 | | Global Growth Ensures Strong 2014 Result for The LEGO® Group
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GLOBAL GROWTH ENSURES STRONG 2014 RESULT FOR THE LEGO GROUP Strong performance of product lines, such as LEGO® City, LEGO Creator as well as THE LEGO® MOVIE™ products contributed to sales growth in all regions of the world and led to a highly (...) (10 years ago, 25-Feb-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: sale Feb 20-26
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(...) In addition to these sales, Target is continuing it's Canada clearout. Lego and other toys are 20% off right now. Surprisingly the store I was at in Fergus, ON still had a reasonable amount of stuff on the shelf. (10 years ago, 20-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | sale Feb 20-26
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Walmart flyer has some full price LEGO in it. ----- TRU flyer good Friday Feb 20 through Thursday Feb 26. 20% off select Super Heroes, Agents, Hobbit, and TMNT building sets. ----- I expect Indigo/Chapters/Coles to start their March sale on select (...) (10 years ago, 19-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | PlastiBots is giving away a book
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Soo.. it's been a long time since I've been here.. I wanted to shed some light on plastibots.com given it's been around since I started building RCX robots. So, I've decided to give away one of the books I co-authored - Building Robots with LEGO (...) (10 years ago, 18-Feb-15, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LEGO Overtakes Ferrari as the World’s Most Powerful Brand
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LEGO Overtakes Ferrari as the World’s Most Powerful Brand According to Brand Finance posted Feb. 17, 2015. •Analysis of the world’s top brands shows LEGO has replaced Ferrari as the most powerful •Success of The LEGO Movie has propelled the already (...) (10 years ago, 17-Feb-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO
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(...) I'd laugh if it wasn't true. (URL) (10 years ago, 16-Feb-15, to lugnet.general, lugnet.licensed, FTX)
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| | Re: Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO
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(...) Sounds like the market is ripe for the return of Galidor! (10 years ago, 15-Feb-15, to lugnet.general, lugnet.licensed, FTX)
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| | Re: Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO
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(...) "We can live without it"? The numbers say otherwise. Lego wouldn't be where it is without those few very strong IPs they've brought in. Star Wars in particular saved their bacon. Steve (10 years ago, 13-Feb-15, to lugnet.general, lugnet.licensed, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego In-N-Out Burger
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(...) Nice! Play well, Jacob (who unfortunately has practically all his LEGO in storage at the moment) (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.town)
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| | TRU creator sale
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No LEGO in the Walmart flyer this week, but they do have a fair number of sets on clearance. Some larger sets seem to have discounted twice already, so the signs are misleading. Benny's spaceship^3 was $130 down to $93, and is now $75. ------ TRU (...) (10 years ago, 12-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO
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Star Wars will "stay with us forever," says LEGO By Billy Langsworthy February 11, 2015 The merging of the two properties has become a brand in its own right, CEO Jørgen Von Knudstorp tells ToyNews. LEGO believes the success of LEGO Star Wars as a (...) (10 years ago, 12-Feb-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.licensed, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for the electronics experts
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(...) I think you would have to have custom receivers using a different band (or protocol) to do that. Play well, Jacob (10 years ago, 11-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question for the electronics experts
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(...) Perhaps look into SBrick: https://www.sbrick.com/ It allows control of up to 64 outputs, and is an almost drop in replacement for LEGO controllers. Pretty expensive, but you could just get 3 or 4 and use IR for the rest. As long as you have (...) (10 years ago, 11-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego In-N-Out Burger
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(...) That's really gorgeous. Terrific work, and thanks for sharing! (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego In-N-Out Burger
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Nice. Making me hungry - and a little sad I won't be in California anytime soon. (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for the electronics experts
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(...) I usually put motor(s) on blue, and lights on red. So each channel controls one train. I'm mostly concerned with all the kids who bring "guest trains", I want to make sure they can run their trains without interfering with ours. JohnG, GMLTC (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 50 shades of dinner
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This Friday, will be the launch of some book/movie, AND more importantly, the Feb 13th Monthly rtlToronto dinner So a few things to worry about. 1. Forget the movie, just tell your loved one food is more important then her desires for S&M (studs & (...) (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Question for the electronics experts
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(...) But each channel has 2 separate controls, red & blue, so you can control up to 8 trains without resorting to modifications, as long as each only uses 1 output. ROSCO (10 years ago, 10-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Lego In-N-Out Burger
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Has it really been 9 months since a MOC was announced on Lugnet? Here goes nothing... I spent the last three years building an Minifig Scale In-N-Out Burger. It's fully detailed inside and out, the only Non Lego pieces are the vinyl cling logo (...) (10 years ago, 9-Feb-15, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: TRU sale
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(...) The key word here is "Select". Because not all sets in each of these themes areas was part of the sale. My closest one had city town squares and city parking garages on the shelf that for some reason weren't part of the sale, but most of the (...) (10 years ago, 8-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Fifty Shades of Bricks - LEGO Trailer
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The movie 'Fifty Shades of Grey' will be released in February based from the popular book with the same name. There is a LEGO version of the movie trailer. 'Fifty Shades of Bricks'. YouTube Video: (URL) 'Fifty Shades of Bricks'>. Created by Antonio (...) (10 years ago, 6-Feb-15, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | TRU sale
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TRU flyer goos Friday Feb 6 through Thursday Feb 12. 20% off select City, Star Wars, and Chima sets. Buy 1 get 1 1/2 off all LEGO videogames. Of equal or lesser value. Selection varies. ------ No LEGO in Walmart flyer. Gail Meagher Halifax (10 years ago, 5-Feb-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Question for the electronics experts
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Anyone know if it is possible to hack the Power Functions remotes & receivers to operate on a different 'band'? GMLTC is working on plans for our next club layout, and we might have seven operating loops. If we are running PF trains, we'll have some (...) (10 years ago, 3-Feb-15, to lugnet.trains)
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| | The LEGO Group, Warner Bros. Interactive Ent., & TT Games. (LEGO videogames for 2015)
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WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT, TT GAMES, AND THE LEGO GROUP ANNOUNCE AN ACTION-PACKED SLATE OF LEGO® VIDEOGAMES FOR 2015 New Brick Smashing Adventures Are Coming to Console, Handheld and Mobile Platforms LEGO Jurassic World and LEGO (...) (10 years ago, 29-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | LEGO® The SHIELD Helicarrier set 76042 (2,996 pieces)
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LEGO® set #76042 The SHIELD Helicarrier, 2,996 pieces. US $349.99 - CA $399.99 - DE 349.99€ - UK £269.99 - DK 2999.00 DKK Euro pricing varies by country. Please visit shop.LEGO.com for regional pricing. Build and display the huge SHIELD Helicarrier! (...) (10 years ago, 29-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.fun, lugnet.licensed, FTX) !
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| | tax free at Superstore
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Only sale I've found this week is tax free days Friday and Saturday (23 and 24) at Superstore. Some stores have toy departments, with LEGO. Gail Meagher Halifax, NS (10 years ago, 23-Jan-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGO® Group Partners with Warner Bros. Classic Animated Series Scooby-Doo™
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LEGO Group Partners with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to Announce First-Ever LEGO® Building Sets Inspired by Classic Animated Series Scooby-Doo™ -New LEGO® Scooby-Doo animated content to roll-out, including 22-minute special and made-for-video (...) (10 years ago, 23-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | My first GBC module
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Hi all, I should visit LUGNET more often (like David Koudys suggests) to show my latest creations... A few mosaics, a new puzzle, and my very first GBC module. In the mean time I also created my own <https://www.youtube...3kvnGxXLig YouTube-chanel>, (...) (10 years ago, 19-Jan-15, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | not much in sales
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No LEGO in Superstore, Canadian Tire or (Target) flyers this week. ----- Walmart flyer mentions toy clearance. Might include some LEGO. ----- TRU flyer is good Friday Jan 16 through Thursday Jan 29. Select DUPLO sets 20% off. ----- No idea yet on (...) (10 years ago, 16-Jan-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGO North America President Emphasizes Corporate Responsibility
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LEGO North America President Emphasizes Corporate Responsibility By Mara Lee January 7, 2015 While the history of LEGO Systems Inc. in Connecticut is at least in part one of a steely-eyed decision to move jobs to Mexico to save money, the group (...) (10 years ago, 9-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | still no sales
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No LEGO in Wal-mart, Target, Superstore, Canadian Tire or Sears flyers. Wal-mart and Canadian Tire have lots of plastic storage bins on sale. ----- TRU has a two week flyer (Jan 9 - 22) that mentions they have 2015 LEGO at full TRU price. ----- My (...) (10 years ago, 9-Jan-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Phil Lord And Chris Miller On The Upcoming LEGO Movies
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Phil Lord And Chris Miller On The Upcoming LEGO Movies From Ninjago to The LEGO Movie 2 Back in November, there were a few quotes from the Empire Podcast interview with LEGO Movie and Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller worth analysing (...) (10 years ago, 8-Jan-15, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | 2nd Friday already? rtl dinner
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Come one come all to this fridays rtltoronto monthly dinner. time to cash in those festive meal deal coupons! Swiss Chalet Etobicoke 7:00 pm Friday Jan 9th see you there (10 years ago, 7-Jan-15, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | New Year, no real sales
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No LEGO in the Walmart, Target, Superstore, Sears, or Canadian Tire flyers this week. Canadian Tire and Walmart have a bunch of large plastic bins (useful for storage or transport?) on sale. I was in a Walmart on New Years eve that had six boxes of (...) (10 years ago, 2-Jan-15, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: LEGO® Creator set 10246 Detective's Office
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(...) At first I wasn't too sure about this one... I think this one will be the first to get multiple copies (I most likely will get 2) just to enlarge the detective's office, the pool hall, the barbershop, and the appartments upstairs... they are (...) (10 years ago, 29-Dec-14, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Exo Suit and Research Institute at TRU
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(...) I got a copy of the Research Institute from here and I got one from Mastermind Toys. (10 years ago, 29-Dec-14, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Boxing week sales
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The TRU flyer is good Friday Dec 26th through Friday Jan 2nd. 30% off select LEGO. Chima, Star Wars and DC Super Heroes. Selection varies. While they last. No rainchecks. Save up to 20% on all* LEGO Videogames. *excludes clearance, selection varies. (...) (10 years ago, 26-Dec-14, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Boxing week sales
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A reminder that I am in Nova Scotia, where the stores are closed for both Christmas Say and Boxing Day, opening on the 27th. Adjust the dates for other provinces. ----- Atlantic Superstore flyer good from Saturday 27 through Wednesday 31. The LEGO (...) (10 years ago, 24-Dec-14, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Region's first LEGO certified store opened at Yas Mall in Abu Dhabi
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700 Children Create Giant Mosaic with 151,000 LEGO bricks More than 700 children participated in a three-day genuine LEGO building workshop using 151,000 LEGO bricks to commemorate the opening of the first LEGO store in the Middle East, in (...) (10 years ago, 19-Dec-14, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Exo Suit and Research Institute at TRU
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Exo Suit (21109) $44.99 CUUSOO Research Institute (21110) $24.99 Are now in stock at TRU online. Not sure how long they have had them, but I'm very glad to have gotten the chance to pick them up, and thought others might be looking for them as (...) (10 years ago, 19-Dec-14, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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