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The film "You Only LEGO Twice" was shown at the 4th annual Underground Publishing Conference in Bowling Green, OH this past weekend. This ~12 minute parody of the James Bond film series was one of the highlights of the the many (>10) films shown (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LEGO Explore and independent toy sellers
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"Suzanne D. Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:AF54FE8A-8833-1...ate.com... [ ... snippage ... ] (...) In my area (Raleigh, NC) it seems that the smaller toy stores have been the first to get some of the new LEGO sets, specifically the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.lego)
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I came across a 2-page piece in the June 2002 issue of "Specialty Toys & Gifts." It's by Carrie Casaceli, who's spokeswoman for the Americas panel of LLI (the LEGO Learning Institute). The article isn't online, so I'll quote some of it here. Much of (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.lego)
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| | LEGO in Michael Madsen's Poetry
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Ran across the following poem in Michael Madsen's poetry collection "Burning in Paradise": Christian After he dumped the Lego blocks on the bed and squashed the rubber Free Willy, everybody finally fell asleep watching The Great Mouse Detective. I (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | George Will mentions LEGO Death Camp Sets
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In a Washington Post syndicated column that appeared in my local paper* today, George Will made a reference to the LEGO WWII Concentration Camp sets produced by Polish artist Zbigniew Libera. The tone of the article is basically centered on (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Lego Sponsor Colwyn Bay Football Tournament
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There was a brief article on the local news about a youth football tournament. There is a bit on the BBC site (URL) no photos of the children, which is a shame as they were all wearing football shirts sponsored by LEGO -- James Stacey ---...--- (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Lego in July 2002 Maxim
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Every month, Maxim has an article that explains "how to" do various things, such as stop bleeding, win bar bets, so on. Just got my issue in the mail and saw that on pages 48-49, the illustrations to the "How To Sail Like A Pirate" are in fact Lego. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LEGO reference in the Atlanta Journal Vent section..
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If you mean: (...) I agree that this is a bad trend in the Media. Yesterday's 'The Learning Curve' a BBC Radio 4 programme mentioned "Lego style modular degrees" as if it was an insult. The crux of the programme was whether separate units of study (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LEGO makes Time Magazine
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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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(...) Of course not-- you never would have written "Legos". :-) BTW to anyone looking for it you have to click on Friday. Maggie C. (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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The AJC has a section in the paper were people send in their little remarks to either complain or sometimes praise current events. Today I noticed a LEGO remark....and no I didn't submitt it. (URL) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego in my X-word clue
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(...) I worked that crossword as well (and no, I didn't use (URL) ) and my reaction was about the same as when I run across a computer-related clue. Since that's what I do for a living, there's no way I'm going to make the same association as the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.fun)
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| | Lego in my X-word clue
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I got a clue in a crossword last week that went something like: "Legos can be placed like this" answer: "endtoend" -Suz (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.fun)
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| | Re: LEGO makes Time Magazine
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(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LEGO makes Time Magazine
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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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| | Re: LEGO makes Time Magazine
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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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(...) 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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| | Re: LEGO makes Time Magazine
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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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| | Re: LEGO makes Time Magazine
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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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(...) 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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