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| Barry McFarland writes/wrote/has written: (...) LOL B-) And what is wrong with adventurer sets? <duck under desk> Or did I say something folish? B-) If you want to use 450 black 1x4 bricks and you have only, say, 400. Why not add 100 1x2 black (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| Then why didn't my friend see the Freestyle sets and say, "Ah, that's what I was looking for"? Maybe because the models pictured on the set look like something that would interest a 3-4 year old. By "dopey" pieces I mean the patterns they slap all (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) If LEGO released a package that would address the needs of AFOL modelers, I would be the first to buy it. I enjoy the stuff I do with LDAO and writing new parts-files, but I'd still rather be building, either virtually or physically. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Clone "semi-bricks" (Was: Non-TLG Parts)
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| (...) That was the opinion stated by Jacob, which I generally agree with, but it depends on the detail in question. Some common, details which are larger than 1LDU details and are skipped in LDraw parts: - the indentations on the undersides of (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| This message is from a good friend who is considering what to buy for her 6 yr. old son, whom I have been introducing to Lego: ---...--- Walked all over Toys R Us last night. You are going to need to work on me more. I was very interested in this (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi guys, Like Mark wrote its the same for me but even worse, I even dont think that old sets are more valuable then recent sets. The only problem is that some collectors' are spoiling the market for the players. The only value of an old or rare set (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| A couple of days ago I picked up an old central station - the yellow one with a black roof. I think it was set no. 4554. (don't ask me how - I assume the shop must have dug it out of a stock room and I was lucky enough to be the first person to (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) For a lot of people, this is true. A lot of people seem to complain about the lack of basic bricks, and also the use of decorated/specialized bricks that are only good for very special uses. However, some people also think that many old sets (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) (agreeing) I'd tend to think that any new environment would simply mean one more new environment -- and not the death of the old environment. AFAIK, for example, there are still groups of people today who write Apple ][ software and HP-11C (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Oops! (...) Hmmm, (digging through rilly old RTL news archives) wow, looks like the term LU meaning 1/6 standard brick height goes back at least about 4 years -- it appears first to have been suggested on 23 Apr 1995 by Kevin Horton. In a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Hello Jeroen, Thank you for contacting us. TLG has not done much to acknowledge that LEGO has adult followers. As someone who has been in contact with TLG personnel over the years (even USA TLG President Peter Eio), I know that your company has (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: TLG investigation (Long)
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| (...) <snip> (...) Emailed, posted to Lugnet and rec.toys.lego - It has already reached there! I have read the entire thread and taken some notes. From these I have come up with many things to say. Firstly, an international club would be great. I (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| Hi everybody, Thanks (again) for your overwhelming responses. I have had over 100 responses within 4 days and still counting... A lot of questions have been asked, most of them I can't answer unfortunately. All questions regarding comments to be (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Kaere Jeroen, So I start another novel. I am not at all surprised by the number of responses to your initial inquiry. Its a bit like opening Pandora's box. Many (adults) in the online community feel that TLG pretty much ignores them, rightly or (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) <snip> (...) Thanks for listening. I realize that you might not get anywhere with this back at work, but I definitely appreciate the effort. I have been watching a bit and decided it was time to chime in. (...) I have a question about this: if (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi Jeroen- I'm a parent. My main focus in purchasing Legos has been to purchase sets for my son. His sets span Town, Adventurers, Wild West, UFOs. He saves his allowance (for up to half a year) to purchase sets on his own, or he receives them for (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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