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We haven't decided yet. We used to have a thread about thi somewhere but as always Jon and DoubleT messed up everything ^_^

Trust me, they will, but only tonight when i'll be back home.

The article is about lego selling a new concept: the serious play. The goal is to realise meeting with employees with lego bricks. Here is the website adress of seriousplay : serious play Personaly it makes me laugh. Now it's always good for lego to sell stuff... Economy LIFE OUT OF BOX - To play Lego, it is strategic! Behind the closed doors of a room of conferences, the management of the firm met for several hours. The program is important, it acts to define a marketing strategy for the next months. Today, however, the meeting is not like the others. Far from the traditional presentations around an overhead projector, the most important persons in charge for the company to half are lowered on the table and assemble bricks of color scattered in front of them. The hanging tie,a smile vagueness on the lips, they play Lego. More precisely, they build a small-scale model of their company. One builds a factory, the other a small car, whereas a third assembles a kind of frightening dragon representing competition. As for the director, it hesitates over the place where to place the figurine which symbolizes it in the medium of an inextricable tangle of cables. Executives fallen down in childhood? Not really. This board of management implements the last-born child of the methods of decision-making aid strategic: Serious Play. This new concept was launched last January by Lego, which is persuaded that its famous system of plastic Meccano can render immense services in company. The postulate of the Danish company is simple: one is never also creative and imaginative but when one is playing. According to Lego, its small bricks make it possible to model situations much more complex than all than the managers could make on paper. And especially with infinitely more pleasure. You estimate that your position on a market is solid like a rock? Assemble a gray brick mountain and place a figurine smiling to the top. Does your unit marketing play a key part in the company? Represent it by means of a notched wheel which would activate a whole series of others of it. Is one of your employees very aggressive? Put it in scene in the shape of a catch by continuing another with a bludgeon. The metaphors of these languages symbolic can be extremely effective. Raised with the row of decision-making aid strategic, Serious Play from now on is sold by Lego as a method turn-key that especially trained consultants apply in company. The principle is as follows: each participant in the "play" joined together around a table is invited to build up a representation of its company. In a second phase, it surrounds it of what constitutes its "environment": competitors, shareholders, banks, customers. Thirdly, finally, it establishes connections which connect the ones to the others each one of these entities. Relations of being able, dependence, flow of information, etc. Comes then the strategic phase where the play can really start. "And that would it occur if the competitor dragon came to be placed on such market?" "What would occur if such employee whose figurine supports a whole brick side came to fall down ?" Each change of the structure of Lego makes it possible to visualize a new situation, to envisage a new strategy. Surprisingly, the principle is a striking down success. According to Per Kristiansen, person in charge for Europe for the concept Serious Play at Lego, of tens of companies already let himself convince by the method. Nokia, Orange, Firmenich, Tupperware, SAS and well of others still use Lego to lay down their main trends. As for the Internet website, it receives nearly 25 000 visits per week. Cliff Denet, member of the think strategic tank of the Orange direction, tried out several times the method. "A the end of the one of these meetings, none the managers wanted to leave the table of play. What they had just assembled was their company and nobody wanted to dismantle such a perfect representation. Finally, they took photographs to be sure good to remember!" This article is a translation from an article from Pierre Nebel

Yes, this is a project we launched at the begining of the website. If the money of the ads is enough, we will create eurobricks T-Shirts and offer those on various occasions. The admin team will receive one each. And you are inside of this team ;)

Well I'm curius to see what this game could look like. I have many gaming machines so I hope it'll be good (reminder : thinking about stealing clecle's game cube) But is this game a totaly sneak preview ? We've already seen pics of the game on many websites... I still bet on the Y-Wing :P

He he, please note that this is just the essential : posting here And this is the only website where top 10 posters will receive a free t-shirt (as soon as this advertising stuff will work)

The piano is in lego and the dino in the background also. Please that the piano is fonctional

Snowspeeder is 30 euros in Europe which is around 30/35 $ :D The difference on cheap sets is not that high so I don't know where the difference comes from

Also note that when you don't give people news at fbtb, they complain and when you give them pics of new sets, like we did here, they also complain and said those are fake. Were they fake ? Well if you look at this I have doubts I won't mention the new fbtb fashion that consists of criticising every single set that is released. "oh no redesigned" "what EU ?" "lego is going the wrong way" If I was Tim, I would have given the website responsability to Josh, which is much more pragmatic and much more informed.

I got the long edition with the DVD of EP I, and it was soooo lonngg ! I almost fell asleep before the end. I can hardly imagine seeing the all 3 movies in long editions one by one. Lord of th ring is the kind of movies I watch one time, maybe two but not that much. I mostly bought the dvd to know about special effects (I was fond of special effects). I know that here for SW EPI they used to show the entire old trilogy before showing epI, but it is Star Wars, so I can watch it 100 times, and I'll ask for more :P (just like star gate)

Lolol Pure fun Even if you say we're dumb, we won't bann you ;) Well it must be part of the new fbtb policy. Banning people is completely useless for the majority of the cases. Most people have dynmaic IP's, which means it changes everytime you reconnect. If like me you have a permanant IP, you just have to create a new account from work or school ;) I agree with your statment : people on fbtb are doing things weirdly. In my opinion, fbtb is now holds by a clan of few big wigs who are doing nothing special. No more hints, no more previews. Just people saying "hey lego, if you read this, I want a sandcrawler, it could contain this minifigs and should be released around 20$". Anyway, you will always be welcome here :)

Sales are not easy to find. I can't recall finding a set on clearance when I was a kid. To find cheap lego, it takes time, and you also need a car in most of the cases ;)

If they do that I think this would have been the worst year in term of communication for lego... Missleading people like that is not a good way to keep customers. Anyway I bet my money on an UCS Y-wing

Thx for the info ! I just can't wait to see atlantis :o

Well the first time I saw lego in an american store I thougt it was on sale... It was normal priced but it was something like 30% cheaper than in France. there is something wrong with this policy. And the bigger the set is, the biger th gap will be : almost 125 $ of difference on an isd. Is that fair ? Definitly not

The stat module was also added to the website. It is available at : eurobricks.com/stats Now you can see we've still work ! :lol:

And you were the first to reach 1000

Well the version 2 of our community website is coming soon. I spent a lot of time on this version, espcialy in the programation and the graphics. The website will adapt itslef to every definition of screens you're using and it will give more space to articles we could wrotte (I'm still working on our spip interface to allow this). I hope you will enjoy it. I planned to release the version at the end of july. I will try to even if it'll be hard.

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I also planned this ! But 30 euros for 1 single wagon is definitly a lot... And there is not electric system inside of the loco. Once we get sets first cause we cannot see we will be ducked by american prices in 2 months ;)

You shouldn't make jokes about german toy shops, you would be surprised of what you could find inside of those. I found a monorail track in box 3 month ago in a small german store for 10 euros. Those shops are full with old lego

Well interresting but what a waste of space. Do they have an infinite storage ?

this movie is incredible, way better than the first one. Evrything is sooo detailed. Georges Lucas should take a close look at how to create a romance wothout falling into stupidity. Same for battle scenes and for death. here people are not killing just to kill. They think about their acts and the consequences of those. Only one disapointment : the copters at the last scene look sooooo fakkeeee (same for buildings)

I have the weird impression of some words appearing more than others :blink:

Well since he's young he might have gone away with his parents for some vacations somewhere there's no computer ;) Nice to see all of you back (nice to see me bak online also :P )