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I take it the "used to" part of your message means that you are no longer down here? Chris (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) just because I'm feeling combatative, I figured I'd challenge you on this ... what recent species are you extrapolating from? Many many reptiles and amphibians display massive variation in their coloration: lizards tend to have lighter (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, ok, maybe that's a little bright. (...) Slidell isn't exactly infested either, though it is near Honey Island Swamp. eric (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) gray or (...) There is no indication at all that a Triceratops or Stegosaurus would have had differently coloured legs. Extrapolating from recent species it is most likely that they were unicoloured. (...) theropods. (...) Because some birds (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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OK, but LEGO green?! Chris who actually doesn't see that many (thankfully) aligators in New Orleans. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) In fact: (URL) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Uhhhh.... I used to live in Florida, and then in Louisiana (both are in the southern USA, and both have alligators as a natural species- Louisiana also has crocodiles). Trust me on this one, alligators and crocodiles *do* come in green. eric (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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From the fossil records, really we cannot know what colors these dinosaurs were in when they were alive. The artists usually picture dinosaurs in gray or other dull colors, because today somehow large animals are never colorful (e.g., elephant, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Well, that takes us to adventurers in the arctic, where they peel dinosaurs out of the ice. Not that interesting anymore after they allready have seen live dinosaurs, though. (...) *sigh* Yes, life's hard with dark-grey-and-orange triceraops (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) May be it's not *that* bad. At least that they consist of two different colours means that they are not "single part animals", but put together from different parts. At first I thought they put the four legs into the rest of the body, but my (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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I had a lovely dream last night that I was the first to discover a new dino set in a under $10 page of a catalog. It was a car driving through a cave with Barron Von Barron inside. It had lots of special colored pieces to make stolen artifacts and (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) If you look at your summer catalog you'll see the yellow butterfly net also in 1465 Minnie's Birthday Party from the Disney line. John (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.promo)
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(...) Do you mean have I seen the sets here (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)? If that is what you mean, yep, I've seen pretty much all of the sets. I only own the blimp, the pontoon plane, and the small polybag set (5902), but the rest of the stuff is (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Hmmm... 5512 - is that the new Timmy-like minifig? Not sure if I like him all that much, but at least it'll be a refreshing variation. 5514 - what's that net piece? Haven't seen it anywhere... (then again, I haven't *pored* over the dino sets, (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.promo)
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I was VERY surprised today to find new and so far unknown Dino sets in my local toy shop in Germany.... I made some scans, if you're interested please have a look at them: (URL) are similar to Kabaya promo sets and include also a booklet with (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.promo)
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Hi ! I have some problems getting the Amazon Jungle sets here in Germany. The 5956 "Expedition Balloon", which was in the German 1999 catalogue, was available in some stores. You can also get the small 5905 and 5906 sets, and some days ago I found (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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Whoops accidently hit enter instead of tab on that last post sorry. Anyways I think the island hopper is the best set in the theme but I think a spruce goose would be way cooler. It could be made out of those 10x8 bow bricks that came from a seaport (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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Nick Cameron's Posts continue to leave me in stitches. .That new kid on their team looks guilty... While we are on parts, If anyone wants to sell me their rusted roof parts (from the research compound) Let me know (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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I have a good but strange explination for the double-color dinos. The gray-legged stegosaurus is really a young elaphant in a coustume. I mean look, the elaphant could keep his long nose in the tail and his tail in the head. And the triceratops is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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Well, when I saw the S@H pics, I was heavily disappointed of both dinosaurs and entire sets. C'mon Lego, a grey Triceratops with white(?) legs ?? A brown Stegosaurus with white (!!) legs??? How crappy. At least I know now why they got extinct: they (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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