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Re: Ice Planet 2002 Contest Winners!
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lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space
Date: 
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 02:40:34 GMT
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In lugnet.build.contests, Richard Marchetti writes:
In lugnet.build.contests, Larry Pieniazek writes:
My understanding was that IP 2002  was done out of sequence because it was
2002... not because the themes are being chosen in preference order. My
expectation was that the next theme will be the next one in sequence.

Larry's comment got me wondering "What sequence?"  So I moseyed on over to
Fibblesnork and found the following approx. dates (asterisks indicate the
themes that have been done, the dates I assume were based on the retail
consumer availability of each theme, the question marks are my own approx.
dates -- AND if it looks crappy, try viewing raw, I dunno...):

***Classic Space   1978-1990
Futuron    1987-1993
***Blacktron       1987-1990
Space Police I     1989-1991
M:Tron             1990-1992
Blacktron II       1991-1995
Space Police II    1992-1995
***Ice Planet 2002 1993-1995
Spyrius            1994-1996
Unitron            1994-1996
Exploriens         1996-1998(?)
RoboForce          1997-2000(?)
U.F.O.             1997-2000(?)

So we are doing a pretty bad job of following a sequence having blithely
skipped over Futuron.

Not all THAT badly, really. My memory is hazy but IIRC BT was chosen over F
because they both started the same year but BT ended earlier so it's
therefore "older by the averages" or something like that. Thus if Futuron
was next, everything would be back in sequence.

No one is really in charge of this contest, unless
Todd wants to administrate it again.

I'm guessing he probably doesn't... might be wrong though.

So I guess we all just pick a theme.
If we wanted to go back and attempt to correct the sequence, Futuron is
next.  It'd be nice to have the monorail DAT files made LDraw official
soonish to accomplish the CAD side of that.

Talk to the powers that be. One of them has one of each type of monorail
track loaned to them (I just raked a claw across my vast horde and there
they were) for the purposes of certifying all the mono parts...

I would argue strongly for F but of course I haven't a lot of standing.

Was this already decided elsewhere at some point?

Ya I think it was, hence my hazy IIRC, I just couldn't find it easily. Wrong
keywords no doubt. Try your luck in the search boxes and see what nuggets
you find!



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  Re: Ice Planet 2002 Contest Winners! (and what shall the next theme be?)
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gzu4rM.8tG@lugnet.com... (...) F (...) It took some hunting, but I found it. What you recall is Greg Majewski's message which got the whole snowball rolling on October 26, 2001. He (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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(...) Larry's comment got me wondering "What sequence?" So I moseyed on over to Fibblesnork and found the following approx. dates (asterisks indicate the themes that have been done, the dates I assume were based on the retail consumer availability (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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