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From CBC Radio November 25, 2004 (URL) Megabloks For some, building walls is child's play. You may remember spending hours stacking Lego blocks or Megabloks to make your own perfect worlds--full of spaceships and castles. Lego doesn't make a (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Can't find this link anymore, any help?
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My friend told me where the pics are! His directions: 1) Go to the main page at (URL) Click on the red box on the left-hand navigation bar. This is the entry for "prior broadcasts". 3) In the drop-down menu in the middle of the page, pick the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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I got this from a mailing list: "One of the fun aspects of living in Japan is getting to watch Japanese television, which is always entertaining. One show we like is TV Champion, which pits contestants against each other to show off their amazing (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Rights to Spiderman..
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(...) You make a good distinction between film-character and comic-character rights, but it might not apply across the board in this case. Although LEGO did indeed have the tie-in rights for the Spiderman films, it appears that MEGABLOKS has (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Lego on the Late Show With David Letterman!
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I figured someone would have posted this already. On the Late Show last night (Feb 25th), Nathan Sawaya did a real time mosaic of Biff Henderson during the show. He did a really nice job in capturing Biff and it was a nice plug for Lego in general. (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Market research
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It would be great putting our hands on this report : (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Rights to Spiderman..
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Megablocks have the comic rights. Lego have the film rights. Lego can only produce sets relevant to the films, megablocks can't reference the films only the comics. You might find that the Lego deal is with Sony(?) and the Megablocks one, directly (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | LEGO® Star Wars Game Trailer released
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If you haven't hear about it or seen it. Here is the link to new LEGO® Star Wars game trailer. On Eidos website. FYI: file size 7.3 mb (URL) Enjoy. -Abner (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Rights to Spiderman..
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(...) To answer the last part: no listings in the Danish 2005 catalogue... /Jesper (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Rights to Spiderman..
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I saw in the (URL) and Mail> that Mega Bloks "has Spider-Man on its side since the Montreal company struck an exclusive deal last fall with Marvel Enterprises to develop products featuring Marvel's super heroes, which also include X-Men, Hulk and (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Nova Scotian "blockheads" profiled in Sunday Daily News
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Greetings, The Sunday Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) has an article on the local AFOLs. Unfortunately it does not appear to be on the paper's online site ( (URL) ). If you are in the Halifax area I recommend picking up a copy. The cover (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.ca.ns.hal, lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | 2005 Lego Toy Fair
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Here is a press release I found about Lego stuff to be showcased at the 2005 Toy Fair : (URL) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: For all you iPod and Lego lovers out there...
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(...) Never heard of him before... but it sold out in a couple of hours. - Kelly (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | For all you iPod and Lego lovers out there...
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Saw this as I was checking the Mac news... Pretty cool... "PodBrix is a custom designed Lego mini figure inspired by Apple's silhouette iPod broadcast and print ad campaign. "The '1K Brix' PodBrix Minifig is a limited numbered edition of 300 units. (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Sacramento Brick Builders in the Sacramento Bee
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Hi all, A nice article on the Sacramento Brick Builders appeared in today's (Thursday, Feb. 3) Sacramento Bee. The Bee is the major daily newspaper for Sacramento, CA's state capital. Link to online version: (URL) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.nv.ren, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Lego for urban planning in DC
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There's an article with picture on WTOP news about using Lego to do some urban planning in Washington DC: (URL) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) Wow, Just wow. The author of the paper didn't do much research, that's for sure! Aryan yellow? LOL! I'm not the biggest fan of LEGO since You-Know-What-Issue-...ing-About, but to call LEGO racist is way off target. LEGO does have some issues (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | DANIEL RODRIGUEZ “AMERICA’S BELOVED TENOR” Joins LEGOLAND California in a Salute To Heroes
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DANIEL RODRIGUEZ, “AMERICA’S BELOVED TENOR” JOINS LEGOLAND® CALIFORNIA IN A SALUTE TO HEROES Freedom Tower seen for the first time amid the New York skyline CARLSBAD, Calif. (Jan. 27, 2005) – The city that never sleeps will come to life at the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | LEGOLAND California to break Guinness World Record for tallest LEGO tower
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LEGOLAND® California to break Guinness World Record™ for Tallest LEGO® Tower Theme park guests participate in record-setting event Presidents Day 2005 January 20, 2005 (Carlsbad, Calif.) – Thousands of children along with their families will click (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | LEGOLAND California announces Knights’ Tournament to debut Memorial Day 2005
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LEGOLAND California announces Knights’ Tournament to debut Memorial Day 2005 Cutting-edge robotic technology meets medieval LEGO adventure CARLSBAD, Calif. (January 27, 2005) – On Memorial Day 2005, LEGOLAND® California introduces Knights’ (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.mediawatch)
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