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. :-)