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Re: Custom Jango Fett Statue Collection - Ebay
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lugnet.market.auction
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Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:30:01 GMT
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In the following, just in case there's any doubt (grin) I'm agreeing with
Allan!!!
In lugnet.market.auction, Allan Bedford writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Will Chapman writes:
> > > There is a 14" Lego Statue of Jango Fett on Ebay which includes 7153 Jango
> > > Fett's Slave One along with 8011 Jango Fett Technic Figure
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> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19009&item=3106894160&rd=1
> >
> > It's glued.. I wonder if that's a trend?
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> An ugly trend if it is one. I don't see any use personally for glued
> sculptures. I wonder if this will be won by someone who isn't really a LEGO
> builder... just an admiring fan. Or perhaps just a Star Wars fan who
> doesn't even normally have an interest in LEGO.
I think the whole glued thing is bogus. I don't like it when LD sells glued
up stuff and I'd really hate to see it spread further. The excuse about
making sure it ships ok is, to my view anyway (maybe not to others),
spurious... send the instructions along as well and if it falls apart (1),
more fun for the recepient.
UNLESS, as you say, these are targeted at NON fans who just have a passing
interest. blech.
> > This seller said it was "designed
> > using the latest LEGO CAD tools"... wonder what that means?
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> Actually, he says, "Each piece of the figure was designed using the latest
> Cad software." So is he claiming credit for the design of each brick?
No, I think he's saying LEGO(r) uses CAD software to design the parts!
That's ALWAYS true, so I gotta remember that for use in my future auctions
(not!).
> Or
> does he really mean, "The location of each piece of the figure was
> co-ordinated using the...."
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> I guess people can sell almost anything on eBay, I just sometimes have
> trouble understanding why others want to buy some of it. :)
Ya mee tooooo... As to why, well ... P. T. Barnum is credited, perhaps
wrongly, for explaining it.
Erik Boons, another poster to the thread, sums up some of my other feelings,
I too just don't like to see people claiming (even by omission so that the
reader draws the implication as this listing does) that design work is
theirs when it isn't. THAT's a disturbing trend too.
We've had some discussion about this in the context of Bram's work being
copied so I think most people know how I feel. Taking ideas is fine, but
substantially similar output that's clearly copying, without even so much as
a credit, is just anti community in my view and ought not to be encouraged.
1 - If it takes a really hard shock and it's glued, but still breaks, what
then? any time you glue something BACK together it looks damaged.
++Lar
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