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Posted on Yahoo.com News At 50, Lego still going strong despite high-tech toy world by Slim Allagui 1 hour, 50 minutes ago COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Lego's colourful bricks that have inspired kids' imaginations worldwide celebrated their 50th anniversary (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Do you have to be bald to be chairman of the Ba? Great video, I think Simon came over really well. :-) Steve (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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Various members of the Brickish Association have been interviewed by the media over the last week. Brickish Chairman Simon Bennett on national BBC Breakfast TV Fri 25th (URL) Pics> (URL) Vid> Phil Traviss was interviewed for BBC Look North (regional (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Well one changed already - the Andrew Daddo interview was brought forward to this evening, so if you weren't listening - you've already missed it... ROSCO (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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Check out the Google homepage today! Tim (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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In The Age today (January 28th), (URL) story about the 50th anniversary>, featuring a photo of Yours Truly at (URL) Brickvention 2008>. Also, listen out for me on: (URL) Triple-R FM> Melbourne, Tue 29th morning show with Jacinta & John (URL) ABC (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Richie, Congrats on your televised LEGO appearance! Even Google (URL) is in on the fun (check out their ever changing logo today) (URL) (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Well, it happened! The alarm did go off at 4am... (URL) More pics (URL) here> once moderated. It was a great experience to build something (technically rebuild something) on national television, and be part of the live-to-air interview. The (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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Ahoy all, In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 4x2 Lego Brick tomorrow (Jan 28), Lego builders will be featured on Channel 7's 'Sunrise'. Building will commence at 6:05am, and there will be regular crosses to the builders during the show, (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jan-08, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !
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Gizmodo has a look back at old versions of popular websites, including (URL) Lego's official site as seen in 1996>. They've come a long way. And I remember when it looked like that.... Roy (17 years ago, 27-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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A friend sent me this link: (URL) CTTC also asks about 1,000 children test toys in their own homes for six to 12 weeks and then asks the families to provide a report of which are the most fun, and innovative. Among the Top 10 Children's Choice picks (...) (17 years ago, 3-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic)
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Merry Christmas everyone! There's a NY Times article, actually a fiction piece in the opinion section, about a surprise Christmas gift of Lego. It is accompanied by a Nathan Sawaya sculpture. Login may be required: (2 URLs) image> Roy (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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If you've ever seen the show on TLC, it's a great show--probably the only "reality TV" I watch. Last night on the Season Finale, Jeremy, the oldest, was wearing a LEGO T-shirt while going for his drivers test. Also, on one of the episodes, it was (...) (17 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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<www.gizmodo.com Gizmodo>, a popular tech blog has a nice (URL) about the UCS Millenium Falcon, hailing as a top Christmas gift, and including a soon-to-com time-lapse video of the construction. Roy (17 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(URL) Built by model builder Eric Hunter. Hope the video works. JOHN (17 years ago, 17-Dec-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) I think I improperly catagorized this... Moved to .mediawatch -Eric (17 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.mediawatch)
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So from LEGO to bottle caps, thats and interesting twist. I'll have to make a point of going down to the World of Coke and check it out. "To commemorate the partnership with Toys for Tots, Coca-Cola commissioned New York-based sculptor Nathan Sawaya (...) (17 years ago, 30-Nov-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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Following on from the large car prototypes (URL) shown at Frechen> Lego seem to have sone some more work alongside VW on the (URL) and it should be out next year! (17 years ago, 11-Nov-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.year.2008, FTX) !
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NEW YORK From Playthings.com on 10/31/2007. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, LEGO Group's principal owner and grandson of the construction toy companys founder, will be the 2008 Toy Industry Hall of Fame inductee, the Toy Industry Association announced (...) (17 years ago, 10-Nov-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) If you're trying to read the linked article, and have found that the posted URL isn't working, here's the Tiny URL version of the URL listed above. It will take you to the same article Clifton is trying to link to: (URL) J.P. Manalo (17 years ago, 5-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.mediawatch)
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