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Aaron, Its not an unfair indictment on my part. I must admit to being a bit more of an observer and less outgoing than Jake, one of the parts of my job I'm working on at the moment and I will do my best to be more available online. Steve (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Not to pick on you Felix (I would've voted for you in an ambassador contest or just about anything else your MOCs are so interesting ; ) but this line is worth responding to. Eurobricks is without representation despite, I'm told, many of (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) I'll bite. This is a mixed question for sure. Product development and release of information are what need to be kept secret absolutely. The people who work on marketing plans and developing new things are dependant on the information not (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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Lenny, I can share what I made during the Billund design trip because I was granted permission by the Castle product design lead. At Brickworld 2007 I gave a presentation on fan involvement in the design process. Currently I am working on an online (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) I agree communities should choose who represents them. But if it was based on a voting system imagine what would happen; Would people start going to forums and campaigning-- or worse, mudslinging to get votes? I can see that getting really (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Let me say that I understand your sentiment and your frustration. My aim here is to outline some of the issues that make it difficult to do what seems obvious. Big part of the secrecy issue is actually figuring out what must be kept secret and (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) While I agree and reiterate Dave's points, I think that LEGO sees the ambassador program a bit differently. They are not LEGO employees assigned as ambassadors to the AFOL community. I believe LEGO sees them as AFOL members assigned as (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Just a point here. I think this is part of why the Ambassadors got that "Unbassador" logo that I'm sure everyone has seen floating around. Here's a perfect example of something that you could have shared with the community, but didn't and (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX) !!
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(...) That's still a little vague. I just think if the ambassadors are going to complain in the name of the community, the community should get a say in what they complain about. Personally, I think it'd be better to take just a couple of the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) What's on the list? The standard range of complaints that you read about on this or other fora: complaints about colour and quality, piece and set design, themes, gender bias/availability, leaks, availability and pricing and so on. Why? (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) That surely doesn't apply to the 'Issues List' though. I for one would like to see what was on that list, and why. (...) I'm confused. How did they know thery were redesigned if they were kept secret? (...) Those kooky terrorists. (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Nelson's reply is good, but it should also be said that it mainly isn't to keep secret from the community, but to keep secret from rival companies. If TLG's plans are made known before they are ready to act, other companies could rush a (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Ted- The ideas submitted to TLG were made by the Ambassadors themselves for set/theme designs. Sorry for not phrasing that correctly in my report. "Big Daddy" Nelson (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Duh! Terrorism of course. 1 Tim 1 Well it seems like a good exucse for every other secret or breach of rights since 2001 so I figure it's got to be good for this one too. (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Nelson- OK, I'll bite: Why would you need to keep ideas submitted to TLC on behalf of the community secret from the community? -Ted SCLTC (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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Hello all, Well, you asked for us to provide you with Status Reports, so here goes: The LEGO Ambassador Program is currently in the process of moving to a new Server. While this does not affect fans in any way, it certainly affects us and the (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX) !
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(...) That is me. I can tell you why I applied for the program and why I decided to quit after 2 cycles: I applied because I had one good reason. I wanted to let TLC know how unfair some European AFOLs feel about not having the option to use (...) (17 years ago, 21-May-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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LEGOFan lives! Despite a prolonged illness of the server crash variety, the patient is stable. It's not wearing much at the moment, just a hospital gown that shows off its bare butt... but the heart is pumping, air is flowing, and I can't stretch (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) As I think we all have noticed on the retail shelves, TLC has its competitors, who make similar but cheaper products. One presumes TLC are not keen to do anything to give their competitors a heads-up on their plans. And "pre-announced by (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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(...) It’s an extremely low overhead research and development team of AFOLs that TLC can go to with ideas, get ideas from and test products and or get opinions on. it also provides a small group of people to go between TLC and the community at large (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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