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(...) lol. I just assumed this was a *different* fairytale castle/kingdom. Or maybe it's in a parallel dimension, where kings live much longer than in our world. Notice the counterpart to the witch from the previous product line. Obviously, a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: 5827 Belville Coach & Other Stuff (WTB, Out-of-Stock News)
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(...) I missed out on this one also (after weeks of waiting for a good Belville sale). So it goes...ordered up some of the sets they did have (5823, 5824). On a related note I was told that both 5399 (Fairytale Accessories) and 5821 (Pony Picnic - (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.belville)
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(...) I too am interested in the story behind the King pictured in the new S&H catalog. He is referred to as "the king" in the description so something obviously happened to the old (in both senses of the word) king. Look at that cocky son-of-a-gun (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) I have the catalogue issued to Australian retailers... (...) Frank, these look dark pink to me (...) Could this plate be the new dark red ? (...) Could the tabletop again be the new dark red ? This would be a useful(less specialised) piece in (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) Not to pick an argument, but LEGO S@H in their catalog description blew this one. Note that the figures in 5832 and 5842 are both clearly identified as Vanilla in the titles of the sets. Both figures have blonde hair, _brown_ eyes and upper (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) Now that I've got a new Shop at Home catalog, I thought I'd add additional comments... (...) purple 1x1, pink 1x1, lt blue 1x1, yellow 1x2 (...) 4 white 1x1x.6 Scala foam connector (...) Hmm, the sink doesn't show in this picture. The picture (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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Brad Justus, Sr. VP of Lego Direct did a question and answer session at Brickswest. I have completed the transcript of this event. You can download the .pdf file from here. (URL) Herrera (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Also, there is either a new spoon element or a hairbrush in white in the set. I'm leaning towards it being a spoon. :) *starts planning on making a Lena minifig from Chrono Cross...* :) (...) I'm pretty sure this is "turquoise", rather than (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) Vanilla, prince, one more male figure I believe that the figure that comes with this set is Elvira, not Vanilla. Princess Vanilla has brown eyes and parted lips (teeth show). Elvira is the one with blue eyes and wears blue. Looks like three of (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) I guess it's meant to simulate ice, since the princess is skating about. Imagine 4 of these quarter circle base bricks with a light source below. (...) Fetch Frosty, fetch. Go get the stick. (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) :-) Yes, a trans blue base brick would be super cool. That would definitely be close to the biggest transparent piece (the large quarter domes are still larger though). (...) Another minus about it is that it is all rounded and such which (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) You don't have to be so diplomatic, because it's obvious that I'm confused here. :D Yes, I'm thinking about that. I'll go back and look at it again--a trans-medblue brick would be really neat. (...) Ack. I'm not sure I like it anymore. I (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) Umm, someone's confused here. Pete and I have been discussing the 12x12 quarter circle base brick in 5850. I seriously doubt they've changed to a plate. Perhaps you're thinking about the 8x8 plate in 5838. (...) It's somewhat larger than the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) ...origin of the Belville name? (...) Sensible? bah! ya no fun! :P (...) <chop chop> Well... going from what I wrote above... I think I agree with you :P Mel :) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) here's my take....and probably most sensible... :) most likely taken from french... meaning beautiful city belle ville ville is feminine in the french language, and beau = verb is belle with feminine objects... French Language 101... :) (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Hmm Belair? :p j/k... well bel = Ten decibels. Ville = village hahaha one loud village? maybe in colour! Belle (french) = beautiful or an attractive girl/woman. Latin - bella, feminine of bellus I dunno it kinda makes sense when you put the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Not as menacing as a Duplo polar bear ;^) (...) That was my first thought. It's always hard working out the colours from box artwork, especially the size of the images on lego.com. (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) It definitely looks like a plate. Given that the mold is new, I wouldn't be surprised if they're getting mileage out of it. That polar bear in the big set looks nice and menacing for minifigs, too. (...) That looks to me like the new medium (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) Take 4 of them and use them in the middle of 4 (24 x 24 w 1/4 circle cutout) green base bricks from 5987, or that's what I'm planning. (...) Must say I wasn't expecting orange base bricks in Belville, but Arctic did use many orange elements (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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(...) You might be right, it does match the color of the 6x6 roof which is definitely trans blue (I'm guessing this is actually the new trans blue that Belville has which is a little darker than trans light blue). If so, it would be really cool, and (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.belville)
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