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(...) But, why? What's the motivation to have MB come out on top? Better profit margins selling those sets? Mark (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Sadly, although I'll vote for Lego, I think of the 4 options, the Nano collection or the K'Nex are far and away the better building toys. The MB Dragons line is simply a travesty, and they picked a horrible small set for Lego. Maybe if they (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) You're right. After reading this (URL) article> TRU needs the traffic. Adr. (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Clearly rigged, they've chosen a Lego product that may not be Lego's best work. But on the other hand the Mega partisans may end up splitting their vote. I'm not convinced these polls really do much other than drum up traffic. (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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ToysRus is taking your vote for your best toy award 2005 at : (URL) the construction and building category, you have to chose between Big Air Tower by K'nex, Dragons Fire and Ice Dragons Mountain by Mego Bloks, Lego Knights by Lego and Nano-Tropolis (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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In July 2004, I was contacted by Nicole Fox, one of the hosts of "Your Morning on CN8", a live morning show based out of Philadelphia. We decided it would be fun to build a model of Philadelphia's Ben Franklin Bridge on the Delaware River (...) (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !!
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(...) These are compliments, and the call is rather "buy the book". (...) Yes, and he's a rather evil guy who destroys all living beeings when he has one of his notorious fits of rage. Overall the tone is very tongue-in-cheek. Jürgen (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Wow, nice! (...) Interesting. I wish they'd used a more modern readable German translation of the Bible. It's unfortunate that I had little say in the matter. (...) Is this a play on artist and atheist or maybe art-theist? (...) Thanks so (...) (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) playing with LEGO bricks (...) stake". The World you present is a giant botch, the beings are distorted, and God is a bearded Frankenstein. Compare this smiting to the articles by the catholic news agency: (...) translation as the textual (...) (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) (URL) (20 years ago, 29-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I´m not german, so I can´t relate to You all of the intricate punning and analysis of ironies in the texts, but I will give a sample. In this one the final paragraph pretty much sums op the tone in most of them: (URL) ärgert, der werfe den (...) (20 years ago, 29-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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The UK magazine .net had a short interview with "The Brains Behind" The Brick Testament in their August 2004 issue. I just recently acquired a copy, and have scanned the article for the Brick Testament press page: (URL) my German publisher recently (...) (20 years ago, 29-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.books, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.uk)
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Hi all, Probably too late for you to set your VCRs, but this morning I saw an ad that a Legoland master builder would be a guest on today's Jane Pauley show on NBC. The show was something like "Getting Paid to Have Fun", focusing on four different (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland.california)
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(...) Yeah, that was Sympatico's web server being a randomly intermittent bas#### again. Give it another try. KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Ontario, Canada (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Wow! I wonder how many RCXs that took... (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) record was set? TWS Garrison (20 years ago, 26-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Yeah, I saw this in the paper too and also meant to post something about it. Unfortunately that didn't quite work out. :) So my question to LEGO is - why wasn't this event promoted here? If it actually was and I missed it, just ignore me. (...) (20 years ago, 26-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.dear-lego)
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G'day folks, I meant to post this awhile ago, so it's probably old news by now. The following was in the Ottawa Citizen, 16 August 2004: (URL) .mediawatch Enjoy, KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Ontario, Canada (20 years ago, 26-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.ca)
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The relatively-popular webcomic Diesel Sweeties features a nice Lego reference today: (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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What does "dork" means? Patrick Levy Brazil "Kyle Beatty" <carbunicle@appleogue.net> escreveu na mensagem news:I0rv5I.K48@lugnet.com... (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch)
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