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Re: Nathan Sawaya in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
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Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:41:21 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
At 11:28 AM 2/1/07, Kevin Salm wrote:
It sounds totally stupid to me that the world LEGO was not allowed to be used.
I wonder what LEGO company idiot lawyer made that decision??


This may not be a "good" reason, but one reason they may not allow
that is because LEGO has no control over how they are portrayed in the show.

For example, someone could say, "that idiot plays with LEGOs"

While most of us would support the good image LEGO wants to present,
often times TV shows get better ratings when they make people look bad...

Or LEGO didn't want to pay for the advertising...

Steve



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  Re: Nathan Sawaya in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
 
(...) From what I understand, Steve's reply is most probable. You may notice throughout the show that all logos on buildings, shirts, tools, and so on are blurred out. The only exceptions are from companies who pay money to the show to sponsor it - (...) (17 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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  Re: Nathan Sawaya in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
 
(...) This may not be a "good" reason, but one reason they may not allow that is because LEGO has no control over how they are portrayed in the show. For example, someone could say, "that idiot plays with LEGOs" While most of us would support the (...) (17 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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