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Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW
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In lugnet.town, Michael Shiels wrote:

   AND (drum roll please) USD MSRP is 140, which is not bad.

Hmmm, for that price I can go to Bricklink and create a similar sized KILLER MOC™ of my own design.

What’s interesting to me is that I blanche at that price point, but I’ll spend whatever it takes to build my own. Go figure.

JOHN


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----- Original Message -----
From: "John" <John@TCLTC.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW


In lugnet.town, Michael Shiels wrote:

AND (drum roll please) USD MSRP is 140, which is not bad.

Hmmm, for that price I can go to Bricklink and create a similar sized
[KILLER
MOCT] of my own design.

What's interesting to me is that I blanche at that price point, but I'll
spend
whatever it takes to build my own.  Go figure.

[JOHN]

Wouldn't that be [KILLER MOKC] {of your own son's design}?

;)

-Rob
www.brickmodder.net


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Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW
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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.town, Michael Shiels wrote:

   AND (drum roll please) USD MSRP is 140, which is not bad.

Hmmm, for that price I can go to Bricklink and create a similar sized KILLER MOC™ of my own design.

What’s interesting to me is that I blanche at that price point, but I’ll spend whatever it takes to build my own. Go figure.

JOHN

You must have access to cheaper stores that I do ;) No way I could build something that size at that price.

Tim


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Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
   In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.town, Michael Shiels wrote:

   AND (drum roll please) USD MSRP is 140, which is not bad.

Hmmm, for that price I can go to Bricklink and create a similar sized KILLER MOC™ of my own design.

What’s interesting to me is that I blanche at that price point, but I’ll spend whatever it takes to build my own. Go figure.

JOHN

You must have access to cheaper stores that I do ;) No way I could build something that size at that price.

Tim

I’m with Tim, 2000+ parts for $140. That is extremely good if true. I was expecting $200 to tell the truth.

-Eric


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Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW
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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.town, Michael Shiels wrote:

   AND (drum roll please) USD MSRP is 140, which is not bad.

Hmmm, for that price I can go to Bricklink and create a similar sized KILLER MOC™ of my own design.

What’s interesting to me is that I blanche at that price point, but I’ll spend whatever it takes to build my own. Go figure.

JOHN
I have to agree with you John, about the pricing situation. For that money you can get quite a haul at Bricklink.

What I don’t like about the model is the windows. Granted the arches over them on the 2nd and 3rd floor give it a nice Victorian look, but what is with mixing bley first floor windows with white ones above? And what are those windows made from on the 2nd floor (below the arched castle windows)?

Mercifully this set doesn’t include the use of antennas and clear bricks to make windows.

TLG really does need to come out with some new windows. Good lord the toy of the century doesn’t even have a selection of windows that actually match each other.

Back in 1963 TEN PERCENT of all the different LEGO elements were WINDOWS!!!

Today it is less than 1/100th of 1% !!!

(Bringing up my lack-of-LEGO-windows crusade once again....) :-D

Gary Istok


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Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW
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In lugnet.town, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
   And what are those windows made from on the 2nd floor (below the arched castle
   windows)?

Looks like 1x2x3 thin walls to me.


-Eric


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Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:

   You must have access to cheaper stores that I do;)

Well, most of the BL stores are in the US, and I try to avoid the shipping costs across the pond whenever I can...

   No way I could build something that size at that price.

Well, I have a LARGE pile of bricks with which I begin:-) I supply the common stuff; I only need help with specialty bricks or bricks in larger quantities. I tend to focus only on BL expenditures, not on the final, overall cost of a MOC (if I could even do that)

JOHN


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Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW
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In lugnet.town, Rob Hendrix wrote:

   Wouldn’t that be KILLER MOKC of your own son’s design?

It’s people like you wot cause unrest.

JOHN


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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:JEI4ED.D63@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.town, Rob Hendrix wrote:

Wouldn't that be [KILLER MOKC] {of your own son's design}?

It's people like you wot cause unrest.

[JOHN]

So,
A) that makes me welcome in your world anytime eh?
B) we understand each other?
C) long lost brother?
D) whatever

-Rob
www.brickmodder.net

moved and FUT to  .the usual place


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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Rob Hendrix wrote:
  
“John” John@TCLTC.org wrote in message news:JEI4ED.D63@lugnet.com...
   In lugnet.town, Rob Hendrix wrote:

   Wouldn’t that be KILLER MOKC of your own son’s design?

It’s people like you wot cause unrest.

JOHN

So, A) that makes me welcome in your world anytime eh?

Of course.

   B) we understand each other?

Only if you got the MP reference;-)

   C) long lost brother?

Indubitably.

   D) whatever

??? I guess “whatever” fits in wherever. Like, any time is Miller Time™:-d

JOHN
  
-Rob www.brickmodder.net

moved and FUT to .the usual place


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Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message
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In lugnet.town, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
And what are those windows made from on the 2nd floor (below the arched
castle
windows)?

Looks like 1x2x3 thin walls to me.


-Eric

They are indeed thin walls.

Mike


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Re: 10182 Cafe Corner... WOW
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In lugnet.town, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:

  
TLG really does need to come out with some new windows. Good lord the toy of the century doesn’t even have a selection of windows that actually match each other.

Back in 1963 TEN PERCENT of all the different LEGO elements were WINDOWS!!!

Today it is less than 1/100th of 1% !!!

(Bringing up my lack-of-LEGO-windows crusade once again....) :-D

Gary Istok

I totally agree with you. It seems that all my buildings have the either stacked 2x2 trans-black panels or the 1x4x5 large pane windows. Not much variety. They need to make a 1x3x4 double paned office building window. -Jim


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