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From the article: {Clikits is launching a selection of toys and accessories to coincide with International Friendship Day on August 7. Marketing for the products will be centred on young girls' friendships.} {Clikits...has been a rare recent success (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.clikits)
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| | Lego to revive Duplo and scrap "Lego Explore"
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From the Article: [Embattled toy giant Lego is performing a dramatic U-turn by scrapping its pre-school Lego Explore range and reviving the classic Duplo products in its place.] {Lego confirmed that it was scrapping its Explore range because of poor (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Soren's Mecha Girls featured on Boing Boing
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(URL) Chicks and guns in Lego.> Congrats! Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (19 years ago, 15-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | June 20, 2005 Business Week: LEGO, SF Super Chief depicted
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The June 20, 2005, issue of Business Week features a story about online collaboration that includes both an index and story photo of Steve Barile, Frank Filz and one or two other LEGO fans handling the Santa Fe Super Chief. The photos are on pages 6 (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Yes, it's certainly similar to what I had in mind, though broader in scope -- I'm mostly interested in coming up with a better way of finding pictures (what today you might use Brickshelf for, though in so doing you might miss out on a lot of (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Late last year, I started a project that kind of addressed this (sorta) but let it drift. With recent events I've been seriously considering dusting it back off, and think it's time to actively solicit more feedback. (URL) LENNI is the (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Want to be famous?
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(...) Right on Jake, Thank you very much. Also thank you for all that you do to help foster a relation between Fans/Artists and the LEGO Group. e (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Bit of IT trouble. For now, just send it to me and reference that the mail should be forwarded to Melinda. (Melinda is an American who just relocated to Australia, and has apparently had a kink in her email switchover - but the fact that she's (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I emailed "melinda.carter@amer....lego.com" yesterday and it went through fine. She replied back to me from "aumecart@asia.lego.com" - perhaps this is a better place to email her? -Lenny (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Ya know I was wondering why someone from Australia had "america" in their email address? Maybe it's Melinda.Carter@austr...a.lego.com ? Just wondering.... Gary Istok (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch)
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I'm getting this return message: ----> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. Melinda.Carter@america.lego.com Final-Recipient: rfc822;Melinda.Carte...a.lego.com Action: failed (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch)
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One of my colleagues just asked me to pass this along: Melinda Carter, interim marketing manager for LEGO Australia, is looking for fantastic high-res images of LEGO® creations preferably resembling known architectural beauties (including buildings, (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Converting the ROTB .mov to .mp4 (for Sony PSP)
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"Rob Hendrix" <rob.removebeforesen...msltc.org> wrote in message news:IHo3Lz.vHn@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) files (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I have ROTB and the Orchestra clip running on my mobile phone! It is pretty cool to see a movie (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Converting the ROTB .mov to .mp4 (for Sony PSP)
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For those of you lucky enough to own Sony's Playstation Portable (PSP) and a copy of the ROTB movie presented early last month (and posted here in .mediawatch), there's a program you can use to convert the movie to a format the PSP can recognize and (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Douglas Coupland loves LEGO
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If you've ever read (URL) you had probably already guess this. But this (URL) in the Globe and Mail seems to confirm it. :) Best regards, Allan B. (URL) The LEGO Builder's Guide> (19 years ago, 4-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO® is near an agreement to sell its LEGOLAND theme parks
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Larry Pieniazek wrote: Snip (...) I think it could be extremely shrewd. The parks will always have to rely on the company for bricks and sets to sell. For example in Saint Louis, Anheuser-Busch used to own the baseball stadium (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO® is near an agreement to sell its LEGOLAND theme parks
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(...) Faced with a loss, tactical managers keep doing what they were doing but sell off valuable/strategic assets (or lay off key people) in order to raise cash to keep afloat a while longer and avoid the day of reckoning. Faced with a loss, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO® is near an agreement to sell its LEGOLAND theme parks
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(...) Last year 2004, LEGO had a net loss of about $335 million That might have something to do with it. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO® is near an agreement to sell its LEGOLAND theme parks
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(...) Ok, replying to my own post...here are some more reasons TLG might want to raise cash (all purely speculative, of course): They are going to attempt to *buy* MegaBloks KKK and family is seeking an early retirement Realizing Galidor failed (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO® is near an agreement to sell its LEGOLAND theme parks
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) As long as we are in a speculative mood...why does TLG want to raise money. Are they contemplating opening a factory in China? Is $450M+ enough to do this? Oh, I know...they need the cash to (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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