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Re: Mega-Bloks (Ritvik) is watching
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
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Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:23:02 GMT
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johnneal@uswest./nomorespam/net
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Just thought I'd pass this along...
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> Someone wrote today and mentioned that they'd recently got a job with Mega
> Bloks (Ritvik Holdings, Inc.) as a model builder. They were asking if they
> needed to modify their posting sig to note this fact. I said no, it's not
> required by the discussion group T&C, but that it wouldn't hurt, assuming
> they were posting in an official MB capacity. (On the other hand, since
> this person is an AFOL and LUGNET member, it's likely that they'll be
> posting privately and not on behalf of MB in any official capacity. But we
> as a community should talk a bit about what we'd want out of MB if someone
> did ever show up and post in an official capacity.)
>
> Anyway, to make a long story short, Mega-Bloks (Ritvik) is watching.
As 7 of 9 would say, "irrelevant". MB can watch all they want. Most people
here are LEGO purists (we are in the *LEGO* Users Group Network after all), and
as long as they remain in the off-topic.clones NG, I think it is perfectly
fine.
> I don't know how many (if any) other AFOLs have made it on the inside at MB,
> but theoretically, one is all it takes to start forwarding the juicy stuff
> up the chain (assuming that MB hasn't been watching all along, which I would
> assume they have been, just like LEGO). Not that there's anything wrong
> with that; that's just business.
>
> Finally, if this person should decide to disclose his/her position at MB,
> please be courteous and show him/her the same respect you would show a LEGO
> employee. He/she is a respected member of the AFOL community and just
> because MB is a wannabe doesn't mean that its employees are bad or that an
> AFOL working for MB has sold out to the bad guys.
It's fun to joke around about clones being the enemy, yaddie yadda, but it's
all in clean fun. If anything, I hope clones do well-- not because I'd ever
buy them, but because they will keep TLC honest and motivated to live up to
Ole's motto;-)
-John
> Bear in mind that MB is
> in Canada and if I'm not mistaken there are far fewer positions at LEGO in
> Canada than there are in the U.S. or Europe.
>
> --Todd
>
> [followups to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands]
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| (...) That one took me a few seconds, its been many a season since I've watched Voyager. I was thinking you meant '7 out of 9 people.' ;-) (...) Yes, I agree. MB should stay in the o-t newsgroups, it is off-topic for the LEGO User Group Network, (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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