Legodt

I purchased instructions for this model on eBay and I am about 2/3 finished with re-creating it. I have added a facade with clips on rear that aims to replicate the front of the building and I have added windows to each side for which the original design did not have any windows. This has been a wonderful challenge. I am new to Eurobricks, is it OK to post photos of the finished product , while highlighting the modifications? Has anyone else purchased instructions for this model on eBay? or tried to rebuild it?

Here is a perspective from someone who has purchased from Miran06. I had no idea that Miran06 copied JaredChan's Arc d' Triomphe, however I am grateful for the opportunity to building this amazing creation. I am a non-creative LEGO collector and I love building the modular line and I am a frequent customer or Brickbuilderspro and BrickCity Depot. I am continually amazed by the wonderful creations and building techniques of truly gifted LEGO fans and I appreciate the opportunity to follow instructions and to have my own version of many of these wonderful creations. If it were not for someone like Miran06, I simply would not have been able to build the Arc D' Triomphe. While I agree that his presentation of the instructions are misleading, unfair, rude, and likely illegal, I believe that there is significant value and extraordinary skill in his efforts to reverse engineer such complex creations from a few photographs and to create usable instructions. He should be compensated for this. I just wish that he honestly described what he was doing and used his own photographs. The amount of effort and skill used to create this instructions seems to be worth much more than $8,000. For the eBay listings and sales, I think that he should describe what he has done and post an acknowledgment to the original creator that inspired the instructions. I think this would be fair. I also believe that Miran06 has a copyright to the instructions that he has created. The fact that he reverse engineered extremely complex creations from a few photographs is even more incredible. I wish all of the LEGO creators would develop a plan to provide Miran06 with photographs and details, so that he could produce even more instructions. There could be some type of cooperative whereby Miran06 would pay one-time license fee or a continuing royalties to the original creators. Perhaps Bricklink could facilitate such a system. I would imagine that creators of buildings like the Arc D' Triomphe and other large-scale creations would be gratified that others would want to copy their designs. I feel badly about the lack of fairness exhibited by Miran06, but at the same time, I really enjoyed building from his instructions. It is the most amazing and complex thing that I have ever built and I'm glad that I have featured prominently in my home... just like I have the entire LEGO modular sets proudly displayed... even though I did not design them. Instead of just bashing Miran06 and his creepy ways, try to figure a way to collaborate with people with his skill and with those that have the time and inclination to develop instructions. ~Legodt

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