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TLG investigation
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 12 Feb 1999 20:31:15 GMT
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Hi everybody,
My name is Jeroen Ottens. I work at Lego Futura Technic Billund (the
development department of Lego as you will probably know).
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Yes I am one of TLG
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My job is to design some of the new Lego Technic models. However I am also
involved in a group which is investigating the possibility of starting up
International Lego Clubs for Juniors and Adults.
At the moment we don't know how we should organize such clubs, we don't
even have cristalclear views on what such clubs would do. But we do know
that clubs like that exist out there. So what we want to know is:
How many of those clubs exist?
Are they real-life based or virtual (internet) based?
How big are the clubs?
And more important:
What could Lego do to help you?
Would an official Lego certificate give extra value, even if it would mean
that you would loose some of your freedom (Lego has to protect his/her
image)?
If you are member of a lego-club (and that can be seen in the broadest
sense as possible) and you think you have something to say, please do.
If you want to mail me personally, my mailadress is:
ottens@get2net.dk
I must however warn you that I am not allowed to tell anything which is not
publicly known anyway. :(
I'd like to stress the point that this is still an investigation. It's not
sure yet that this idea about lego clubs will happen.
Happy building,
Jeroen Ottens
To prevent some much asked questions some personal information:
I have been lego maniac since my birth (or three years later), I have
pictures of myself throughout my entire life with models I made. I stopped
playing when I was 18 and went to University. I started studying Mechanical
Engineering and after four years I had to work in a company to gain
experience (part of the curriculum). I happened to be able to do that in my
hometown, so I went back to my parents and stayed there for three months.
In these months I got my experience, but I also assembled Cape Canaveral
from the Lego still lying at home.
I was caught again with the virus and started collecting again. In Enschede
(where I studied) I build in no time a size-able collection of Lego
Technic. It's amazing how many students love to give Lego to somebodies
birthday :) .I was finally able to make my dreammodel. A F14A Tomcat
fighterplane, which could do anything but flying. The model itself was 80
cm long, and 80 cm wide when the wings were fully extended. I used three
electromotors, 7 pneumatic cylinders, a fibreoptics system and loads of
Lego to create a plane with retractable gears (suspended and steered
nosewheel), swingwings, tailerons, brakes, flaps, cockpit lights, etc. etc.
I graduated a year later and thought about working at Lego. However some
other company offered me a job, which I accepted. However before I started
that job an advertisement appeared in a newspaper asking for Lego Technic
Designers. I got the change and took it with both hands. I applied, got
through all the rounds and the rest is history ;)
As far as working inside Lego is concerned, I'm afraid I can't tell
anything. Sorry, but I'd like to keep this job.
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Message has 8 Replies:
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| (...) There's one question that we'd all like answered that you can probably tell us: Is it as cool as we'd think? (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: TLG investigation
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| Jeroen Ottens <ottens@get2net.dk> wrote in message 01be56c6$f3c15680$Lo...@ottens... (...) Hey Jeroen (You lucky son of a ... :') [snip] (...) Sorry, I can't really say on those. But, I guess you could consider Lugnet and RTL virtual clubs. Todd (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: TLG investigation
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| Jereon, As for what we want, I would think it would be better for you, and us, if we simply used the lugnet.dear-leog newsgroup, as then you wouldn't get BURIED in email, and we could publicly discuss ideas that you would otherwise only get in (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: TLG investigation
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| (...) You had _better_ have some pictures of that plane. :-) I started, and pretty much aborted, the same thing, so I really, really want to see what you came up with. Please... -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: TLG investigation
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| (...) I am very excited about the possibility of Lego sponsoring special interest clubs made up of adult Lego enthusiasts. I believe that the Lego Group would be making a wise investment of their resources by listening and encouraging a large fan (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: TLG investigation
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| (...) Wow! AND you read Lugnet too? (...) Don't know any real-life clubs, but I think of Lugnet as a GlobalLegoClub (...) Probably more than 1000 readers. Todd ? (...) Start making good, solid, nice models and sets again. Even if you keep making (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: TLG investigation
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| (...) Hi, Jeroen! (...) Way cool. (...) Umm, as has been frequently mentioned, bulk part orders would be great. (...) Depends. If part of the sign-up is that TLG has greater freedom to use the ideas, concepts, models, etc. expressed by club members, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | TLG investigation 1st answers
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| Hi everybody, Thanks (again) for your overwhelming responses. I have had over 100 responses within 4 days and still counting... A lot of questions have been asked, most of them I can't answer unfortunately. All questions regarding comments to be (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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