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(...) First the dealer catalog scans appear on the Internet, sent to Huw from an 'un- named source' A few people see them before they are hastily withdrawn. Lugnet erupts with debate about the new sets Then legos own on-line catalog suddenly shows (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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HeyHEY! Don't get RID of the pink, just don't expect it to be THE reason a "girl" set sells. I LIKE pink for accent, as do many others. As Gary and I have noted, having pastels in ALL colors would make for a killer Miami layout. (...) -- | Tom (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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John, I feel you are in err a bit on the idea of age recommendations for toys. It seems as though I see this happen with everyone. "It says 5-7 on the box. Our child is almost 4, but he is really bright." The agre recommendations are for safety, not (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: All I can say is...
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(...) I don't think it's fake. Buffie Shervington of the Potomac Mills Outlet Store made veiled references to the Direct to Consumer effort in (URL) it is coming. Perhaps just a little quicker than she was expecting. Adrian -- (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) Actually, my wife loves the set. I bought her another to make a 'full' train. Hey, does anyone have any plans to make a power tap like set of wheels to allow you to power a car but not have a motor? I've love to install couch lighting in my (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New 2000 sets in Lego.com European catalog!
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CRAP. The pics seem to be gone now. I KNEW I should have saved them all earlier, they were much better pics than the Retail catalog scans. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: #4537-4547-4549...6991...from Dya/QUICK SALE
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So, who got lucky with the 4547's? I found the post about half an hour after the sale started, and the 4537's were just disappearing as I got online--anybody know how long the 4547's lasted? Would've liked to pick one up--I guess my Metroliner will (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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As a devotee of Lego for over 25 years, I can only say ... Yeee...eeesss...sss!!!! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Huw Millington <hmillington@cix.co.uk> wrote in message news:FMHsL2.FJw@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> I'm with the idea that you describe well in your (snipped) posting. You've done well, both by posting them, and making them down...:-) Selçuk (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Brad Justus has better not turn out to be the m*dr*id, or we'll be chartering a bus to Ocala, and it *won't* be a pretty sight when we're finished. 8) Rob (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: 2000 Technic Problem
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(...) You have fascinated me now. Are you saying Lego lawyers contacted you, but didnt complain about the 2000 set scans, but something else? Did you ask them if it was OK to put the 2000 set scans back? Or was it not the lego lawyers at all? (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Lugnet Loves Cats!
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(...) Yes it does - inversely related ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Wanted: Lego Piece Art
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I'm about to work on (next day or two) an anti-macro-piece campaign (those nasty pieces that replace 5 to 10 bricks--or more, as in the case of the huge boat hulls--with one big sucker). I _knew_ (well, remember anyway) I saw somewhere a Lego piece (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New 2000 sets in Lego.com European catalog!
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(...) this seems to have been some temporary aboration! I couldnt see the broken links you were refering to on the catalog page, but when I went in to some of the areas like adventurers, sure enough some of the new sets like the dino sets were (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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Well, let me be the 53rd to say welcome! With luck this will be the unveiling of a new communicative era for Lego. This is something that the Lego fan community has been longing for quite some time, and as the responses have shown, this is quite a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.2 on Win95 (almost)
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That's exactly what i did: egcs 1.1.2 with Mumit Khan's patches for windows and Markus' patch for enhanced RCX interrupt support. I'll get instructions on getting LegOS 0.2.2 to work on Win95, along with a binary of the compiler and the diffs for (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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In lugnet.general, James Simpson writes: P.P.S. What would I like to see? Service packs with roof peaks in all possible colors, but preferably in white, dark gray, brown and tan. We need a little bit of variety and realistic colors for our (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: AAT and MMT ultimate collector sets? was: New 2000 sets in Lego.com European catalog!
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Robert Brunskill <robb@macconnect.com> wrote in message news:FMJ1ns.E9@lugnet.com... (...) How can you do that, or what am I doing wrong? Using the link below (...) writen "not found" on it. It works for 1999 set numbers, however. It made me (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | WAFOL url (Re: WAFOL page??)
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(...) here's the page for now: (URL) don't know that we want to announce it to the world until we have a permanent address for it. also, i'm only including my e-mail address on the page so nobody else has to worry about spamalization. any (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut)
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| | Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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(...) Let me be the 52nd person to thank you for looking to us as a legitimate customer base. I look forward to working with TLC to make your products and services the best they can be. Oh, and THANK YOU for bulk ordering. No longer will we have to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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