Official Lego Livestream Friday!

[gingerbred.livejournal.com]

LEGO posted this on Twitter:

“Calling all witches and wizards! ✨ Join LEGO Designers Fiorella and Marcos for a magical LEGO Harry Potter Livestream! Got any questions for the designers? You can ask them using #LEGOLive #LEGOHarryPotter #HarryPotter”



Friday, 19 March, 17:00 GMT, 12:00 EST. Perhaps we’ll get lucky and there will be some official word on this summer‘s anniversary sets? We’ll have to wait and see. 😃

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[erexen.livejournal.com]

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

😘🎉

[erexen.livejournal.com]

I've never done this, so need to know how? Have never done a hashtag Anything, so lost there too... *sheepishly shrugs* sorry?

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

Jumping in to answer... No worries.

They haven’t provided a more direct link than lego.com (https://www.lego.com) and there’s no mention of it on the lego website. (That, and they just had a surprise livestream a couple of hours ago... (I *so* don’t get their marketing approach).) This (https://www.lego.com/en-us/harry-potter-designer-livestream) (https://www.lego.com/en-us/harry-potter-designer-livestream ) seems to have worked for that livestream, can’t promise it will be the same url later today. (At this point, anything is possible...) Basically (in a normal world) there would be more cohesive hoopla about such things across platforms, although I appreciate that there is a point to making things that are fleeting in nature tweets, say, instead of website entries, but whatevs. You click on the link for a livestream and can watch, and if you’d like to ask the designers a question, you’ll need a twitter account to ask your question and to “target” it towards them and get their attention, you include #LEGOlive in your message. The # sign means it’s viewed as a tag instead of text content, like how this post is tagged “news” in the tags section (which basically eliminates the need for a # 😆).

That sounds far more complicated than it is. Let’s try another example with something you’re familiar with. I’m not on “teh twitter” 😉 but gingerbred is. When a new chapter of wandpoint goes up, there’s a tweet (https://twitter.com/gingerbredshaus) with the tag (or hashtag) #beyondwandpoint (https://twitter.com/hashtag/beyondwandpoint?src=hashtag_click). Tags enable users to search for things and to better group them. (To try that out, click the ‘tweet’ link above, then click on one of the # entires and you’ll see how it gives you select results.) Or here’s the example with #LEGOlive (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LEGOlive&src=typed_query). You can see how that could help the livestream participants spot people’s questions. So in the case of the LEGO stream, it’s a little bit like raising your hand in the classroom, except technically you’ve asked it before they call on you. 😂

[erexen.livejournal.com]

Ugh, sounds complicated... tho I do have a twitter thing... I think? May have made one years ago, but haven't been back in loooooooooooong time? No clue how it works tbh. so never continued. it was not important enough.

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

Well it’s not necessary to have an account to watch the stream, but using tools like that mean you have a prayer of asking them a question that might get answered. Without it, you can’t.