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(...) I guess you'd have to ask TRU. Could be better profit from MB sets, could be that TRU has better relations with MB, could be that as of late other merchandisers have been undercutting TRU on Lego, but not as much on MB. Could be pressure from (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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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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| | Re: Brick Testament in UK's .net magaine and seven new German articles
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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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