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Re: Lego Agrees to Discontinue Jabba's Palace
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Mon, 1 Apr 2013 19:29:35 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Paul Ferguson wrote:
   A story in the British newspaper The Independent reports that Lego has agreed to discontinue set 9516 - Jabba’s Palace - after complaints by the Turkish Cultural Association in Austria.

Full story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-racist-menace-muslims-declare-victory-in-fight-over-antiislamic-lego-8555610.html

Of course, I figure that they’d have discontinued this set in 2014 anyway, as newer Star Wars sets come on line.

And here I was wondering if this would be a year with no special 1 April stories on LUGNET...



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(...) Apparently, it's the real deal (the article hit 31 Mar), but the association that is hailing a victory may have misinterpreted what they were told. -- joshua (12 years ago, 2-Apr-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)

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A story in the British newspaper The Independent reports that Lego has agreed to discontinue set 9516 - Jabba's Palace - after complaints by the Turkish Cultural Association in Austria. Full story: (URL) course, I figure that they'd have (...) (12 years ago, 1-Apr-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)

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