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Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library
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Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:43:14 GMT
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> 1973 - Legoland Sierksdorf, Germany opens, but closes again 1976 (did not pay
> the proper respect to The Trademark, The Product and The Kids)
I never heard of this before. So, in what ways was it 'bad'? (And, since
Legoland would have to be a LG project, how could it be? If the
subset of people that set it up did such a bad job, why was it not
improved?)
Sierksdorf is close enough to Hohenwestedt (close to Denmark, too)
to be under close view of Lego Germany (which, I see, recently
moved to Munich. Why?)
But hey, Sierksdorf still has a Banana Museum.
> 1981 - LEGO buys the rights to the Kiddicraft brick.
> There are some nice pages with pictures of 'imitators' of LEGO, some of them
> are even using the pictures from the original LEGO boxes! (What do you think
> of the name '0937' for a clone?)
I guess Kiddicraft is not shown on those pages? :)
> (Book ISBN 91-972715-8-6)
What are the chances of this being available in other languages/countries..?
-gbr
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| Hi all! Last time I was at the library I found an interesting book about The Lego Company! It's called 'LEGO and Godtfred Kirk Christiansen' (but in Swedish, of course). It is about GKC, LEGO A/S, and The LEGO Company. It's written by a Danish (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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