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Alternate Models


GregF

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Recently, there has been a lot of confusion on BZP over the plans for an alternate model of Jetrax in the November LEGO Magazine. Apparently, a lot of people have thought that refers to the yellow Jetrax store exclusive set, so I thought it was time for a little Alternate Model 101:

 

Q. What is an alternate model?

 

A. It's a new model built using pieces of an existing one.

 

Q. Would the yellow Jetrax be considered an alternate model?

 

A. No. You cannot build yellow Jetrax using pieces from existing 2008 models, because none of the sets have those pieces in yellow. If you have to paint existing pieces to build the model, it's not an alternate model :)

 

Q. What is the difference between a LEGO Magazine alternate model and the yellow Jetrax?

 

A. Besides what's already been stated, a LEGO Magazine alternate model is designed exclusively for Club by our Master Model Builders. Instructions are provided either in the magazine or on LEGO Club website. Club alternate models are not for sale in any store, though obviously the models they are based off of are.

 

Yellow Jetrax is a store exclusive model. It has its own packaging, it's for sale, and it includes its instructions just as any other LEGO set does.

 

So to sum up -- if we were doing a page showing the yellow Jetrax, it would not be referred to an alternate model page in the magazine, more likely as a feature page (since it shows an existing set available for sale with its instructions included). An alt. model page features a new model constructed using pieces from an existing one, with instructions available only through LEGO Club.

 

Make sense?

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TT -- I don't believe the UK magazine is carrying the page, but the instructions will be up on the Club website, not in the magazine, so it's possible you may still be able to access them.

 

Greg

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TT -- I don't believe the UK magazine is carrying the page, but the instructions will be up on the Club website, not in the magazine, so it's possible you may still be able to access them.

 

Greg

Will there be a Club Code so we can unlock them, like Trinuma's instructions?

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Why do the UK never get anything? We're right next to Denmark, and we have a fair ammount of companies who would buy the sets and all'... It's so unfair... :(

 

-Freeze :flaguk:

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Neato! Thank you for clearing this up, Greg.

 

Is there any chance you can tell us what set it's made from, what it's going to be, or if it will have any storyline signficance?

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So in a sense, there are four different Jetrax related possibilities. Normal blue Jetrax, yellow Jetrax, alternate blue Jetrax, and even if it might not be official, you could adapt the instuctions for alternate blue Jetrax to make an alternate yellow Jetrax. That is pretty darn cool.

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LOL, only a few years after the first ones, and now everyone forgets what an Alt. Model is.

 

Let's see what else you guys forgot...

 

HORDIKA!

-Ikk remembers

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