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In lugnet.town, Michael Shiels wrote:
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AND (drum roll please) USD MSRP is 140, which is not bad.
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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>
Newsgroups: lugnet.town
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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In lugnet.town, Rob Hendrix wrote:
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Wouldn’t that be KILLER MOKC of your own son’s design?
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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:
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> > 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:
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“John” John@TCLTC.org wrote in message news:JEI4ED.D63@lugnet.com...
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In lugnet.town, Rob Hendrix wrote:
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Wouldn’t that be KILLER MOKC of your own son’s design?
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It’s people like you wot cause unrest.
JOHN
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So,
A) that makes me welcome in your world anytime eh?
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Of course.
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B) we understand each other?
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Only if you got the MP reference;-)
Indubitably.
??? I guess “whatever” fits in wherever. Like, any time is Miller Time™:-d
JOHN
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-Rob
www.brickmodder.net
moved and FUT to .the usual place
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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.town, Michael Shiels wrote:
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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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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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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.town, Michael Shiels wrote:
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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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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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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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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
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You must have access to cheaper stores that I do;)
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Well, most of the BL stores are in the US, and I try to avoid the shipping costs
across the pond whenever I can...
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No way I could build
something that size at that price.
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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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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.town, Michael Shiels wrote:
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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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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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In lugnet.town, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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And what are those windows made from on the 2nd floor (below the arched castle
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Looks like 1x2x3 thin walls to me.
-Eric
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message
news:JEI19w.FF@lugnet.com...
> 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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http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=mpw - CTB/Brick Depot
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In lugnet.town, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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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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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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