LEGO FACTORY

[erao]

I find this picture in brickshelf...

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/lar/Publ...ry/dscn4016.jpg

Is there a new theme "Lego factory"? Anyone know about this? Thanks! :-D

[MattZitron]

According to the official site, the Lego Factory winners will be available online this summer.

List of Winners Here.

[WesternOutlaw]

I really wish these were mini-fig scale. Some of the buildings would be great additions to the city theme.

[Mini]

Notable in the System's 50th year is LEGO Factory, a tool that meaningfully blends virtual and physical building worlds to make every child a LEGO Model Designer. Users browse an online warehouse of LEGO elements to create their brick pallet and design their own LEGO models. This summer, custom models can be ordered and will arrive in packaging that shows the model and name on the front and includes the pieces and one-of-a-kind step-by-step building instructions for building it in real life.

[erao]

Thank you! Now I see what will happen then... ;)

[jonfett]

Each winner recieves 5% royalty on each set sold, which is placed directly into a college fund or savings account!

These winners have been certified as REAL professional LEGO Factory designers!

Junior builders:

1. Jala550 - Robo destroyer

2. Neal-the-Builder - Hotel

3. Neal-the-Builder - Pirate ship

4. Pwill - Super airport

5. JosephZ11194 - Lego corp.

6. Neal-the-Builder - Ski slope

7. Neal-the-Builder - Quidditch Field

8. Avifors - Skyscraper

Senior Builders:

Glennissen - Car race

Sawayadog - Liberty

Taken straight from the site.

Look at this one guy Neal-the-Builder, he has 4 sets which are winners and so 5% royalty from each of any of the 4 sets sold. Man, this guy will surely get rich quick! :()

Jon.

[sam89]

My favourties are:

- Pirate Ship

- Liberty

They both look great! :-D

[lucajuventino]

Read my opinion about the Legofactory, please:

http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=3204

I usually don't write those things, but this time was too much!

Bye,

Luca

[Jipay]

Yeah there is a lot of cheating going on and the principle is far from beeing perfect. And it won't work, because it is micro scale :|

[jedijeff]

how can people cheat at that *wacko*

[MattZitron]

Multiple voting.

[jedijeff]

oh,thanks :-D

[Wolf04]

Wow, I thought the LEGO factory was a place were humans were slaugthered and made into little LEGO pieces. That's how they manage to keep the prices of sets fairly low.

Sadly, I guess I was wrong.

[WesternOutlaw]

No, you're getting it mixed up with Soylent Lego in which green Lego bricks are used by AFOL as food.

Climactic ending involves Charlton Heston, a long-time AFOL, running from the factory yelling, Soylent Lego: they're made of people. Soylent Lego is people! - if they were just mini-fig scale... :()

[dutchboy]

Hi all,

I'm sure most of you know that the Lego Factory contest ended on Monday and the winners have been announced. My son's design (car dealer) was in the running and it looked as if he was going to be one of the winners until early Monday morning. We had been tracking his totals and it looked like he would end up with about 360-370 votes, which would have been enough. To our dismay we noticed that when the winners were announced he wasn't one of them. My assumption is that he got disqualified, but I don't know why. All I know is that between Monday at around 9 am EST and the end of the contest he ended up with another 130 or so votes and we have no idea where they came from.

Needless to say my son was very disappointed because he knows that all of his votes (the 360 or so we thought he would get) are legit. I can't say the same for the other 130 and the only thing that I can think of is that maybe somebody went in and posted a bunch of votes to get him disqualified (along with about 5 others in the junior category). Of course I can't prove this but it is a concern, because there are no safeguards for something like this to happen.

At this point I don't know what to tell my son or what message the course of events is sending him. All he knows is that he competed and went by the rules, and got taken out for no apparent reason. If have repeatedly called and emailed the Lego Company, but haven't gotten a response (so Jake, if you're reading this.....). All I'd like to get is an explanation from Lego as to why my son's entry got taken out.

Obviously the results won't be changed and my son knows that. He'd just like to know what happened and with as much time as he and I spent on this contest and as much $ as we spent on the plastic brick I think the company owes us at least an explanation (and the others who got disqualified as well).

All in all, I think the contest was a lot of fun, and I spent way too much time on it, as my brickshelf folder will tell (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=107738). However, as several people have pointed out on various forums, there is definitely room for improvement, especially in the online voting process, as the final round seems to indicate, as well as the fact that one person ended up winning four of eight prizes in the junior category (nothing against the builder, but I think Lego should have dealt with this in the rules, e.g. only one winning entry per builder to give more kids a chance to win), and that some of the designs that ended up winning are really kind of boring and don't have much play value. I for one won

[Jipay]

Unfortunatly the chances your son has been disqualified because of cheating are really high. There is nothing he can do against it, nothing he can have done to prevent it. Your son learned a good lesson : life can hard sometimes and also unfair (for the positive effect).

This program brought a lot of issues and you can cheat easely, or somebody that want to cheat to see your model arrive (because he wants to buy it) can cheat aswell. Buy your son a nice lego box ! It will help him ;)