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Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
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lugnet.year.2005
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Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:06:11 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2005, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Lego StarWars 2005 V.I.P. Gala event
> at the LEGO showroom at 25th and Broadway, in NYC, as part of this year's Toy
> Fair, so naturally I went...
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> I uploaded a bunch of pics to BrickLink. They haven't been resized yet and may
> have some miscategorization so I wouldn't rely on this folder name working
> forever, I'll fix them up (probably) when I get time and at that time I will
> delete the "raw" folder. So if youi come on this a year later and can't find
> them, walk the tree up and nose around, or start here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=lar
>
> Random comments: Mostly sorted by theme. There is a big new theme coming, Dino
> Attack. The Technic Brick (with studs on top) is NOT dead. It's just not used in
> TECHNIC much! Note also the fact that no one can spell my name right, as seen in
> the 03-swag subfolder. I was too excited to even notice at the time. There's a
> death star coming. They had the design manager of the current Star Wars line
> there. he thinks (but is not sure) that it has more pieces than the ISD.
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> LEGO is going to do an ISD build contest at Celebration III and is soliciting
> teams of the media to compete. I asked if they were going to exclude AFOLs
> because we would so obviously dominate the media since we have smoked the record
> down a lot several times, and the answer was 'bring it', so a "LUGNET" (that's
> the badge I was there under) team could be entered if so desired.
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> Here's the folder. Sorry no deeplinks but I think Kevin has moderated most of
> the subfolders already.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117978
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> If you want to ask me specific questions please feel free, I'll answer as best I
> can. Note that there were a lot of other fans there and other sites no doubt
> will also be posting pictures, most surely better than mine because I wasn't
> using a tripod.
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> You are hereby warned, bandwidthwise... These images are massive, dialup users
> should avoid. They haven't been rotated, cropped, resized, cleaned up, or
> anything else either.... but I need to get a good nights sleep for tomorrow I
> fly back to DTW, then DTW-MSP-AMS-SIN, putting me in SIN on Tuesday afternoon,
> so it was these or nothing.
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> FUT set to year.2005 because that's where generic new discussion about 2005
> stuff belongs... Enjoy.
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> ++Lar
Thanks for passing along the pictures! Especially love those of the Technic
crane and fork lift!
Question- Did they have the Technic Enzo you could pick up and look at?
Thanks again,
Adr.
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| (...) No. They only had the smaller Enzo, not the space frame (ala SuperCar) one. Unless I missed it. I didn't get many pics of the smaller one because it's released product. The reason I took any pics of released product at all (unless I forgot) is (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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| I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Lego StarWars 2005 V.I.P. Gala event at the LEGO showroom at 25th and Broadway, in NYC, as part of this year's Toy Fair, so naturally I went... I uploaded a bunch of pics to BrickLink. They haven't been (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005, lugnet.lego) !!
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