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Re: AFOLs Comic book distribution @ BrickFest 2004
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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:16:12 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Jake McKee wrote:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Jason J. Railton wrote:
> > In lugnet.events.brickfest, Frank Filz wrote:
> > >
> > > "Bill Ward" <bill@wards.net> wrote in message news:I0LwCI.LL8@lugnet.com...
> > > > In lugnet.events.brickfest, Christina Hitchcock wrote:
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > > The new AFOLs Comic books are NOW available!!! You may have seen Jake's
> > > > > announcement several months ago http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=960
> > > > > <http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=960> These books are for handing out at shows
> > > > > and events as a "recruiting" tool and to tell people about AFOLs.
> > > >
> > > > Wow, this is great! BayLTC has a GATS coming up on July 17-18. How can we get
> > > > some in time for this?
> > > >
> > > > Why isn't LUGNET mentioned in it? LEGOFAN.org is just a parked domain...? And
> > > > since LEGOFAN.org contains the LEGO trademark, how does that work?
> > >
> > > Lugnet is mentioned in the credits, but I agree, it would be better to have
> > > Lugnet mentioned on that last page.
> > >
> > > I think there is supposedly something going on with legofan.org, but it
> > > doesn't seem to have progressed very far.
> > >
> > > Frank
> >
> > I agree. I think the comic is great, and would love to have a copy and piles of
> > them to give to people. But I think this one point spoils it for me. It
> > strikes me as a snub to some very dedicated people and a large chunk of the fan
> > community. If the idea of posting messages between fans is going to be hijacked
> > by another site, the least they could do is put some actual content on it.
> >
> >
> > So, add to the standard not-a-fan-anymore letter a section that says "I thought
> > __________ was really great, but I can't understand what possessed TLC to
> > undermine a lot of the effort by doing ___________!".
> >
> > And a standard reply saying, "the marketing people made us do it..."
>
> As has been discussed before, the intent of the LEGOfan site IS NOT to take away
> anything from any site that already exists. Rather, the purpose is to help
> provide a single point for people new to the community to get to all the other
> places in the community. LUGNET will be prominently featured in that.
>
> LUGNET is not glossed over in this comic. Far from it - the entire back page has
> a message from Todd to new fans about the AFOL community.
>
> We are working hard to get the LEGOfan site soft launched, and should have our
> first version up around the end of the month.
>
> More information coming soon!
That's great Jake but I think you missed the point. LUGNET is now and has been
the central point of LEGO fan discussion. The comic implies something different
and that, to me, is where the others a coming from. That's not to say that
LUGNET is the end all and be all of LEGO online discussion and will be for all
time but it seems to me slightly unfair and unaccurate to to portray LEGOFan.org
to a level that it is not currently at.
-Orion
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