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Heads up ! While You Were Out, the "Deerfield: The Blue Room" episode will be rebroadcasted November 3rd on TLC, 17h00 ET. Here is the description : Beth is crazy about Legos, an obsession that has managed to take over her whole home to the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Article in GAMES magazine
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(...) Sweet. I might have to subscribe now. Congratulations! When are you going to start working for them full time, anyway? :o) --Dave (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | LEGO Article in GAMES magazine
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Hi all, If any of you have a subscription to GAMES magazine (a national publication that focuses on games, puzzles, toys, etc) you have probably already received the December 2004 edition. For those who don't subscribe, you might want to check it (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | O-zone video
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At least here is O-zone ((URL) ) a hit with Dragostea tin dei - someone appearently made that video with minifigs! See it here: (URL) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Brick Testament in Australian magazine Warcry and Italian magazine D la Repubblica del Donne
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I've scanned two new articles for The Brick Testament press page. The first is an interview done for the 2 October 2004 issue of Warcry, the official magazine of the Salvation Army of Australia: (URL) second is an article from the September 2004 (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Mindstorms in Macworld Magazine
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Hi all, My friend Andrew and I found an article on Mindstorms in Macworld Magazine...I scanned it in and put it on my brickshelf gallery in case anyone wants to check it out (after spending two minutes trying to figure out why my filanames with (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(URL) Hey everyone. This is Erik Varszegi and it's my first post on LUGNET, though I've been enjoying this online LEGO Fan community for years. I'm one of the Master Builders headquartered in the Enfield offices. I have been heavily imvolved with (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.us.nelug, FTX) !!
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(...) Thats odd, I though NELUG stood for New England LEGO Users Group :-). We arn't NELASIG after all. Anyway we'll be there and hopefully have pictures that we will continue to update for a couple of years. Eric Kingsley (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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(URL) 14, 2004 LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet By BENJAMIN KEPPLE MANCHESTER, N.H. — The SEE Science Center in Manchester's Millyard yesterday unveiled the LEGO Millyard Project, a re-creation of the Millyard as it existed around the (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.us.nelug) !
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| | Re: ToysRus is taking your vote for your best toy award
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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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| | Re: ToysRus is taking your vote for your best toy award
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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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| | Re: ToysRus is taking your vote for your best toy award
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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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| | Re: ToysRus is taking your vote for your best toy award
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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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| | Re: ToysRus is taking your vote for your best toy award
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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
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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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| | 12-foot bridge built in 2 hours on live TV
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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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| | Re: Brick Testament in UK's .net magaine and seven new German articles
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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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| | Re: Brick Testament in UK's .net magaine and seven new German articles
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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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| | Re: Jane Pauley show today
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(...) (URL) (20 years ago, 29-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Brick Testament in UK's .net magaine and seven new German articles
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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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| | Brick Testament in UK's .net magaine and seven new German articles
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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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| | Jane Pauley show today
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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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| | Re: LEGO world record set in Montréal
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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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| | Re: LEGO world record set in Montréal
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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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| | Re: LEGO world record set in Montréal
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(...) record was set? TWS Garrison (20 years ago, 26-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LEGO world record set in Montréal
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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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| | LEGO world record set in Montréal
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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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| | lego reference in dieselsweeties
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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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| | Re: Mindstorms in The Fifth Wave
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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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| | I'll be on TV Monday morning
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Hi everybody! If anyone is interested in watching, I will be doing a live television event on Monday in the Philadelphia area. It will be broadcast on CN8's "Your Morning on CN8" (9am to 11am) with Nicole Fox. Nicole has told me that the show is (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.announce)
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| | Save LEGO Pirates Campaign
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I found the following at the Talk Like a Pirate Day website(URL) in their most recent newsletter (URL): --- A Plea For Help In a Worthy Cause Finally, we received the following missive Justin Gifford. It's a cry for help, and it's up to all of us to (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: More stores announced - NY and NJ
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(...) One of the NJ stores is already open - the Rockaway store opened on September 10th. Mark P (URL) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | More stores announced - NY and NJ
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LEGO Company's Retail Division Expands throughout New York and New Jersey "LEGO Systems, Inc., the Americas division of one of the world's best-known toy brands, prepares to open three new LEGO(R) brand retail stores in the New York and New Jersey (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO in movies
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Wow, neat! This kind of reminds me of the movie, "Manhattan Project" with John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Jill Eikenberry, a teenage Cynthia Nixon.. You know, the one where the kid (Collet) builds the nuclear bomb and enters it in a science fair? (...) (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LEGO in movies
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(...) Here are some pictures, at last! (URL) (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Lego mention in short story
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I noted a reference to Lego in a short story by Cory Doctorow called Craphound. That story is included in a book called (URL) A Place So Foreign And Eight More>. Here is the paragraph that the reference was in: I spotted Craphound loading his haul (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Tough times in Toytown force LEGO® to rebuild
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(...) (Snippage throughout) (...) Sorry for being a bit late in replying, but hey, this is cool! The guy emailed me a while back asking questions, but he never showed me the completed article. I feel so special right now ;-D ~Kevin (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Tough times in Toytown force LEGO® to rebuild
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(...) I would guess video games. It's fairly easy to keep kids away from them before they start school, but once they do and hear of the games other kids are playing it becomes quite difficult. Maggie C. (20 years ago, 5-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Tough times in Toytown force LEGO® to rebuild
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(...) Am I the only one who was shocked to read this? A quick perusal of LEGO catalogs from 1984--1994 shows clearly that TLG's core market was boys aged 6--12. What happened in the past ten years that shrunk TLC's core market by 29% and skewed it (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | C.Prince Frederik &C.Princess Mary in Legoland Billund (The Australian)
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The life of a Crown Princess is a visit to Legoland? gee's! I want to swap lives ;)... Taken from here: (URL) includes a load of other blah blah). '....This month she has just three engagements: a visit to the Legoland amusement park, the launch of (...) (20 years ago, 4-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: The castle vs. space war escalates...on ESPN.com???
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(...) Werd! Gimme spaceships & Fenway over the Evil Empire & pitchforks any day. -nk (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.sports, FTX)
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| | Re: The castle vs. space war escalates...on ESPN.com???
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(...) Don't forget these: (URL) and (URL) Mark P LoB (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.sports, FTX)
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| | Re: The castle vs. space war escalates...on ESPN.com???
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(...) I'm not even slightly torn on this one. Besides, the Sox have an official Lego part; they HAVE to win! (URL) DaveE (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.sports, FTX)
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| | Re: The castle vs. space war escalates...on ESPN.com???
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(...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.sports)
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| | Re: The castle vs. space war escalates...on ESPN.com???
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(...) Wow! This is great! More people should see this article! Terry (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.sports)
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| | The castle vs. space war escalates...on ESPN.com???
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(2 URLs) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.sports) !
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| | Ellen features LEGO names today
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Right now, more at the end of the show, she said. On Oxygen. Olof (currently in Nebraska) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | "LEGO rebuilds after bad year"
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I saw this today and thought others might find it interesting... 'Lego fanaticism on the internet ranges from the nerdy to the bizarre, with unofficial fan sites like www.lugnet.com featuring movies such as "Lego Chainsaw Massacre" and "Spiderman". (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | New retail Announced for California
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Courtesy of Google News Alerts: (URL) LEGO Systems, Inc., the Americas division of one of the world's best-known toy brands, prepares to open three new LEGO(R) brand retail stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. The growth will bring the total number (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickfest in Washington Post
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(...) LOL.. I most certainly did not say "Legos" but then again I did talk to her for over an hour... Over all I am quite happy with what was printed. -Christina Hitchcock (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Brickfest in Danish national TV2
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Last night Danish TV2 had a financial story about TLC expecting a zero-result for 2004. The fun part was that they had their correspondent to visit Brickfest and tell mostly about the Brickfest itself but also about the adult market. He also (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Brickfest in Washington Post
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(...) On the whole a very nice article--much better than most in mainstream print. As always Cristina was sparkling. Tommy Armstrong www.brickengraver.com (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest in Washington Post
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(...) She's paraphrasing what a child would say in reference to their own collection of LEGO bricks. No foul. Nice, job, Christina! (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest in Washington Post
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Short publicity article for BrickFest in which Christina reportedly says "Legos". Would she really say that? (URL) registration usually required) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | 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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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) PR Newswire is a service that distributes raw press releases from myriad companies, for a fee. The release (above) is straight from MB, hence it's not intended to be a fair and balanced news article... rather, it's that company's own raw (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) That's only because Mickey Mouse can't be patented. If he could, you'd be able to renew patents by now. Disney would have seen to it. (...) Since TLC only owned the patent on the fully tubed variety, and none of those clones seems to use a (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) Well, TLC certainly seems to agree, which is why they've been fighting tooth-and-nail to make everyone else stop making clone bricks. (...) Patents expire, whether you want them to or not. The idea is that you can patent something that you (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) Hmm. My mistake. I thought you could renew patents, but I guess not. (...) Those are pretty neat! Dave! (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) Uh-- did they really 'allow' it to expire? I was under the impression that the patent lasted 20 years, then 'tough noogies'. 1958 was the patent year for the stud-and-tube system, so 1978 would fit the bill... I was interested to see some of (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) Goodness. I can think of close to a dozen brands that use some variation of the tubes-and-studs clutch system, so recognition could definitely be a problem! (URL) This item> has been mentioned previously on LUGNET, but it seems relevant to (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) This won't likely happen. Previous lawsuits have ruled that MEGABLOKS has erred in marketing its product in a way that can confuse the buyer into thinking that MEGABLOKS are affiliated with or endorsed by LEGO. Therefore, for close to a (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) Impartial? Well, sort of, but not in the way that you seem to think. It's called PRNewswire. PR, as in Press Release or Press Relations. This appears to be a website where various corporations can upload their press releases for various news (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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Hi Matt, (...) don't confuse trademarks (which don't expire), patents (which do 20 years after filing), and copyright (which expire 70 years ofter the death of the creator). Here LEGO had a patent on the shape of the blocks, which expired long ago, (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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(...) Well, that's fair enough. The LEGO trademark on the standard brick must have expired years ago, it's only the fact that the community automatically associates said brick design with LEGO that prevented Megabloks taking it for themselves ages (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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Saw this scroll by on Bloomberg: Mega Bloks Confirms Cancellation of Lego Shape Mark by European Union Trademark Office (URL) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LEGO Robots on TechTV
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(...) Actually, we're on compressors right now..... but like you I'm getting some things ready for Brickfest. Unfortunatly I'm not getting SSClagorpion ready for brickfest. (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: LEGO Robots on TechTV
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(...) I'm working on that. :) Whenever we get SSClagorpion working, I'll call them and tell them they want me back on the show... :) How are those legs coming along? Steve (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: LEGO Robots on TechTV
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(...) <snip> (...) Congratulations Steve! Are you a regular there now? (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | RichLUG/HaRdLUG GATS Display on TV News!
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I finally have something to post about... This past weekend, the Richmond and Hampton Roads LUGs put on a combined display at the GATS show here in RVA. This was the first time appearing at a GATS show for either club. The organizers awarded our (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.org.us.hardlug, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | LEGO Robots on TechTV
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Let's try this again. This Thursday (July 22nd) a couple of my robots are going to appear on G4TechTV's The Screen Savers. I built two robots that can play Hasbro's Connect Four against a person, or each other. The first robot, Full Contact, was (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Clikits showroom in LEGO headquarters office - Billund
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(...) Hey, great sleuthing, Manfred. The one just before that in her portfolio is related to Designer/Creator sets so I've copied .build. I set the FUT to .mediawatch because maybe she's going to be an up and coming influence on industrial design? (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jul-04, to lugnet.clikits, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Mindstorms in The Fifth Wave
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Hehee.. Now where do I buy that sensor?! ;) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Mindstorms in The Fifth Wave
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Mindstorms in the almost mainstream (URL) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | New Spiderman LEGO movie
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As you likely know, the Spider-Man 2 movie launches today around the world and is sure to be the biggest box office news of the summer. (I personally can not wait to see it!) To help to celebrate the success of the new Spider-Man movie, we will be (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Spiderman animation made by folks of Monty Python fame
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The guys who made the Monty Python Lego short are making one for Spiderman. Here's the story: (URL) Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Brick Testament sighting on The Daily Show
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(...) Oops, that's right! Thanks, Adrian. I was able to get a screen grab from this morning's rebroadcast (actually I just took a photo of my TV) during the approximately 1.5 seconds the image from The Brick Testament was aired. For your viewing (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Brick Testament sighting on The Daily Show
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(...) They also rerun it at 7pm. Adrian (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Brick Testament sighting on The Daily Show
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I just received word that today's episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had a segment called "This Week In God" where an image from The Brick Testament was briefly flashed on the screen. Hoorah! For any of you who missed it (like me), Comedy (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Legoland Tracking Devices
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Found this today: (URL) if they only had this technology for socks! Jeramy (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Brendan Powell on Unscrewed* lastnight
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(...) Thanks. It wasn't exactly rehearsed--I'd never spoken to the host until I went on air, but they did send me a list of likely questions they'd ask, so I'll admit I had several answers ready to go. Right after the interviewed taped, I had this (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Brendan Powell on Unscrewed* lastnight
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I normally won't watch this show (since they changed the time slot - LOL), but I noticed on the previews lastnight that Brendan would be on. Nice interview, although you could tell it had been rehearsed. They showed a few shots from Brendan's (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Master Builder Piece
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There's a short piece on LLCA Master Builder Dan Bennett in the June 2004 issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance. There is a photo of Dan standing inbetween two Miniland NYC skyscrapers, holding a model in his hands that looks like an armored car. (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Newspaper article about the AFOL community
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(...) Heh, I thought that was pretty funny too-- although if I'm not mistaken, I think that's what was actually intended: "Un véritable orgasme plastique, pour lequel les vrais fans du célèbre jeu de construction sont prêts à tout." "Une vraie orgie (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jun-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Newspaper article about the AFOL community
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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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| | Re: Newspaper article about the AFOL community
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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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| | Re: Newspaper article about the AFOL community
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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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| | Newspaper article about the AFOL community
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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)
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| | 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) !
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| | 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)
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