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(URL) down to RFD-TV #22 to download. The WMV is about 70 MB. (Chris already posted to just mediawatch but it deserves wider dissemination.) FUT trains.org (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | Re: The Train Show *Upcoming LEGO episode!
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(...) Very cool..and one of my buildings got the opening shop...lol....Paul and others interveiwed did great.Chris MichLTC (...) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: The Train Show *Upcoming LEGO episode!
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(...) Well tomorrow is the day! A full half hour of national broadcasting for ITLCO’s NMRA 2005 show. But Online TODAY! (URL) All Can be seen on RFD TV and the train show web site. . Mike Gallagher (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Queens University (Kingston) to try breaking bridge record
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I found this (FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2005) and haven't seen it posted. (URL) "The team is working to accumulate enough Lego blocks to build a bridge spanning up to six metres—surpassing efforts of a previous team who built a three-metre bridge." (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Hot Blasphemy! The Brick Testament in Rolling Stone
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The current issue of (URL) Rolling Stone> magazine (6 October 2005 with Evangeline Lilly on the cover) has a piece on (URL) The Brick Testament> in their "Hot List 2005". Feauturing an illustration of (URL) Jesus on the cross> (from The Law section (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | LEGO Vikings on TRU "Hottest Toy" list for 2005
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Ah, the sweet smell of vindication... (URL) 'R Us just released their annual list of hottest new toys for the 2005 holiday shopping season, and there are 14 toys listed, including the 7019 LEGO® Vikings Fortress set ((URL) The funny thing is, it's (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego to retire the brick?
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(...) accessible 5 years ago. Where's this writer spent the last quarter century? Besides, isn't the current line from the Billund mothership "back to the core business"? But who knows what things will look like in 7 years. Steve (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego to retire the brick?
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(...) could do. On the other hand: Imagine. Go back three years in time. now you find an article somewhere telling that Lego is planning to change core colours and plans to kill grey and dark grey off the palette as the first colours that are no (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | BrickJournal International....
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It's in (URL) Russian!> Well, part of it anyways:-) Many thanks to Alexander Horoshilov, who runs a Russian AFOL site: (URL) Doublebrick.ru> Joe Meno Editor/Publisher, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 22-Sep-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego to retire the brick?
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(...) (19 years ago, 22-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego to retire the brick?
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(...) The author is making his point and damned if he's going to let the truth stand in his way. My suspicion is this: Lego say they will close production of bricks in Europe in seven years, concentrate on games and change the direction of the brick (...) (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego to retire the brick?
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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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| | Re: LDD "hackers" made CNET
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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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| | LDD "hackers" made CNET
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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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| | LDD story on Metropolismag.com
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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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| | Disturbing Mega hit on Amazon for Lego Vikings
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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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