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Whoo! I never thought I'd win a something like this... There were plenty of awesome contenders, and it's great to see that lots of folks got involved. (Hey, almost anyone can shell out $5 for a darn spiffy lego set.) It was a bit hard since orange (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | 2006 - 45 Years Of Lego in the USA
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OK, it's time for my annual complaining about the first year of Lego in the USA..... The first Lego sets were sold in the USA in 1961. Most of the parts were produced from a Samsonite plant in Stratford Ontario, with specialty parts coming from (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Questions about fan involvement with TLC
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(...) Janey, interesting questions, and I will not respond to them individually, but just give my overall "feeling" about things. I am not currently under NDA to TLC, but I have been in the past. As far as the interaction that happened while I was (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Questions about fan involvement with TLC
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(...) Well not all the "AFOL big mouths" are in the program! ;-p As someone who's done his fair share of "positive critiquing" of TLG, I unfortunately have been busy mapping out the proverbial "Lego Genome" (all Lego sets/elements ever produced (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question about Colour
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(...) I'm assuming you mean the cake-thing on the tin-foil? If so, I'd definitely say it's dark blue-grey, a.k.a. the new dark grey. (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Questions about fan involvement with TLC
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(...) That's a good question. It's been a long time since I was 'prolific', but I am in the MDP. In general, NDA's cover confidential information actually disclosed (on purpose or accidently), not other informaiton. The problem comes in keeping (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm under NDA, and have been thinking about this very thing. I have a blog entry about half-written about the subject, but - alas - I'm so busy it's been delayed a bit... (...) Yes. (...) Benefiting, with caveats, see below. (...) Absolutely (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: HoB 2006, one month away
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(...) I won't be there but I just wanted to say I think that HoB has a seriously cool logo. Props to whoever designed it. Tim (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.events.houseofbricks, FTX)
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| | HoB 2006, one month away
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(URL) This is a friendly reminder that Chicago House of Bricks is rapidly approaching. Come join us May 12-14 in Downer’s Grove, Illinois! Please be sure to register soon if you plan to attend. (URL) Visit our website for more information.> We hope (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.events.houseofbricks, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.ky, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Question about Colour
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(...) Stunning and surely a delicious addition to your meeting, but as for the colour, I'm STUMPED... As Oscar Wilde has been quoted "Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and un-allied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Pimp My Mech WINNERS
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(...) snipped (...) Wow, some great entries, and I applaud the cool way that you decided on having it judged. I really like your presentation of the winners and the comments, and scores. It's neat to see how none ALEs see the creations. Great (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Questions about fan involvement with TLC
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(...) Interesting questions. The NDA/Ambassador phenomenon does seem to have created an in-group and an out-group among AFOLs, and a certain amount of distrust both between and within them. I feel bad about it, but I can't help but discount the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Questions about fan involvement with TLC
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After an interesting chat about "Fan involvement with TLC" the other night, a few concerns/questions came up, and I can't seem to shake them. Historically a large portion of AfoL/ALE's have wanted a closer relationship with TLC and over the last few (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: LEGO Factory individual parts fulfillment
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(...) Thanks, Steve. I'll assume they just decided to double the amount of dark red bricks they were planning on supplying for Factory at the last minute because they're expecting them to sell quickly. Jonathan (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Pimp My Mech WINNERS
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Sorry for the delay in posting this here - I did have the winners posted at my site on the 8th as promised. The turnout was exceptional - 35 entries were received by the deadline (not counting my sample Mech) and things were turned over to a panel (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, FTX) !!
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| | Re: LEGO Factory individual parts fulfillment
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(...) It looks like there has been some sort of back up in Billund (though you probably figured that out by now). This information was accurate last Thursday from the head of LEGO Factory, so imagine something weird must have thrown a kink into the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: spybotics
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(...) Beh, non l'avrei comprato a prezzo pieno...l'interesse è comunque legato alla reperibilità a meno del 50%...anche perchè i pezzi in dotazione sono pochi! (...) Molto carini, evita in modo intelligente di aver bisogno di un terzo motore! (...) (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: S@H raised shipping rates?
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(...) Which is actually a violation of law on your part. Check your state law, it will say you need to remit to them the sales tax on items you receive in the mail. Not that they bother to enforce it on anything but jewels or furniture, but it is (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-06, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Re: spybotics
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(...) Ciao Dino, io sono rimasto insoddisfatto. Anch'io l'ho pagato pochissimo e quindi di questo non posso lamentarmi. Ma chi l'ha pagato 79,99 euro ne ha tutto il diritto. Sinceramente anch'io all'inizio ho trovato davvero innovativi i meccanismi (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Anniversario
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Ciao a tutti, Propongo un minuto di festeggiamenti: se ben ricordo, oggi ricorre il primo anniversario del nostro titolo mondiale e, a quanto pare, ce lo terremo almeno per un altro anno :-) Spero che la prossima volta si faccia un bel AFOL Sumo (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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