Inside the Lego Master Builder Search

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Inside the Lego Master Builder Search

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 9, 2004 @02:47AM from the lego-my-eggo dept.

blackdefiance writes "As most self-respecting geeks know, Lego is currently searching for a new Master Builder to hold the enviable position of building with Lego all day and getting paid for the privilege. One applicant describes the nerve-wracking experience of going through the first-round interview."

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Is Lego even alive? by tuxette · 2004-01-09 02:50 · Score: 5, Informative

I heard on the news yesterday that Lego has a 1,4 billion DKK deficit and that the vice administrative director Poul Plougmann was fired with immediate effect.
They also interviewed a bunch of little kids who were all very uninterested in Legos. What a shame...

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1. Re:Is Lego even alive? by Mengoxon · 2004-01-09 02:53 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  yes, they are alive, but they are going through restructuring and repositioning. I hope they succeed.
  
  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a p/ 20040108/ap_on_bi_ge/denmark_lego_1
Already Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 02:56 · Score: 3, Informative

Google cache links:

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:O-j4lnUvtb8J: www.legomasterbuilder.com/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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Not for $7/Hour by raverbuzzy · 2004-01-09 03:26 · Score: 4, Informative

I met someguy a few years back on an cms implementation project who told me he used to be a professional lego builder building the various large scale models found in their stores.
I (thinking it was a dream job) replied: "Wow. What a dream job. Why did you stop?"
To which he replied "Try living on $7 bucks an hour"
Slightly OT, I know... by Chagatai · 2004-01-09 03:46 · Score: 1, Informative

Many people may think that linking to a Google cache, hosting a copy of information on a personal website, or just copying and pasting an article into Slashdot is a fast and simple way to swipe some karma, but we often forget about the guys like me who have company-installed web blockers and don't have a fast enough connection at home for tunneling. It is thanks to the dilligence and karma grabbing of these individuals that we web eunuchs are able to get the latest news. "WebSense-It's About Productivity." No, Websense, it's about being a gorilla suffering from simian hemmoragic fever trying to communicate to me that it is having a seizure in sign language, saying that needs its epilectic medication, and blocking me from viewing a simple, innocent web page about Legos, for crying out loud!
Sorry, had to get that out.

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Re:I hope they get someone good by iainl · 2004-01-09 03:49 · Score: 3, Informative

Seriously - go look at the Designer range. Sensibly priced, and all 'proper' Lego. Plus, rather than just one model to build, they have suggestions for like 10 more you could do with the bricks; its Lego like it used to be.

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Re:What happened to old lego ingenuity? by Deanasc · 2004-01-09 04:02 · Score: 2, Informative

The trouble with some of their sets is that licensing agreements with their movie tie-ins prohibit them from offering generic sets. There are no more Lego castle sets because of Harry Potter. They had to ditch the space sets when they whored themselves up to George Lucas to use Star Wars themes. Then there's always sets like this one that Lego will never release.

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Another guy's story... by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · 2004-01-09 04:12 · Score: 2, Informative

I recently read another guy's story at his journey to try and win the Master Builder position. You can find it here.

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Re:I hope they get someone good by stry_cat · 2004-01-09 05:09 · Score: 2, Informative

Seems like I have witnessed the downfall of my only childhood toy (save a bike). Once legos involved hours of building.. stacking little peices together to form only the boat's haul. Now you get a boat and it comes with the haul peice, the mast peice and the rudder peice. Oh yeah the little figure with the 5'oclock shadow and eye-patch.
Yep when Lego started moving to these kinds of sets I stopped buying legos. The last set I bough was a Blacktron command base and even that had some rather single use pieces (nowhere near as bad as they are now).
Legos for girls by q2k · 2004-01-09 05:11 · Score: 2, Informative

One thing they are starting to do is find ways to sells Legos to girls. They have something called Lego Click-its, which are basically build your own jewerly kits made out of specialized tiny Legos. My daughter loves the things. Stuff like that gives me hope for the company.
Re:The original flamewar by globalar · 2004-01-09 06:39 · Score: 2, Informative

For those who don't know, Meccano was basically Erector in the US. It was first established as toys in the UK at the beginning of the last century.
Re:Hrm by TheTimoo · 2004-01-09 09:09 · Score: 2, Informative

check out the last question on the faq :

9. Is he really a reverend?

'Reverend', when used before someone's name, does not imply any particular position in a church. There is really no such thing as 'a reverend'. The adjective is used by people such as ministers and priests, to show that they are revered members of their community. So the question really is, does anybody really revere The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith?

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In related news... by Gudlyf · 2004-01-09 13:36 · Score: 3, Informative

Lego, expecting worst loss in its history, fires two executives, ponders layoffs

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