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| | Trolling for LEGO sets in Denmark
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| I recently spent 11 days in Denmark, and found a fair number of interesting (and cheap!) sets at LEGOLAND and the LEGOLAND Hotel in Billund. You can read about that here: (URL) message deals with buying LEGO in the rest of Denmark. I spent several (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: new lego sets? are they crazy?
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| (...) These are comments that I think the LEGO company should read very very carefully. Here is a company who is being told by one of it's customers, that they can have more of his money of they simply produce more of the products that he wants to (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: new lego sets? are they crazy?
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| (...) At the prices LEGO charges for any sets, it is hard to imagine classifying any of them as loss-leaders. Generally this is a sales tool used by retail stores as 'bait' essentially to lure you in with an item being sold at or below cost. Usually (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | Post Show Debriefing
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| Hi guys, Well, it's time that we turned our minds towards the next show, whichever one that is. Let's take another look at our layout, logistics, organization, etc. and see if we can't improve on it. I've listed a few points. There are no doubt many (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | listed sets: 7725, 4558, 4547, 7817, 6339 and more.
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| Hi, I started listing more sets in my brickbay shop. These are a very rare 7725 12 V train set, and a 4558 metroliner. In the past few days I have been listing others sets, but no wanted notifications have gone out. I listed several train sets, and (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Lego in Fastcompany magazine
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| Lawrence & All, (...) Indeed. (...) company. (...) much now as > it did from when it moved from wooden toys to plastic bricks. I think LEGO will need to change, I think some of the reasons of their losses have come from the result of either changing (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Revision 2 of my 1:400 airport
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| Revision 2 of the main concourse is now complete. (URL) changed from 4-wide to six wide for the sake of scale. I went with bendy-arms for the jetways. Yes, they are round and not rectangular, but I like their modular nature in fitting different size (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: what makes a legend?
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| (...) The solution here seems obvious... and free. Use more plain old regular bricks in the design of future sets. No need for new molds. No debates over specialized/juniorized parts. And best of all, more good old fashioned bricks with which to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Visit to Johnson Space Center
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| From the "prototype photos" department... I have uploaded a bunch of pics I took on Friday. I was lucky enough to get a "behind the scenes" tour from a friend of a coworker who is in X38 avionics development. (URL) include - The X38:, I got to touch (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: small rocket mounting
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| (...) I (...) In recent years my MOC's have all been non-violent, but in my KFOL days, I made a lot of heavily armed spacecraft. My preferred technique for mounting missiles was to take the 1x1 plate with "hand" and attach it to the underside of the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Awesome idea for a quadruped mech/tank...
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| (URL) is so cool! This looks like it would be a blast to build out of lego, I might try it sometime in the future...project number 34 hehe, I have way too many ideas right now, and not enough bricks. This guys art work is really neat, I found it (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | trainstation almost finished
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| Hi, The latest results can be seen in my brickshelf directory (URL) platform is long enough for a train with 4 full lenght passenger waggons. I'm still adding details (I was wondering how to do old-style lampposts without too many rare bricks, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Myer/GB 20% off Lego until 16th September
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| (...) I was back to GB's yesterday for yet another Birthday present for a four year old (there seems to be a lot of them at the moment). I got the Jack Stone Res-Q Towtruck, because that was much better than the Jack Stone Helicopter. Neither is (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: 12 volt train track: Blue versus Gray
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| (...) of course if one wants to make the ties (sleepers) uniform in color, you just needs lots of dark grey 2x8 plates (or you could use white 2x8 plates instead of the dark grey ties). What surprised me a little is that the blue conducting rails do (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego article on slashDot
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| (...) Forget the Slashdot commentary... go right to the Fast Company article. This is a very insightful and interesting piece. I think anyone really interested in the LEGO company, where it's been and where it's going, should read this article. It (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch) !
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