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| Mark Lindsey: (...) Thanks. (...) Wouldn't make sense from a commercial point of view. The part count (price) of a set should be comparable to the "play value" of the set. (...) This sounds good. How are they equipped? Small freighter with a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) What do you mean by the above statement? How do you determine the play value of any set? I guess I am not understanding what you mean, please explain. (...) I have the crew from the ship the Dirty Whore, from the movie Cabin Boy in mind. You (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| Mark Lindsey: (...) That large sets apparently have to do lots of things to make people (not us) consider them worth the price. (...) It's hard (if not impossible). LEGO's current definition seems to be related to how many traps, cars, planes, and (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) Ah, now I understand. (...) I see your point. I guess that it all goes back to the label on the boxes that says ages 5-12. I can't fault them for making the sets gimicky, but like you, I wish for a little more 'meat and potatoes' in the box. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| In lugnet.adventurers, Mark Lindsey writes: <ka-snip> (...) The legend of Atlantis is in part built on the destruction of Santorini (Thera), the volcano that did the natural boiler explosion in the Mediterranean. It left an atoll-like - yes, I'm (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) famous (...) Wow, that's really interesting Bruce. Thanks for the brief geology lesson. I think I will look into this some more and post up my findings. This post site is truly one of LUGNET's best. You never know what you are going to get (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) have (...) Boy, you can find anything on the web. If anyone is vaguely interested in the Atlantis/Santorini angle, I just found: (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) Once again Bruce your attention to detail and supplying information overwhelms me. That is a great site! I am going to look for more sites about other possible Adventurers settings. Thanks for the inspiration, I'll let you know what I find. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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