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Re: lego clone (and lego clone-land) on the simpsons
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 04:08:50 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:
> Heh. That was cool. But, the question is: when Bart accidentally referred to
> "Blocko" as Lego, was it because the show was actually supposed to be about
> Lego, or is he just unable to tell the difference between this knock-off
> brand and the real-thing?
Probably they didn't want to pay TLC for the privilege of using the
name, or TLC didn't want anything to do with the story. Given TLC's
recent enthusiasm for creative partnerships with companies, I would
lean towards the former.
--Bill.
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William R Ward hermit@bayview.com http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/
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