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Re: LEGO Sculptor Proposal
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:28:05 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Sean Harrington writes:
> In lugnet.general, John Gerlach writes:
> > Great idea, but one potential problem: How could LEGO forecast how many of
> > each color to produce?
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> Not sure, probably the same way they do now for sets with more exotic pieces.
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> > 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.
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> 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 :) !
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> > 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... :-)
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> 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.
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.
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| As far as I know, I have not written a program to illustrate circles or spheres constructed out of LEGO bricks. I have diagrams of all circles of single brick width and even radii from 2 - about 48 which I made using Photoshop, but those diagrams (...) (25 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Not sure, probably the same way they do now for sets with more exotic pieces. (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.general)
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