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In lugnet.lego.direct, Jake McKee writes:
> Attention LEGO Train Fans! It’s not too late to enter the LEGO Shop At Home
> Train Car Building Contest! You could win the grand prize of building
> instructions of your original model created and published on www.LEGO.com
> for everyone to see, plus $100 worth of LEGO sets!
>
> Check out page 45 of the January US Shop At Home Catalog, or page 29 of the
> Spring US Shop At Home Catalog for complete details and official rules.
For all those interested, PLEASE DO.
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Hi Jake. Thanks for bringing this up. Please don't consider this post an
attempt to rain on TLC's parade because I'm not writing to that end. I'm not
beating up on you either. In fact, I'm glad you post here.
While this might sound paranoid, cocky or nit-picky, what if I actually win?
If I've read the rules correctly, The following are what I see as two
ensuing consequences if I have to completely sign over my design, plus an
observation.
Firstly, and most importantly, seeing that a degree of juniorization has
crept into newer Lego train sets, there's no guarantee that my original
design will actually make it onto a toy store shelf, which means a winning
design effectively disappears into thin air once it's signed over.
Secondly (and this probably mostly applies to the age 18+ category), I won't
be able to legally do stuff with it, such as sell kits of it, or earn other
money from it somehow, should I want to, even though I designed it (unless I
found a bunch of those sets on sale somewhere and resold them).
Earnings from sales of just two replicas of my train car I put together
perhaps could bring me more than $100, which is almost tolerable considering
the amount of time that went into making a working design. Also, if trading
is considered, I could swap for rarer parts that TLC can't/won't/doesn't
provide, the value of which can surpass $100 quite easily. While I don't
build with Lego for compensation, the only physical compensation involved is
winning $100 worth of sets, which in my opinion, isn't enough.
Observation: the way the rules are now, I didn't get the sense of TLC
promoting building just for creativity and imagination's sake. While I
understand the ego-surfing of seeing "something *I* made" on a store shelf,
I find signing it over ultimately self-defeating to the cause of creativity
and imagination because what I made is no longer mine.
I also don't really see this as a way of acquiring designs for TLC, because
so many designs can be seen on the web and suitably altered for TLC's taste.
While I understand that I don't have to enter the contest, and that doing so
means I consent to the rules, I thought you should know why I'm not taking
the time to enter.
Play well,
-Tom McD.
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