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I saw the same thing and decided enough was enough. I found who was in charge
and told them about it. Her reply was that the judges don't know all the sets
available currently. I offered to judge the following year and then I told
her that if it was any set sold by Lego from 1957 to present in any country, I
can and would find out. (Thank you Pause!) I will be the judge for Lego
models next year and if I come out of my Lego closet, so to speak, I may have
a train set-up as well. I guarentee that a real nice layout like the GMLTC or
PNLTC has done in the past would blow away the boring set up they have every
year.
Want to make a change? Volunteer to judge. An AFOL would be the best suited
person to spot original design, solid building technique and maybe even find
some kid who is sitting on yellow extreme corner slopes. Besides, you might
be able to find some other closet AFOL who enters his creations in his kid's
name.
Mike Poindexter
(I can't wait to have a kid so I can enter the Lego contests through him/her.)
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Alan Demlow writes:
> 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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