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(...) Sweee...eeeEEEeee...eeet! (Except for the milenium falcon, that stinks!) Let's start with futbal. It's soccer, and all they show is a field. Heh. Now Star Wars! The sets look great, great, great! great, great, great!great, great, great!great, (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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It's true. The worthless picture that was posted a few weeks ago is the MF that will be released with some minor changes. For all of those who claimed we should have more faith in TLG... now what?! I gave TLG the benefit of the doubt when it (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Did you all notice that the futbol field is a pseudo foosball table? (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yaaaaaaaay!!!...!!! Cherry Picker Buckets!!! Finally! Quick thoughts, I'll add more tomorrow afternoon. The Soccer sets look good, and I can add my World Cup sets to 'em. I love the AAT, and check out all the brown on the MTT. And the MTT (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow, maybe I ought to hold onto that 4558 after all. I guess I'm halfway to being able to make as many Club Cars as I want with these sets. What do you figure on cost for 3401? I'd say $10 or less except for that goofy action-keeper thingie. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Er, Um, Football is the European name for Soccer. If I'm vaguely remembering my Spanish lessons in highschool correctly, Football was spelled "Futbal" or something along those lines. I could be wrong though. Kya (26 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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On this page: (URL) display light poles similar to the one in the soccer sets (#3313) in the upper right hand corner... Does that mean they'll be new ones this year? :) And the guy down in the bottom right hand, in the Cherry picker thing; does that (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What the heck is up with the tail end of that Falcon? It looks OK until you get there...sigh. And that castle looks magnificent...but the MTT...do I see grey 2x2 steep-slope *corners*...? I thought it was gonna be red, but I think brown and (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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You might not want to go to bed just yet, I'm almost done with the Direct catalog, which has some other new sets. KL (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nah, those aren't Ninja. Cow-pack sounds good. I like 'em, tho. 2x2 round bricks in smallish sets. Mmmm.... (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This kind of doofus. *points to self* I happen to find Japanese culture and Japanese related items facinating. As for European Castles, you've seen one, you've seen them all. CL (26 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) castle (...) Let me try again, why is Fright Knights "real" castle and Ninja not? Whether they both collectively suck or not is beside the point. Bruce (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Hmm, I wonder what frequent trips to which city inspired the raised road construction set? I saw we call it the "big dig" set! KL (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Well it's twenty to five in the morning UK time so I'm off to bed. It was great to be able to see the new sets. Overall though I'm slightly disappointed. About a quarter of the catalogue (on page count) is now devoted to Starwars which is starting (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It was an older style, originally, but I think the term enjoyed something of a new genesis in the 19th century--but in what context, I'm unsure. As for my fleet, well, I have a few things up, now that my old B&W scanner is working again: (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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As a fan of LEGO before Town-Jr how about "A FOOL" Adult Fan OF Older LEGO" ...Allan John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Cool! There is a bit of juniorization in the 2000 castle sets, but overall I am very pleased. I love the large blue roof pieces and the new shields. The best part for me, though, is the princess minifig in the big castle set, 6091. I only wish (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Hey, all- I finally have a few scans of older (1997-1998) warship constructions up: (URL) accidentally misattributed two of the images, but at least they're out there. Hopefully I'll be able to work on them, and get some colour scans as well, in (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)
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(...) Um, hmmm... does kinda look like a new arm. Might just be a visual trick though. Can't see her hands, either, but they'd just be behind the battle droids. ;) Right now it *DOES* look different than the Knight's arm on the same page, looks (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Good man!! We have a very big rail division, which is always on the look-out for new engineers as we have a lot of rail work on at the moment, particularly as we are part of the Alice to Darwin Railway Consortium ;) Where are you working with (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yup! (...) Nah, assuming all the Artic sets are listed in the Artic page (page 23, c00am-23), that leaves Adventurers, which the new ones arn't listed. Also, it's along with the other Adcenturers stuff, not the Artic in the mural. And in that (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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The ones in the soccer bus look white. compare the gray to the white in the grandstand, and then look at the bus. KL (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well - if they are limited edition, then they'll sell-out, which is good. But not as good as if they weren't limited and they sold out as well! Ie - by limiting the numbers TLG will never *really* know how popular they would be. (...) Blame (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Cool! Where'd you get all those garage doors? Are you going to build a warehouse behind those doors? Or is it just a facade? It'd be interesting to make a whole freightyard, where crates and other stuff could be transfered from giant ships to (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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Also check out the new plane and pterodactyls in red and tan that are on page 10. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Is it just me or is her arm "robey"? Check it out and tell me that I don't see a wrinkle on that arm... -- pn (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) You mean the one at (URL)? Finally, the pantoon plane is done correctly! However, it might as well be from the Artic theme. I don't know. Doesn't it look a bit too modern to be an Adventurers flyingboat? Either way, it is a cool plane. Overall (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) They were at both places (all three if you count Birko). I distinctly remember one at Centrepoint, it had a space theme, and still influences alot of my space MOC's (if I could just find the %$&#@*$ exhibit catalogue!!). I also remember the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.au)
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I'm going to be clearing quite a few models ... here is what I have. If you are interested let me know. I'm not quite sure what to charge but I want to do this without an auction. No reasonable offer (what I consider a reasonable offer:) will be (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Simon Robinson wrote in message ... (...) My guess would be to charge more. They figure if they market to adults, they can charge adult prices (as if they don't already). (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) jur-abs-ic park!? later ~ craig (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon close-up! (was: Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!)
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(...) Ah, cool. Thanks! All I wanted to know... Strange feature to include, if you ask me. 'Specially since it was never SEEN in the movies (mentioned...). That was my first impression of it, too... Oh, well. Maybe I'll be lucky this thanksgiving (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) ~ LOL!! cow-pack! i love it! i won't be able to call 'em anything but! they're surely not ninja though. definitely european villains for the knights. later ~ craig (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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I'm not so sure they are gray... look at the caption picture that shows the action shot of the minifig kicking a ball. Those look white :-( Maybe Kevin can clarify for us, but I'm not optimistic. They look gray in the one shot but it is shadowed and (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon close-up! (was: Re: Sorry to spoil it KL, but 2000 catalog posted!)
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I tried a 300dpi of page 8 and you still can't really make out the action box. My best guess is that it is an escape pod coming out the back. My scanner isn't the sharpest as you can see. KL (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | One good town set for 2000 (maybe?)
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6600 looks like it has pretty good vehicles, and the first raised road plates! I hope they sell them seperate (probably not...). Page 26, BTW. And if you don't have the site by now it's (URL) :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- jmbrown@mines.edu (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Jason Brown wrote in message <38273E75.5BDE6C8D@m...es.edu>... (...) I feel the same way. There is no way to beat the ones I have seen. I noticed the single person cockpit also. As was the case with you, I too am now disappointed in the MF. All (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That does sound like really good news - I assume these are pretty much the first Lego sets for which the suggested age range is basically an adult range. What puzzles me though is *why* they are marked as from 16. They don't look especially (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Are those Ninja or "Cow-pack" (like Wolfpack, but with that steer emblem). They look kinda European to me, like a band of bad guys to put your new Knight's Kingdom castle under seige. That swords don't look very ninja. I think I'll just call (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I assumed those were more castle - the enemy for the Knights to vanquish :) But if it works in Castle *and* Ninja themes then all the cooler! Richard (26 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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