 | | Pics from American International TOY FAIR(r) 2006
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I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Lego showroom preview event at the LEGO showroom at 24th and Broadway, in NYC, as part of the 2006 American International TOY FAIR, ((URL) so naturally I went... just like last year. I uploaded a bunch of (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.year.2006, lugnet.lego) !!
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| | LEGOLAND California Model Builder Search 2006!
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I am privileged to officially announce the LEGOLAND California Model Builder Search 2006! (3 URLs) For Immediate Release Contact: Julie Estrada (760)918-5377 news@legoland.com LEGOLAND® CALIFORNIA EXPANSION CREATES OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME National (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.legoland, lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, FTX) !!
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| | Lego outsourcing Duplo production
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Let the outsourcing (and complaining) begin... (URL) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks wins SCOC ruling on Lego trademark
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(...) Bryan Wong spotted this story earlier and posted about it (URL) here,> but thanks for the heads-up as well. This is good news on all counts, IMO. Since it amounts to an across-the-board dismissal of LEGO's "trademark" claim (in Canada, at (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Mega Bloks wins SCOC ruling on Lego trademark
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Canadian courts have ruled that Mega Bloks can continue to sell its products in Canada. From (URL) article, "Lego sought an injunction and damages from Mega Bloks. Lego believed it had a trademark on the look of the knobs on its blocks. After losing (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | HGTV and Holidays/Christmas!
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One of my colleagues in PR just called me with something cool on what has to be the shortest turn around ever. HGTV ((URL) is wanting to film someone’s house that is VERY decorated in holiday/Christmas themed LEGO creations. The kicker? HGTV wants (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.announce)
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| | LEGO leaving Billund?
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Check out this article from The Age: (URL) At the end it says, "As for moving production from Denmark, a decision will be made in 2007." I think selling the LEGOLAND parks was a good move because it keeps the core company focused on just the toys. I (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) Well being an ambassador I want to try and shed some light on this. First we do have to sign an NDA. This is understandable given the fact that LEGO doesn't want information being leaked before a product gets to market. With that said does the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) This time around, are the ambassadors going to be given anything to communicate back to the communities they've been picked from? It seems that the first round were all immediately given NDAs to sign, preventing them from divulging any (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX) !
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) Fine, I've removed .nz from the crossposting. Tim (21 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.loc.hk, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) Although more people applying would be nice to see, the real requirement is better people applying. Cheers Richie Dulin (21 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.loc.hk, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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In lugnet.lego, Richie Dulin wrote: <snip> (...) Those two statements don't contradict one another, from what I see... It's like "We'll accept applications from all over the world!" If only Canadians send in applicaitons, then only Canadians will (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego) !
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) From (URL) this post>: "...the first criteria before all others was to select the best group of candidates based on their applications. Now, if there was a 12 way tie, then perhaps location could help provide a tie-breaker" (emphasis mine) and (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) I hope that some information I can add here might be helpful. I do have a handfull of contacts in Japan that I converse with regularly via e-mail. And even though I have done a larger number of trades - I can only speculate why they didn't (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) How am I giving conflicting information? The only thing I can imagine *might* fall under that category is your question about geographic location being part of the selection process. Like I mentioned before, Ambassadors aren't chosen based on (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) Dear Jake, I am not trying to attack a faceless monster here, I am responding to Lenny's claims that you guys were personally being in some way harrassed/ attacked/ asserted against in my original post. I believe that you love your job enough (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) Well, I wasn’t upset because you said that, I was upset because the ambassadors didn’t do the same. (...) You certainly didn’t offend me by the statement. I thought it was great that applications spanned the globe. And disappointed that it (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) I know it might be nearly impossible to believe, but I'll say it anyway - the group responsible for this program is much much smaller than you might believe. I know that when you talk about a company, any company, it's extremely easy to turn (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.lego, FTX) !
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) snip (...) I think it's more correct to say 'Spotlighted' ;-) But what intriques me is that someone went to the trouble of only highlighting it. Cheers Richie Dulin (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2
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(...) Well, Jake did say "The application pool spanned the globe". Maybe he's talking about a different globe than the one I'm familiar with (the one with Asia... and a southern hemisphere)? Presumably, Jake could clear this up by simply giving us (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego)
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