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(...) Hey, that's fine by me! (...) Unless it affects me and our group. Your letters to Lego whining about the colour of bricks paint EVERY AFOL. Some of us don't want to make a fuss, because it's not enough of an issue in our minds. (...) You see (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.color, Thomas Stangl wrote: <snip> (...) True, but how much of that 5% actually cares about the color change enough to vocally protest? Based on the discussion here I'd well less than half and probably more like one tenth (and I think (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) (Blush), thanks! And I agree with you about Mark's "Pioneer". I just checked his gallery again, and I think you could maybe park my "Aggressor" inside the cargo container. (...) I actually thought carefully about those white curved slopes. I (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for discussion!
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I like this wording better, it's much more positive, I'd sign it... But I stand by signing the original version - TLG needs a swift kick in the rear about now to knock some sense into it. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) Okay, but there's a way to go and write a letter, and there's one that fans the flames even more. Posting a petition list almost invites commentary, however unjustified. It's not just this latest petition thread, which in fact, could have been (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Kevin, If you read the thread, they've already noted it was a mis-translation. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Sure, and I have no problem with that. I DO have a problem with the suck-ups telling the people that are trying to tell TLC they made a mistake to keep quiet about it. Sucking up all the time with no dissent is a sure way to grenade a company (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The tests they did simply could have been skewed by how the questions were asked. Without seeing the actual test, we won't know if they happened to use leading questions posed by the people for the color change, or hand-picked a strange group (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) And your actions, kissing their hindquarters vociferously, will somehow tell them when they might have done something that has upset their paying customers? ENOUGH of the puckering up, Bill. (...) 5% is 5%. If you as a CEO piss off 5% of your (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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I agree to returning to the old greys/browns (the new don't need to disappear, just bring back the old). Tom Stangl (38), Cantonment, Florida USA ~$10-20,000/yr 1997-2004 ~$200 post-2004 (on post-color-change sets. Still a few thousand on (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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I DON'T agree with this letter...as far as grey/brown color changes are concerned. To date, TLG has *yet* to give a *valid* reason for the change. Any reasons given have been debunked as fluff or outright lies. Give us the real reason ($$$), and (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The top turret was kind of a doodle that just turned out really well. (I shoulda showed you guys the turret that came in second place and got scrapped--yuck!) (...) I dunno about that. Looking at your Brickshelf folder, you've obviously got (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) They are on sale today in Ashland, KY. A little under $10.00 with your Kroger card. Sorry, I don't have an inventory. The 400 pieces are posted on the side of the bin. The 300 are very strange to say the least. All I have seen have had two (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) How good's your memory? How about making a list of all the sets you've acquired over the years (don't do it in one hit, take a few days), making a note of the set number and number of pieces. See what you can come up with. (No need to build (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hi Lar, I usually attach the 2x2 wire plate to the motor, bend the wire down towards the track and then bend the wire back up towards the cab. The wire then goes through a 1x2 hole in the floor and to the motor and lights in the cab. That loop (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote: FOr example, if you were (...) Mister David Geoffrey Koudys (in my strictest teacher voice) leave my cleavage out of this discussion! Thank you very much! Trust me, a punishment from me will be worse (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Gee, Steve, not to make you self concsious or anything, but your balls look pretty small, and spotted. Have you talked to your doctor about this? Kevin (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) Maybe not, but some people keep shoving it under our noses by cross-posting it to innappropriate groups and spotlighting it. ROSCO (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) <snip> (...) You get it in your nearest live theater. It is the opposite of comedy. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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