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I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Lego StarWars 2005 V.I.P. Gala event
at the LEGO showroom at 25th and Broadway, in NYC, as part of this year's Toy
Fair, so naturally I went...
I uploaded a bunch of pics to BrickLink. They haven't been resized yet and may
have some miscategorization so I wouldn't rely on this folder name working
forever, I'll fix them up (probably) when I get time and at that time I will
delete the "raw" folder. So if youi come on this a year later and can't find
them, walk the tree up and nose around, or start here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=lar
Random comments: Mostly sorted by theme. There is a big new theme coming, Dino
Attack. The Technic Brick (with studs on top) is NOT dead. It's just not used in
TECHNIC much! Note also the fact that no one can spell my name right, as seen in
the 03-swag subfolder. I was too excited to even notice at the time. There's a
death star coming. They had the design manager of the current Star Wars line
there. he thinks (but is not sure) that it has more pieces than the ISD.
LEGO is going to do an ISD build contest at Celebration III and is soliciting
teams of the media to compete. I asked if they were going to exclude AFOLs
because we would so obviously dominate the media since we have smoked the record
down a lot several times, and the answer was 'bring it', so a "LUGNET" (that's
the badge I was there under) team could be entered if so desired.
Here's the folder. Sorry no deeplinks but I think Kevin has moderated most of
the subfolders already.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117978
If you want to ask me specific questions please feel free, I'll answer as best I
can. Note that there were a lot of other fans there and other sites no doubt
will also be posting pictures, most surely better than mine because I wasn't
using a tripod.
You are hereby warned, bandwidthwise... These images are massive, dialup users
should avoid. They haven't been rotated, cropped, resized, cleaned up, or
anything else either.... but I need to get a good nights sleep for tomorrow I
fly back to DTW, then DTW-MSP-AMS-SIN, putting me in SIN on Tuesday afternoon,
so it was these or nothing.
FUT set to year.2005 because that's where generic new discussion about 2005
stuff belongs... Enjoy.
++Lar
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| Duh! I forgot what I think is pretty big news. The Thomas rumours are true. He'll be along later this year. In Duplo, but still... hope LEGO didn't have to pay through the nose. And, I saw the long awaited LEGO StarWars game, it's now almost done (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| (...) Larry, I don't recall pictures like this (from yourself or anyone else) from past Toy Fairs... so just let me say thanks right off the bat for taking and posting these images for us. (1) (...) (URL) Is that a microfig scale Status of Liberty? (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005, FTX)
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| (...) Well, naturally ;) "Lar went to Toy Fair and all I got was this lousy Brickshelf gallery..." - j/k! (...) (URL) just one (loaded) question: bley? (...) Actually, I set this particular FUT to .color, for I hope obvious reasons. - Kelly (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| (...) I know, sometimes a typo is just a typo. ;-) (...) Thanks for posting the pics! And thanks for not giving Clikits short shrift! :-) Maggie C. (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IC6vyG.1p88@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) 2005 (...) Thanks for the pics Larry. Anyone catch the age range on the Magnetic toy in this picture? (URL) Mike Walsh - (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| (...) Thanks for passing along the pictures! Especially love those of the Technic crane and fork lift! Question- Did they have the Technic Enzo you could pick up and look at? Thanks again, Adr. (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| Larry, thanks for being first out the gate with such detailed pics set! My question: Do you know the piece count and price of the huge Technic crane 8421? I can't make it out from the pics you posted. I only know it will have more than 1000 pieces (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005, FTX)
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IC6vyG.1p88@lugnet.com... (...) At BZPower one reporter also at the event states at (URL) "The revelation that there will be no Vikings sets this year was the biggest shock." (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| (...) Looking at the construction/town sets, I have one question...which crane is the release version? There seems to be a built model, and a box for the set, and the two are completely different vehicles (look at the wheels for a start.) Benjamin (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| (...) First, THANK YOU for posting these pictures! I'm already drooling over some of these new sets, and that hasn't happened in a while. 2005 looks like it should be a good year for LEGO and AFOLs. 2nd, I think we'd have to handicap a LUGNET team (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| (...) Hey Lar, Great set of pics. I had to wait til Monday so I could look through them at work with a higher res. tube than here at home on my laptop. I was very happy to note you made sure to focus (mainly) in on some of the new parts which are on (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| In lugnet.year.2005, Larry Pieniazek wrote: <SNIP> (...) Need more info, as in who to contact about getting a team in on this.. Since it is taking place in Indianapolis, which is where I live... maybe I could get some of the local LUG in on a team.. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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