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I'm surprised that no one here has reported that the current Time Magazine contains a quarter page item on an "amazing new trend": adults like to build things with LEGO! The story mentions Eric Harshbarger (congrats Eric!). -Ted Michon (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Hmmm... this is news to me... guess I'll have to track down a copy. eric (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Is it still a "new" trend if we've been building (as adults) for 20 years? But yes, "Congrats" to Eric!! :-) John G, GMLTC (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Ok... I tracked down a copy. The issue specifics: TIME magazine, 17 June 2002 Written up under 'Trend Alert', page 16 lower right corner. I could not find reference to it on their website (www.time.com) cheers, eric PS: this makes the second (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) This does beg the question whether this is a "new" trend or not. If yes, some reasons might include: 1. It's 20-30 years after a big push with Legos in the 70's (possibly due to the introduction of minifigs?). More kids building Legos grow up (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Ah! that explains our 12 memberships in one day.. :-) ..and one of them's 'fav artist' choice! ;-) -Suz (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Of course it's "new", because TIME just learned about it! ;-) And you are just ahead of your time, J-1:-) -J-2 (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Well, I'll bite. I haven't seen the magazine yet (and probably won't... our household tends towards Forbes and The Economist as news sources rather than Time). But I just spent a little time scrolling through the reverse chrono list and I did (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Hey, I just got the issue today. I'm in Time! Well, not by name, but the site "devoted to Lego depictions of Lord of the Rings" is me, unless there is another site out there I don't know of. Here's the article: "Toys Kicks from Plastic Bricks How it (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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