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Melbourne's local free afternoon paper, MX, had a short story on the toy fair in Nuremberg, Germany. Accompanying it was a photo of part of the LEGO exhibit, featuring a bird-watcher, complete with binoculars, and birds allighted on shoulder & head. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | BayLUG newspaper article in Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
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At our last meeting, a reporter from the San Jose Mercury News interviewed a bunch of us (including me) and a photographer took pictures, and a very nice article appeared in the next day's (Sunday) paper. The local Fremont newspaper, the Argus, also (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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| | LEGO (r) joins Williams Formula 1
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Hello all, Check this out: (URL) can expect another Technic F1 supercar coming up this year. Jorge F. (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.announce)
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| | LEGO on local radio
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Our new local radio station, Nova 100.3 FM, has a station ID ad that has someone asking a bunch of kids "Do you know what Nova 100 is?" to which one kid replys "A big LEGO set?" ROSCO (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Lego attempts to rebuild global image.
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(...) The article does say .. "and high-tech toys." I wonder if that means Mindstorms or Mybot. I cannot imagine them turning their backs on Mindstorms at this point, although the highly inferior products like Droid Developer obviously were not a (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Lego attempts to rebuild global image.
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(...) It makes me wonder if they're planning on throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Some of their 'forays' outside of their 'core product' have been wonderful - like Mindstorms. Or worse, maybe they'll throw out the baby, and keep the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.lego)
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TLC is apparently re-organising its marketing, involving centralizing it in Slough (ooh, you lucky people!) - I think there's a long lag between the cause (the year 2000 loss) and the effect here though. (URL) wonder what the effect of this will be (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.lego)
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| | Bionicle Rules (apparently)
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(URL) Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | LEGO minifigs show up in pinewood derby photos
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Reading the Atlanta Journal this morning and I noticed some famliar characters on some local cub scout pinewood derby cars, ... (URL) cars look a lot different than when I was a cub scout (some 25 years ago) jt ---...--- James J. Trobaugh North (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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