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Re: Has LEGO cancelled the recall of 6776?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:22:07 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jesper Kjær writes:
> > Does anyone know or has anyone heard?
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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 box in question. No doubt that Lego
> takes this situation very serious.
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> /Jesper
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 pirates actually terrorists too? And maybe wolfpack
might be considered a terrorist group? And what about Darth Vader and his
comrads...isn't that a form of terrorist? sheesh I just hate to see people
take things beyond reason! That's just sad!
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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)
| | | RE: Has LEGO cancelled the recall of 6776?
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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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| (...) 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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