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LEGO Sculptor Proposal
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:15:40 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John Gerlach writes:
> Great idea, but one potential problem: How could LEGO forecast how many of
> each color to produce?
Not sure, probably the same way they do now for sets with more exotic pieces.
> How much would you be willing to pay for a 1200 piece tub of a specific
> color? I once heard that LEGO put out the 3033 tub as direct competition to
> megablock's tub sets. The 3033 is being sold very near (or even below?)
> cost - a 'sculpture' bucket would have to sell for much more.
I don't agree with this at all. There is still plenty of profit margin in
the 3033, so a $19.99 price for Sculptor would be great. But with the extras
I am suggesting, Lego could twist my arm and probably get $29.99 out of me,
so long as they color coordinate the color of the tubs :) !
> On the thought of building spheres, being a computer programmer I did what I
> know best - I wrote a program to compute sphere shapes! It's certainly not
> perfect, it only plots 1/8th of the sphere, so you have to mirror that
> section to get the rest, but it seems to be accurate. Now, to convert it
> from visual basic to Java, so I can put it on the web somewhere... :-)
I believe Eric Harshbarger already has one of these in Java. I also think he
would be a BIG proponent of Lego offering the Sculptor concept, for obvious
reasons.
- Sean
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| (...) He has? I perused his site, but I didn't come across it. I'd love to get a program to generate LEGO spheres, largely because I really don't have the time to write one, myself. (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Great idea, but one potential problem: How could LEGO forecast how many of each color to produce? Personally, I'd love to get my hands on more of the 'earth tones' (brown, dark grey, tan, green, etc...) - but other people might be more (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.general)
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