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(...) big (...) fine (...) to (...) I think the issue with TLG may be litigation avoidance. If LEGO receives a bunch of ideas and designs but does not obtain the rights then they must check every new design they market against the entries to insure (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I do not think most of us want to make any money off our creations, but should we have to give up all rights to our work? Do other contests that judge artistic creations require that the artist relinquish all rights to the creation? (Really, I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Suzanne D. Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:<G6MMIy.MrI@lugnet.com>... (...) here (...) contest (...) for (...) see (...) Suz, I mentioned something about an "MOC of the Year Award" type contest a few weeks back. See (URL) . When (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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LEGO is giving you the opportunity to build something you love and to show it off to everyone while they stand proudly behind you. You want to moan and complain about that? Ashamed you all should be. Build On! (or not, if the Official Rules say you (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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G'Day Looks like this auction has been pulled by eBay, I guess the lawyers have been busy..... Cheers Oliver Play Well "r2" <lego@r2eng.com> wrote in message news:G6Fy7w.EsK@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: D.L. Blair, Inc. (was: Re: Contest goals? (was Re: Fansploitation))
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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. 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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"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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(...) 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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(...) Shucks;-) J2 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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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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"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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