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Re: New stuff at Legoland Kidvention
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Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:15:39 GMT
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"steve" <sp_888@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The "Brick-by-brick" Lego past, present, and future" tent at Legoland
> Kidvention was showing some new items that will coming out by year end. No
> pictures were allowed expect for two of them. They are:
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> 1) Statue of Liberty - A large sculpture of the Statue of Liberty without
> the pedestal. About 60-70cm high made up of mostly bricks, plates, and slopes.
> Similar to a lot of the sculptures around the park. The unique part is the
> special color bricks that will have a patina green color that matches the
> statue. No piece count given but the set will be a Lego Direct exclusive and
> may cost close to $200. A white version of the statue was shown and I can post
> a picture soon.
...Now _this_ is good evidence that they are starting to try to market to AFOLs. This kind
of huge set with lots of parts and details is what will appeal to lots of us, and going LD
exclusive is more evidence, since lots of us know and use it. Not sure what to think of
the 'green patina' effect, but I'll reserve judgement on that (I'd be quite happy with all
white).
> 2) Lego Direct will offer a mozaic service in which you can send in a picture
> which can be converted into a brick mozaic picture made of Lego plates.
> Instructions and pieces sent back. No pricing given. The resolution is kind
> of low, so the image is not real great IMO. A gray scale picture example was
> shown.
...Woohoo! This could be fun :-) I could use about a bazillion grey/dkgray/black plates
:-)
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
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