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In lugnet.town, Steven Asbury wrote:
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In lugnet.town, Ray Silva wrote:
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Steven,
Speaking of Lime Green Fire Engines, I’d love to see one from TLG too. But
until they make one, you can check out this pic of my Lime Green Fire
Engine. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3275744
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There are lots of
departments that have lime fire trucks, but Lego hasn’t given us the parts
to make them. In addition, almost all
airport fire departments have their rigs in lime.
Based on my conversations with other builders, I put together a list of parts
that aren’t available.
1) Lime doors. Including
car doors and
lift doors.
2) A better ladder piece.
The current ladders from Lego work great as ground ladders, but there hasn’t
been a piece that works well as an
aerial ladder
Megablocks makes one, but
it’s too large and I would never buy their brand.
3) Minifig hazmat suits
I think a rescue hazmat set with a rescue truck and minifigs would sell VERY
well.
4) Flat windscreens in
6-wide. (Long been a problem for fire truck builders)
5) Please re-release this
part in red. It’s going for as much as $20 on Bricklink.
Lego fire builders represent one on the larger sub-groups here and on
Brickshelf. And Lego fire sets consistently show up on Lego Shop and Home’s
top 25 sellers list.
Thanks for your consideration!
-Steven
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The 2012 fire set
photos have now been widely distributed.
I know some people will groan at yet another line of city fire sets, but keep in
mind that kids are the target audience, and these sets sell well.
However, Lego put some long-awaited goodies in these sets that AFOLs have been
asking for.
- New ladder piece!
- Printed fireman legs
- Fire chief minifig
Thank you, TLC, for these. Can’t wait for these sets to be released.
-Steven
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In lugnet.build, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
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I’ve posted these on Cuusoo, please support:
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1x2 technic liftarm-snot yay!
snot yay!
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I’ve posted these on Cuusoo, please support:
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1x2 technic liftarm-snot yay!
snot yay!
thanks!
Jeff
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Dear Lego
I'm a HUGE fan of the creator sets (I can seriously see myself content with just
one or two of these if I was stuck on a desert island). The sets with
articulation joints in particular are my favorites but I noticed that with last
year's 5868 Ferocious Creatures there were only five rotation pins (which are
preferable to ball/socket joints and simple hinges), while the previous year's
6751 Fiery Legend contains nine pins. The rumours are that for 2012 we'll be
getting the 6914 Prehistoric Hunters set which again has a decrease in
pins/joints (maybe four or five at the most).
This may not be a trend, but before it becomes one may I request that you don't
decrease the articulated creator sets' pin count? In my estimation, at least
one creator set a year with a minimum of eight pins would be preferable.
..joseph g
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I was using Lego Digital Designer and am disappointed the downhill availabilty
of certain important parts to build "buyable" models.
I would like to see a return of "warehouse" sliding doors to make
box cars.
Train-style doors would also be nice as well as train windows (both in
2x3 and 4x3)... please.
I looked at the instructions to build a mail car from the 7722, and
found that I really only need 2 red sliding rail doors, the pair of
"decorated train doors" and a set of two 2x3 thin yellow train
windows.
Yes, there was a bit of minor substitution but it is mostly distiguishable
as the model.
Here is what it looks like:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/medib/lego-fun/7722mailvan.jpg
Yeah I know... where are the f-in doors???
Ben
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Nephilim <jthompson@esker.com> wrote:
> I personally would prefer for LEGO to extend what they've done for
> Belville, to the Castle line -- just not so pink. Girls like castles
> and fairy tale stuff. Make pegasii, unicorns, witches, princesses,
> queens, princes, kings, etc. Just make the sets gender neutral - you
> don't need transparent pink castles. Fairy tale things are the sort
> of sets that would appeal to both boys and girls.
I tried a version of this last year with my advent calendar for my
niece. She got the big castle set (in 24 sections) with a princess
added in one of the two towers. It was quite popular, but I can't say
for sure that it wouldn't have been popular, even without the princess.
Play well,
Jacob
--
»Daniela« - a small, classical LEGO sailboat:
http://lego.sparre-andersen.dk/Transport/Skibe/Daniela/
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Dear Lego,
I love the new collectible minifig series that are coming out this year.
Here are some minifigs I’d like to see in future releases.
1) Welder
2) Construction worker with lime green vest and lime green helmet
3) hazmat
unit
4) surgeon
5) Airport fire fighter
Thanks.
-Steven
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Chris Marx wrote:
> I would love to see TLG develop a marble run/ball track theme. Marble run toys
> are my favorites next to LEGO and it would be great if I could bring the two
> together.
I agree, this is an excellent suggestion, and in fact it is a mystery to me that
they are not doing it already. A few carefully designed specialised parts would
almost certainly increase the mass appeal of such sets. While making tracks
with existing parts is of course possible, it can be quite tricky and time
consuming. It would be very natural to have something that could be snapped
together with less fuss...
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Bart Wistuk wrote:
> To all:
> I made a Lego Marble Run - made entirely out of Legos (acutally my
> children and I did). You can view the results here:
Wow - that's amazing, congratulations! I (and I expect others) would be very
glad to see some close-up photos showing exactly how your construction works...
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I got the latest BrickMaster set today, a mini-scale Atlantis submarine. It has
a Christmas present inside: two red 1x3 tiles!
Yes, you read that right: 1x3 tiles.
Tiles. Three studs long, one stud wide. And red.
The instructions list them as part 4533742, and the number molded into their
underside is 63864.
Thanks, LEGO Group!
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Per this
Flickr photo posting, does anyone know who the new Lego Ambassador ‘David
Furphy’ from Australia is and what his group ‘CALG’ is?
Could someone at TLG please look into this?
Thank you.
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Dear LEGO,
While out shopping for some new LEGO Collectible pens, I came across these:
This surprised me because on the hang card of the Belville pen P2171 shown below
produced by the same company (Stylus) it states, “...the knob configuration (and
the minfigure) are trademarks of the LEGO Group.” I’ve looked carefully at
these pens and I can tell you all the beads as well as the pen parts themselves
are identical in design. Any AFOL would recognize one of the bead shapes as
taken from a minifig head.
These items are also identical in design (although now they seem to be more
cheaply made) to the parts from the old collectible pens produced by the CDM
Company for TLG.
Have you sold your designs to the Stylus Company or allowed them to be used on
Disney brand items? If so, I am disappointed. Part of the fun of collecting
these pens was that they were exclusively LEGO pens. If not, maybe you should
check into this to see if they haven’t stolen your design.
Best regards,
Maggie Cambron
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Damon Burke wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Johan Korten wrote:
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For the people that want to build one with their own (or bricklink) LEGO:
http://www.ministickers.nl/ now offers a stickersheet that is a reproduction
of the original one.
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Has anyone bought any of these reproduction stickers? What is the quality
like and is this guy good to deal with? I seem to be having difficulty trying
to reach him by email. Cheers.
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The email server had problems for a while. I’m not sure about the intentions of
mister Burke, he asked information, even placed an order but did not hear from
him again after explaining the problems that we had.
Site is working correctly now again. Sorry for others that experienced problems.
You can always send an email to me of course (ministickers@gmail.com) if you
have questions.
Greetings Johan
p.s. I do it together with my cousin and my (handicapped) brother, both are not
very affluent in English so that also might cause some confusion now and then
but most of the times we are very quick and at last everything works out fine.
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Jordan Schwarz wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Gereon Stein wrote:
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I second everything that has been said about this set: It’s too good to be
limited to an exclusive group of commercial customers. Make this thing
public, and if Vestas objects (why on Earth should they?), paste a fantasy
brand on the turbine. That’s certainly the least effort there might be to
scoring an instant hit in the market.
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Over at the LEGO Ambassador forums, we have been actively discussing this set
and are as excited about it as all of you are. It is unclear from the
information presently available whether this set will ever be released to the
public. However, Steve Witt (of TLG) suggests that we collect all of the
feedback supporting this set so that we can deliver it to the LEGO City team
and show them that this Windmill (and sets like it) are the sort of thing we
want to see from City.
So, if you like this set (and seriously, who doesn’t?!), please reply in this
thread affirming your point of view, and we’ll make sure that the feedback
gets passed back up the Ambassadorial chain.
Jordan Schwarz
<<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jordan/misc/ambassador
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Not really at #4999 VESTAS Wind Turbine, but a new 2009 set: #7747 Wind Turbine
Transport -. This appears to be non-motorized and smaller version. At least
someone at the LEGO Group, Inc. was listening.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=380806
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Johan Korten wrote:
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For the people that want to build one with their own (or bricklink) LEGO:
http://www.ministickers.nl/ now offers a stickersheet that is a reproduction
of the original one.
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Has anyone bought any of these reproduction stickers? What is the quality like
and is this guy good to deal with? I seem to be having difficulty trying to
reach him by email. Cheers.
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Abner Finley wrote:
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Indianapolis, IN
April 6, 2009
Indianapolis Museum Exhibits LEGO: Castle Adventure
Hear ye, hear ye, calling builders of all ages... join The Children’s Museum
of Indianapolis as they debut the opening of LEGO Castle Adventure. The new
traveling museum exhibit begins at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and
will visit 12 major markets in North America through 2013, reaching more than
2 million children and families.
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Can we get a list of proposed dates and locations so hte LUGs can start working
on partnering plans with the local hosting venues?
Paul Sinasohn
BAYLUG
LUGNET #115
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Dear Lego,
Please consider making a product line of capsule toys, such as those found in
coin–operated dispensers in some retail stores in the USA. I would like to see
each capsule toy include one of the new micro-figs (from the buildable board
games to be released in Europe) and have a small buildable vehicle in scale to
the micro-fig, such as a car, truck, plane, etc. The vehicles could be in a
theme, e.g., all the capsule sets in a product wave would be police vehicles, or
fire vehicles or construction vehicles, etc. I think the piece count should be
such as to make the capsule set $1 to $2.
If the cost of the micro-fig would prohibit its inclusion in a small capsule set
with other pieces for the vehicle, other options for Lego capsule sets would be:
1) Vehicle-only sets, the size of the vehicle comparable to the mini sets in advent calendars a few years ago
2) Vehicle sets with a 1x1 cylinder brick with a few provided face stickers to make a micro-fig out of the 1x1 cylinder brick
3) A Regular Minifig with a tool
4) 1-3 of the new micro-figs
I believe the expansion of the Lego line into the impulse market has several
benefits:
A) High product/brand visibility: In the USA, the coin-op capsule toy dispensers are in a high visibility location at the front of the store, often at the entrance, so customers see them entering and exiting the store.
B) Collectability: small collectible items such as cards, card games and small toys have the attraction of continued fun for a small investment by the customer. The small price and size along with a possible unifying theme in each ‘wave’ of Lego capsule sets encourages collecting.
C) It fits the Lego Ideals: it’s really fun to get a small treat/toy, and when that toy is Lego, and the other capsule sets all work together, creativity and imagination are stimulated.
Also, I believe it would add to the product value if the packaging could be an
‘in-system’ size plastic capsule with Minifig-scale studs on ‘top’ and tubes on
the ‘bottom’, like smaller versions of the Duplo eggs from a few years ago.
Thank you for your consideration.
Jeff Szklennik
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To all:
I made a Lego Marble Run - made entirely out of Legos (acutally my
children and I did). You can view the results here:
search Youtube for:
"Lego - Marble Run - 100% Lego - Final - Wistuk"
or try this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRTnFnTA0zQ
Nothing was cut, all peices can be reused and are available anywhere. The run is
highly flexible, easy to build and expand on.
I would be very happy to answer any questions you may have, as a ton of thought
has gone into this and I would love to share how it is done. It would have been
larger, but my wife started to complain.
Bart Wistuk
b5612@optonline.net
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> 1.More hairpieces in usefull colors other than black, i.e. blond, brown
> etc. Some hairpieces do come in colors like orange for example but orange
> isn't very usefull, so few real world people have orange hair.
So few people have yellow faces too :)
ROSCO
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1.More hairpieces in usefull colors other than black, i.e. blond, brown
etc. Some hairpieces do come in colors like orange for example but orange
isn't very usefull, so few real world people have orange hair. I am talking
about the newer funkier styles of hair here btw.
2.More variety in town torsos. For example, T-shirts. Jackets. Jumpers.
Polo Shirts. i.e. more casual clothes.
3.Sets 10145 (light grey bricks), 10146 (dark grey bricks), 10149 (dark
grey plates) and 10148 (light grey plates) in the new grays. For bonus
points add some 1 x 1 plates and maybe some 2 x 2 elbow bricks and plates.
I for one would buy a few of each if these sets existed (especially the
bricks) just to expand my collection of new grey bits.
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