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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.
Allan J Smith wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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