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Re: Brickmania self-destructs kit line!
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Sat, 18 May 2002 13:05:46 GMT
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My condolences on the loss of your hard drive.
Can't you just go to a copy shop and make some color copies of the ones
you've got? The quality won't be perfect, but I would be surprised if
someone who hadn't seen the original would know the difference. They'll
certainly be good enough to put together the model. It seems kind of drastic
to shut down production just for this.
In lugnet.market.brickshops, Daniel Siskind writes:
> Hello Folks!
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> I'm sad to announce that a sudden crash of one of my hard drives wiped out
> what appear to be the only copies of the final layouts for my custom kit
> instructions. The original .dat files are all backed up and intact, but the
> final layouts files are what is needed to print up more instructions for my
> kits. I'm going to send the drive into a shop, but from my own preliminary
> diagnostics, the damage seems pretty fatal.
> Since each set of instructions represents between 20 and 80 hours of labor
> for each one, I do not plan to recreate any of the lost works, especially
> considering most were in their final run or already sold out. Fortunately, I do
> have some print copies on hand of most of the instructions, for which I will
> still sell the kits until these run out. I will hold onto the parts for the
> other completed kits, but if I can not recover the layout files, then I will be
> forced to part out my own kits!
> I've gone through my inventory on Bricklink and changed the available sets
> to match what I have for instructions. Sadly I must say that I do not have a
> single set of instructions for my Corsair fighter, so that may be sold out for
> good now. I did raise the prices substantially on all of my remaining stock,
> which is intended to help me recover some losses this will incur. I still do
> this as a hobby, but I need to make back a fixed amount from each set in order
> to make back they cost me!
> Worst of all is I only have 5 more sets of instructions for my Guarded
> Church, which means the total production run will be only 13 sets! The first 10
> kits are already paid for, but there are 5 more people on the waiting list (2
> more than I will be able to make kits for). I'm going to postpone figuring out
> how to make a decision as to who gets one of the last three kits, until after I
> know for sure if the layouts can be recovered. I can already say that if the
> anser is no, then the Guarded Church will be the shorted lived kit I've done!
> Also, my set owners' database was last backed up on March 2nd, so I am
> missing most relavant info (who owns what) since then. Any help filling in the
> blanks would be appreciated.
> My web site files are also among those lost today, so please be patient
> while I download, update, and upload the pages to relflect today's events. The
> inventory on my Brickbay store is as up to date as I can be at the moment, so
> please go there to see what's left and see which limb(s) you'll have to amputate
> to get it:
> http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=brickmania
> My future release plans will not be effected by this disaster, other than
> the likelihood of no more expansion modules for the Guarded Church. My .dat
> files are all backed up as will the layouts for the next kits...
> Sprry for the trouble,
>
> Dan Siskind, Jester to the Court of Brickmania
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| (...) Unfortunately, color photocopies can't reproduce all of the fine detail and shading that original laser prints create. Plus, they are excessively expensive (It's bad enough that I have to charge what I charge for my kits, but that would be too (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| Hello Folks! I'm sad to announce that a sudden crash of one of my hard drives wiped out what appear to be the only copies of the final layouts for my custom kit instructions. The original .dat files are all backed up and intact, but the final (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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