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Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:10:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jake McKee writes:
> In (or around) June we will be releasing the latest and best
> version, tentatively codenamed "LEGO Digital Designer."
Is this the program announced three years ago?
"And in 2002, we will begin a program
where LEGO builders will be able to build any three dimensional creation using
free software to create building instructions for their model - and then order
the appropriate number and type of bricks," says Torben Ballegaard Sørensen.
(quoted from this December 2000 post
http://news.lugnet.com/lego/announce/?n=24 , and thanks Suz for copying it,
the URL you mentioned in the post no longer contains this release)
It's very disappointing that now, a year past the release date, we are being
told of the software, but get no mention of the ordering service T.B.S.
promised. Is this the future of Lego? It seems that lately Lego is very
happy to solicit market research and make secret deals with developers, but
we end users and consumers get only empty promises.
Last year, I remembered that Press release from December 2000 and posted a
check-up message in lugnet.lego.direct
(http://news.lugnet.com/lego/direct/?n=4443) asking for an update. Has it
taken Lego a full year to formulate a response?
Disillusioned customer,
Ben Roller
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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| (...) Oooh. I had forgotten about that. If this option of ordering the elements needed for a design were included in the package, I would suddenly develop a better liking for CAD... :) (...) Software in general, as I have noticed, tends to be (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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| (...) FWIW, the VP at TLC who is quoted as saying this actually ended up leaving TLC not too long after the 7 Dec 2000 press release. On 18 Mar 2001 (101 days later), a Bang & Olufsen press release announced that Sørensen had left LEGO and would (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)
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