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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G6nGGG.H0p@lugnet.com... (...) Hmm...what a terribly designed slow loading site for a company that does so much business with such large clients. One of the pages even said something like (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.publish)
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| | D.L. Blair, Inc. (was: Re: Contest goals? (was Re: Fansploitation))
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(...) D.L. Blair, Inc. is a consumer sales promotion agency headquartered in New York and Nebraska (USA). Their clients include Procter & Gamble, Coca Cola, and Miller Brewing. LEGO has been using D.L. Blair since 1995. They also handled the Star (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.build.contests)
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| | Re: Fansploitation
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"Suzanne D. Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:G6Lz7K.BwE@lugnet.com... (...) building (...) being (...) no big (...) fine (...) Any idea as to whether these competitions will be open to the whole world, or just USA? regards lawrence (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Contest goals? (was Re: Fansploitation
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(...) D.L. Blair is a marketing company. One thing they do is do the initial stages of contest (qualification based winnowing) judging, or when it's a contest in which the winner is randomly picked, carry out or supervise the random draw from all (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Pardon my ignorance, but who is Blair? Thanks, ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Agreed. Simple packaging sends a "this is serious stuff" message and keeps costs down too... look at how low run Model Railroad kits are packaged. ++Lar (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) I'm glad there are people like Larry who are less bummed out. I don't want anyone to be as bummed out as I am. But I'll try to clarify my prev post. I know my views are often critical -- I'm like that. Usually I bite my tongue in this news (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Contest goals? (was Re: Fansploitation
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(...) Shucks;-) J2 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Winners in the First Annual Classic Space Set Design and Building Contest
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The votes have been cast, tallied, and audited -- it's time to announce the winning entries! 30 people entered a total of 67 entries. There were a total of 205 vote- points applied to the entries and tallied up. Thanks to everyone who participated, (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: Contest goals? (was Re: Fansploitation
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G6M3o2.Mos@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) to (...) I too have thought about this quite a bit over the past few days. I was excited to see a train building contest. I (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I second that. I saw the Big minifig model on sale at legoland - almost missed it. The model was in a very plain, ugly box. There was no color, no pretty pictures - nothing. this shows me that it is a mail order item. (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) I think you hit the nail on the head... They showcase what can be done with just a few elements, too. ++Lar (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.loc.uk)
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Snipped... (I got a copy of the January catalog today so I've now read the contest rules) (...) If the goal of this contest is to acquire designs to be put into production, there are more effective ways of doing so than having D.L Blair sift through (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I just opened my Jan '01 S@H cat. Flipping through, I notice a few editorial additions -- things like "Bulk Bricks Building Tips" (which prove that brick packs can be made into models), and a desk clock pictured in a LEGO soccer stadium. "That's (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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From work it takes me 10-20 seconds to load a menu page over DSL. From home... well, despite my ADSL 1Mbps connection and major ISP, I can't resolve the site at all because of a long-term DNS screw-up. Sigh. Jeff (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Agreed, but for MOST people (which is what I was trying to say) it's pretty useless. That's not to say there aren't exceptions to the rule. Kinda like shell promo sets selling for ridiculous prices or some such. It'd be pretty stupid for ME to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Here's my take on it: the LEGO Sculpture sets are items targetted primarily at the serious LEGO-holic market. They are too expensive, and too specialized, to attract a lot of interest in the retail sector. Their primary appeal will be to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.loc.uk)
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Pretty much my point. Not distinctly illegal, (other than the obvious intellectual property issue), but exceedingly stupid since you can get most of them free. Also, you'd have to have most of the sets anyway just to build what you see in each (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) It would make sense for many Europeans that pay connection charges on a time basis - S&H may end up being FAR less than the connect charges to download them. Of course, a full dump of Brickshelf would take several CDs - one of these days, I'm (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Surely this is not legal
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(...) That COULD be illegal.... but... As far as I know, I can host a big image of Lego on my server and even put a disclaimer that says "This IS an official Lego site", and there'd be nothing illegal about it... Lego might not like it and they may (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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