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Re: A fun announcemert
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:56:04 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Brett Patterson writes:
> Hello all,
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> I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this or brought it up. If so I appologize
> it advance. However, I thought it was interesting when I was looking at one
> of my Alpha Team sets and noticed that the villian's name is Ogel. I looked
> at it for a while and relised that it is Lego spelled backwards! I think it
> is funny because Ogel is desribed as an evil person who wants to take over
> the world. I wonder if who ever thought up the names was a disgrunted
> employee, or just trying to do an in-joke? Oh well, it's still funny.
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> -Brett
In the instruction manual for the LEGO Island PC game, there is a history of
LEGO Island, in which the Infomaniac tells how he created the Brickster.
They were best friends until one day when the Brickster turned against the
Infomaniac. On page 21 we read "The Brickster ran away with some bricks and
built his own island called OGEL and he occasionally returns to LEGO Island
to steal more bricks." Hmm...could the Alpha Team's Evil Ogel have started
his career as the Brickster!
Ken
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