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In lugnet.clikits, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Suz wrote:
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> > I noticed that Clikits sets have completely disappeared from the shop.lego.com
> > website* (U.S. view) and from my local LEGO Retail store. Then I checked a paper
> > catalog and saw they're not there either. Is this the end?
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> My understanding is that TRU refuses to carry Clikits anymore, and with
> TLG's major US distribution channel gone there will be no more Clikits in
> the US.
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> The UK, on the other hand, has been getting exclusive sets for years, so
> Clikits may be continuing there. . .
I've read in the Annual Report from TLC (http://www.lego.com/info/pdf/annualreport2005UK.pdf - page 8 of the document, page 10 in the pdf reader) :
"...the Group will not launch any new Clikits products after 2006".
This may explain why they have disappeared from US lego shop.
Didier
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Suz wrote:
> I noticed that Clikits sets have completely disappeared from the shop.lego.com
> website* (U.S. view) and from my local LEGO Retail store. Then I checked a paper
> catalog and saw they're not there either. Is this the end?
My understanding is that TRU refuses to carry Clikits anymore, and with
TLG's major US distribution channel gone there will be no more Clikits in
the US.
The UK, on the other hand, has been getting exclusive sets for years, so
Clikits may be continuing there. . .
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TWS Garrison
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I noticed that Clikits sets have completely disappeared from the shop.lego.com
website* (U.S. view) and from my local LEGO Retail store. Then I checked a paper
catalog and saw they're not there either. Is this the end?
-Suz
* with the exception of an advent calendar on clearance.
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what do you do with a small amount of clikits? you borrow more from your friend
and make a sculpture.
the pix speak for themselves, i think.
enjoy.
-§ deborah higdon-leblond §-
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Hello all,
I’ve build a vignette which I’m able to wear as a badge during events. It
combines two of the three themes that kind of signify me within the LEGO
community: trains and the Clikits trademark girls.
Attached at the back is a black LEGO refrigirator-magnet brick. With the aid of
3 non-LEGO super-strong mini magnets, I can wear the contraption without doing
harm to the fabric of my shirt.
Here you see one of the mini magnets clinging to the LEGO refrigirator
magnet-brick, and the other two lay in front. In fact, these magnets are so
strong that I could not move them any closer to the model. If I did, they would
simply fly up and slam agains the LEGO refrigirator-magnet brick.
Because of the large track part, it would classify as a “double vig” according
to the Size Chart for Vignettes. I’ve chosen to use this part instead of
simulating a (smaller) piece of track, because of it’s strongness and instant
recogniseablility.
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
[FUT build.vignette]
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Yet another nice update!
By now, you may have noticed that Clikits trademark/icon figures Daisy, Heart
and Star are restyled each year, recieving new clothes to wear, a different
hairdo, accessories and so on. This time I’ve added images of the girls in their
“standard”-outfit for year 2005, in this fashion each of them also appeared as a
sculptured key ring figurine in the “Jewels-n-More”-sets
7533, 7534 and 7535
This year also the girls had a makeover, these are their “standard”-outfits for
year 2006:
Finally, I kindly thank the Lugnet member that took the effort to highlight my
previous update message.
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
FUT lugnet.clikits
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In lugnet.trains, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
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Having looked upon the issue from her own prespective, Clikits-girl Heart
decided to let her heart speak, and made her contribution to support the
“Save 9V trains”-campaign:
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen
[XP to lugnet.clikits]
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Manfred,
When I went to the moderation queue and saw this I laughed out loud.
Very funny! I like it.
-Eric
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Having looked upon the issue from her own prespective, Clikits-girl Heart
decided to let her heart speak, and made her contribution to support the
“Save 9V trains”-campaign:
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen
[XP to lugnet.clikits]
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It’s update time!
I’ve processed 3 new images featuring the Clickits trademark/icon figures,
showing Daisy, Heart or Star in sparkling dance-party outfits, as they appear
(as some sort of reward, I guess) after you guided each respective character
through the mall-maze game.
After moderation, the rest of my “Clickits girls” image collection may be viewed
here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=68995
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
FUT lugnet.clikits
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Not meaning to be an ad or anything but, I think it's worth mentioning that
eight Clikits sets are big-time marked down at lego.com. One has the "X"
element, which is a personal fav of mine, and the green leaves which are hard to
come by. That's set 10117 (half price, $2.50)
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In lugnet.lego, Jarid Lukin wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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[snip]
* Will it be possible to download the full-size full image? (I’m just getting
greedy here)
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[snip]
2) For bandwidth reasons, it’s not possible to make the entire image available
for download
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If you realy want those images, and are prepared to put some effort into it,
you could grab the individual ‘tiles’, and ‘seem’ these together with MS-paint
or a more sophisticated bitmap editing program.
I did something similar grabbing pictures of the Clikits trademark girls in
their new 2004 outfits from http://www.clikits.com/creative/cnp.asp Because
the most zoomed out pictures where too large to fit on any of the stationary
templates, I had to capture them in parts, and like a magician after sawing them
in half, had to reassemble the poor girls.
Just in case you think: “What is he talking about”, the results are here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/moom/Clikits/2004_daisy_standing.gif
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/moom/Clikits/2004_heart_standing.gif
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/moom/Clikits/2004_star_standing.gif
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=905542
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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I’ve made a time comparison picture for one of the Clikits trademark girls,
Heart. Left is her original version drawn in 2003, right as she emerged 2004 in
a new outfit. It’s funny too see that the figurine has kept exactly the same
relaxed and dreamy pose, but otherwise there has been a distinct makeover. She
seems to have shed some of that carefree innocence:
Amazing how fast these girls grow up :-)
Could it be that the real users of Clikits turned out to be a older agegroup
than TLC originally targeded? Maybe they’ve decided to age the trademark images
accordingly. The other two figures, Daisy and Star, have shown some evolution
also, but Heart is the most evident example.
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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In lugnet.clikits, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
> I've found a page with design scetches of a showroom for communicating the
> Clikits concept to marketing people, and also two pictures of the realised room.
> The page is from a portfolio website of the designer, named Miriam Stox. I would
> like to have a set of those large cut-out Clikits girl figures.
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> http://www.coroflot.com/public/portfolio_file.asp?t=&order_no=3&user_id=30615
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> With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
Hey, great sleuthing, Manfred. The one just before that in her portfolio is
related to Designer/Creator sets so I've copied .build. I set the FUT to
.mediawatch because maybe she's going to be an up and coming influence on
industrial design? Some of her other work is spiffy too.
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I've found a page with design scetches of a showroom for communicating the
Clikits concept to marketing people, and also two pictures of the realised room.
The page is from a portfolio website of the designer, named Miriam Stox. I would
like to have a set of those large cut-out Clikits girl figures.
http://www.coroflot.com/public/portfolio_file.asp?t=&order_no=3&user_id=30615
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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And here they are, with new hairstyles and new clothes:
Is it just me, or have they grown up a bit in the past year? :-) See
their 2003 drawing for
comparison.
The images have been captured and processed from a recently added e-cards
feature in the ‘Clikits’-section of http://www.lego.com
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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Hello all,
Here is a pair of images I’ve trimmed or composed featuring the three Clickits
trademark/icon figures:
Just like most of their target audence the’re desparatly trying to look more
grown-up than they realy are :-)
I actualy do like the drawings of these girls. They remind me very much of a
graphic style that was popular in the days when I was a small kid (late 60’s). I
recall one of the walls of my boys room had stickers of skinny (like Twiggy) and
disproportionally elongated images of teenagers. They were holding instruments
and where posed as if they where playing in Rock&Roll band. These teenage
figures were drawn in almoste the same style as the Clikits girls, and were
colored just as brightly.
To annoy my fellow workers, I’ve put both pictures on my computer as background
images (I have a dual monitor setup). I’ve kept the images limited in size, with
a white background, so you can use them centered against any background color.
The standing group is cliped from a wallpaper found here:
http://www.clikits.com/clikitsgirl/freestuff.asp (the lower left one) I wanted
to loose the product samples included on this wallpaper, so I trimmed the image
and cleaned up the remaining beads.
The slumber group is composed with extracts of three differend additional set
images found on http://shop.lego.com/ I’ve used the ones from sets #7507,
#7508 and #7509.
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
FUT lugnet.clikits
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