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Assuming any Free fun is worth noting,
The SCALA site at www.lego.com has an area devoted to their SCALA Deco craft
projects.
Nothing really original in the content. Build some paper trees or a box. Some
wallpaper or a photo frame. [sigh]
The area does include some character drawings for at-home printing and coloring.
While I wasn't so impressed by their quality or acuracy in likeness (the artist
needs an anatomy lesson), I do think this makes a nice content addition for the
website. The scenes depict situations in enough detail for some narrative
discussion. A child could write some dialogue for the pictures. But don't expect
much beyond "Shopping is fun." and "I love to pig out on ice cream sundaes."
Unfortunately, all of the art is presented rotated 90 degrees and at a
resolution of only 72 dpi. So expect fuzzy output at home. Art pops up in its
own browser window with a "print" button that didn't work at my computer (I
instead used my brower's own print command).
LEGO seems to expect every computer to have a Flash viewer (see Star Wars area)
but no one can handle printing(?). They would do us all a service if the pages
were available as .pdf files at full resolution (300 dpi). If that's out of the
question, I hope LEGO staff members at least consider future drawings with
natural vertical orientation.
Funny thing to note: the javascript code for opening a new window still has
"Galactic Challenge" for the pages' titles. tsk. tsk.
I really have to wonder if anyone there checks their own work...
-Suz
p.s. http://www.lego.com/scala/creative/
compare with:
http://www.barbie.com/mydesign/
http://www.crayola.com/
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