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Steve (the other Demlow Lego brother) helped set up a "construction toys"
category for exhibits at our local 4-H fair when he was in high school. I know
this was at least a little bit of a problem then, too. I think lack of
originality would have been considered a crime--IF the judges had been familiar
enough with Lego products to know when they were looking at a set and when they
were looking at an original creation. They were generally clueless, though, so
it was easy to slip sets in.
Alan
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Jackson writes:
> I went to the Mid-South Fair in Memphis. In the arts & crafts pavillion,
> they have a section where people (mostly kids) make art out of toys.
> (Most of the case was Legos.) What irked me so much was that some of the
> sets receiving ribbons and prizes were built EXACTLY as they were in the
> SAHS catalog. (the new Town Jr. police set, the RES-Q HQ set, the X-Wing
> Fighter, Anakin's Podracer, the Insectoid vehicle with the grasshopper
> springed legs, and several Rock Raiders sets.) Among these, The X-Wing,
> RES-Q Headquarters, and the Grasshoppery Insectoid thing got white
> ribbons! Is there no crime for not having originality?
> James J.
> (My H:Masters stuff would have moondusted all of those items if I knew
> that there was such a category.)
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