 | | Re: Newswatch: Fifth Legoland Park in Kansas City area in 2009
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City council results: NO, but fix the plan and come back. From the article: Among the problems: The proposal does not include a guaranteed revenue stream to pay for $64.3 million in bonds developers want the city to issue; public participation would (...) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Birmingham Lego shop closing
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(...) I would tend to agree with you there. The only really great thing was the PAB, and that could be better served from the web, with a minimum order, and being able to order at least basic bricks by volume or selection. This is not the same as (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Newswatch: Fifth Legoland Park in Kansas City area in 2009
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(...) I agree with you, but as long as Legoland is not owned by Lego, it is an amusement park like any other, and developers are going to use it as the draw for retail, hotels, other tourism, etc. and since it will increace the tax base enormously, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Newswatch: Fifth Legoland Park in Kansas City area in 2009
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My whole take on this is that it is NOT Lego driven, but developer driven. If it goes thru, then the taxpayers of Kansas will be paying for this. But if it fails in the end, it could affect the reputation of Lego... the product. I am leary about (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland)
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| | Birmingham Lego shop closing
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The Birmingham Lego shop is sadly closing down. 3/4 of the shelves are empty. Everything is 50% off or more, except for pab which is full price (I asked the staff). They had some Ferrari sets and lots of medieval stuff left and some small bags of (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Halva priset i tre dagar
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(...) Jag hann dit en vända, och lyckades få med mig "lite grann" (så mycket jag orkade bära!) Det saknades ett par saker dock; varken den stora bärgaren 8285 (URL) eller (URL) NXT (8527) fanns där. Jag blev dock såpass inspirerad att jag byggde (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.se.or.ore)
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| | Re: Newswatch: Fifth Legoland Park in Kansas City area in 2009
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Legoland KC is supposed to be presented to the Olathe City council tonight. It looks good except the current plan has tax payers paying 2/3 the cost. I don't think people will be real excited about putting up this amount. This has been discussed on (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland)
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| | 3 and counting
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We now have three lego builders coming to our meeting. How many more will take the challenge to start AZLUG? (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.us.az)
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| | LEGO events at Worldcon 2007
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Since I've successfully run LEGO-based events at the (URL) SF/F convention for the past three years, I've been asked to investigate doing the same for the 65th World Science Fiction Convention -- (URL) Nippon2007>, the first Worldcon to be held in (...) (18 years ago, 15-Aug-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.org.us.delvalug, FTX)
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| | Re: new Thomas the Tank Engine sets
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No, not yet - I have been looking for them too. I think they were supposed to be released this month. (18 years ago, 15-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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