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Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:17:55 GMT
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I respectfully disagree for these reasons. First of all, one can hardly call an idea
such as "motor with 6 large wheels" or "gentler curved rails" original. These are
the kinds of things I'm talking about. Also, I point to Matt's scratch built
crossover track as further evidence that this isn't a major concern.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/train_depot/cross.htm . This did not
prevent TLG from introducing their own version later this year. In fact, he may have
instigated it:) What I'm saying is that if we all agree on certain "wants", we will
be making TLG's Marketing Dept.'s (if such a dept. exists) job a cakewalk because
they will KNOW what their customers want, not what they MIGHT want. I don't know
about you, but I don't want or like their new train sets for '99, except for the new
(if any) unique train pieces in them. Sorry for the soap boxing.
Terry K wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:32:25 GMT, John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote:
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> > If we suppose that Disney and (for our purposes) TLG are monitoring sites on the
> > net such as James' webpage, I think we (trainiacs) should come up with some sort
> > of top 10 or 20 list to make known beyond a doubt what TLG can produce which will
> > greatly enhance their train line and, in turn, make building trains so much more
> > enjoyable. I thinking along the lines of Matt's wish list
> > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/train_depot/wishes.htm If we could
> > definitively lay something out, perhaps things might happen...
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> But if I understand TLG's reasoning correctly, the act of publishing your own
> ideas would make those ideas unusable by TLG. Something to do with copyrights
> and such?
> So maybe you would be better off _not_ publishing all those great ideas, and
> hope/pray TLG comes up with similar ideas on their own.
>
> There should be a smiley here, but unfortunately the above scenario is probably
> true.
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> -- Terry K --
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| Plenty of valid points here... LEGO AS is market driven. We must assume that we are all a special interest group of adult LEGO train builders. A very small group, even if we were 1000 strong (that number seems even a bit high). When LEGO AS designs (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) But if I understand TLG's reasoning correctly, the act of publishing your own ideas would make those ideas unusable by TLG. Something to do with copyrights and such? So maybe you would be better off _not_ publishing all those great ideas, and (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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