To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.generalOpen lugnet.general in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 General / 53902
53901  |  53903
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf.com – A Possible Solution
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:05:31 GMT
Viewed: 
3383 times
  
In lugnet.general, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
   In lugnet.general, Matthew Crandall wrote:
   In lugnet.general, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
   Why doesn’t TLG run a gallery for AFOLs? Yes, there’s a sort of gallery on LEGO.com, but it’s an unbrowsable mess filled with 10-year-olds posting images they stole from Ed Boxer.

Have any of the Ambassadors discussed this with the company? I know Brickshelf was an expensive operation for one guy, but it would be a drop in the bucket for TLG - and some of the cheapest advertising they could buy.

Marc Nelson Jr.

Marc--

Sounds like a good idea. Heck, it sounds like a great idea at first blush.

However...
  1. snip -

You’re right on about a gallery site being outside of TLG’s core business. But what if the site wasn’t run by TLG, but just funded by it? Actually, if Brickshelf is gone, then this might be the sort of thing that the new, improved LEGOFan.org could take on. It’s already a fan-run, TLG-supported operation.

Not a bad idea, although somebody needs to jump up and down on the jerk who’s not doing anything with a perfectly good (but empty) LEGOFan right now.

Kelly



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Brickshelf.com – A Possible Solution
 
LEGO already has an image hosting service, but it's for NXT creations only: (URL) is not averse to running something like Brickshelf/MOCpages, but LEGO's version is clearly meant to promote the Mindstorms brand. I would like to see LEGOFan.com or (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Brickshelf.com – A Possible Solution
 
(...) You're right on about a gallery site being outside of TLG's core business. But what if the site wasn't run by TLG, but just funded by it? Actually, if Brickshelf is gone, then this might be the sort of thing that the new, improved LEGOFan.org (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)

23 Messages in This Thread:










Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR