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"pete white" <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:GCAz19.F4r@lugnet.com... (...) minifig (...) using (...) I though it was exactly the comparison Didnt this thread start in relationship to Maoris complaining that Lego had trademarked (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nz)
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(...) As you would expect. Let's just say indigenous people may view this sort of thing as a bit more important than non-indigenous people would. Like Todd, I thought Lego had thought these names up, even though they sounded Polynesian. Is the Lego (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nz)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:3ae4c155.227241...net.com... (...) if (...) them. (...) If you run the various names of people and places from Bionical through a search engine you will see they come up with lots of hits, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nz)
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Since Todd brought this back up, I'd been meaning to look into this myself...and have. Interestingly enough, looking at the box and tube from my Tahu/Vakama set from S@H, every catalog/mini catalog I have, the Bionicle and LEGO web sites and LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nz)
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(...) I had been under the impression (as in just assumed) that LEGO made up cool-sounding names from scratch. Is this report saying that LEGO took actual words from a language of an indigenous tribe in New Zealand and isn't giving credit where (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nz)
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(...) They shouldn't be to far away... I bought all six sets at the start of the month. I am not particularly impressed with them though. Grahame (25 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) That's a worry then. Since that is the set with all the good parts. Let's hope LA are just teasing us. (25 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) 6776 has been available here since the start of this month. Grahame (25 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Has the 6776 reached retail in NZ ? (...) Long may they reign ! (25 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well I know that there was at least another run of production, the one I got last week had 2001 catalog in it :^) I didn't get a chance to check the copyright date, yet. Mike (25 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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