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Why I won't be buying Lego gifts for the family this year

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Posted by lotp 2007-11-11 10:46|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Well...I guess I am adding Lego to the list of companies I no longer purchase products from.

Pity, that.

Posted by Punky Glavilet1766 2007-11-11 11:17|| 2007-11-11 11:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The Lego company are a bunch of litigous bastards. They don't like anyone having any fun with their toys unless it's the sort of fun that they approve of.

Posted by gromky 2007-11-11 11:22|| 2007-11-11 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Although they have been pretty successful with their robotics, Lego is largely a one trick pony. While I was in Denmark, I applied to Lego and sent them some pictures of a few really exotic architectural models I had built.

Essentially, they refuse to hire anyone who does not first work there several years for free as an intern. From what I was told, they are petrified of any corporate espionage and can be pretty xenophobic in their hiring practices.

They haven't yet come up with any of the innovations I would've proposed to them.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-11 12:50|| 2007-11-11 12:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Lego is a Danish corporation. I know I'm going to take heat for this, but why are we getting pissy because they will not donate to foreign soldiers? If it was a U.S. company, I'd feel differently, but it is not.

I would also like to see the correspondence in question here before unleashing generic web-based outrage.

Posted by SteveS 2007-11-11 12:54|| 2007-11-11 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 This is bull crap. From what I could tell Lego didn't have anything to do with picking out the winner. But you decide.

Except . . . had anyone, other than those 50,000 YouTubers, actually seen "Happy Springtime"?

"We were judging the basic creativity of the essay," says Lego spokeswoman Julie Stern.

Ah. That would mean no? Correct.

According to Stern, the folks at Lego did not watch "Happy Springtime" until after Kelsie had already been declared a winner, when her proud mother, Tatiana, e-mailed the company links to the video. "I'll be honest. We were a bit surprised," Stern says.

Plus it turns out that the little girl didn't write the work, her dad did. Who is her dad, get ready for this.

The credit for "Springtime" goes to Kelsie's dad, musician-activist Brett Kimberlin.

Remember that guy who lied from jail during the 1988 election saying that he'd peddled pot at a Burger Chef to a dude named Danny Quayle? That was Brett. His Quayle revelation came from the clink, where he was serving time for a series of Indiana bombings (the speedway bomber), one of which wounded a Vietnam veteran. He was convicted of perjury in 1974 for lying about -- surprise -- drugs

James S. Robbins should have read his own source. Legos is a Danish company and I will continue to buy their products. Not everyone will donate to a complete stranger...

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