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(...) Here's my thing. The Flextronics deal was (URL) announced> just over two years ago, in 2006. Jake (URL) responded> to issues raised over part quality just over four years ago, in 2004. That says to me that while Flextronics might be largely (...) (16 years ago, 2-Sep-08, to lugnet.events, lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Hey Tim, Thanks for the reply! I'm very glad to hear that TLG is aware of these issues and taking steps to address them. I've made my peace with the color change (although I haven't adopted them yet!), but this variance in the other colors in (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Although I can't find a copy right now I know TLG have released a press release or two on this type of issue. There were quality issues caused in part by Flextronic (hinted at on the release and now by the end of the deal) and in part by new (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Hey Dave! :-) I remember that first thread, but hadn't heard that TLG was going to return to a more directly involved management of parts production. I'm greatly relieved to hear it! I was worried that I might have to stop buying new product (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jul-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Hey Dave S.! There's a great old thread on this where some of us plastics techies get our info. on postulating about what this issues could be. (URL) Lugnet Thread Here> My speculation is that it's an issue with liquid color since liquid color (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jul-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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Hey all, I recently bought the SpongeBob Rocket Ride #3831 and was quite pleased with the design and functions. However, I noticed that the tan plate has a brighter, slightly more translucent quality to it. I noticed the same thing with orange when (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jul-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: A request to ambassadors
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(...) Roy and others, We are actively watching the Vestas Windmill set and would like to see it available as a general release, although I have no idea at this time whether that will be a possibility. I will collect the feedback on LUGNET about this (...) (16 years ago, 17-Jul-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Roy and others, We are actively watching the Vestas Windmill set and would like to see it available as a general release, although I have no idea at this time whether that will be a possibility. I will collect the feedback on LUGNET about this (...) (16 years ago, 17-Jul-08, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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Hi all, Most if not all of you have seen the leaked pictures of the set 4999 Vestas Windmill, and the intense desire of AFOLs to get this set. There are other promo sets in the past, especially airline and ferry sets, that required travel on those (...) (16 years ago, 16-Jul-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.general) !
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My second recommendation is my personal favorite: John Deere Tractors Tractors & their accessories (pull behind & front end attachments) would provide a great deal of play value for farming outside the city as well as leveling land for new city (...) (16 years ago, 14-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.lego, lugnet.ambassadors)
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Congratulations, all Cycle 6 LEGO Ambassadors! (Especially to one of our nominees here, Tim Gould) :) If one or more of you new Ambassadors will kindly take over the curatorship of lugnet.ambassadors, I would appreciate it. Please post a response to (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jun-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.admin.curators, FTX)
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| | Re: The LEGO Ambassador Nomination thread
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Testimonial - Tim Gould I think Tim would make a superb Ambassador for the next cycle. He is an active member of many of the finest online LEGO communities, and a great guy in person. He is also a good communicator (and excellent builder), who has a (...) (16 years ago, 22-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) I hope this is not too late, but I would like to see Doug Eaton reinstated as a Lego Ambassador for the following reasons. Doug has done a good job distributing information or questions from the company to our club, Parlugment and the greater (...) (16 years ago, 21-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) [...] (...) On Behalf of Teddy Welsh I'd like to say... Ambassador Welsh, it just roles off the tongue. Teddy's in touch with many aspects of the LEGO universe. Of course, Teddy is a phenomenal builder, his most obvious/often viewed (...) (16 years ago, 19-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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Thanks very much, Scott. I'd ask that the following sentence be removed as it's not actually accurate. My contribution to the parts library and software side of LDraw has been very minimal. (...) And once again thank you. Tim (16 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Thank you, Scott. 2 more testimonials (NOT (URL) - sorry) are needed for both Teddy and Tim.... so c'mon LUGNET members! Nelson (16 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Thank you, David. 2 more nominations are needed. C'mon LUGNET members... Nelson (16 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Although I have never actually met Tim Gould, I feel that I know him pretty well. I can’t think of anyone else who has as many posts and responses on the LUGNET forums (possibly over 2,000 posts and responses.) His LDRAW models and POV-RAY (...) (16 years ago, 16-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) As a fellow member of NELUG, I've worked with Teddy on quite a few projects. Teddy's role in NELUG has always been an incredibly positive one. Perhaps most recently, for the past two years, he's taken on the task of organizing the Moonbase (...) (16 years ago, 16-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: The LEGO Ambassador Nomination thread
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(...) Thanks, Tim, but I respectfully decline the nomination. Since it is past the deadline, it seems that we have only 2 interested nominees here on behalf of the English-speaking side of LUGNET: 1. Edward "Teddy" Welsh 2. Tim "Gambort" Gould If (...) (16 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Well since this thread seems to be going completely unnoticed... I nominate Nelson and self-nominate myself. Tim (16 years ago, 12-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Seeing as it's so quiet here, I might as well throw my hat into the ring: My name is Teddy Welsh. I'm a 34-year-old mathematics professor in Westfield, MA, and I would like to be considered as a nominee for Ambassador, representing lugnet. I (...) (16 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | The LEGO Ambassador Nomination thread
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Per Steve Witt's (URL) LEGO Ambassador nomination> post, let's use this thread for nominations. Please post here if you would like to represent the LUGNET community as a LEGO Ambassador. If you want to nominate another LUGNET member for the LEGO (...) (16 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX) !
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| | Re: LEGO Star Wars Anniversary Set - Help Decide
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(...) It's a long shot and might be hard to pull off as a single kit, but I'd like to see a minifig-scale Order 66 diorama set, with the recreations of the scenes in Revenge of the Sith where the various Jedi get taken out. It'd be a good (...) (16 years ago, 19-Feb-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: Poll for new Town Sets
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I appologize for the lateness of my response. I have been extremely busy lately. Ben, thanks for responding. After re-reading the posts, I felt that the timeliness of my original post may have stepped on the toes of others. Moving forward with it (...) (16 years ago, 10-Feb-08, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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| | Re: Poll for new Town Sets
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(...) Following on this, I am absolutely sure a yellow school bus would sell great, at least in the US! Something like (URL) this> or (URL) this>. Regular city buses could be fun as well, such as (URL) this>, (URL) this> or (URL) this>. Regular (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Star Wars Anniversary Set - Help Decide
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(...) Two models! USD 150 price range - each. R2D2 + C3PO. Nothing symbolizes the Star Wars saga better than those two characters. Display scale. With sound FX. -Morten (16 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Scott, We posted the Star Wars poll at the request of the LEGO Star Wars designers. Each theme is created by a different group of product designers with a Design Lead. Certain themes/design leads are more willing to work with fans to gather (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) fixed at this time. If not, how about a gun store, reference the discussion on weapons. Or a liquor store or maybe a large movie theater. A drive in. or a very large bridge. You might want to look at all the old store displays. The directions (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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(...) This is a big reason that LEGO has always had a hard time marketing to girls. LEGO town/city has always been too action-oriented, and that simply doesn't appeal to girls . . . at least not to the extent that action appeals to boys. Sets that (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) or Another way to keep it under $150 is make the trench short with Technic bricks on each end so more than one of the same set can be combined end-to-end, with instructions showing how to do so. Maybe scale it (trench and ships) somewhere in (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) Ooh, ooh, ooh! Great idea, only skip the train and the Stormies, and make it a vignette of Bounty Hunter's Row from TESB. And make sure to include the awesome Cloud City Boba Fett, with the arm/lego deco. For how popular these characters are, (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: Queen Amidala's royal starship in CHROME
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(...) As cool as this would look, I don't think it would go over very well if released as a set. I got the UCS Naboo Fighter, and even with the limited number of chrome parts that were in that set, they still had a fair amount of surface scuffing. (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) (16 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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Further to the idea of doing a Darth Vader sculpture, it could be improved even further by adding a brick with a button on it (similar to the T-Rex Roar brick from the R/C T-Rex and the motorcycle engine rev brick from the motorcycle) that when (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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(...) A 9 volt train which has technic wheels and new track geometry with wider radius curves in original dark grey. Oh and you better put Boba Fett as an engineer with 200 storm troopers in the coaches. (16 years ago, 28-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: Queen Amidala's royal starship in CHROME
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(...) Thanks, John! I hope God or TLG or whoever is listening! My reasons are selfish on this one, as I just LOVE chrome and don't want to see it fade away entirely! The SE Naboo Starfighter was just so rockingly awesome snazzy-bad with all its (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) BING BING BING!!! We have a winner. Thank you all for playing; from Dave's mouth to God's ears to the guy at TLG who is pulling the strings on this decision! JOHN (16 years ago, 27-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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Many Star Wars fans have been clamoring for a Queen Amidala mini-fig in one of her royal outfits for years. This would be an opportunity to make that happen. I think an all-chrome exterior ship would be great as a way of letting fans know that this (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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(...) I'd certainly buy R2D2/C3PO sculptures, but something more "playable" might appeal to a wider audience. Theed palace/throne room or Amidala's starship from Episode 1 would be good options. (...) Minifig scale. (...) Lego teased us with an (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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