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Anyone that has been to LEGOLand in Billund knows they had a giant stadium model
on display. Well, it appears that they have upgraded to a new model.
A friend passed me this link from Ezprezzo:
http://www.ezprezzo.com/crazypics/lego-arena.html
I am extremely impressed and the model is massive. Does anyone know what the
largest single model is? Is this close to the record or does it exceed it?
Todd
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In lugnet.general, Arne Lykke Nielsen wrote:
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It has just been announced on the Danish news, that LEGO sold 70% of the
shares in the four Legoland Parks to American investment company Blackstone.
They will now be placed in Merlin Entertainment Group, together with the parks
Sea Life, Earth Explorer and Dungeons.
Arne, Copenhagen
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(crossposting to the various Legoland groups)
This looks like it will be good news - by reading this article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4678213.stm
it looks like there may be new parks in the future and they want to make the
park destination resorts - so this is good news.
The offical Lego PR can be found here:
http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=pressdetail&contentid=15584&countrycode=2057
but hey - as long as they keep the Commemorative Brick program at LLCA and FIX
the fabrik machine at LLD I will be a happy man ;)
Mark P
http://www.promobricks.com
(FUT .legoland)
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What are the Pick-a-brick prices in Legoland, Billund (as of this summer), and
what are the prices for mixed bricks - all sold in the Brick Shop?
What kinds of boxes/cups/bags are available (sizes)?
Is everything sold by weight or volume, or both?
I'll be there next week, and I'm trying to prepare both myself and my credit
card. :)
Thanks
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In lugnet.events, Todd Thuma wrote:
> I was looking for postings to LUGNET about the LEGO Inside Tour and have found
> nothing. So, I decided to post a few details and send you off to previous posts
> at LEGO Fan.org.
>
> First, I attended the first LEGO Inside Tour on May 26, 27, and 28 of 2005 and
> it was fantastic. Another group is about to go and I wish them the same if not
> better tour than we got.
>
> I posted some rather long posts on LEGO Fan.org in the Forums area:
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> http://www.legofan.org/FORUMS/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=51
Todd,
The LEGO Fan tour descriptions are great! Thanks for all the effort writing
those so the rest of us could glimpse the LIT. I've also been looking through
the terrific BrickShelf folders.
Unless I missed it, I didn't see photos of the LIT exclusive kit. Any photos and
descriptions would really be appreciated. Thanks.
John
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I was looking for postings to LUGNET about the LEGO Inside Tour and have found
nothing. So, I decided to post a few details and send you off to previous posts
at LEGO Fan.org.
First, I attended the first LEGO Inside Tour on May 26, 27, and 28 of 2005 and
it was fantastic. Another group is about to go and I wish them the same if not
better tour than we got.
I posted some rather long posts on LEGO Fan.org in the Forums area:
http://www.legofan.org/FORUMS/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=51
Never having been to Europe I had some trepidation at traveling. All of my fears
and anxiety was dissuaded by a terrific expereince. In fact, I am considering a
three park tour next year during a week or 2 of travel to Denmark, Germany, and
Great Britian.
There were so many great aspects to the trip that it is hard to narrow down to
just one or two things to share with you all. I would have to say, for the sake
of brevity, that the 2 best parts were talking to Kjeld and hearing some company
secrets and getting to rummage through the Element Shop in the Designers
Offices. I can truely say that Kjeld is a child at heart still in love with the
product his father and grandfather developed over the years. And from the
historical display, a part of the tour, it is easy to see the impact that Kjeld
had on the LEGO Company over his tenure.
What is there to say about the Element Shop. Imagine going into a warehouse
bigger than a 4 car garage and being able to browse the stack and leave with a
couple hand fulls of parts. Too cool for words!
With the ownership or rather the control of the parks up for sale, it is not
clear if there will be a third go around at the LEGO Inside Tour. Let's hope
they make it an annual experience that can be shared by LEGO Fans and Families
in the future.
Todd
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All I can say is ummmmmmm... what?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10126875
Dubai bids for Legolands as it seeks home for oil wealth
23.05.05
JORDAN - Dubai's Government buyout fund is bidding for Lego's Legoland amusement
parks two months after acquiring London's Madame Tussauds waxworks museum as the
emirate uses its oil wealth to invest in Europe's entertainment industry.
"We will look to consolidate in the theme park sector in Europe through
Tussauds," Dubai International Capital chief executive officer Sameer al-Ansari
said in an interview in Jordan.
"We can't comment on how much we bid for Lego's parks," he said
Dubai is part of the United Arab Emirates, which is using a windfall profit from
record oil prices last year to double revenue from tourism in the next decade.
Billund Lego, based in Denmark, put its amusement parks up for sale in October
as it tried to revive its business making toys such as Duplo building blocks.
The company had its third annual loss in five years last year.
The Dubai fund in March paid 800 million ($2 billion) for Tussauds Group, whose
London waxworks includes models of celebrities including David Beckham, Brad
Pitt and Kylie Minogue.
The Chessington (England) company also runs theme parks such as Alton Towers and
Chessington World of Adventures.
Legoland runs four parks in Denmark, Germany, England and California. The parks'
attractions include lifesize Lego models of giraffes and hippopotami.
Buyout firms including Blackstone Group, Palamon Capital Partners, Spectrum
Equity Investors and Apollo Management may make offers for Legoland worth more
than 400 million, the Financial Times reported last month, without saying where
it got the information.
"We expect the sale to be completed in the summer," Lego spokeswoman Charlotte
Simonsen said. She declined to give details about specific bids the company had
received.
Dubai may spend US$3 billion ($4.2 billion) to US$5 billion a year over the next
five years to buy assets around the world, al-Ansari said. In January the
emirate bought a US$1 billion stake in the German carmaker DaimlerChrysler AG.
- BLOOMBERG
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In lugnet.legoland.billund, Todd Thuma wrote:
> Adult Fans of LEGO in Billund,
>
> I will be visiting Legoland on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of May and wondered if
> there might be anyone in Billund (or nearby) that might want to get together on
> Saturday or Sunday.
>
> I will be visiting for the Factory Tour and plan a couple of days in addition to
> the schedule. I will leave on Monday the 31st to return to USA.
>
> Anyone interested in planning a get together?
>
> Todd
I live 50 minutes from Billund. Maybe we can meet. You can contact me via my
homepage: www.sitecenter.dk/legomodeljernbane
Knud
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Adult Fans of LEGO in Billund,
I will be visiting Legoland on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of May and wondered if
there might be anyone in Billund (or nearby) that might want to get together on
Saturday or Sunday.
I will be visiting for the Factory Tour and plan a couple of days in addition to
the schedule. I will leave on Monday the 31st to return to USA.
Anyone interested in planning a get together?
Todd
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In lugnet.general, Chris Paton wrote:
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Hi Maarten
It sounds like you and your family had a great trip!
I have filled a few of the 299,- boxes you mentioned and I am still trying to
figure out if it was a good deal or not. Earlier in the season the price was
599,- and, although the selection was different, again, I am left wondering
if we the customers were just doing LEGO a good turn by buying up all their
right-handed 3 stud wings!!, for example. (I think you have to be lucky and
coordinated, having my wife help and sort worked well for me.)
But, amongst all the Bionicle, there were a few treasures and strange items
too! I honestly believed the Nesquick Bunny was a custom part until I became
the proud owner of 5 Bunny heads. Haven’t a clue what to do with them yet,
but I have them!
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Seeing what they offered at 299/box, I think I’m happy to say that we were there
early in the season and paid 599/box, in our case red boxes:
We were there 3 days in a row, and every morning new bricks were added, often in
bags straight from the sets. Even som of the supplement/bulk-sets found their
way in there (I got several roof and window-bags). Sorting bricks in the hotel
in the evenings helped us not to end up with huge amounts of
left-or-right-only-parts too...
What we found is described here: http://midtkil.no/~anne/billund2004.html.
Quite fantastic, living in a country where they still do not offer S@H :-(((
Now, all that remains is to build an extension to our house so we got a proper
room to play in....
aj-ml
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Anne Jorunn Midtkil
Trondheim - Norway
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Hello all,
We visited Legoland Billund from August 21 until August 28 (with seasonpasses).
No queues on the rides if you enter the park at 10.00 am among the first
visitors... the kids just loved it (8 days on all those rides is too much for
me).
I promised Huw Millington I would make an inventory of the Pick-a-Brick
shop in Billund, because it hasn’t been updated recently on
http://www.brickish.org/bulktracker/. I asked the people in charge of the shop
about certain elements (like 1x1 plates in brown and tan), unfortunately they
told me that it was the end of the season so not every element was still
available (such as 1x2 plates in stone and dark stone). They were not as helpful
as I wanted them to be. Anyway, I made a list of all the elements I found on
Friday, August 27.
If you are interested in the list before it is updated on
the BulkTracker (if you are going to
Billund soon), you can also download it from my webpage:
http://users.skynet.be/maarten.steurbaut/BillundInventory082704.doc.
I may
have made slight mistakes, e.g. I don’t really know the difference between light
blue and medium blue (I have never seen both colours at the same time), but I’m
sure that those who are interested in the list will know what to do with it.
For those who intend to go to Billund to buy lots of pieces: some bins contained
two different elements. I had to check the bottom of the bins to discover that
there were also other elements in it.
There was also a special offer at the
end of the season: fill a green box (same size as the well-known blue tub 3033)
for only 299 DKK. Unfortunately most of the elements they offered were not very
useful:
It took
my wife more than 2 hours to fill a box with mostly 1x2 yellow and 1x3 red
bricks. Everybody was scratching to the bottom to find standard lego bricks, but
they were very scarce.
Maarten
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