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| (...) An English translation (courtesy of Babblefish): (URL) Gotta love computer translation for making things humerous... I personally like "a[n] orgasme plastic" to describe the moment of completeing a sculpture...and "A true orgy of Lego!" -Rob (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Very cool! I tried to translate it using Alta Vista Babel Fish. It worked out good enough to get the majority of the story. But there were a few, lets say interesting, translations! -it is the dream job for large children (What? Thin children (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| (...) Thanks for the heads-up, Pierre. I live in Montreal (West Island to be precise), and I live two minutes away from a depaneur. When I saw your post, I went out to the depaneur to buy a copy of today's issue. Quite the interesting article! -Matt (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| Hello, Here's an article about the adult LEGO community published in the newspaper "La Presse" in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and on their web site. Featuring quotations from Christina Hitchcock, Calum Tsang, Jake McKee and myself. I hope you know a (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.org.ca.monlug)
| | | | LUCNY at Finger Lakes Rail Fair 2004
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| Here's a video segment used by an Ithaca, NY television station during our most recent show at the Finger Lakes Rail Fair: (URL) partial transcript is also at this address, including this statment by the video journalist - "But it's the Lego train (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.ny.syr, lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains.org) !
| | | | History of McDonalds Happy Meal Toys
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| A brief history of McDonalds Happy Meal Promotions: (URL) article has the first Lego kit sightings at 1989, but I recall Lego Happy Meals around 1984 or 1985. (URL) is the Text from the Article. Lego paragraph only: "LEGO Motion, August 1989 The (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jun-04, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.mediawatch)
| | | | Re: LEGO on TechTV
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| (...) For all those who missed the show, well, you didn't miss much. Turns out the show was taped to air 7/22. It was a great show, and a lot of fun. ...except for one mechanical failure on my 3 week old robot... Tune in later for more details. (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
| | | | LEGO rated UK adult's favorite toy
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| Found this on Yahoo!: (URL) rated adult's favorite toy> Of course LUGNET readers already knew that, right? JohnG, GMLTC (20 years ago, 2-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | Re: While you were out Lego episode
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| (...) Yes, not only does Beth read Lugnet, but she also replied here (URL) recent show was a rerun, which I was compelled to watch once again. Each time I see Beth's wonderful Lego structures collapse under the hands of Leslie, Evan, Chase, and (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| (...) I'm not sure how well this will work. I just spoke with them, and in addition to the segment, the robots will be playing against people (staff & audience) during the entire show. How big is a one hour show, when converted to mpeg? :) Steve (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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