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(...) While searching for something else, I came across TLCs statement about the recall of 6776 immediately following the September 11th attacks. I believe it has relevance with respect to what Jake says above... (URL) Its also interesting to note (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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I'm glad to see Lego in the Thanksgiving Day parade! Didn't see Megabloks there did we? Thought not. (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: It's getting cold, pass me another "Lego" set
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(...) Whoever wrote that article misuses the LEGO name about as bad as I've ever seen. I guess it didn't occur to them that when they wrote "counterfeit LEGO", it means that the pieces aren't LEGO at all. Oh well, at least the world is taking a turn (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego Company chooses poorly? (was re: Shifty set)
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(...) Indeed. Although a headline like "Rich Multinational Toy Company Gives Poor Finnish Children Second Rate Building Bricks for Christmas" could hardly appeal to Lego... Cheers Richie Dulin (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Company chooses poorly? (was re: Shifty set)
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(...) Are you willing to vouch for the safety of each of those fake sets? Were LEGO to have given the o.k. to give away the illegal sets they (the LEGO company) would have, at least in principle, been giving their assurance that the sets are safe to (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) charity, presumeably for distribution to the poor. I read between the lines that this is Finnish law, that siezed illegal goods can be destroyed or given to charity. The article claimed that the clones were dangerous and could break in normal (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: It's getting cold, pass me another Lego set
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(...) Hey, their might be a use for Bionicle after all! :-) Steve (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Funny story out of Finnland. It seems a huge batch of counterfit Lego sets were seized by Finnish authorities. These poor bricks have been given the death sentance, but don't worry their lives will not have been in vain, their death will help to (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I am not sure what either "blatant" nor "jeers" mean, but when reading the Danish and the English version, I would have translated this way: ....all are Slavic copies of Lego.... I asume blatant is something else. Sonnich (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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On the (URL) New Inventors> tonight (ABC TV Australia), there was a short segment on kids inventions, and two girls invented a floor cleaner based on an RCX. It looked like a fairly simple robot, with touch sensors each end, and some floor wipes (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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