 | | Re: LEGO® is near an agreement to sell its LEGOLAND theme parks
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(...) The key to this article is the word "speculated". I've just read on our intranet that this rumor is not true. Apparently, we are still in negotiations with more than one party. Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO Community Team (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Legoland Bid Deadline Passes
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From the San Diego Union-Tribune printed on April 19th. "As the deadline for bids passed yesterday, the parent company of Legoland California declined to disclose how many potential buyers have lined up to purchase the Carlsbad facility and three (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Legoland Sierksdorf
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(...) Thanks for these pictures, I found them very interesting. It shows that many of the park designs did not change for years, for example the boats (the ones that you sit in) are the same as the ones in the later parks. Interesting there is some (...) (20 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: LEGOLAND is NOT closing
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(...) Too bad I couldn't likely convince EDS to take over the management and make me a sys admin out there... that'd be schwing... (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOLAND is NOT closing
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(...) A correction was aired on the show about a week ago with the deepest apologies of Marketplace. I guess LEGO is just looking for an outside company to run/manage the parks. Marketplace confirmed that there is no plan from the LEGO Company to (...) (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | LEGOLAND is NOT closing
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Why is it that some people just love to pass along bad news about TLC -- whether true or false (I think it's related to their jealousy that we obtain so much joy from the bricks and they cannot bear to see such happiness)? I'm not talking about the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.legoland, FTX) !
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| | Re: Legoland Sierksdorf
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(...) The scenes are dominated by red and white. The other 3 original colors appear as well, but green makes quite a showing as well. I don't think they were selling much in the way of green bricks back then. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (20 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Letter 1x1 tile packs at LEGOLAND CA
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(...) Actually - for future reference - you miscounted. :-) The set contains 67 elements: two of each letter, two each of five diacriticals, plus an extra A, E, I, N, and O. I just picked this up at the Lego Imagination Center at Walt Disney World (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | LegoLand sale moving forward
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The newswire is reporting that Lego is forming a separate company out of the four parks so it can sell them. Then, it says the buyer is most likely Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen. Separately, Lego is also selling its controlling stake in the playground (...) (20 years ago, 2-Nov-04, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Lego changes CEO after new losses
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(...) Um, have you seen some of the Disney theme parks as of late? This would be a poor idea. Outsourcing parks like Legoland isn’t a bad idea, if you pick the right company to run them. Six Flags = Bad. However, all of Disney’s Tokyo parks are (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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