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Re: "Talking" Lego T-shirts
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Wed, 30 May 2001 18:02:00 GMT
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No worries,
LEGO Wear is a licensed product made by a company named Kabooki. See the
official LEGO site for more info: http://www.lego.com/wear/
Actualy, the clothing looks to be very high quality, and I can't wait for it
to be readily available in the states...my kids are going to LOVE it!
Matt
In lugnet.announce, Manfred Moolhuysen writes:
> On May 26, in several Dutch regional newspapers an article emereged about
> Lego T-shirts that are equiped with an integrated sound module. The shirts
> are printed with a special conduive printing material, and the sounds are
> operated by touching certain printed areas. The small soundbox is detachable
> from the shirt to enable washing these.
> According to the article 2 versions are avalable currently. The first one is
> a white shirt with eight european flags, and when you tip a flag, the shirt
> says "hello" in the corresponding language. There was a photo of this
> version with the article, the flags are on a wire-frame globe, also two
> adverture theme minifigs and a vertical banner saying "LEGO © WEAR".
> The second version is a blue shirt having a Studio theme, the article gives
> only two examples of the sounds this shirt can produce: the film directors
> phrase "Action" and the roaring of a T-Rex.
> Plans are for more shirts by the end of this month (A pink shirt for girls
> did get mentioned) Price per shirt is 59,95 Dutch Guilder (about 25.27 US
> Dollar)
> If you would like to read the full article (in Dutch), I've posted it in the
> "Local/Nederland" newsgroup (see: http://news.lugnet.com/loc/nl/?n=831 )
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> Personaly, I'm not sure what to think of this. These shirts don't seem to
> say: "We will refocus on our core business". And I certainly hope very very
> much this was not supposed to be the July surprise.
>
> Greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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