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Hi all, If you're interested (and quick as it will disappear) check out or even participate in this weeks BBC online caption competition. (URL) picture is from the Little Artist exhibition in Liverpool which I previously mentioned in this post (URL) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | LEGOMASTER - FJSRADIO - Tonight 8/17/05
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I'm going to the FJSRadio studio tonight to take part in the Waterbug Hotel radio show. CHECK IT OUT. (URL) I will be making some announcements. Where? ONLINE - (URL) FJSRadio.com> When? Tonight August 17th 2005 - After 8pm until midnight or so. (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Re: BBC "Day in pictures"
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PS. See (URL) for better images PPS. It is Hirst, not Hurst (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk.en)
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(...) That is from a series called 'Little Artists' made by a Mancunian artist pair (I think) John Cake and Darren Neave. It recreates famous British modern art pieces such as the shark by Damien Hurst and 'Everyone I have ever slept with' by Tracy (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk.en)
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Go to the last picture of the day: "6 of 6: The finishing touches are added to an art exhibition made entirely of Lego, on display in the British city of Liverpool." (URL) Does anybody in UK has more information on this art exhibition? Cheers, (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk.en)
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| | Steve Wynn's creative use of "Lego toy" in a simile
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(URL) new creation was received by some travel writers and architectural critics not with the awe they greeted his Mirage in 1989 and Bellagio in 1998 but with questions about why it cost a record-breaking $2.7 billion and with mocking of Wynn's (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: BrickFest in the Washington Post
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Article in Businesswire: (URL) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | BrickFest coverage in Seattle and Dallas
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A story about BrickFest made it to the second page of the Seattle Times featuring a picture of the Taj Mahal (8/16/05). Also, a brief story ran on the news in Dallas according to my family, there. Ashley Glennon (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | NMRA/NTS-ILTCO show features on full length Satelite TV show
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At the NMRA, Richard Einhorn, the host of "The Train Show", visited the ILTCO multiclub NMRA show during set-up and showtimes. He interviewed several members, and taped a lot of footage. The next schedule for season 3 has just been released, and it (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: BrickFest in the Washington Post
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(...) Article on Wired: (URL) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | BrickFest in the Washington Post
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Article from the Washington Post, Monday, August 15, 2005: (URL) you next Fest!!!! Mike Harrod (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | Kellogg's Sculptures mentioned in Battle Creek Enquirer
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This spring, MTW, in participation with MichLUG members (URL) built 5 statues> for Kellogg's Cereal City USA. These statues are the subject of an article in Wednesday's (2005-08-10) (URL) Creek Enquirer>. (URL) Jason Spears | (URL) Brickcentral> | (...) (19 years ago, 12-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX)
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| | BrickJournal mentioned online at Orange County Register
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Hi all, the Orange County Register website has a small blurb about BrickJournal. You can take a look at the link, but it does require registration. (URL) the blurb.> Joe Meno Editor/Publisher, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 9-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| | Legoland ref on I'm Alan Partridge
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This is probably old but it was on BBCAmerica tonight. on BBC's I'm Alan Partridge: "Never Say Alan Again": Alan (radio announcer): Who're you with and what're you doing? Caller: I'd like to go round Legoland with Sean Connery and then afterwards (...) (19 years ago, 7-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland.windsor)
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| | Re: COLTC Display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio
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for those of you that do not know John: (URL) He is the one that started the COLTC skyscraper thingie with his LeVeque tower about 2 years ago. I also know he did NOT say LEGOs, that's the acuracy of the press for ya! Last year the fair drew over 1 (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.events, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !
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| | Tom Knuteson? LEGO display
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Hey all, Google news-ing on "lego" I found (URL) article> about a medieval fair in Monroe, Wisconsin, which reads, in part: "Lego enthusiast and medieval history buff Tom Knuteson will have his Lego castle on display during the Faire. The castle (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jul-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOLAND sold to Blackstone
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(...) (crossposting to the various Legoland groups) This looks like it will be good news - by reading this article: (URL) it looks like there may be new parks in the future and they want to make the park destination resorts - so this is good news. (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jul-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland.billund, lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.legoland.deutschland, lugnet.legoland.windsor, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Twins accused of stealing and selling LEGO® sets on Ebay®
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Watchout LEGO® is watching From the Journal Inquirer online edition July 6, 2005 ENFIELD, CT. -- Police have accused twin brothers of stealing nearly $42,000 worth of Star Wars-theme LEGO sets from the toymaker's facility here and selling some of (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | LEGO Braces for Big Changes - International Herald Tribune
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(URL) braces for big changes By Ivar Ekman International Herald Tribune SATURDAY, JULY 2, 2005 BILLUND, Denmark Lego, the maker of the iconic toy building blocks, put this little town on the map. Employees and residents alike cherished the family (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jul-05, to lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | Legoland California Clip
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One of my co-workers sent this link to me today. I started drooling when they showed the modelshop builder scooping lego out of a bin. (URL) VW (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickJournal has been mentioned on both SlashDot and BoingBoing
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(...) I was afraid to ask how many downloads you got hit with... Joe Ed./Pub, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 27-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: BrickJournal has been mentioned on both SlashDot and BoingBoing
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"Richard Morton" <rjmorton@REMOVEME4i...ANDME.com> wrote in message news:IIrACM.nzz@lugnet.com... (...) Being mirror #4, I'm making an educated guess of about 1000 downloads since go time from me... Rob (19 years ago, 27-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: BrickJournal has been mentioned on both SlashDot and BoingBoing
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"Kelly McKiernan" <kelly@anagrafyxx.com> wrote in message news:IILz4s.uCz@lugnet.com... (...) We also noticed it here in our datacenter (where Legofan.org is hosted). We have 15 leased lines here, but the slashdot effect almost brought us to our (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego to revive Duplo and scrap "Lego Explore"
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(...) Did you check the date on that link? Feb 2004... that's 17 months old! -Scott (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: BrickJournal has been mentioned on both SlashDot and BoingBoing
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(...) I noticed that when traffic on BZPower (which is a BrickJournal mirror) went through the roof. Good to know LEGO is popular with the digerati. Kelly (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | BrickJournal has been mentioned on both SlashDot and BoingBoing
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Well, BrickJournal has been noticed by both (URL) SlashDot> and (URL) BoingBoing>. Matt (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickJournal mentioned in Library Journal!!!
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(...) Thomas, thanks for the link! And this one is funny, because I sent a bunch of news releases...and this is not one of the places I sent one to! Anyways, I'll send them a note correcting them about who published it...WE did :-) ! Later, Joe (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | BrickJournal mentioned in Library Journal!!!
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Joe/BrickJournal Staff, Looks like you have some professional recognition for your new publication: (URL) Unfortunately, they seem to be under the impression this magazine is published *by* Lego. You may want to correct them on that point. -- Thomas (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego to revive Duplo and scrap "Lego Explore"
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This was covered in Lego's 2003 annual report. More recently, in Lego's 2004 annual report, they say that Duplo contributed to their operating profit in 2004. The item about the operating profit in 2004 is one of the positive notes in the overall (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Toys R Us Shareholders OK $6.6B Buyout
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(URL) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego Advertisement wins Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival award
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(...) Don't they know they're supposed to interlock the bricks? No stacking!! Great ad, tho! (And I think this is a perfectly appropriate group to post it.) JohnG, GMLTC (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Lego Advertisement wins Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival award
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Hope this is the right place to post this... Please also bear with me if I have messed up the FTX. Just saw where a Lego advertisement by Ogilvy & Mather Santiago won the Outdoor-Grand-Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. The (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego to revive Duplo and scrap "Lego Explore"
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(...) I read a nice analysis of that move in (URL) yesterday. :) Also from the same article: Separately, Marketing can reveal that Lego has signed a partnership with Formula One World Championship-winning team Ferrari. Great, yet more Ferrari (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego to revive Duplo and scrap "Lego Explore"
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(...) Yup - I was very happy with this news when it was announced over a year ago ;) Still good news :) Never did like the Explore name. Mark P Collector of DUPLO promo bricks (19 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Lego to expand Clickits Line
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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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| | Re: Who's got RSS feeds of your creations?
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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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| | Re: Who's got RSS feeds of your creations?
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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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| | Re: Want to be famous?
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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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| | Re: Want to be famous?
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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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| | Want to be famous?
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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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| | Re: LEGO® is near an agreement to sell its LEGOLAND theme parks
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In lugnet.general, Abner Finley wrote: (snip) (...) Jake said the key word is "speculated"... to me, the key word is "head scratcher" (well that's two words)! I still don't see why LEGO want to do this, the amount of money they get back seems a (...) (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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(...) Just a short note... I am just reading the information based on wired services and other news outlets online. And yes the information is "speculated" not true information. (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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(...) The key to this article is the word "speculated". I've just read on our intranet that this rumor is not true. Apparently, we are still in negotiations with more than one party. Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO Community Team (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Star Wars on Cartoon Network
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Realplayer is a good program for media for NT (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego Star Wars on Cartoon Network
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(...) I tried a bunch of them - no luck. They seem to require the latest versions of Quicktime, WinMedia and MediaPlayer (which I can't install) and/or won't even install under NT (even though they say they will). SRC #765 (URL) (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: A teaser
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(...) Most of you probably haven't seen this yet: (URL) tuned, more info is coming. (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.events, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: ABC's Extreme Makeover--May 22nd, 2005
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(...) 2 minutes 34 seconds of LEGO content with 128 minutes of filler...and that's without commercials. Anyway, I clipped the total sum of LEGO content from all 3 hours of the show: (URL) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego Star Wars on Cartoon Network
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(...) could be useful. Rob (19 years ago, 24-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: ABC's Extreme Makeover--May 22nd, 2005
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(snip) (...) well, apparently, if you want product placement on Extreme Home Makeover, it costs 100K. If you don't contribute, your name gets mentioned verbally... The model builder shop also contributed all remaining bricks to the local Native (...) (19 years ago, 24-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego Star Wars on Cartoon Network
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(...) I would love to download/watch these, but I'm running on WinNT and the newest version of Quicktime (or MediaPlayer) won't run on NT With the latest version I'm able to use, I get a blank screen. :-( Anyone know where/how I might get a version (...) (19 years ago, 23-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: ABC's Extreme Makeover--May 22nd, 2005
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Bill Vollbrecht wrote: <SNIP> (...) I was thoroughly tweaked about their blatantly obvious avoidance of mentioning the LEGO company in any fashion. I mean, I realize that Sears put in a half a mil, and Disney put in probably a (...) (19 years ago, 23-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: ABC's Extreme Makeover--May 22nd, 2005
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(...) Saw the show last night. Pretty cool stuff. Did the room of a kid who lost his Mom who was fighting over in Iraq. Did the whole thing in Lego. Lego lamps, furniture, even Ty's megaphone. At the end of the show you saw a bit of the head of one (...) (19 years ago, 23-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Published photo
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A rendering of my Peterbilt 379 ((URL) was used as an illustration in this month's Today's Trucking ((URL) (19 years ago, 23-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Dubai bids for Legolands as it seeks home for oil wealth
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All I can say is ummmmmmm... what? (URL) bids for Legolands as it seeks home for oil wealth 23.05.05 JORDAN - Dubai's Government buyout fund is bidding for Lego's Legoland amusement parks two months after acquiring London's Madame Tussauds waxworks (...) (19 years ago, 22-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland.billund, lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.legoland.deutschland, lugnet.legoland.windsor) !
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| | Re: O'Reilly magazine, "Make"
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(...) James, I've seen it at Barnes & Nobles, but not at Borders. Thanks, George (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | LEGO on Sunrise
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Australian morning show on the seven network, while reviewing SW ep3, Mark Beretta used set (URL) 7251> to "explain" Anakin's transformation to Darth Vader. Also "swooshed" set (URL) 7252>, complete with sound effects! A closet AFOL perhaps???? (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Lego Star Wars Article on Salon.com
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Embracing the dark side of the brand (URL) Jason Spears | (URL) BrickShelf Gallery> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: O'Reilly magazine, "Make"
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I like the story sub-title: "Lego: the ultimate prototyping material. Seriously." Issue 1 was/is pretty neat - some good "summer projects" for me and my kids. I just wish some newsstand I frequent would carry it so I don't have to order it from (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: ABC's Extreme Makeover--May 22nd, 2005
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(...) Yep, it's the right show. My info says the Master Builders (all 5 at the Enfield shop) were in Arizona for a week... I'll be dropping a little bit of news each day, just to keep the post current... (although there's not really much more that (...) (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | LEGO Racers banner ads seen on Czech automotive website
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(URL) doing a bit of websurfing for old car pictures, this website popped up with a banner ad for LEGO Racers and LEGO Ferarri items. To get the LEGO ad, you may have to referesh the page a few times to re-set the advertising. Very Nice, Lego Corp. (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: O'Reilly magazine, "Make"
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Heh... funny... I'll be curious to see how I'm mentiond when my issue arrives... MAKE contacted me briefly, but they never followed up on my reply... so I caan't imagine what is being printed. eric (...) (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: ABC's Extreme Makeover--May 22nd, 2005
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There is an announcement about this at club lego (URL) (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | O'Reilly magazine, "Make"
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We're two for two! Look for LEGO-using adults in the latest issue, volume 2, of ORA's magazine, "Make". Mentioned are Eric Harshbarger, Kevin Mackie, Hayes Raffle, Jonathan Brown, Mark Simonson, and others. The premiere issue had included a nice (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: ABC's Extreme Makeover--May 22nd, 2005
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(...) Derek, You're 100% Correct!!! Now that we're getting closer, I'll drop another hint... The Enfield Master Builders' offices were empty for a week while they were all on location for a project... Scott Lyttle (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) These are the hits I get for EMHE: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Piestewa Family: The team fulfills the dream of Pfc. Lori Piestewa, killed in the attack that injured her friends Jessica Lynch and Shoshannah Johnson, to build a retirement (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Well if my guess is right, the person's module itself was only a torn-up corridor; it was the ferocious looking creature eating the module that was impressive. Derek (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Really cool??? That rules you (and me) out! I hope this works out, I always fear that these things will end badly. (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) More info, please. (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Thank you Kelly!!! I have been frantically looking for the BTS file! I've posted these files on my site as well. (URL) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I snagged the 26MB version and also the Stormtrooper Orchestra, as well as the Behind the Scenes with Mark Hamill as .mov files: (URL) <- Movie (26.6MB) (URL) <- Stormtrooper Orchestra (6MB) (URL) <- Behind the Scenes (33MB) - Kelly (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I've been searching for a long time--originally it was in temporary internet files--I could always go there to get the viewed movies. Not so much anymore--these guys serving out movies and clips are getting smarter. Dave K -just FUT (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish)
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(...) The newer (or not so newer, as the case may be) versions of QT give the source sites the option of caching or not..it's a lame copy protection thing. Joe Meno .space paparazzi! (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish)
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(...) If you play it directly, then you don't have it saved? Meaning when you want to play it again because you want to show a friend or whatever, you have to hit the webserver for it again? Meaning extra load? I haven't been able to find where QT (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Huh - I'd be surprised if that is the case. And yes, I usually save stuff locally too. (...) Both ends work together here. Apache tells the client that the file has a content-type of video/quicktime, then the client decides if it knows how to (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish)
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(...) This is going a little back, but I read that streaming media from a webserver takes up more bandwidth than just downloading and viewing locally. Things may have changed. And, for myself, I like keeping these things anyway, so I save where I (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I'm confused - from the webserver's perspective, what's the difference? (...) With apache, it should be doable - basically override the mime-type for .mov files in that directory, maybe even for that particular file. For IIS, I'm not the guy (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish)
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In lugnet.mediawatch, David Koudys wrote: ott (...) Hm.. is there a way to force that behaviour (short of renaming the extension to not be .mov?) That would be a nifty trick. It seems like there is a way to force the reverse, that is, there are (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I've uploaded the movie to my webserver-- see it here-- (URL) the 26 meg .mov version (if you could be nice to my little web server and save this on your local system before viewing, it'd be appreciated) Dave K (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Not sure if LEGO and/or Cartoon Network have gotten a lot of calls about the animation, but I just saw an ad on Cartoon Network done by LEGO to go to www.lego.com to see Revenge of the Brick. Either way, I just thought it was cool. Scott (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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"Larry Lesser" <wolfkiller@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:IGArF4.ro2@lugnet.com... (...) Yep. The 11.9MB file can be downloaded via this link: (URL) was able to get the 26MB version. I assume its larger and/or better quality (less pixely). Rob (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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If you go to the Lego mirror site you can view the movie. Also if you wish you can right click on the image and save the file on your harddrive. Yes you can watch it over and over again. (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Rob, Email me and maybe I can put the 26M version on my web server....Then I'll post the link. white_volg at yahoo.com .. (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Revenge of the Brick can be seen on Lego.com in it's 11.9MB form. for those of you who would like the 26MB file, please contact me via email and I'll give you a download link. It also seems that www.treehouseanimation.com is "closed". Rob (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(snip) (...) Maybe not--Mark Hamill's been tinkering in comics, video games and animation for a good while now. You know he's the voice of the Joker in all the Batman animation, and he made an appearance in the live-action movie "The Guyver", based (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Seems they are on to me and my tactics so that link won't reap anything promising ATM. I'm busy looking for another source for the full 26MB file. I have found an 11MB file on Lego.com. I do have the 26MB file on my puter at work. If someone (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) thanks for posting this Rob. It is great! Christina (20 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.starwars)
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