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Re: Lego Factory Contest results
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lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:07:34 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote:
I doubt there will be a percentage royalty given to set designers if the Lego
Factory is ever opened to the general public. That would be a paperwork/legal
nightmare to implement.

Uhm, have you seen print-on-demand servcies such as www.cafepress.com or
www.trafford.com? They do exactly that with t-shirts, mugs, books, CD's, etc.
The paperwork/legal aspects of such a venture are easy to deal with following
the Cafepress model and are, I would think, the smallest impediment to
implementation.

Now, forgive me if I am missing something but I understood that basically the
LEGO Factory idea was a robotic processing line with a limited pallette of parts
and packaging sizes that would literally allow one or a thousand sets to be made
"on demand" based on the designs submitted using the designer program. If it is
just another way to make regular assembly-line sets then I think it may be more
difficult to implement.

The biggest impediment I see is the willingness of the corporation to try
something which allows some creative control by the customers. A very cool thing
IMHO but a scary concept in the coporate world.



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(...) Nevertheless, I stand by my original assertion that offering royalties isn't critical at all in making the Lego Factory concept a success - and just adds another layer of complexity to what is no doubt an already complex process. It was a nice (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Lego Factory Contest results
 
(...) I doubt there will be a percentage royalty given to set designers if the Lego Factory is ever opened to the general public. That would be a paperwork/legal nightmare to implement. Think more along the lines of today's Lego Mosaic (only 3D!). (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general, FTX)

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