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Re: Two silly items
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Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:48:22 GMT
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Fair enough. Leave the Bionicle to those of use who find them useful, then. I
promise to leave the metroliners alone. Better a small, low cost technic set
with useful new parts than another overpriced old train with the same useless
parts anyway.

-Dave

Overpriced Train set???  Useless parts....Whoa....back the truck up.

I don't see the big craze with Bionical, and if you are big into lego mecha,
I would find that the TOA sets and the LOM mecha sets are pretty good.
I wouldn't associate the smaller "village leader" sets or the McDonald's
promo sets, as useful as you would allude to....that being said, I
still stick with the idea that the aliens that Iain finds so offensive, do
have some nice qualities....
imagine this image one or two of these "creatures" playing on the beach
throwing the "frisbee" to eachother...it is a very endeering image.

Personally, I find the set very soothing to play with.  Light Grey is such
a relaxing color, the train going around a round loop is very catatonic....

Benjamin Medinets



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(...) Perhaps I should explain what I meant by overpriced train set. I have yet to see a train set priced in the $25-$30 range that was 'ready to go'. I've rarely purchased any set that retails for more than $50 based on the principle that no toy (...) (23 years ago, 12-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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(...) Fair enough. Leave the Bionicle to those of use who find them useful, then. I promise to leave the metroliners alone. Better a small, low cost technic set with useful new parts than another overpriced old train with the same useless parts (...) (23 years ago, 12-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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