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Post by lanceradvanced on Mar 7, 2005 23:19:40 GMT
Spinning off the "The Future that Never Was" Thread, presented below are the cleaned up plans for the Martian Tripod Playhouse. www.lanceradvanced.com/Forums/WOTW/Martian.pdf[glow=red,2,300]THIS IS A ROUGH LAYOUT ONLY, I HAVE -NO- IDEA HOW IT WOULD HOLD UP, SEE A CARPENTER FIRST[/glow] |
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Post by BrutalDeluxe on Mar 8, 2005 0:36:23 GMT
I seriously think you are onto something there Lancer. If you hooked up with someone with a knowledge of carpentry and provided the exact dimensions and materials needed you could make money out of the design. All us WOTW fans with kiddies would be interested. As is, my fiance wants a cubby house for them. Perhaps if I twist her arm...
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Post by lanceradvanced on Mar 8, 2005 15:29:15 GMT
Spinning off the "The Future that Never Was" Thread, presented below are the cleaned up plans for the Martian Tripod Playhouse. www.lanceradvanced.com/Forums/WOTW/Martian.pdf[glow=red,2,300]THIS IS A ROUGH LAYOUT ONLY, I HAVE -NO- IDEA HOW IT WOULD HOLD UP, SEE A CARPENTER FIRST[/glow] Cleaned up the plans a bit, and added some notes... |
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Post by Zoe on Mar 11, 2005 14:21:47 GMT
Cleaned up the plans a bit, and added some notes... Interesting idea. But of course it only works if the children themselves are WOTW fans. Nowadays children 'make the decisions' about what their parents buy for them and there is a massive advertising industry around games and movie and tv spin-offs and merchandising to help them make those decisions...... And of course there is the Spielberg movie coming out in June..... There could be a lot of demand if the film catches the imagination of children. On the other hand Spielberg is likely to copyright everything and you could find yourself having legal problems if your design is similar. Registering the design might be a good idea. Anyway, a good patent agent (or patent lawyer) might help. Of course, you've just possibly scored an own goal by publishing your design on the net and so Spielberg's marketing team might well be going over your design right this minute and saying "Hey! Great idea! Let's do it!" Sorry to rain on your parade and I do hope it works out.... Zoe |
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Post by lanceradvanced on Mar 11, 2005 21:58:15 GMT
As much as I'm getting all sorts of advice here, there's nothing that's really patentable about the design, patents have to be new inventions, and playhouses have been around for decades, as has been the art I based the look after.
The best I can really do, is copyright the plans, and currently that's an automatic thing...
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Post by Bayne on Mar 11, 2005 23:15:22 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Looks cool... but the page freezes on me when it opens  so I can't zoom in. You could get a red-weed garden growing underneath the tripod... lots of soft foliage to help break the inevitable "Little jimmy fell out of the tripod". [/glow] |
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so I can't zoom in.