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Re: Yellow Supercar on Lego.com
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 20:40:23 GMT
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Dave Baum wrote ...
> I'm pretty sure that the car couldn't have been built outside of Lego.
> Consider all of those yellow "axles" (both flexible and normal). All of
> the flexible ones I've seen in real sets have little ridges near the
> ends. I don't see any ridges in the picture - hence the assumption that
> the pieces were custom and internal to TLG. As for the non-flexible ones,
> I'm not positive, but I don't think yellow axles exist in any retail set.
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> Overall I'm pretty certain that this car was built by TLG. Posting it on
> the web site as a creation submitted by a 13 year old is misleading (to
> put it kindly). Just what are they trying to accomplish?
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> Dave Baum
I've noticed the same things as you folks, and I'll give my guess as to what
has happened..
"Facts" that I think we all can agree on :
The car model is the same as in the car magazine article.
The yellow Flexible Axles (Flaxles, maybe?)) and the normal ones aren't from
any publicly available Technic sets.
The tire hubs on the picture aren't from the 8448 set, but which one they
came from, I don't know. Maybe these were an earlier design of the 8448
hubs?
Now to some speculations...
("Det gule lyn" means "The yellow lightning", "Sportsbil" means "sports
car")
The names of the three model submitters are danish names (Mads, Jonas &
Henrik), but they all have an underscore after them. That usually happens
when you want to use a 'normal' looking name, but all of them were taken..
(Stating the obvious, I know)
I think that all three logins are created by TLG, so they could submit three
designs by themselves 'anonymously', so that we, the visitors have something
to look at while more data for the (rather sparse) website is collected and
formatted for us. They knew that we were hungry for new material on the
website, and came up with this, maybe also to encourage others to send in
their models.
I think that TLG either recieved no other entries, or the ones they got were
of minor changes to the main featured models of the set, and therefore not
really 'serious' contenders for "Model Of The Month". Or maybe the "MOTM"
challenge is too big for the normal kid playing with Technic.. ;) .. After
all, we know that the 8448 set was two years in the making, wasn't it? I,
for one know that I'm not skilled enough yet to design my own 8448 model.
Forgive me if I sound a bit harsh, but I think I'm just stating the obvious.
Personally, I think that TLG should have prioritized correcting some of the
spelling errors on the Technic Super Car Designer's website, before
submitting those models, as they know that a lot of kids'll come by the
site.. The site was up three days after the suggested launch date, and I
think they had to rush it, forgetting the normal Q/A proof reading in the
process..
By the way.. My vote was on The Gule Lyn, although the model's a cheat.. :)
Leg Godt,
Jepsen
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> In article <Fnp0y2.M71@lugnet.com>, "D. Jezek" <danjezek@REMOVEaloha.net> • wrote:
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> > I find this pretty interesting:
> > There is a section called "model of the month" at:
> > http://www.lego.com/advanced/m5p3.asp
> > where are 3 modified supercar models created by kids. Look at the yellow
> > supercar supposedly created by Det gule lyn age 13. It is the first one • on
> > top receiving the most votes.
> > Now this exact model is featured in an Autocar Article - 6th Oct 99 which • you
> > can see at:
> > http://www.technic-uk.co.uk/
> > The article talks about the yellow supercar being an official final • prototype
> > to the 8448 and was built by Jorgen Christensen.
> > The model in the article and the one on lego.com are without a doubt the • same.
> > My guess is that Det gule lyn age 13 didn't create it but how it finally • ended
> > up being on lego.com under his name?
> >
> > --Dan
>
> --
> reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com
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