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Re: Orange County Register doing a story on adult LEGO collectors
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:28:37 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.us.ca, Todd Lehman writes:
> A reporter with The Orange County Register (a "fairly big daily" in Southern
> California) is writing a story about adult LEGO collectors. He's looking
> (I presume to interview and/or visit it) for a couple people in Orange County,
> California. Not sure if this this is out-of-date or if he is still looking.
>
> Contact: Andre Mouchard @ (714) 796-7926
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> --Todd
I get the Register. It is a fairly big daily--bigger, locally, than the LA
Times, at any rate. It's a Hyper-Libertarian publication, of the
privatize-the-sidewalks variety. The article appared about a week ago, in the
Accent section next to the comics. It wasn't bad; they profiled two AFOLs and
an enthusiast family, in quite positive terms. They made much of LEGO's
nostalgic significance to gen-Xers and also suggested that it was destined to
become a major new collectible. Bland article, but the pictures were
interesting. One was of a space communications array, built on top of
quarter-domes surrounded by a train track topped by a dish made of about two
dozen brick separators, which I though was novel.
By the way, a local Longs drugstore here has been selling small sets that I've
never seen before. One is a miniscule Technic motorbike, and there are also
Adventurers and Launch (or Spaceport or whatever that theme is called) sets.
The only one I've identified is a Kabaya Ninja set, the one with the Ninja
pricess in white with a Halberd-cart. Unusual.
e Ipavec
All colours will agree in the dark. -- Francis Bacon
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