WesWilliams Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Hello, this is my first post here. :) I have just seen the new pictures of the 4896 creator set. It looks awesome! But I did notice something familiar about it from a technic car that I have seen on brickshelf before. Does this guy who makes these technic cars work for lego? http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery....y.cgi?i=1591779 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=951715 -Wes
DoubleT Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Wel lSometimes Lego is inspired by others.. and sometimes its just some thing that happends :) And wellcome ;)
WesWilliams Posted January 25, 2006 Author Posted January 25, 2006 I e-mailed crowkillers and asked him what his thoughts were and he mailed me back with this to say. "I really don't care. I'm happy to see things are getting done better. I've notice many things over the years that Lego has done that I have seen before. I look at it this way, if everyone can inspire each other, then it is all good. I've been offering Lego ideas for years. Most builders already use a base design or ideas that The Lego Company has already done in a set, so who is to say who was the first to design what, and who really cares? just have fun building." This guy is really cool. I wish that he made instrctions for his cars. :( -Wes
gylman Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Uh..... yes, they are both cars. They are both convertibles. Beyond that..... I don't see enough similarity to even raise the remotest suspicion that someone is copying some else. That's just silly! One is technic and one is system. In what way are they similar - other than they have four wheels and no roof? Meh.
WesWilliams Posted January 25, 2006 Author Posted January 25, 2006 I am talking about the chrome pieces used behind the seat headrests. That's all. I just knew that I had seen it done for the same purpose before. -Wes
Evil Willy Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Yah..Its nothing terrible. I guess this guy doesnt care so it cant be to bad.
gylman Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 I am talking about the chrome pieces used behind the seat headrests. That's all. I just knew that I had seen it done for the same purpose before. -Wes OK fair enough. Sorry, I misunderstood. A topic entitled... "TLC stealing ideas from builders" seemed a bit provocative. Still.. it seems a very minor issue and crowkiller's response would be shared by 95% of AFOLs. Peace Gyl
snefroe Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 well i guess everybody "steals" from everybody, company designers are no different. the thing is , it's not really "stealing" in most cases, it's using ideas from others for your own model. i don't mind about that, as long as the user doesn't claim to idea to be his...
Fallenangel Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 Sorry to bump an old thread, but come on, that's it? Consider the similarities between these: 10179 and Pepa Quin's Millennium Falcon 10212 and dmac's Tydirium (but we know what happened in this case) 10215 and cavegod's Delta-7 (but again, we know what happened - didn't cavegod say he got compensated?) 10221 and Anio's Executor 8017 and Brian Tobin's TIE Advanced x1 I agree with snefroe though; people use others' ideas all the time. I like to call it research...
Peppermint_M Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 Sorry to bump an old thread, but come on, that's it? Consider the similarities between these: 10179 and Pepa Quin's Millennium Falcon 10212 and dmac's Tydirium (but we know what happened in this case) 10215 and cavegod's Delta-7 (but again, we know what happened - didn't cavegod say he got compensated?) 10221 and Anio's Executor 8017 and Brian Tobin's TIE Advanced x1 I agree with snefroe though; people use others' ideas all the time. I like to call it research... 5 Years! A bump from a post left 5 years ago to make a complaint about STAR WARS sets! These guys all draw from the same source material, so if they are making them accurate of course the MOC and the official set are going to match!
I Scream Clone Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 fallenangel there is no need to bump this topic as Peppermint has stated. Its a five year old topic and whilst you may have an opinion on these sets, the people that started this topic have moved on long ago, and suggest you do as well. Rehashing an argument from five years ago does not leave a positive mark on Eurobricks.
Vindicare Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 I wouldn't call that stealing. They look nothing alike... Although the OP may not be here anymore, it's. Ot the the MOCer in question invented metal bar headrests. Why start a topic whining about it and saying such things.
Peppermint_M Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 I wouldn't call that stealing. They look nothing alike... Although the OP may not be here anymore, it's. Ot the the MOCer in question invented metal bar headrests. Why start a topic whining about it and saying such things. It was five years ago. Five Years. Half a decade ago. The OP has not been active since 2007. EB was a different place five years ago. The OP felt a need to post this thread and there were seven replies (counting the OP responding.) Really and truly it doesn't matter. In fact I think I need to lock this thread. There was no need to re-post here. There was no need for you to post after mine and ISC's reprimands. This thread is no longer required.
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