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Re: LEGOLAND sold to Blackstone
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lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland.billund, lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.legoland.deutschland, lugnet.legoland.windsor, lugnet.mediawatch
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Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:04:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Arne Lykke Nielsen wrote:
   It has just been announced on the Danish news, that LEGO sold 70% of the shares in the four Legoland Parks to American investment company Blackstone.

They will now be placed in Merlin Entertainment Group, together with the parks Sea Life, Earth Explorer and Dungeons.

Arne, Copenhagen

(crossposting to the various Legoland groups)

This looks like it will be good news - by reading this article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4678213.stm

it looks like there may be new parks in the future and they want to make the park destination resorts - so this is good news.

The offical Lego PR can be found here:
http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=pressdetail&contentid=15584&countrycode=2057

but hey - as long as they keep the Commemorative Brick program at LLCA and FIX the fabrik machine at LLD I will be a happy man ;)

Mark P
http://www.promobricks.com

(FUT .legoland)



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