| | Re: 2 movies: Star Wars Game & Arla Ekspres commercial
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Rene, The StarWars link doesn't work (no access). Can you fix it or post the correct url? Thanks, Marck (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | 2 movies: Star Wars Game & Arla Ekspres commercial
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Hi, with permission of Jan Beyer (LEGO Direct), I've uploaded two official LEGO movies: 1) Trailer of a new Star Wars Game: (URL) (8 MB) 2) commercial of "Arla Ekspres", a danish milk: (URL) (4 MB) Leg Godt! René (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town)
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| | BrickBros Press Release
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Noticed via a Google News Clipper: Arizona Teens Building Profitable Empire Brick-By-Plastic-Brick...No Flipping Burgers For These Young Entrepreneurs (URL) Following up on (URL) the Press Release states: ...LEGO has always required a physical (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.brickshops, FTX)
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| | ESPG at ROPECON
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I was reading (URL) Dork Tower> creator John Kvalic's (URL) live journal> and noted that people were playing ESPG (or something that looks similar to it) at this (URL) ROPECON> he attended. (URL) Thought it was interesting. I don't speak/read (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) Actually, the original 'tubes patent' explicitly included substituted shapes for the tubes, such as crosses. TLG patents even what they will *not* produce, and in this case quite understandably. Eric Brok (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) As much as I love the trollish Vorgans and some of the Dragons pieces (particularly the rough-hewn bricks), I really don't care for the painting on a good many of the elements, and the over-juniorization leaves me cold. Aside from being a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) planning to appeal the case, for it seems like it will be a waste of money. I think TLC would be able to better compete with MegaBloks on price if they didn't spend so much money trying to compete in the courtroom. It seems like better prices (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:I1xvnx.1pEM@lugnet.com... (...) As a (...) see (...) I got one of the smaller 'Dragons' sets just to see what it was like, how the figs looked and (shh tell noone - if any of the parts would be (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) Whoops, you're right. I was thinking back to the beginning of the company, but the ABBs weren't introduced until '49, and introduction of the stud-and-tube design in '58 was when they really took off. The warehouse fire in '60 wasn't really (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) I dunno about "a few" decades since there was only about an 11 year overlap before the warehouse fire :) Truth is there were lots of similar products on the market going back to the early 1930's (about 15-20 years before Automatic Binding (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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