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| (...) HALLELUJAH! LEGO has finally admitted that getting away from made them great has failed - and miserably. Now that the non-brick and garbage-brick ventures have been exposed as unprofitable as well as unpopular, they can get back to the good (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: Civil War Photos
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| (...) I especially like the Confederate soldier who is using the butt of his gun. Has anybody done a good Napoleanic/Victorian battle scene? I am trying to get together enough red Imperial soldiers to do a British colonial scene -- like redcoats (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: TLG and "Seeding"
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| (...) I don't want to sound too personally critical, but are you being serious? Sets like King Leo's Castle are more sophisticated than things like King's Castle? Or how about the 1998 Cargo Center compared to the 1984 model? And as for idea books, (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: New Sculpture on Lego S@H
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| (...) Aside from being a really cool-looking model (which it definitely is), this set comes with some neat pieces: -brown 4x8 space wings -red rounded fences -brown 4x4 tiles w/4 studs (I think) I really hope LEGO makes a series out of these. I, for (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: LEGO Trivial Pursuit Question
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| (...) That's funny - I just asked that question a few days ago myself. As soon as it was asked, everybody looked at me, like a big walking clue. I hassled my friend (who got it right) about calling them Legos. -Marc Nelson Jr. (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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marc, nelson
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marc, nelson
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: Elephant (Hannibal crossing Alps on Triceratops?)
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| (...) Thanks! A neat thing about the tail that you can't tell from the pictures is that it is mounted on a technic half-peg so it can swing back and forth. I probably don't have enough 2x2 rounds to use them for legs, and I kind of like the unbroken (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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marc, nelson
(score: 3.280)
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| (...) You know what's funny? I had tried for hours when I built that thing to figure out a way to do tusks. I was trying to use ninja katanas, but I just couldn't figure it out. But as soon as I had posted those pics, it struck me to do exactly what (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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marc, nelson
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marc, nelson
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| (...) Could you just contract out the shirts to whoever does them now? I mean the t-shirts and polos in the catalog and at outlets. I think I am more interested in having a say in the look of the shirts than how they are produced. As for high (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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marc, nelson
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| (...) I make mine with an antenna, technic half-peg, and katana: (URL) I'm really glad there's a ninja group now. Along with Wild West, it was one of the themes that got me really back into LEGO. Thanks, everybody! -Marc (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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marc, nelson
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| (...) Thanks! It's pretty neat to teach something to somebody who has come up with such cool stuff. I'll have to put up some pics of my minifigs that were inspired by your tire-hat guys. Actually, I got the idea about a naginata from those same (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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marc, nelson
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| (...) Actually, I was just thinking about that whole concept. There is a big Pirate Game get-together that is supposed to be happening in June, and I was thinking about the possibility of building an island inhabited by Ninja types. I would love to (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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marc, nelson
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| (...) That's a great scene! You can build some neat small ships out of non-pirate pieces - then you could do a Commodore Perry scene. Well, you have definitely inspired me - I already have my pirate crew assembled, and I'm going to start working on (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
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| (...) Not knowing what is going on at LEGO, I have to take them at their word. If they say, "We screwed up, we're going back to what worked", why not believe them? When they said, "Kids are dumb, so we have to make video games and crappy sets, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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marc, nelson
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| (...) Was the train in the water? Can you recommend any good books about submarines the Pacific theater? I've read the Pacific volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's History of US Naval Operations, but I don't remember there being too much in there about (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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marc, nelson
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marc, nelson
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| (...) Thanks. (...) too (...) Wow, even I don't read anything that boring. Actually, at the moment I'm re-reading a great book, A Naval History of WWI. Before reading it, all I knew about WWI naval history was Jutland, but this guy (Paul Halpern) (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.people)
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: inevitable survey thread >_<
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| (...) Flying Ninja Fortress (...) Probably the rock walls. (...) The standard samurai as in Samurai Swordsman. (...) More hair pieces, a hat instead of the radar dish, more faces. -Marc (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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