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| | Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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| (...) There isn't anything wrong with either a for-profit or non-profit AFOL event. Any of these answers are perfectly fine: John Smith will be profiting from this event. Corporation X, LLC will be profiting from this event. This is a non-profit (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.120) |
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| | Re: Brickshelf.com A Possible Solution
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| Why doesn't TLG run a gallery for AFOLs? Yes, there's a (URL) sort of gallery> on LEGO.com, but it's an unbrowsable mess filled with 10-year-olds posting images they stole from Ed Boxer. Have any of the Ambassadors discussed this with the company? I (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.120) |
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| | Re: LEGO Factory impressions
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| (...) One more: The categories in the Brick Tray are not consistent: they change depending on the order in which you add additional palettes. For example: if you add all the palettes, starting with 'My Car', the steering wheel, the 1x1 cylinder (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.119) |
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| | Re: Viking Longship
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| (...) (URL) This link>, given by Joel Jacobsen, says: At night, the sail was lowered and removed from the ship. In bad weather, it often served as a tent. The Vikings, inventors of the sleeping bag, would sleep under the sail for protection. So the (...) (18 years ago, 13-Apr-06, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.119) |
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| | Re: Sanctions (was: Libertarian Propaganda)
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| (...) I just read an interesting piece in The New Republic about the sanctions on Iraq: (URL) that the Iraqi govt. IS able to get food from other nations, but it exports it to pay for luxuries for the party elite. It supports the case that sanctions (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.119) |
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| | Re: The all-new LUGNET .Underground
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| (...) Looks great! I'm glad to see someone taking an interest in this group. I wasn't much of a fan of the Rock Raiders theme, but there's definitely room for a lot of creativity in the Underground genre. Here are a couple of books for the links (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.underground, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.119) |
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.119) |
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| | CCC Houses (and a skate ramp roof!)
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| Here are a few houses I built to the CCC standard: (3 URLs) I am particularly happy with the red one, which uses the skate ramp pieces for the roof. Pictures are at my (URL) LUGNET page> - please let me know what you think. Marc Nelson Jr. (21 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.118) |
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.118) |
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| | Re: LDD "hackers" made CNET
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| (...) Why isn't TLG giving this sort of feedback though the (URL) forum> it set up specifically for that? LEGO Factory has been out for three weeks, and the TLG reps have yet to provide any answers (other than "LDD will be improved in the future"). (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.118) |
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| | Re: Thoughts on the UN "Racist" poster?
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| (...) I doubt that the UN is trying to take a stand for the (URL) cartoonists> and free speech, since Louise Arbour - the High Commissioner for Human Rights - is already (URL) on record>: 'I would like to emphasise that I deplore any statement or (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.118) |
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| | Re: Brickshelf Status
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| (...) Kevin: I don't know about other AFOLs, but right now I have very little trust in Brickshelf's continued viability, and certainly not enough to give you $60 a year. I don't expect to get things for free - I just spent $25 to upgrade to a (URL) (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.117) |
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| | Re: Dwarves' Mine
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| (...) Don - That's the old 4.5 volt battery-operated train track. The (URL) inside curves> and (URL) curves> haven't appeared since the 80's, but the (URL) straight track> occasionally turns up in non-train sets. There are 31 copies of (URL) this (...) (17 years ago, 13-Oct-07, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.117) |
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.117) |
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| | Re: WHY SO LONG ON Light Gray?
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| (...) 6x8 (...) What would be easiest (for LEGO), is to just keep the current packaging and offer discounts on a scale corresponding to the number of bulk packs purchased (there was a form of this in the first month of bulk ordering). Say, 10 packs (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.117) |
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| | The True North Strong and... Free?
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| I almost never post here in .debate, but I was wondering what Canadians think about the (URL) publication ban> on testimony from the Adscam trial, and the subsequent breach of the ban by an (URL) American blogger>. It's very strange to me, as an (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.117) |
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| | Re: Na na na na na na na na...
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| (...) Sometimes it seems like Designer is the "LEGO license", and turning out movie and TV-based toys is what TLC actually does. Even the TLC-created "stories" (Bionicle, KK, Dino Attack) just seem like tie-ins in search of a cartoon. I know that (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.117) |
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| | Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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| (...) I won't rehash all of the arguments here. There are many reasons why people treat non-profit and for-profit entities differently - many were discussed in (URL) this thread> about BF '06. If there is no difference between them, when was the (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| marc, nelson (score: 4.117) |