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Re: What happend with brickcommander.com
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Date: 
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:34:04 GMT
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"Primus" Burkkhard Schlömer wrote:
> Hi Roland & everybody else who is wondering what is going on (or NOT going on
> anymore) at www.BrickCommander.com! Yes, I am obviously still alive – and no, I
> have not lost my interest in LEGO. On the contrary! But first things first. For
> several reasons there has no now content been uploaded to my website for many
> months now – which, after almost eight years of regular weekly updates, begs for
> an explanation, I guess …
> No less than 3 reasons here:
> 
> - MechWarrior is not what it once was. Wizkids’ tabeltop game seems to be on
> hold, with no new product released for quite some time now. So, with MW having
> been the focus of my building activity for the last years, there simply isn’t
> that much left for me to build anymore. I still have some models on my to-do
> list, but due to lack of own and public interest they are not a priority right
> now
> 
> - World of Warcraft is eating a lot of my free time recently – time that I used
> to spend on building. Great game, no doubts there. But the day should have 48
> hours …
> 
> - in January I have, more or less, been kidnapped and hired by The LEGO Group:
> Digital Model Designer on LEGO Universe! Now I’m getting paid for doing what I
> would be doing anyway, yay! :)
> However, while I am based in danish Billund now, I am doing a lot of travelling
> back and forth between Germany, Denmark and the US. For, well, technical reasons
> all emails sent to my BrickCommander.com address end up on my PC in Germany,
> where I only drop by every other week, or less - when I’m in the US. Which I am
> right now, until October. Which maybe helps explaining why I have gotten from
> bad to worse as far as replying to emails is concerned. If you need to contact
> me, make sure to add an adequate subject line to your mail (please not just
> "hi!") – and be patient ;)
> 
> Ok, this is all nice and well, but when will be the next update at
> BrickCommander, at last? Ummm … ok, I promise some new stuff for OCTOBER. It’s
> not that I haven’t built anything, I just haven’t gotten around to taking photos
> and updating the site. All the website data is, guess what, also still on my PC
> in Germany …
> And yes, I’m also working on new content for BrickCommander Micro Space. Some
> have noticed the building instructions for Star Trek vessels I uploaded at
> Brickshelf – next on my list is creating instructions for both ISD-scale Nebula
> and Galaxy-class. Physical models of both starships are already sitting on a
> shelf in Billund … :)
> 
> Have a nice day!
> 
> “Primus” Burkhard Schlömer
> Digital Model Designer
> LEGO System A/S

Hello Primus,

Nice to hear you still active, and your one lucky guy for doing the
things you really like for work.

I will be keeping an eye on the site.

Roland



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Hi Roland & everybody else who is wondering what is going on (or NOT going on anymore) at www.BrickCommander.com! Yes, I am obviously still alive – and no, I have not lost my interest in LEGO. On the contrary! But first things first. For several (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-08, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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