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Felucia was a world teeming with fungal life-forms and immense primitive plants. Beneath the hazy canopies of the enormous pitcher plants and leafy growths is a surreal color-drenched landscape where an infantry unit of Republic scouts are on (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?
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(...) Having a manufacturing background, and having worked a little ops management.. the more SKU's you have, the more associated costs you're going to have (for example--just boxes alone: -more boxes to design and print--adds money to product, (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) It's not a matter of simply adding more numbers to the system. As was pointed out elsewhere, each new product brings added complexity to the system, as well as additional development costs. Designing and printing one box, for example, is (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I think ones that used fixed burden accounting, yes, but many companies have switched to variable burden, or even Activity Based Costing. I believe the cost that LEGO fears lies elsewhere. FUT trimmed to just lugnet.dear-lego (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory sets
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(...) Nice catch, John. You figured out what I saw pretty quickly too. Possibly, LEGO will be able to track the submission of an individual copyrighted model design like Nathan's SoL, but you never know. The cat's out of the bag, so we'll have to (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: The First Joe Vig Contest - The Winners!!!
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(...) My congratulations to the winners, and to the organizers. This has been the most fun competition I haven't entered, ever! Finally a competition where the models are small enough that I can copy them, but still interesting enough that I want to (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette)
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(...) I work for a publisher here in NYC and one of the requirments from our Editor in Chief is 'keeping the sku count low' (number of different books we produce, not quantities of each title that we print). I'm not 100% sure this is the reasoning (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?
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. (...) How much does it cost to have some more numbers?! Tim (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory sets
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(...) OK, so 2 + 2 will give us 5... We have access to the .lxf files, we have access to the means of ordering the sets individually. Basically, what we'll need to do is rip out the individual models we would like and then order them as a single (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) I'm 80% sure (guesswise) that the reason is "we don't have enough SKUs"... This seems to me a sign of internal breakage, LEGO needs to fix their systems so they can have more SKUs without it costing them a lot more. (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: 2001
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(...) I like it a lot! You just got a preview of an idea that's been cooking up in my brain, thanks to Nathan for doing it unknowingly :-) Terry (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?
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(...) I have to agree. While I'm delighted with the idea of the lego factory sets and keen on getting the models that are available, I'm just not liking the prices. I don't make a habit of buying $40, $70, & $130 sets. $15-20 sets are more my speed. (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all? was Re: LEGO Factory sets
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(...) Yes. I agree, and thats not including the fact that they are even more expensive in the UK. The price per piece might not be high but the sets are just too big. If each winner was an indiviudual set I might end up buying most of them over a (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: 2001
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Hey Nate, This is great! One of the best vigs I've seen in a while. I love how you played with scales to give a forced perspective. Also, as with Jason, that application of R2 legs is inspired. Bruce (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: 2001
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(...) Very well done. Play well, Jacob (who should give vignettes a try soon) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: 2001
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(...) Awesome! You've captured the scene very well. I love the modifications you've made to the pod arms. I just tried it on one of mine. Very nice. I can finally get rid of the unsightly dark gray wrenches I was using! I also love the use of the R2 (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | 2001
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(2 URLs) I'm sorry Dave... Please let me know what you think! -- Nathan Wells (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: The First Joe Vig Contest - The Winners!!!
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Like everyone else before me, I wanted to thank you guys for running the great contest and I want to sincerely congratulate everyone who entered! I had a blast doing my vignette and I'll make sure to participate if another contest comes along! Woot! (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette)
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| | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all? was Re: LEGO Factory sets
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Jeff Szklennik wrote: -snip- (...) -snip- I'd like to voice agreement with this. Personally, I drop about ~$20 on LEGO every pay day. I don't drop more as I can afford more each pay day, and I dont save up to buy more (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: The First Joe Vig Contest - The Winners!!!
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(...) I too would like to add my thanks. The contest was great and the entries amazing. I hope we will see another contest in the near future. Brian (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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