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| Hi All, This may have been covered before, but as a relative newbie, I'd like to better understand what is meant when people talk about "leaks." I've noticed a number of folks talk about leaks in both LUGNET and FBTB, and gotten the impression that (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| Paul, The policy at fbtb is that there should be no discussion of leaks. The policy at lugnet, on the other hand, is pretty much anything goes. So feel free to discuss these here at Lugnet, but refrain from doing so on fbtb. As to your examples, the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Tough question. A leak is an item of information that is NOT meant to be released. Most, if not all of your examples that you cited were meant to be released to, at least initially, to the dealers who sell LEGO. As such, I wouldn't list these (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hm. Apparently I'm a bit more liberal in my categorizations, as Bruce does have a valid point in LEGO/store communications. A counterpoint to this, though would be while the first two could constitute leaks, the Marz site would not...to a (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Joe, My definitions were more based on the usage at fbtb.net, where there is a strong "no discussion of leaks" policy. Bruce (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hi Joe - I believe a dealer catalog, obtained by and scanned by an individual who is not a dealer and placed on the internet would constitute a leak. I recall being at LEGO's office in NYC a couple years ago and having to almost beg for a (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) hm...hadn't thought of that. You're right. No wonder I got the confidentiality form when I got my job:) Joe Meno (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well (I do not post this as an argument for or against in the discussion), that seems to be exactly what has happened now. All sets not available to the general public yet, have been taken off the Marz Distribution site. With friendly (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Didn't that happen last year as well? Pedro (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I'm not so sure about this. With the exception of Shifty bricks, I can't think of any current clone brands that do much copying from LEGO, certainly not to the extent that they'd lurk around fan sites to cull secret, leaked information. What (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Lugnet also has rules about leaks... Here is a clarification by Todd of Lugnet's TOS regarding leaks: (URL) lugnet.admin.general Frank (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread. Most of this is a lot clearer now although there is still a little cloudiness that probably can never be avoided. I'd like to again express to the authors of the four posts I cited that I did not (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I think this is an interesting point, and it wouldn't surprise me if there were some truth to this idea. TLC knows that Lugnetters, by nature, will (1) seek out any info they can find on upcoming sets, and (2) thoroughly, mercilessly criticize (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Nope. Not doing that at all. No intentional leaks. Jake --- Jake McKee Senior Producer LEGO Direct (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) As much as I believe you Jake (especially considering the official stance that TLC does market studies based on its much larger child market and not AFOLs), you gotta be careful with such responses. The conspiracy theorists could have a field (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Assuming, of course, that Jake is a real person, not just some 21st Century version of Susan Williams... JOHN (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I don't know. I didn't notice something last year. But if it did happen, and they it was banned by TLC in 2002, it seemds very strange that they would have made the same mistake this year. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Haha! I hadn't thought of that. But now that you mention it, that would explain how he got all those instructions on bricksonthebrain.com before he got the job at LD. And am I wrong, or did Brad Justus kind of disappear around the time Jake (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) You know, I was just telling Susan W. the other day that I've got to get a new suit. That black one is played. Jake --- Jake McKee Senior Producer LEGO Direct (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| In the "real world" outside of us LEGO enthusiasts, "leaks" are almost always pieces of information that are deliberately distributed outside the intended audience. The "leaks" discussed on LUGNET are really more like "seepage", i.e., information (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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