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Mookie wrote:
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> You are seeing Judges that aren't up on what Lego has brought out as
> stock models, that's where the problem comes in... they probably don't
> know that what the kids did wasn't their own creation made from the
> Lego... it's sad to see that stock Lego sets of these last years could
> win anything either :( I'm still waiting for the day that Lego gets
> permission from Ed "Boxer" Jones to create a few sets of stuff he's
> built, I'd buy 2 or 3 at least of those for parts!!! Ed, talk them into
> it!!!! tell them next time they want to use your Castle in something,
> that they need to bring out better castle sets first!!!! Put some
> conditions on their using your great creations!! We'll back you like
> Speilberg has done with the Star Wars sets!!
Opps.. I mean Lucas.. not Speilburg... bad fingers.. bad fingers :(
> Mookie goes back into deep REM sleep...
>
> "James J." wrote:
> >
> > 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.)
>
> --
> Keep on Bricken'
> -Tamy
>
> Follow the bouncing boxes!
> http://home.att.net/~mookie1/jambalaya.html
>
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> Lego isn't a toy, it's a way of life!
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Keep on Bricken'
-Tamy
Follow the bouncing boxes!
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| (...) Actually, a blue, black, and gray castle w/various themed figures won the blue ribbon. Moreover, how could they not know. COMMERCIALS FOR THE STAR WARS (Classic) COLLECTION AND THE ROCK RAIDERS COLLECTION HAVE BEEN RUNNING ON TV FOR THE PAST (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem)
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