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> What irked me so much was that some of the
> Our community fair has an actual Lego-specific competion among the other
> arts & Crafts type competitions. The rules specifically state that it must
> be an ORIGINAL creation. The problem is that the "Judges" have no knowledge
> of Lego, or what the sets actually look like. This was probably the case
> where you are, they probably didn't realize that it was a store-bought set.
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> Ours worked out well, with no store bought sets even being entered. But
> then the organizers atleast had the brains to ask someone before the judging
> if anything there looked like an existing set! (They asked ME!)
Same thing happened to me at the Taupo Hobby Expo. In 1998 I noticed a few
creations that were not original and had won prizes. For example the Divers
set with the whale skeleton on a large grey baseplate instead of the original
base. So I volunteered to help judge this years LEGO competition.
One entry this year was the Technic loader built as the alternate model of the
forest tractor, I was able to point that out to the other judges that it was not
original. Some others were existing sets with a few more parts added.
Alllan...
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| I saw the same thing at a Genesee County Fair on the outskirts of Flint, Michigan. I don't know who sponsored it, but there were a few creations that were just the sets. Man, I guess I could have one first place too! :) Scott S. (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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