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HAH! Isn't it ironic that Target has the Falcon on sale for $49.99? :-) (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Bricklink Admin Bill Swanberg arrested for Lego thefts
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(URL) (19 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !!
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| | Re: LaCie Debuts Hard Drives in the Form of LEGO Blocks
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(...) LaCie's website is currently down (probably due to the double whammy of getting Boing Boing'd and Slashdotted) -Orion (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | LaCie Debuts Hard Drives in the Form of LEGO Blocks
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(URL) LaCie Debuts Hard Drives in the Form of LEGO Blocks (not real LEGO bricks) by Staff, 12:45 PM EST, November 22nd, 2005 LaCie on Tuesday introduced its new Brick Desktop Edition and Brick Mobile Edition line of external hard drives, which look (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(URL) notice the link they have for LEGO is to the LUGNET Cool Site of the Week... ROSCO (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bricklink Admin Bill Swanberg arrested for Lego thefts
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(...) Ouch! I feel bad because I have traded with this guy and a lot. He had great deals. Everything was always 20% less than retail ... even the new stuff. I would even have he find me special orders. I always wondered how he could find stuff I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Bricklink Admin Bill Swanberg arrested for Lego thefts
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I have not met or traded with Bill before. Still, this news shocked me, as if suddenly I discovered that one of my close friends were a criminal. It's sad, sad, sad. Stealing is wrong. Stealing for profit is very wrong. Still, he could have commit (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Google Earth and Legoland
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I'm not sure this is really "media watch", it's more like "multimedia watch", but I can't keep this to myself: Google Earth has chosen to include extra high resolution satellite photos of relatively small areas around each of the Legoland parks in (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Bricklink Admin Bill Swanberg arrested for Lego thefts
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(...) Most cashiers working in huge toy stores simply don't care. Pick the one that looks most inexperienced, tired, or both, and you can probably get away with the most amazingly simple scams, provided you don't do it too often. That, I think, was (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Bricklink Admin Bill Swanberg arrested for Lego thefts
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(...) Actually, it's one of the oldest scams in the book; that's why those automatic tellers at Home Depot, etc, have the weight system setup. I'm surprised it worked so well, I guess the cashier's display just said "ITEM LEGO TOY" or something like (...) (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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