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LEGO Launches Wrist Watch Collection For Adults Written by Ariel Adams for ABlogtoWatch.com on October 2, 2013. We are proud to be the first to announce a new collection of LEGO brand watches for adults. That's right, LEGO, which has had a large (...) (11 years ago, 2-Oct-13, to lugnet.licensed, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Trans-Clear and Trans-Color LEGO Bricks...
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LEGO transparent bricks have been produced by TLG since approximately circa 1951. The first trans-clear bricks were slotted bricks with no LEGO on the logos, but LEGO on the underside in block letters. This continued until 1956, when the slotted (...) (11 years ago, 1-Oct-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO® Model of the United Nation
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First ever official LEGO® Model of the UN completed by Ban Ki-moon UN Secretary-General puts finishing touch to LEGO model of UN Headquarters NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today added the last (...) (11 years ago, 27-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | The First Model LEGO Sets...
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When TLG first started the LEGO System of Play in 1955, TLG immediately created 4 small spare parts pack size LEGO sets (1210, 1211, 1212, 1213). But the first real model sets came out a year or two later in 1956-57. These were larger Town Plan era (...) (11 years ago, 25-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | MASSOLUTION NYC 2013: LEGO ON INSPIRING THE BUILDERS OF TOMORROW
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MASSOLUTION NYC 2013: LEGO ON INSPIRING THE BUILDERS OF TOMORROW By Eric Blattberg Sept. 19, 2013 NEW YORK — Onstage at Massolution NYC 2013, LEGO Senior Business Developer Troels Andersen highlighted some of the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives (...) (11 years ago, 24-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf greatest hits
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Looks like they're using automatic hit generators. (URL) front page of "most popular" is now a collection of people who have decided to cheat. Disappointing because I used to direct people to the greatest hits pages to see some truly exceptional (...) (11 years ago, 23-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | In NASA LEGO Contest, Students Aim For Space
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In NASA LEGO Contest, Students Aim For Space By Elizabeth Howell Sept. 15, 2013 Designed to gaze at the sun, a proposed satellite called "Sunbeam" has the usual radio dishes and rocket engines you would expect of a spacecraft. The difference between (...) (11 years ago, 17-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Mini Mi - To create and share your own custom Minifigure
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I have been enjoying it as has my youngest son. I will probably even pay for the "expansion" packs of items. (11 years ago, 13-Sep-13, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | LEGOLAND California Water Park is Getting Bigger
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LEGOLAND® California Water Park is Getting Bigger By Lori Weisberg Sept. 12, 2013 LEGOLAND California three-year-old water park will grow by more than two acres next year when it introduces a new themed area tied to LEGO® Legends of Chima product (...) (11 years ago, 13-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf?
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(...) Hello, I can't access brickshelf. Is the site down? I hope not, it is such a great site. I have some direct links to my bricklink store and they don't show. Good luck, Jean-Marc (11 years ago, 13-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mini Mi - To create and share your own custom Minifigure
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(...) Unfortunately, the page says it is still to be released for Android. Let us know when its available! (11 years ago, 12-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Mini Mi - To create and share your own custom Minifigure
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If you always want to create and share your own custom LEGO® Minifigure. Well now you can. Mini Mi: From Seven on Two Design, Inc. (URL) Mix and match different unique elements. Choose different colors and backgrounds. Give it a shake and see what (...) (11 years ago, 12-Sep-13, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | LEGO® Education Looks to Inspire Writing Skills in Elementary Classrooms
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LEGO® Education Looks to Inspire Writing Skills in Elementary Classrooms Company Launches Storytelling Essay Contest in Celebration of National Literacy Month PITTSBURG, Kan., Sep 09, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) - NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: • LEGO® Education (...) (11 years ago, 10-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | LEGO sales in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands.
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About a year ago on Eurobricks, I posted a thread about LEGO sales in Norway, Sweden and Finland. I had forgotten all about this thread until a Finnish LEGO collector found the "Barn" in Finland that originally produced 70% of the LEGO produced for (...) (11 years ago, 10-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump
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LEGO was first introduced to Asia in 1962, when sales started in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Sales started off very slowly, and remained so for a very long time. One of my new chapters in my LEGO DVD download (free to current owners when the (...) (11 years ago, 10-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | LEGO Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump
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LEGO® Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump By Christian Weinberg, Sept. 5, 2013 LEGO A/S, the Danish building-block maker, said first-half sales jumped 13 percent with the strongest growth in Asia amid a slower start to 2013 (...) (11 years ago, 5-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf hacked???
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(...) And can anyone explain why this folder (URL) is showing 3746713986 hits? That makes it the second "most popular" folder on Brickshelf. Again, the images within have less than 500 hits. Very suspicious. -Steven (11 years ago, 2-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO sold in Asia.... from Lebanon to Japan...
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LEGO sales were started in Asia in 1962 and thereabouts in Japan and other countries... Hong Kong, Lebanon and Singapore... and later other countries. In Japan LEGO was first imported from Denmark by the Asahi Corp. from 1962-69, from Fujisho Corp. (...) (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: First LEGO Plastic was Cellulose Acetate and....
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Whooops.... goofed on that 2nd link in the previous post... (URL) way this can be mistaken for a non-licensed clone! Cheers, Gary Istok (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | First LEGO Plastic was Cellulose Acetate and....
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Well the first LEGO plastic produced for Automatic Binding Bricks (LEGO bricks from 1949-53) by TLG Billund Denmark were made of Cellulose Acetate. And anyone who has seen very old LEGO plastic can tell how much it warps. Just doing some research (...) (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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