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(...) with a grain of salt. The statements about Kodak's market-power seem somewhat overstated and out of touch with reality. Consider this recent article as a counterpoint to claims that Kodak is leading a highly competitive market: (URL) a direct (...) (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Lego to retire the brick?
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Yow. I saw this on Eurobricks: (URL) (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | LEGO on SlashDot: Lego Welcomes Hack Of Their Design Program
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(URL) the slashdot'ing begin ;) Ray (19 years ago, 16-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LDD "hackers" made CNET
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(...) Excellent question. We did get 2 rounds of answers but they weren't very "meaty". (...) I think as the article said, LEGO are constrained as to what they can say officially/publicly. But unofficially we're getting lots of winks, nods, thumbs (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Why isn't TLG giving this sort of feedback though the (URL) forum> it set up specifically for that? LEGO Factory has been out for three weeks, and the TLG reps have yet to provide any answers (other than "LDD will be improved in the future"). (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(URL) For those of you following the efforts of LDD users in streamlining the bag use in LDD, CNET published a cool article about it, and LEGO's reaction to their work. Quoted are Dan Malec, Larry Pieniazek, and Jake McKee (among others). I find it (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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Metropolismag.com has an interesting LDD story: (URL) Among other things, it says that the beta version of LDD has been downloaded 700,000 times (not sure exactly what they mean by "beta" since it's been available for a while), and almostl 32,000 (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Disturbing Mega hit on Amazon for Lego Vikings
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(...) Let's be careful with the "theft" word, shall we? It's borderline libel, after all, and one might likewise be tempted to suggest that LEGO purloined the whole Vikings idea from Mega Bloks, which released the 9604 Viking Ship way back in 1995. (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Just did a search on Amazon for Lego Viking and got this result as the number one return above ALL of the Lego sets: ------ Results for Lego Viking Customers who searched for Lego Viking ultimately chose: 1. Mega Bloks Pyrates Dread Eye's Phantom (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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This article was in the Tennessean paper on Thursday, September 8th. It is in the section D "Living" of the paper. I scanned the article and uploaded it to Brickshelf.com. Here is the link: (URL) 718 (19 years ago, 11-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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(...) So, I had to try it. Jeepers, you get redirected in 10 seconds. The only thing that made me sad was that the message wasn't signed by Susan Williams like the old announcement in the catalogues :( (19 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(URL) one's a chuckle. The "LEGO brand speech" on "www.legos.com" makes perfect sense to me, but I guess some people don't have enough to complain about. - Kelly (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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TLG released a couple of press releases today. One indicates that several European facilities will be closed, and a lot of the function will go to a Czech facility. Switzerland, in particular, will lose a few hundred jobs, including some machine (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Hi all, Since I've been a little addicted to the little artists lately, I've founf another link with a bunch of pictures of their recreations of famous modern art pieces out of our favourite toy. (URL) on the links to see pictures of varius famous (...) (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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Taken from: (URL) For Lego, an Online Lifeline? The building-block maker has had some rough times as toys go digital, but its new Lego Factory Web site may help it reconnect with kids When he was a three-year-old boy, Neal McClatchey's father (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | BBC Caption Comp: Little Artists
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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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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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