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So I recently discovered that rec.toys.lego is apparently still accessible. While having fun reading through the thoughts and opinions of 90s LEGO fans, I found this. More specifically, this message:

 

Hey Nick,

I have no Idea about the cost, but here's what I know.

When I went to E-3 this year, I was exited to see what the game was
like. I weaved my way through the throngs of people, catching glimpses
of a big red Lego logo above the crowd, up ahead.I stumble through, and
found myself standing in front of a 20 inch TV playing a 2 min loop of
computer generated animation, and a 2 min video clip of kids playing
with Lego Town pieces.

The TV was set into an interesting display that looked somewhat like a
Lego Police Station. Some parts were VERY realistic.

The animation sequence was of a day on Lego Island. This Island had Lego
Town streets, with a police station, construction vehicles, race cars,
mini-figs, fire station...etc. It looked alot like a display that would
appear in a Lego catalog, except not as rich with detail. There was a
mini-fig kid (Time Cruiser Style) on a little skateboard weaving in an
out of the cars and other figs. Lots of other little stories going on
in the background. It was cute.

The video portion showed avariety of kids playing with a real life
version of Lego Island, driving cars around, making hrrrrr-crassshhh
noises, the usual play. There was no narration that I could hear.

And that was it!! They gave away a 2 wide x 1 deep x 2 tall yellow Duplo
Brick with the name of the game of it. And Lego Master Builders were
there putting together two HUGE Lego computers. One was build with
standard bricks (twice to three times actual size) and one, made almost
the same, out of Duplo sized bricks. The Builders were wearing nice
yellow T-shirts with tasteful 2 inch Lego logos on the left chest
area.... I begged, but to no avail.

Anyway, it was nice to see Lego there, and they tried to make a cool
little display for the video. But that's all they had at the time of the
E-3 "convention" (mid May). Seems like they didn't know WHAT the game
was really going to be like. They were still researching what kids want.

NJC

 

So now we know what was going on at E3 to some degree. It would be really nice to be able to see that animation.

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Maybe they still have it?

It's possible some former Mindscape employee held on to it, although it is hard to say whether it would be possible to find that person, given they exist.

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  • 3 weeks later...

O.T.

Is it just me or RRU topics are extremely slow?
They're slow because most people wait until they have something meaningful to say, and don't post in topics just to post in them... Keep that in mind.
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  • 8 years later...
Maniac4Bricks

Hello everyone! I've had email notifs on about the 2x4 brick for years now, and I was excited the other day to find it available for sale on BrickLink again on June 1st, 2022. In no time flat, I placed an order and was also happy to see it updated: there's a BLUE version, not just gray anymore! Check the entry for the update (yet somehow you cannot search for it in gray anymore for some reason?). It leads me to believe that there may be MORE colors available.

I reached out to the seller for more information, and he had this to reply:
"HI Joseph

To be honest we do not know much about it ourselves. It was surprisingly
in a tote bulk buy at a tag sale Esmile.gif I had only seen the gray one before this
as well.. Sorry I couldn't be more help ..

Nicky"

While this doesn't answer anything, it was worth a shot as someone who had it in hand before the entry updated. If I recall correctly, I might have the email notifying of the previous sale when it was in gray, and it says on there generally what BrickLink store carries it. I will try to contact them, provided they still use the site, for more information. I would also contact the person who created the BL entry in the firtst place, but that account appears to no longer exist on the site. Another suuplied the weight, but unless the pattern differs the weight from a regular 2 x 4 brick, honestly anybody could have added that without owning the brick.

If my calculations are correct, the brick should be arriving early to mid next week, I'm so excited to have it in hand! I will be sure to get more photos and video of it to distribute online and reach out to others if they've seen or had something like it. I only knew one person who claimed to own the gray but they never came forward with it - on account of tons of LEGO to search through.

Hope to talk again soon!

Joey
Maniac4Bricks

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