KimT Posted September 21, 2008 Posted September 21, 2008 While uploading instructions and searching for new castle pics, I stumbled over this on Brickshelf. A member there (Rebelego) uploaded these pics of what looks like an Oil Rig and the name Rambøll is also on the box. Not sure if this is news or not, just thought I'd share this microscale (?) oil rig with you. Quote
Plural Posted September 21, 2008 Posted September 21, 2008 How very odd. Perhaps it's a bit like the Vestas Windmill and only available to Rambøll employees, but considerably less impressive than the windmill. Quote
KimT Posted September 21, 2008 Author Posted September 21, 2008 How very odd. Perhaps it's a bit like the Vestas Windmill and only available to Rambøll employees, but considerably less impressive than the windmill. Yep. Perhaps it's a give-away for employees and business partners. It is very small compared to the windmill, I'll agree to that Quote
Quarryman Posted September 21, 2008 Posted September 21, 2008 This set was handed out by Rambøll on a trade fair in Stavanger in late August. Those who understand Norwegian can read about their cooperation with TLG here and here (and here you can see a video). I could probably do a quick&dirty translation of the articles, but not right now. At the fair they also had a large LEGO model of the oil rig: Not sure about how many sets they handed out, one member of Brikkelauget got hold of one. Quote
KimT Posted September 21, 2008 Author Posted September 21, 2008 Thanks Quarryman for clearing that up. Always good to have other Scandinavians around to fix things Quote
Skelotic Posted September 21, 2008 Posted September 21, 2008 The first picture seems weird to me. It looks like they just rushed the colors or that they might have included a sheet explaining how each part (specified by color) was important. It might just be me though. Quote
CP5670 Posted September 21, 2008 Posted September 21, 2008 (edited) This set was handed out by Rambøll on a trade fair in Stavanger in late August. Those who understand Norwegian can read about their cooperation with TLG here and here (and here you can see a video). I could probably do a quick&dirty translation of the articles, but not right now. At the fair they also had a large LEGO model of the oil rig:http://media.e24.no/archive/00835/_lego_mo..._jp_835135t.jpg Not sure about how many sets they handed out, one member of Brikkelauget got hold of one. I wish they would offer that as a set. How do these agreements work? Will TLG design these customized, limited production sets for any company (or individual, for that matter) if they agree to buy a certain quantity of them? They have done this with quite a few companies in the past. Shell and Maersk stand out as having more long term connections with them, but there were many others. Vestas and this Ramboll company are just the latest additions. Edited September 21, 2008 by CP5670 Quote
Freddie Posted September 21, 2008 Posted September 21, 2008 It's a gift set, that is given away at Rambøll's stand at oil-industry expositions. It was created by LEGO for Rambøll, to celebrate the two companies' cooperation with development of new software for concepting new oil-rigs. The software in question is a modified version of LDD, which retains most of LDD's graphical interface. Andy16806 has been to a recent expo and visited their stand, and by surprise, he got hold of one for himself. Rebelego is another one of our members, and is the admin on our forums, and apparently he got hold of one, too. Quote
Guss Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Wow .. seeing such things like Ramboll or Vestas set .. as I am looking for a job, I think I'll send My CV to these company Quote
Norro Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Thanks for posting these lads. Very neat to see! God Bless, Nathan Quote
WhiteFang Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 KimT, thanks for sharing this discovery with us. I did not know that TLG is actively engaging doing up exclusive corporate LEGO sets for these companies, apart from a few well known such as Marasek and Vestas recently. It's neat to see something new and special. Although it look wierd on its first view, but looking at the orignal reference certainly resembles much. Quarryman, thanks for solving the mystery for us. Never knew the origin of this set until you cleared it up. Quote
King Kahuka Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 That looks awesome. I so wish they would make these sets available! Quote
metalandi Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Has anybody got more information about this? It looks a bit strange (fake?) to me, the box art is very unusual but it could be preliminary. If it's real, i would have rather liked to have a minifig sized rig, though http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3428971 Quote
Guss Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 there is a topic about this in the news section^^ Quote
metalandi Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Oh shame on me. I thought i would ever be one of those people that re-post something but now it happened Quote
Skipper 24 Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 I saw this earlier as well. I think it is fake. Quote
Captain Green Hair Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 There's a topic about this already, so i'll merge this in Quote
CopMike Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Has anybody got more information about this? It looks a bit strange (fake?) to me, the box art is very unusual but it could be preliminary. If it's real, i would have rather liked to have a minifig sized rig, though http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3428971 I saw this earlier as well. I think it is fake.Maybe check around a bit on the forum or a Google . REALLY well done information placement (video, pics etc) for "a fake" !CopMike Quote
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