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Subject heading was on the front page of Columbus' The Other Paper, on page 7, a profile about me and my hobby (obsession?). In press yesterday, on line since this morning: (URL) best thing is they didn't use a 110 bold font caption "LEGOS", like (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-05, to lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | Star Wars and Moby commisioned illustrations from back in 2002
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Don't know why it's taken me so long to post these, but anyhow back in 2002 I was commisioned to do a couple of LEGO illustrations, one for SPIN magazine, one for Mojo magazine. Here they are for the first time online: (URL) This one was to (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX) !
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| | Lego Jewelry
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Caught this via a blog site...(real) jewelry made from (real) Lego. (URL) on Forever Young then use the arrows to navigate between images) -Rob A> (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | New Death Star makes Gizmodo
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Hi all, <www.gizmodo.com Gizmodo> is a blog on technology and related topics. They just posted an (URL) on the new Death Star from Lego. Interesting to see it already in the mainstream - maybe it too will sell well like the ISD! Roy (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Lego makes an appearance in FineScale Modeler magazine
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I was just perusing my April 2005 issue of FineScale Modeler, and found Lego making a cameo appearance. In the "Coming in the May issue" section on p. 73, there's a teaser for an article on resin casting, and a picture of someone pouring mold (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | LEGO vs. MegaBloks
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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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