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| (...) This is why I have always thought that the worst part of the LP platform was its unrealistic foreign policy plank. The problem isn't that we have been meddling too much in other countries' affairs, it's that we haven't done enough. If we had (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Jake did good Thanks!!
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| (...) There's an excellent reason - (URL) this statement> by Jake himself: Keep in mind that the non-AFOL consumer (especially the kids on the boards) probably hasn't realized there IS a color change. Many of this year's products aren't out yet (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Creating a Catalogue of LDD Elements
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| (...) That's the next thing I am planning to add. If you're not already aware, Marc Nelson Jr. has already done a lot of work towards gathering price information. He's posted prices for many (I'm not sure if he's done them all) of the brick (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Behind the curtains - LEGO Factory AFOL Project Team
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| (...) snip (...) I know that you don't want to hear that it wasn't Jake's fault... but that wasn't Jake's fault. He was just as blindsided by the color change as the rest of us, and so were most of TLC's employees. Some of them still don't know (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: to LEGO factory : You are not being fair.
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| (...) I'm in the same position - Week 3's (URL) has been moderated, but it doesn't show up in the gallery. Oddly, it's status reads "INSPIRATION Model". I don't know if this has anything to do with it not showing up. This week's contest is the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: Announcing Classic-Space Forums
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| (...) I'm still waiting for that rationale... (...) Aren't the "whiners" and "complainers" just people you disagree with? I'm sure they don't see themselves as whiners and complainers. (...) You guys started the Classic Space forums to appeal to the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: Three military vehicles
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| (...) Nice hatch for the driver. The car doors as the shield on the APC are simple but effective. I really like the green pyramid on the main gun, but it might look better if you moved it back a couple of plates and lengthened the rest of the (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: lego from China and Czech Republic
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| (...) Hey, you can argue all you want about whether people who want bricks to be made in Denmark are racist - especially since you did the right thing and posted to o.t.d. That's what it's here for. My last sentence was just a tongue-in-cheek (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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marc, nelson
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| | Guitar Hero fundraising sale!
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| OK, so I've been wanting to get Guitar Hero II for a while, and I realized the only way my wife would let this happen is if I unloaded some LEGO. So I've put a bunch of sets up for sale on BrickLink. Here's what I'm selling: 10 copies of (URL) 4491 (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.market.brickshops, FTX)
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| | Re: Peasant House...Chris, Shiri
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| (...) I have also built a bunch of buildings in this style, although with a roof made of roof bricks. You are right about the black 1x1's and plates. I managed to get a near-monopoly on those pieces in the last Auczilla (at great cost!), and snag a (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) town, (...) My tavern has stairs made out of bricks, but the other buildings all use the brown ladder pieces. (...) is (...) Is (...) No, they don't look nearly as nice as the Guarded Inn. A tower-house was basically a tower 4 or 5 stories (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) some (...) Yeah, Castle is a great book, as is Cathedral. I tried using the square flag pieces (like the cannon shutters on pirate ships) for that, but they didn't much look like skins, so I just left mine empty. Another really good source of (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) As much as I'd love to take credit for all that cool stuff, only the timberframe houses, the black magic shop, and the elephant are mine. The rest was brought by other people for the Castle display at Brickfest 2000. The big castles in the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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| | Bad Policy #1 (What's the deal, LEGO Direct?)
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| The recent offering of old service packs on shop.lego.com has got me upset over what I see as a bad policy of LEGO's: no shipping outside shop-at-home territories. There are people over here in the US begging to buy these old and rare service packs, (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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marc, nelson
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| | Re: Libertarian Propaganda
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| (...) As a card-carrying Libertarian, the foreign policy plank is probably the part of the platform I disagree with the most. Regardless of what domestic policies we persue (libertarian ones, I hope), our national interest doesn't change. Now, I (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: BF04 Castle room
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| (...) To the Castle room organizers: I am willing to take on the project of distributing and recording designation flags if that's what you guys decide to do. I could put up a quick LUGNET page listing the different flag combinations and take (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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