Re: PodBrix Steve Wozniak to go on sale at 9PM Eastern US Time on 8/4/05

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:29:35 GMT, Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>
wrote:

>Woz goes on sale Thursday (8/04) at 9:00pm EST
>
>The Woz Minifig is a hand-signed and numbered limited edition of 300 
>units. He comes with a pre-assembled LEGO backdrop in the appropriate 
>retro computing colors. The reverse of the backdrop displays the limited 
>edition unit number and is signed by Tomi.
>
>Each Woz minifig will sell for $24.99. More details and product photos 
>will be available on the PodBrix.com site at 9:00pm EST.
>
>Please be aware that sales will be limited to no more than three units 
>per order.
>
><http://www.podbrix.com/massmail-8-02.htm>

I had to go to the web site because I had no idea what "PodBrix" or
"minifig" was.  Turns out they are charging $24.99 for a LEGO figure
(minifig = miniature figure?) with its face "painted" to look like Woz
and a Woz logo on its chest with 17 LEGO blocks (although they
probably could have done it with less; the base is made of two pieces
from the look of it).

They are signed by someone named "Tomi", who I assume is the person
who "painted" the figure, not by Woz.

To top it all off they have a disclaimer saying that PodBrix is not
affiliated with either Apple Computer Inc. or LEGO in any way.  I hope
they at least got permission to do this.

All in all, I found this to be pretty weird.  :-)

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