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Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
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Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:59:02 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee writes:
Inspired by John's post (http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=39785), I would
love to throw out a question!

What is your coolest LEGO Experience? Maybe you built an amazing castle when
you were eight years old. Or perhaps you've had a more recent experience
like watching an FLL robotics competition where you saw kids participating
in the most thrilling event of their lives. Or maybe you finished the
perfect train car and posted it online.

I would love to hear!

Jake
---
Jake McKee
Sr. Producer
LEGO Direct

My coolest LEGO moment (and there are so many...) is when, after I made a
movie using LEGO bricks and forwarding a copy to the Canadian head office, I
got a letter from Jack E. Chessman, the then Vice President of LEGO
Marketing, Canada (this was a while back...) inviting me up for a tour of
the Samsonite/LEGO facilities in Stratford, Ontario (that'll date me right
there).

He mentioned during my tour that everyone in the building gathered in the
lunchroom once and watched the movie and they all really enjoyed it.  As I
was touring the facility, folks there were chatting with me about the
movie--how I did it and such.  It was one of the best experiences of my
life, and it reinforced the idea that you don't have to stop enjoying 'the
Brick' after you hit your teens.

After that, the legal department in Denmark sent me a letter, concerned
about copyright infringements.  So that was my second worse LEGO experience,
but I got over it(1).  I still have the Copyright brochure they sent me, as
well as all the correspondance.  The movie, on the other hand, I do not
have--the Beta tape it was on was, well, Beta, and somehow got lost during
one of the many "house clean-ups", when all Beta stuff got thrown out.

So there you are.

Dave K.
(1)"I make an epic and they give me the legal department" was a quotation
about me in my high school yearbook in regards to this very issue.

   
         
     
Subject: 
Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
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Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:59:05 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Koudys writes:
After that, the legal department in Denmark sent me a letter, concerned
about copyright infringements.  So that was my second worse LEGO experience,
but I got over it(1).

One hesitates to ask, if that was your second worst, what was your first
worst Lego experience?  I hope it didn't involve a pair of rollerskates, a
cat, and a bowling ball...

-Hendo

    
          
     
Subject: 
Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
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Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:32:09 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John P. Henderson writes:
In lugnet.general, David Koudys writes:
After that, the legal department in Denmark sent me a letter, concerned
about copyright infringements.  So that was my second worse LEGO experience,
but I got over it(1).

One hesitates to ask, if that was your second worst, what was your first
worst Lego experience?  I hope it didn't involve a pair of rollerskates, a
cat, and a bowling ball...

-Hendo

Nope--it has something to do with a canning pot, boiling water, and my
entire LEGO collection (at the time)...

See:

http://sparky.i989.net/legop1.htm

Close to the bottom of the page.

The trauma!  The horror!!

Yeah, not a good thing.

Dave K.

    
          
      
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Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
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Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:27:10 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Koudys writes:

Nope--it has something to do with a canning pot, boiling water, and my
entire LEGO collection (at the time)...

See:

http://sparky.i989.net/legop1.htm

Close to the bottom of the page.

The trauma!  The horror!!

Yeah, not a good thing.

OUCH!  That's brutal.  Especially that it was the *entire* collection at the
time.  I'm glad it didn't turn you off to the hobby as a result.

-H.

    
          
     
Subject: 
Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
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Date: 
Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:26:58 GMT
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David Koudys <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message
news:H6pt1L.KAM@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.general, John P. Henderson writes:
In lugnet.general, David Koudys writes:
After that, the legal department in Denmark sent me a letter, concerned
about copyright infringements.  So that was my second worse LEGO • experience,
but I got over it(1).

One hesitates to ask, if that was your second worst, what was your first
worst Lego experience?  I hope it didn't involve a pair of rollerskates, • a
cat, and a bowling ball...

-Hendo

Nope--it has something to do with a canning pot, boiling water, and my
entire LEGO collection (at the time)...

See:

http://sparky.i989.net/legop1.htm

May I suggest you redo that page into smaller pages, it takes years to load
and it gives a "time-out" leaving half of the pictures unloaded, espcially
the last ones.


Close to the bottom of the page.

The trauma!  The horror!!

Yeah, not a good thing.

Dave K.

    
          
     
Subject: 
Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
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Date: 
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:03:34 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Sonnich Jensen writes:

<snip>

May I suggest you redo that page into smaller pages, it takes years to load
and it gives a "time-out" leaving half of the pictures unloaded, espcially
the last ones.


Close to the bottom of the page.

The trauma!  The horror!!

Yeah, not a good thing.

Dave K.

Fixed!  Thanks for the 'heads-up'!

http://sparky.i989.net/legop1.htm

Dave K

   
         
   
Subject: 
Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
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Sun, 8 Dec 2002 22:58:59 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Koudys writes:

After that, the legal department in Denmark sent me a letter, concerned
about copyright infringements.

I've been wondering when they would letters to all the people who bought
LEGO movie maker sets?!

-Ted
SCLTC

 

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