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Re: Now does this qualify as good Lego marketing?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:27:14 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John P. Henderson writes:
> In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> > Hi everyone!
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=299535
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=299547
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> > I should have put the pics in their own folder but forgot...sorry for the
> > inconvenience. But that's right, it's a Zippo lighter! Certainly no one
> > would just put the Lego logo on without Lego approving right? I mean Lego
> > has to say "yes, put our logo on a lighter" right?
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> The way to know whether it is an official Zippo product (and not a clone) is
> to check the bottom. There should be an engraved Zippo logo there. (Your
> pics don't show the bottom.) ...Where did you find these? I would imagine
> that Zippo might produce promotional items with any company logo if, for
> example, the company (in this case TLC) requested it. Certainly this isn't
> a product to market to children, but maybe some TLC employees (adults, some
> of whom likely smoke) would appreciate a corporate gift of such nature (this
> could be similar to getting a watch with a corporate logo after serving for
> X number of years for the company.) Just a thought...
>
> -H.
Lighters have uses beyond smoking and Zippo's are used by many of the outdoors
types for other non-tobacco related incinderary issues.
Lester
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| (...) Hear, Hear!! They're especially useful for lighting the old gas lantern so you can see your plastic pieces enough to build with them while you're out camping. Watch you don't let them get too close, though! That would be brick abuse! And use a (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The way to know whether it is an official Zippo product (and not a clone) is to check the bottom. There should be an engraved Zippo logo there. (Your pics don't show the bottom.) ...Where did you find these? I would imagine that Zippo might (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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