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Re: Are custom made parts LEGO?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:40:35 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> What follows is my opinion, not any sort of Lugnet Admin official stance by any
> means...
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> I think there's a need for a custom parts discussion group but I'm not sure it
> belongs under off-topic. You can argue it both ways. This argument has in fact
> come up on BrickLink in the past, where custom sets made of LEGO elements are
> welcome but major company clone parts and sets are not.
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> The metric that matters to me is this: where did the parts come from, and what
> does LEGO think about them?
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> For a big company like Ritvik, it's clear, LEGO views them as a competitor and
> actively competes against them and takes legal action to suppress their cloning
> whenever it sees an opportunity to do so. Hence MB discussion pretty clearly
> belongs in off-topic.clone
Interesting that you truncated the group's title, and not a bad truncation at
that! IMO formal clone *brands* should be generally confined to
ot.clone-brands, but one-shot modifications are an artistic creation of their
own and I agree with you that they deserve their own group. Hmm... But what
about modified clone elements?
Even larger production runs of custom LEGO-style elements would probably qualify
more as complements to the original brand rather than competitors. To my
knowledge, no competitor brand officially markets its products "for supplemental
use with LEGO." The distinction may be that formal clone brands admit
compatibility but basically seem to treat their products as self-contained
brands distinct from LEGO itself.
> Hence, I think custom parts discussion belongs in the new group:
> "lugnet.parts.custom"
That sounds like a great idea. For the uber-compartmentalized, I might even
propose lugnet.parts.custom.original and lugnet.parts.custom.modified, or
something like that.
> Until then, it may make sense to discuss them in their theme specific groups as
> has happened already with Ben's BBB wheels and Jeff's Little Armory space and
> castle stuff.
That's a good suggestion, too. Since these custom parts are identifiably
theme-specific, it makes sense to give them at least an initial mention in the
relevant sub-group, even if the FUT is set to lugnet.parts.custom
Dave!
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| (...) It was a mistake, with no overt or covert subtheme to the truncation that I am aware of. Apologies for any confusion or false inferences drawn. (...) I truly hadn't thought about it. That may be too compartmentalised even for me. (...) Yes. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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