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(...) There has been no new pressrelease saying otherwise and Lego was on national television in Denmark last week with withdrawing and that they have fired Rob Ellis who was in charge of the department that developed and released Alpha Team and the (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow, I can't believe they would fire the guy who designed the series! That's not fair! It's not like he had anything to do with the terrorist acts! As far as that's concerned, you ought to fire the people who did the pirates series! Aren't (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, I'm hoping that there are other factors involved as well-- Seeing that the line was APPROVED by someone (probably LOTS of people) higher up the chain than this Rob Ellis guy, I can't imagine that he'd be the only one fired if this was (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) I don't know if Rob Ellis designed the set - all I know is that he is the director of that department. Just to make things clear I didn't write he designed it 'just' that he was in charge of that department. /Jesper (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Jesper Kjaer" <jkj@it.dk> wrote in message news:001901c14aa1$84...@SHAMEN... (...) Did the report actually say they 'fired' him, or was it more that he 'decided to concentrate on his golf' or some other wishy washy statement. Did he jump or was he (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeh, I'm sorry I mistook that statement the wrong way. Either way, I couldn't understand why they would fire the guy. (...) I agree lawrence! I think there must be more to it than that! It just sounded odd that they would fire a guy because of (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.general)
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