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Re: AFOLs Comic book distribution @ BrickFest 2004
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lugnet.events.brickfest
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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:26:09 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Anthony Sava wrote:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > In lugnet.events.brickfest, Jake McKee wrote:
> > > 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
>
> I agree, Lugnet is the central point of English LEGO fan discussion. I
> personally find the idea that we're pointing kids to a site that doesn't exist
> in any real sense yet ludicrous; especially if we're going to hand these out at
> Brickfest and that's less than a month away, inside the time it will take to get
> the site launched.
>
> What better way to say 'Welcome to our hobby!' than to point them to an empty,
> unpopulated website. If this were a year from now, and if LEGOFan.net had at
> least some semblance of a fan base, THEN we could distribute this comic as-is.
> Even if LEGOFan.net is launched by the time Brickfest rolls around, it'll take
> at least a few months before enough people join the website to make it worth
> mentioning as the central point of anything.
>
> I say the text be changed to Lugnet, 1000steine, or just about anything with an
> actual pulse, or else this comic is just going to turn off those kids that are
> on the edge of being an AFOL when they realise this huge network of people from
> around the world just isn't there.
> --Anthony
OK, I just reread what Jake said, and I misread it the first time. I read 'in a
month' instead of 'end of the month'. Even so, I feel everything I said is
still accurate to the spirit of this issue as I see it.
--Anthony
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