To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.admin.generalOpen lugnet.admin.general in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Administrative / General / 1542
1541  |  1543
Subject: 
Re: LEGOLand newsgroups?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.dk
Followup-To: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 4 May 1999 02:40:30 GMT
Viewed: 
2584 times
  
In lugnet.admin.general, carorvan@aol.com (Mark Herzberg) writes:
1) LEGOLand Germany will be in a city in Southern Germany. I have forgotten
the name, but I'm pretty sure it begins with an "M"

2) There are three sites being proposed for LL Florida. They are Miami, Ft.
Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, so as of yet, it's still known only as
LEGOLand Florida. By year's end, it should be down to two sites.

Mark,

Is this information you state from official sources (i.e., press releases)
or from unofficial sources (i.e., rumors) or is it educated speculation?

BTW, if indeed there is going to be a Floridian LEGOLAND, another
possibility for the ng names, might be:

   lugnet.legoland         (General/generic)
   lugnet.legoland.de      Deutschland/Germany  [reserved]
   lugnet.legoland.dk      Billund, Denmark
   lugnet.legoland.us.ca   California, USA
   lugnet.legoland.us.fl   Florida, USA  [reserved]
   lugnet.legoland.uk      Windsor, England, U.K.

One [albeit small] trouble I have with spelled-out names like .california,
.windsor, and .billund is that the first two are clearly actual official
names of the parks (e.g., "LEGOLAND California" and "LEGOLAND Windsor")
while the third -- although it seems to be the case -- may not actually be
the official name of the park (or is it?)...  Unless...  was the former
world-renouned "LEGOLAND" in Billund renamed officially from "LEGOLAND" to
"LEGOLAND Billund" a few years ago when LEGOLAND Windsor came into being?

On the other hand, another reason *to* use the spelled-out names is that the
official TLG site uses these in their URLs -- not in a consistent way,
unfortunately, but at least it's setting some kind of example...

   LEGOLAND Billund     ==>  http://www.lego.com/legoland/billund/

   LEGOLAND California  ==>  http://www.legolandca.com/

   LEGOLAND Windsor     ==>  http://www.lego.com/windsor/
                        ==>  http://www.legoland.co.uk/

...and it's pretty darn unlikely that two LEGOLAND theme parks would ever
have the same name, even in different countries and even when/if there are
50 of them.  Prolly will go with spelled-out names unless someone speaks up
with new data really soon.

--Todd



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: LEGOLand newsgroups?
 
(...) 1) LEGOLand Germany will be in a city in Southern Germany. I have forgotten the name, but I'm pretty sure it begins with an "M" 2) There are three sites being proposed for LL Florida. They are Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, so as (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

12 Messages in This Thread:







Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR