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SCANDINAVIAN NEWS SERVICE – (BILLUND, DK, 1-APR-2004) The LEGO Group will reportedly announce next week that it is making minor changes to its flagship toy building blocks as part of a “last ditch effort to keep the company independent and return it (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping) !! 
 
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Where would this leave the future of Technic and MindStorms? Or, am I confused about the new size effects on the existing bricks? Christopher (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.fun)
 
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(...) I read this to mean that everything gets down sized 25% except train track, which won't get updated at all (maybe it's like the Monorail thing: not worth the effort to retool). I'm still hoping that Mindstorms will adopt the 1-Wire Micronet (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.fun)
 
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(...) Everything is being miniaturized. To avoid confusion, they're changing the names of some product lines to reflect the smaller sizes. Technic will become Tinyc. MindStorms will become SmallMind BadWeather. (The new RCX will be a wristwatch. (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.fun)
 
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And being the 1st of April is not a dead give-away here? (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.fun)
 
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(...) Unfortunately, there is no such service. You should have used AP or TT or something like that, and I would have believed it a bit further down the post. BTW, doesn't LEGO already have the Modulex line of smaller bricks? -- Anders Isaksson, (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.fun)
 
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(...) I think I have fallen for my last April Fool's joke for the day. I really don't know that this is a joke or not. But, I do feel my leg being pulled. I'm going to turn off the PC and sit in the closet until tomorrow. Christopher (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.fun)
 
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(...) Unfortunately? -Ted (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.fun)
 
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april fools!!???? aARON "Ted Michon" <ted@michon.com> wrote in message news:HvI2Fw.v3@lugnet.com... (...) flagship (...) within (...) its (...) colors of (...) colors (...) proper (...) more (...) highly (...) based on (...) more (...) in (...) (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.fun)
 
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Acutally, LEGO will be renamed MegaBlox... :-( -jeremy (...) (snip) (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.fun)

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