortly, after reading
that post, and still hoping it wasn't a fake, I noticed the short sections of
rail. They do not line up. I was concerned that it was a hoax, but I was still
hoping....
Finally, I skipped down and noticed the "Please do not kill me post." I laughed
out loud, but then again I only suffered through about a half hour of the "is it
true" dilema not a whole weekend!
Bravo! Excellent, and very cruel, joke.
Chris
Jeff Stembel wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> >
> > Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my
> > life now, because I have to declare:
> >
> > I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
> > proud now.
>
> Well, you have nothing to fear from me! :) I thought it was a wonderful April
> Fool's Joke! :) Of course, it makes me wonder why so many were fooled (I was
> the first to post that I thought it was a hoax).
> >
> > I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool some
> > of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
> > readers too.)
>
> And boy did you ever fool people! :)
> >
> > But what happened here was succeeding all my imaginations by far. And I'm
> > glad, that enough people had their doubts about the faked catalogue: I would
> > have felt much worse if anybody had started to sell of his "old" stuff because
> > of the new sets, which will never come like this of course.....
>
> I'd also like to know how many people changed their minds because of what I
> wrote. :)
> >
> > So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's at
> > least my hope.
>
> That'd certainly be nice... :)
> >
> > I fear I will get a lot of response on this post now. I will try to answer all
> > questions, but I have a job and my english is not the best. So I beg your
> > pardon, if I'm not able to give satisfieing answers to all requests
> > immediately.
>
> Don't worry! We all understand! :)
>
> Thinking about why it fooled so many people got me wondering if it was just my
> cynical nature, my habit of studying Lego set images, my apathy towards trains
> right now, or a combination of all three that led me to doubt your hoax. Did
> die-hard train fans fall for it because their dreams and desires blinded them
> to the inconsistancies? Well, it is something for me to ponder... :)
>
> Oh, and I just want to say, *great* models! Even though everyone knows about
> them now, I how you put them up on the web somewhere!! :)
>
> Jeff
>
> P.S. Next time you (or anyone) does something like this, analyze the logos and
> font Lego uses, as that will make it more realistic. :) Also, I'd suggest
> printing it out (on photographic paper maybe?) and rescanning it. That should
> eliminate the uniformity of colors that tipped me off. :)
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In lugnet.trains, Jeff Stembel writes:
> P.S. Next time you (or anyone) does something like this, analyze the logos
> and
> font Lego uses, as that will make it more realistic. :) Also, I'd suggest
> printing it out (on photographic paper maybe?) and rescanning it. That should
> eliminate the uniformity of colors that tipped me off. :)
Using Corel Photopaint, I could easily mess with colors, add fake half-toning,
etc, etc. I also have 1000+ fonts to match from... My only problem is that I
would have to create hyper-realistic raytraces because I don't have a digital
camera...but then again, backgrounds are much easier to add to raytraces. I'm
really starting to get interested in faking something :)
--Bram
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Well, I think I speak for many when I say we believed the joke, more so,
because we wanted it to be true, rather than it's believability.
Anyways, great job on the MOC's. I, for one, have been inspired.
Congratulations.
Tim Strutt 8^)
In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
...
> I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool some
> of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
> readers too.)
...
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