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(...) That's an interesting thought. :) The question, of course, was a trick question -- where the [de]capitalization of "space" is intended to illustrate the inherent controversy/confusion. To be more precise, Star Wars sets are certainly "space" (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Also sprach Todd Lehman: : To be more precise, Star Wars sets are certainly "space" sets (lowercase "s"), : but clearly not "Space" sets (uppercase "S" as in "LEGO[LAND] Space System") : because of their non-6[89]xx numbering. Ah, but as various (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Ah, but sometimes they do (anything in 6800-6999 :-). But I admit, it's possible that TLG may someday destroy the sacred 6800-6999 range as they destroyed the 6700-6799 range. 67xx used to be solely for Space minifigs and Space Light & Sound (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) See, I'm not even sure about that. Three of the five currently-known sets are ground-transport and not space sets at all (not even in the sense of "designed for ground exploration of alien planets"). And I can definitely see Mos Eisley (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) "s"), (...) perhaps a more useful and less confusing name for "space" (lower case) would be sci-fi(also lower case) Similarly castle(lc) could be renamed historical(lc) or somehting similar (medievil?) to (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Whoa -- yes -- good point! Star Wars is a lot more environments that just T.I.E. fighters and X-Wings blowing each other up! :-) --Todd (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Well, I think there's still gonna be a lot of queries for "space" and "castle". (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) My Theory is that Ninja will move to 48xx. I think 3050-3053 are "promotional", like Unitron was. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Jeff (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Sounds good. I wouldn't call those Ninja sets promotional, I would call them limited availability like Aquaraiders, RoboForce, etc. (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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