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[snip] for all the other german AFOLS around / Are there any?). Hi Norman, there are of course a lot of german AFOLs, but for some reason most of them usually only read the german LEGO forum and do not use Lugnet (it's a lot to read both). However, (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.loc.de)
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| | MOC: German 1930s Touring Car
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In my continuing effort to model WWII-era vehicles, I put together a German 1930s Touring Car. I just posted pictures of it at Brickshelf.com (URL) me know what you think, -s (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.adventurers) !
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| | Dino Island sets arrived in Germany!
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They are here! Yesterday I spotted the new Dino Island sets in two stores ( "real" and "Spiele Max" for all the other german AFOLS around / Are there any?). There are .... 5920 "Island Racer" for 10 DM / $5 5921"Research Glider" for 14 DM / $7 5934 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme
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(...) The Dino Island sets arrived in our stores, so I had a chance to look at the boxes. "The Dino Research Compound" has the stegosaurus displayed under the lid, and I can say, it looks *way* better than on the pictures. Actually, the Stego (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme
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(...) 'Fraid not. I lived in Slidell about... christ, about 10 years ago now. eric, who feels old now FUT lugnet.people (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.people)
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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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| | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme
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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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| | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme
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(...) In fact: (URL) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme
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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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| | Dinosaur Color Scheme
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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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| | Re: Oh we can dream...
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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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| | Re: I was really disappointed when I saw the dino sets......
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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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| | Re: New Dino Sets sighted - first scans!
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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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| | Re: Amazon Jungle Sets in Germany / Europe
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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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| | Re: New Dino Sets sighted - first scans!
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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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| | New Dino Sets sighted - first scans!
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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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