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There have been a couple of posts lately (including one of my own) showing off miniature models of office spaces and desks. Well, here's what happens when someone asks for a LEGO desk that's actually life-sized: (URL) ---...--- Eric Harshbarger / (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !!
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Your desk and other LEGO creations are very cool...your IMHO bites the brick (kids are generally great until they grow up to be people who don't like kids). IMNSHO Randy -- Randy Anchikoski randy@viclug.tzo.com "Eric Harshbarger" (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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Where's the pencil drawer? ;^D Simply amazing. ~Mark (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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buh, duh, *gulp* wow. dave (feeling so small that I'm all lowercase) Eric Harshbarger <eric@ericharshbarger.org> wrote in message news:39A305E5.7C8045...ger.org... (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I was wondering that myself.. (...) But I wasn't criticising.. it's really cool. Somehow I can't help thinking that some hotshot specified the desk just to be a pain in the @$$ and to see how far the company was willing to go :-) Remind me to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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And all this time, I thought they angered the gods or something. Hmm... go figure. ~Mark (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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WOW! I remeber a few years (or months) ago reading about how someone wanted to build a LEGO furniture such as a chair, but man, this is certainly pushing it to the limit. ;-) I also love the way you planned out the use of the colours, and the use of (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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Eric, The final product looks great!! I was wondering how the top was going to turn out, looks very cool. The checker boarding of the 1x1 bricks around the top edges is perfect. I can't wait to see it in person this weekend. jt -- ---- James J. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow! That's amazing. It's weird, I read on Slashdot a few days ago about someone building a Lego desk, they must have been referring to yours. BTW, does your ISP want to be Slashdotted? George (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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I already got slashdotted when I announced the Linux Penguin Model. If everyone here at LUGnet has had a chance to see the Desk, someone is welcome to announce it on /. I'll just expect to lose access to my email and website for about 16 hours (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) AFOL would ask for a glued model, at least not completely glued. I wonder if that guy would ask for a LEGO cubical for his next job... (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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I stressed to the company that gluing was really theonly option if the desk were to be used on a regular basis (though it was quite stury in the unglued form... I feel much more confident with it glued). eric (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If you're at the level where you can make demands like "a LEGO desk" a condition of your hiring- and actually *enforce* it- you aren't sitting in a cubicle. :D eric (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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So, when is the LDRAW file going to be posted??? Very cool. I can see it now, the next Ultimate Collector's Series: Furniture. James Wilson (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmm. Someone before said something about making furniture out of the big soft LEGO bricks available from DACTA (?), and at the time I dismissed it in my head as an impossible thing, because the big bricks don't stick well enough to hold their (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Seriously, would you be willing to share sketches or plans if someone wants to duplicate your design? My Lego basement is nearing completion and I'm looking for a good work bench. Dream well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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As usual, I have no real instructions at all for the Desk. I had one rough sketch I Faxed for approval, but it is just a hand sketch (no studs, nothing). I just built it from the ground up. sorry, eric ps: maybe I should just go into the business (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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You could always upload it to the brickshelf gallery. While it's no substitute for your nice presentation it can withstand /.'ing fairly well. It would also probably expose your work to more people. You could include a text file with the URL for the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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"Eric Harshbarger" <eric@ericharshbarger.org> wrote in message news:39A305E5.7C8045...ger.org... (...) First - I love the desk. Second - I swear that last night I saw an article that mentioned that Eric's client was in Seattle but I can't seem to (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It actually says Seattle in the first few paragraphs on Eric's web page. But unless Jeff Bezos switched jobs Sept. 99, it wasn't for him. (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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I think it is not a rare request, as Rosie O'Donnel was wanting one as well. I guess it would have to be glued if she was planning on sitting on it... Mike PS: Wouldn't the studs be unconfortable to set your arms on? You would get bump patterns and (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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I would think the client would put a piece of glass over the top to make it smooth. I think I'd like to have one with some road plates built into it. Then you could build some little towns while you're on a conference call or something. Image the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You mention on your page that the glue caused some warping. Did you find it necessary to apply the glue to the sides of the bricks or just the bottoms and/or tops? I've never tried gluing Lego, so I'd be interested to hear how much warping one (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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The 'warping wasn't actually a deformation of the bricks, per se... but rather a distortion of the model as a whole. Anyone who has built large 'walls' out of LEGO bricks knows that even at 2 studs thick the walls are quite flexible... the minute (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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Wow, that is one of the craziest things I ever heard of / seen. Was the person who requested the desk a big LEGO fan, or someone who was just seeing if the company would do it? Hmm.. maybe I should ask Black & Veatch for a LEGO cube. As for Rosie, (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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He probably wanted studs on top so he could build on it. KL (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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The article is about the growing LEGO craze among adults, and The Desk is cited as an example. I scanned the article (two pages) and uploaded it here: (URL) Heather -- Heather Patey St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Pirate Wench / Brick Detective (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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From the article: "Nearly one in ten LEGO buyers is an AFOL." While that figure should be no surprise to us, the fact that Enfield knows it that accurately is impressive. KL (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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Nifty, Thanks for the heads up and the posting of the article. It is NOT, unfortunately, going to be available at www.globeandmail.ca/ eric harshbarger (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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Uh oh, looks like LUGNET is actually mentioned in the article! : ) Of all the pictures you can have, would it have to be the McDonalds helicopter? : ) Great story, thanks for posting it! Scott S. -- Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I too found that very interesting. As 10% of the market - and certainly the pickiest 10% - perhaps we can now hope for better sets... The UCS and LEGO Direct both are IMO directed squarely at us. SRC (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah, I'm actually surprised -- that's a bigger number than I expected. What's more, they say 1 in 10 Lego buyers -- not 10% of the money. And I think it's fairly safe to assume that the average adult fan spends significantly more than the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd say we are the least picky part of the market. We go out and buy everything because we know we will find some use for the parts. We are just the best at communicating our displeasure directly with TLC. I hope they realize that kids and (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) i wouldn't say the UCSs are just for us... i've a friend that's not into lego, but he has to have everything starwars... UCSs included... and i wouldn't consider him an AFOL. (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It looks like the Millenium Falcon is on his desk. Too big to hold up in front of the camera I guess. BEN GATRELLE (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I wanna know where that figure came from before I can believe it. --Todd (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, good point. Personally, I believe everything I read.... (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Don't you think they would try to track things like that? That number is probably based on tracking data from their own stores and S@H since that's the only place they could easially do it. KL (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I would think so, but I recall that Brad Justus once said that they weren't tracking that. It surprised me. He also said that the figures quoted in the Orange County article a few months ago were off by a large margin -- the reporter had wrong (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd see it as a combination of two things: Mindstorms (remember that 50% of registration cards were from adults who'd purchased it for themselves) and Star Wars (tapping into the 20-something-with-lo...le-income- (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Maybe they don't care about bulk parts, but they definitely care about juniorization. (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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I told ya :) KL (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Perhaps it just means that 1 in 10 buyers is an adult. This would not be surprising at all, and we would be wrong to presume that all adults are buying it for themselves like we do. In any event, how would they track something like that? When (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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