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(...) Interesting that you mention this, I was concidering an Ambasador Pass for myself this year, but now I'm not so sure it's worth it. I remember when Marine World was sold to Six Flags. It lost most it's charm and became a Magic Mtn clone. Mat (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Lugnet Member Data (was: Re: Lego changes CEO after new losses)
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(...) According to Lugnet membership statistics, your average AFOL is nearly halfway between 32 and 33, male, probably white (that's a guess rather than a stat), and living in California (ok, really just living in the USA). Of course the Lugnet data (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Follow-up: In the Danish TV News, in two interviews, the new CEO said, that most of the production would probably be moved to China (where Click-its and many parts are already made) and KKK said that the trouble for LEGO was that they had (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) But does he LIKE the product, or is this just a job for him? Ditto the CFO... I have opined in the past that I wonder how many Danes view working at LEGO as just another job rather than as a passion.... Also, I have to say I was puzzled by (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) I hope you're right, but the two top guys in TLC now have a combined 5 years experience with the company and it's all on the financial side. Spinning off the parks, or selling them outright, sounds ominous. It suggests a level of distress (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, he's a sharp cat. As I understand, Kjeld is stepping down as planned (he came back into the daily operations fold to help get things back on track). Now that the Action Plan is in place and seems to be working, he's turning over daily (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) He's AFOL age. (average age being 30 ish, not based on any real numbers, just an observation) and probably remembers classic space as a kid. Good news!!!! (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Wow, the new CEO is only (URL) years old> - he was 8 or 9 when Space came out! Good luck to Mr. Knudstorp! Marc Nelson Jr. (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.org.scibrick, Eric Sophie wrote: snip (...) snip (...) Eric, I thought you quit Scibrick ?? -Tom McD. (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Wow, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp looks really young for a CEO of a company the size of LEGO. Good for him, I hope he can make it happen for LEGO. jt (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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Has anyone noticed the new clear display boxes at Toys R Us? The display boxes are about 3 feet wide and feature the current LEGO themes such as Designer, Alpha Team, Knights Kingdom, Bionicle, etc. They are real attention getters. Like other (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Hi, Just noticed this press release: (URL) Kirk Kristiansen retires, and LEGOLAND parks will be a seperate company, after new losses this year. Arne, Copenhagen (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general) !!
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Heads up ! While You Were Out, the "Deerfield: The Blue Room" episode will be rebroadcasted November 3rd on TLC, 17h00 ET. Here is the description : Beth is crazy about Legos, an obsession that has managed to take over her whole home to the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) With a very slight redesign of the original, you can fit a battery box in the pumpkin, on which you can attach a 1x4 light brick. If you put the light brick on in a certain way, they blink. Then use two of the red light bulb covers, and the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Eric Sophie" <mylegomaster@aol.com> wrote in message news:I5xCnG.1H2M@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) use (...) how to (...) [ ... snipped ... ] It may or may not be an issue but the supply of Event Kits has been exhauseted and they are no (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I too was curious about the hollow bottom trees in this set, until I looked at my notes, and found that there were 2 variations of the #810 British Town Plan set. From what it appears, the first variation (1963-64?) had the Bedford trucks and (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Fair enough, but if no images have been added or changed, and the folder is remoderated anyway, why not just use the option of bypassing the 'Recent Galleries' view? Sure is an easy way to bump folders though. Allister (22 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It probably needs re-moderation because you could put something obscene in the keywords by filling in your own. Same for folder names or descriptions. Frank (22 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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This thread has gotten quite tangled in lugnet.space and other groups as folks have tried to redirect it. I have just overrode followups on all messages that followed up into lugnet.space such that followups go to lugnet.build.arch. The other groups (...) (22 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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