Paul Boratko

I got you added today.. My goal is to try and get everyone here who has either a blog or a website(or brickshelf folder)... It's tough for me because I am still getting used to the HTML.. I just switched servers and luckily I have an ace webmaster from Spain who took care of most of the heavy lifting...

I have comprised a decent list of builder's websites HERE with a picture of their work as a link...

Ok, I am currently in the process of getting the instructions hosted at my website...

Damn... I was just down in Monroeville over the weekend doing the Steel City Con show and my wife and I stopped in that Toys R Us (I think it was on Thursday night) with a 20% off coupon and they didn't have it, but they must have gotten one afterwards... I wonder what day they get their truck on..?

Nathanael has completed the instructions for his alternate 42000 model and they are available HERE at MOCPLANS for $10 I was given the pleasure of reviewing these instructions and as always from Nathanael, the quality is excellent!

I already have a new chassis/suspension ready to go.. Just waiting on my parts order to replace the regular 5L liftarms in it with the new suspension arms and 5L axle with stop... Only bad thing is I built it to work with those crappy new hubs from the 42000...

You're talking about the axle from the pin insering into the axle hole of the Bionacle tooth right...? I actually just built another Black Vampire GT for a toy show that I did over the weekend and used about 100 of those hard to find axle pins in the entire body(along with 3l black ones) Can't you just push out the pin with another axle from the other side of the Bioancle tooth..? I never really noticed those black friction axle pins being any tighter than regular blue ones...

That is a pretty nice model for that scale... It's hard to get a good looking model while building smaller...

Here is the cost of most of the new parts if anyone is interested... Dogbone Frame: .49 <- I expected this to be more 3L long axle pin: .17 5L axle with stop: .16 New worm gear: .41 3 x 11 white panel: $1.36 Suspension Arm: .63 New Hub: .28 New Linkage: .72 <-This seem high for this small part

No, they're similar, but different... You know, I actually never thought about that... I do have an all black Gallardo that I used size 14 flex axles with a 2l connector on the end for the front part because the 16 size didn't exist... Until Now...

It actually has a pinhole in the center...

LOL.. Apparently not... I even had some fathers of the kids stick their fingers into the spinning blade....

A cool B model for the construction crew would have been a robot comprised of all 3 vehicles...

I did a Kidsfest last December(and a few other shows since) and I had this 1:6 scale engine running full speed during the shows and just about every kid(ages 4 through about 12) that walked past it would stared mesmorized at it and then stick their finger directly into the spinning fan blade... At Kidsfest I would say out of 500 kids that stuck their finger into it only one young boy recognized potential danger and smacked his friends hand and said "Don't, that could hurt you!"

LOL.. I am not contacting an attorney or suing anyone, especially Lego, which is a major part of my life.. I just wanted a simple answer to a simple question about some things that never should have happened...

I have a very strong feeling that you may be correct...

You know, everything that you have said here is more than likely 100% accurate and may very well be what is happening... However, the one thing that has me a bit confused is why won't anyone from Lego return an email to me..? I've sent 13 to the email address that I was provided which was connected to the branch of the company that pulled down my Porsche instructions and have still not heard anything back after 2 weeks... Someone has to at least read one of them...

This is what i had always thought as well... Technic on it's own as a TAG means nothing without "LEGO" to go with it... Nothing that my wife made had any reference to TLG in any way, shape, or form.. I always thought that Lego and I were on the same page, but I guess I was wrong... Apparently they think that I am stealing pennies out of their pockets... Meanwhile there are blatant knock-off products being hocked on Ebay on a daily basis and nothing is done...

As far as the Zazzle thing goes, we really don't care about it anyways, but would like to know why... There are so many people out there using Lego's company to their advantage whether it be knock off merchandise, stolen merchandise, or some other schemes, but yet they have targeted me for some petty stuff like this..? And stuff that doesn't really even concern them...

My wife said the only tags that the designs had were Crowkillers and Supercars... if you do a search for "Technic" there are 4 pages of alternate items that come up including ones for Technics record players and mechanic stuff... In the original messages sent to her the issue was something in the design with the text or picture and there was a photo attached, then when she got a response from "Mike" he gave her a list of things that could have also contributed to the violation... She has since deleted everything from Zazzle and I have deleted my 3 Cuusoo projects... I don't think that is the case, but I guess that you never know... I have now had 2 situations in under 3 weeks with Lego's Legal department removing things.. Could it just be a coincidence?

LOL.. I didn't see it right away either when my wife forwarded me this stuff...

No, these were not linked to Ebay in any way... Look again... It's right there in the response email from someone named Mike...

And for the record, you CANNOT add the word LEGO into the Tags search... The system automatically deletes it... HERE are all of the shirts that my wife made last year... Now why would Lego pick out 2 random products out of all of these and leave all of these other ones there..?

And like I said, there was nothing on the shirt that said Lego anywhere, in fact if you try and create a shirt with a corporate Logo or name they will deny it before it can even be created and posted... I have made dozens of custom shirts there and never had any issues with anything being accepted...

After sending a dozen emails to the legal department and not getting any responses back over Lego's legal department pulling my Porsche instructions from Ebay, today something even stranger occurred... Almost 2 years ago my wife was playing around on zazzle.com (A website where you can design custom shirts, business cards,etc..) and she made a few shirts for my website and posted them publically for other people to view.. Today she received an email from zazzle informing her that 2 shirts had been removed due to a conflict of ownership... As you can clearly see below NEITHER of the shirts said LEGO on them anywhere, in fact one of them only had text on it... The image violations were included with each email to her and I have posted them along with the messages she received... She actually forgot that these shirt designs were even up on that zazzle site and until today, and I never even knew they existed for the public to see... Message my wife sent to zazzle and their response... Now what I would like to know is how either of these in anyway belong to Lego... And more so, if these are a violation, how are shirt makers out there printing and selling Lego related shirts..? If Lego is now claiming ownership of property that is unquestionably not theirs, then how about they also send me a couple hundred dollars because the 2014 fees on my website are due...