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Ok, so it was a *very* short blurb on C|Net that you can find here: (URL) this blurb was noted by an email news clipping service run by a fairly famous intellectual property lawfirm (BNA). So, it is likely that many thousands of IP lawyers are (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.mediawatch) !!
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Hi everyone, I just saw an ad on SBS after South Park about a Brickfilm. The film is about two gay minifigs. It is on 'Eat Carpet' at 12 midnight this Saturday. Bye. TOM (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.mediawatch)
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My apologies if this has already been posted. I caught the tail end of a news-like story about fan made brick films this morning on DW-TV ((URL) showed clips from some different films (by Marcel Belledin, IIRC) and there was an interview with a (...) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.animation)
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Hi all, I was watching MTV-Europe this afternoon when suddenly a clip caught my attention... it was made entirely with LEGO *bricks* (literally), of the few Basic colours we used to know just ten years ago. The name of the band was "The White (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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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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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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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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(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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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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(...) This is not the only time it's been mentioned on that program. I think we could have a Lego fan amongst the people who deal with the questions :P Either that or maybe has a thing where they pay to have their name mentioned, this way they could (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.mediawatch)
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The question was something like "What building toy of 4 letters was invented by Danish ..." at which point the contestant butted in & answered the question (correctly). Regards ROSCO (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.mediawatch)
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Was only half listening but heard Alex Trebeck say"...building blocks" Contestant said "What is Legos?" Julie (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Hey Y'all: This is sorta old news because this video is available online from lego.com, but disk 2 of the Holy Grail Special Edition has the Spite Your Face lego film of the Camelot sequence. It's semi-hard to find, but once you are there it's a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LEGO tops poll in Atlanta Journal online poll (so far)
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Y'all crack me up, I hope no one has been voting more than once (but what do I care). I checked this morning and LEGO ("legos") is up over 50%! jt (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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