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| (...) Heh...what can I say, I love the mini-fig. They can look cute or devastating (or both-try making a female astronaut in all red with a clear helmet and red visor. And don't forget the weapon!) (...) problems. Traffic because everybody is (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Old Train Wheels Question
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| Hey Y'all: I have been up to something not very imaginative here: namely converting the Hogwart's push thingy into a kind of Thatcher Perkins push thingy. The Thatcher Perkins is (has always been) a push train, right? One of the things I'd like to (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Announcing the opening of Far North Bricks!
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| I am pleased to announce that my shop, Far North Bricks, has opened to international buyers. Shop URL: (URL) are parts from 30 7110s listed, among others, most parts are currently brand new, and after I'm finished cleaning them, I will be adding (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: End of Year Thoughts
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| (...) Definitely not nostalgia. I still have all my original LEGO sets (including boxes and all instructions) going back to the mid-1970's. I'm not looking at pics on the web, or just running old memories over and again in my head. I can sit and (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
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| (...) Exactly. The worst part is that LEGO used to be the industry leader. Their name was virtually synonymous with *building* toys. (...) Which they wouldn't do if the sets actually contained some basic bricks that they could use to model something (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Spring Cleaning Goodies
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| Snippage) (...) Snippage 2000 Quatro bricks? The tub would be huge! Please let that be a typo and its really regular LEGO. Please......... Mike (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: my biggest beef with the new product is...
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| (...) YUP...That is the best plan. Jack Stone sets are for 4 year-old and younger children--you should not want them anyway so please stop ranting about Jack Stone. Racers are also not intended for someone your age, Johnathan and I don't blame you (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Reference on eBay user "Toddele"
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| (...) I've got to agree with your thoughts on German sellers (hmm, we've been bumping heads a few times... :-). One especially good one to deal with is legofromgermany. She has a friend in the US who accepts money orders on her behalf (the friend (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: K-Mart Rant (Was: Re: K-Mart Sale)
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| (...) My Non-Lego-Significant-Other refuses to go to the K-Mart near me -- she claims the place is just too disgusting for her to step foot inside of it. And actually it's true -- there is often foodstuffs, spit, vomit, what-have-you all over the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: the end is near
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| (...) In the late 1970s, TLC began producing a new kind of mini-fig and designed new themes and sub-themes based on its size and shape. This spawned twenty years of new elements and concepts of Lego building. Those of us who grew up on these toys (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Phoenix Area Meeting?
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| How odd - my user profile page has my correct (new) email address (yahoo.com), but the one that show's up here is the old (dead) one. BTW - I have these newsgroups msgs (arizona) emailed to me, and when I tried to reply to you via email, I got a (...) (23 years ago, 8-Dec-01, to lugnet.loc.us.az)
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| | Re: WHY SO LONG ON Light Gray?
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| (...) Why not both? (...) No, not exactly... but that's my job. (...) And so much more. If we're dreaming, why not dream big? In all seriousness, if LEGO can't offer better prices on bulk parts, then they at least need to do us the courtesy of (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Markets and juniorization
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| (...) Not that they would spend much R&D money on such products, but I see your point now. (...) I guess I try to look at it with both my kid brain and my adult brain. Neither one likes it at all. :) (...) We're not their target market for only one (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
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| (...) I guess I must have been a weird kid. All of these problems are exactly why I enjoyed LEGO so much. (...) Which is why I have been attempting to make such a ruckus. I'm an adult who's having problems with this company and I want them to know (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: ISCC (mini-)entry: pirates
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| (...) What is wrong with the plastic sheet roof has everything to do with the tactile feel of the brick. These plastic sheets should never replace bricks when its possible to do the same thing with some other kind of brick form, even if they have to (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.harrypotter)
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| | Re: 2002 Star Wars flyer
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| (...) True. But then again, where we stand on an issue depends on what we build; I don't build roofs. I agree wholeheartedly that a complete slope system--all the parts available in the old red and black sets, in new colors--is highly desirable and (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Diary of a sorting man
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| The last few weeks I've been sorting. In a bad way. Before rtlToronto9, I started sorting out pieces. It made Technic building so easy, especially to get what you needed when you were trying to assemble something you had in mind. It also made (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Ewoks, Goblins & Trolls...Oh My!
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| Hello Everyone! I Just added several 2002 minifigures to my Brickbay Store Pyrite's Plunder including all of the above listed, and as well as Imperial officers, Storm Troopers, Lobot and the New version of the young Obi-Wan! (URL) I'll be parting (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: 2002 Sets at Cary K-Mart
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| (...) I stopped by there this evening and picked up three Racers sets and an Alpha Team set. The new Racers are much better than the previous run. They're close to 10 cent a part, though you get a lot of wheels and the mini pullback motor. Of course (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.loc.us.nc)
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| | New additions, 30% off old parts at GoB - Lions Gate Models
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| I just added a pile of tasty stuff... elevated road sections (yes, straight sections too!), crane legs and booms, spring-loaded crane grabs, windows and doors, red train windows, black 4x16 bricks and other mega-bricks, large green plates (4x12 and (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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