LEGO Ambassadors announced for 2008-2009 [News]
LEGO Community Team member Steve Witt has just announced the LEGO Ambassadors for the 2008-2009 cycle.
Read the full announcement here (and note the bolded names):
We’re excited to announce the new group of LEGO Ambassadors who will be representing the AFOL Community to the LEGO Group. We had nearly 100 nominations and the choices were hard. We settled on the following forty participants for this year’s cycle. Please congratulate the following new LEGO Ambassadors.
John Langrish, Canada – VicLUG
Milcan Bikics, Hungary – MALUG
Didier Enjary, France – Railbricks, FreeLUG
Patrick Begin, Canada – QueLUG
Verena Schaden, Austria – LGOe
Svend Erik Saksun, Denmark – Byggepladen
David Eaton, USA – NELUG
Mike Crowley, USA – FBTB, NELUG
Tsang Yiu Keung, China – HKLUG
Stephan Sander, Germany – 1000steine
Lluis Gibert, Spain – HispaLUG
Tim Gould, Australia – Ldraw, LUGNET, The Brothers Brick
Matjaz Selic, Slovenia – Kocke Klub
Marcin Danielak, Poland – LUGPol, e-Klocki.com, KMFL
Paul Wolters, the Netherlands – De Bouwsteen
Tony Sava, USA – Classic-Castle, TexLUG
Peer Kreuger, the Netherlands – LowLUG
Dan Rubin, USA – Classic-Space
Jean-Marc Nimal, Belgium – BeLUG
Doug Eaton, USA – ParLUGment
Fradel Gonzales, USA – MechaHub
Jordan Schwarz, USA – TN Valley LTC
Danila Martyakhin, Russia – DoubleBrick.ru
Magnus Lauglo, USA – WAMALUG
Roy Cook, USA – TWINLUG
Steve Barile, USA – GPLR, ILTCO, BrickFest
Aaron Andrews, Australia – Classic-Castle, The Builders Lounge, MOCPages, Flickr
Nannan Zhang, USA – BrickLink, The Builders Lounge, MOCpages, The Brothers Brick
Sue Ann Barber, Australia – Melbourne LUG (MUG)
Ildefonso Zanette, Brazil – LUG Brazil
Tania Baixinho, Portugal – Comunidade 0937
Alistair Disley, UK – the Brickish Association
Fernando Correia, Portugal – PLUG
Matija Puzar, Norway – Brikkelauget
Mickael Sjöstedt, Sweden – Eurobricks
Marco Chiappa, Italy – ItLUG
Andrew Becraft, USA – The Brothers Brick, Flickr, Classic-Castle
Adrian Florea, Romania – FBTB
Keith Goldman, USA – MOCPages
Andrew Bulthaupt, USA – BZPower
Congratulations to all of the new and returning LEGO Ambassadors!
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Congratulations to all these guys. Now you can’t publicly have any harsh criticism of Lego’s products or policies without fear of losing your title! ;)
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
*sniff* My name’s not bolded… don’t you love me anymore?
Congrats to all! I look foward to working with you.
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
@SavaTheAggie: Heh heh, the bolding was just to note that all four of the six people who got the most votes here on TBB ended up becoming an Ambassador. Congrats, Tony! Your name is bolded in my heart. ;-)
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
…..Gizmo didn’t make it. *sniff*
Congrats though, that’s pretty awesome.
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Congratulations folks. This will be fun :-)
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
LEGO Ambassadors Announced…
Almost 100 aplications from 22 countries filed by 52 communities. And here are the results:
New LEGO Ambassador Group!
We’re excited to announce the new group of LEGO Ambassadors who will be representing the AFOL Community to the LEGO Group. We …
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
No one from BZPower. Hmm.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
My name have a new view… “Danila”, not “Daniala”)
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Come now Ecto, do you really think we count as an AFOL community?
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
@Dandily: I’ve fixed your name in the post (and on Flickr). You might also want to contact Steve and make sure it’s correct on his end, too.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
No, but one Bionicle-Specific (or even Bionicle-Liking) ambassador would be nice.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Oh wait, B6 says he got it, but was omitted from the initial release. Huh.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Congrats to all nominated LEGO Ambassadors, cheers!
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Yes, Andrew Bulthaupt, USA – BZPower was incidentally omitted. Check the LUGNET thread :-)
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Good, we have B6 :D
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
@Hippotam: Thanks, and congratulations on your selection!
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Congratulations to everyone and a special yahoo for our own Roy Cook (TwinLUG) here in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul. -Garth
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Shouldn’t that be ‘emboldened’?
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Yeah for the Brothers-Brick! Quite a-few in there, along with Goldman. Great builder… congrats to all!
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Congrats guys. Well deserved, indeed =D
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Hooray!
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
And there was much rejoicing in the land.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Big Daddy is pleased. Congratulations, Brothers! :)
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Rocko: No title will ever stop me from saying that LEGO needs more females of color in their fine family of minifigs. Nor will I ever stop in my advocacy for the return of the monkey. As a man who love to employ bikini-clad biker-women in his top-notch dioramas, you should appreciate that.
Congrats to my fellow ambassadors. now who has the key to the ambassadorial restroom?
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I’m so glad to see many familiar names make the list. I look forward to a great year.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
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June 4th, 2008 at 2:06 am
CONGRATULATIONS!
LOL Bionicle caring? Oh yeah, that’s gonna happen.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I love this, Doug Eaton USA – ParLUGment.
ParLUGment is the club in Ottawa, Canada. ;-)
Doug has been a member of the club since the early days and just because he and a few others are not in town with us, does not exclude them from membership. Heck, he attends more meetings than others in the group.
I laugh, but I am glad Doug made it (especially since I endorsed him) and we have him to represent us again.
Congrats to all!!!
June 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Congratulations all!
Quite a few Australians considering we have such a small population base here in this country.
We must consume a lot of lego® i presume.
A shame to see some Ambassadors depart, i hope they return in future rounds of the program.
May you new Ambassadors fill your roles well, for it is we the LUG`s and `fans` that voted for you to represent US, you have become the `channel` of communication between us and the Lego® company.
It is a `job` like any other, obviously it has it’s `perks`, but it requires more than just sitting back and reviewing new and upcoming product, and i for one will be expecting to see something more than that from future Ambassadors.
Once again Congratulations!!
June 4th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Congrats to all! Now, for the uninitiated, how does one become a LEGO© ambassador? Just curious. Thanks!
June 11th, 2008 at 8:31 am
yay andrew!
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