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Weird to answer to my own letter... Lego has officially put the new Belville sets in the US catalog. Seems it's a new line now, no longer part of System. (...) The inscription confirms this is indeed a wicked stepmother, they even have the famous (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) ~ guess again! i'm actually more excited about these sets than the new system castle! most of this stuff looks good sprinkled in among my mini-fig creations. it occurred to me that in m-f scale the rabbit could be "harvey" or dare i say (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Yup I'll be buying lots of these I suspect. It also has a blue bucket like the peasant's back pack. I especially like the three 1x6x2 arched railings. I've been wanting these in white, and up until this set, the only place I've seen them in (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) valkyries!?!? forgive my laughter! haw!haw! i'm picturing a horned moo-men helmet stuck on top of her hair-do! my plans are more along the lines of "something"! i would be a bit more pleased if the millimys were oposeable. they're pretty (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.belville)
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This is the second letter I'm writing in reply. The first one got erased - that seems to be happening to me a lot lately... But back to business (or fun...) (...) it's a (...) [snipped description about new stuff] (...) Cool, didn't think o'that! (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Just throw in set #4930 for some dwarves. ;) (...) The light-pink fairy in #5823 also has the moon pattern. Can someone tell me *why* they didn't use minifigs for the fairies? These non-poseable SPUDs are terrible! (...) And this fairy has a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Don't ask me - I stopped searching for reason in TLC long ago... :-) BTW, SPUD stands for...? (...) Yeah, I mentioned those faires in the other posts. (...) Is it just me, or does that wall look like it could rotate? That would be cool. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Shiri- FYI (For Your Information) MM stands for 2000 (M is latin number for 1000) HTH (Hope This Helps), John (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Ahhh... thanks. Well, FYI, I do know SOMETHING (1)... IMHO, at least ;-) (...) Yes, it does :-) (1) And that something is that AFOLs shouldn't run down KABOBs, especially if they're ESLs... ;-) TIA, -Shiri (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Good observation. Yes LEGO is dropping the SYSTEM designation for Belville. So now it is LEGO Belville, like LEGO SCALA. Todd and I won't be able to reflect that in the database right away, but we are aware of the change and it will be applied (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Uhp! correction. Looks like Todd decided to to the opposite, but it's temporary anyway. For convenience's sake, I'm going to put a link to all the Belville sets from our main bv page. I'm a big Belville fan btw, have almost every set and plan (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Actually, IIRC, it was the stepmother, who later disguised herself as an old lady so Snow white wouldn't recognize her... (...) Rosaline is gonna be a martyr in my lego-world... (...) LOL! Just add a cyclone, and a Prince Charming that falls (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Looks Great! If you need the missing pictures, they're on the lego.com catalog - I'll be glad to help download if you're short on time. (...) Yeah, when Belville first came out I scorned it, but it grew on me... I only have one set now, it's a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) [...] (...) LOL, this sounds about right according to the mention of your (3?) sisters. well, I hope poor Ros doesn't get burned at the stake or anything. (...) Oh Yes! That's right, I remember when I first saw Rosalin's friend Iris. I totally (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Thanks for the offer but I've got them here. I plan to upload data while watching the X-Files. :-) Man, I love the look of these blue bricks. This is very cool. -Suz. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) I'll do my best to keep her mind off thinking she's Joan-of-arc, too... ;-) (And yeah, that's three sisters...) [snip] (...) and (...) that (...) that (...) next (...) The Munchkins! And the witch will be the wicked witch of the west, the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Looks like it to me. I wonder if it is a better piece than the System secret door? (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) SPUD = Single Purpose Unlegoish Decorative element. Coined by Paul Gyugyi in an r.t.l post on 12/27/1995 to describe the big barrel element that was introduced in the 1996 Wild West sets. The "U" seems to have mutated over time to "ugly" or (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.faq, lugnet.general)
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(...) time (...) red (...) radar (...) that (...) a (...) old, (...) No, it prolly isn't - it doesn't look too secret... -Shiri (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Ha, yup, we've got Joan covered in that new Castle set anyhow. [...] (...) Ok, that's it. This conversation is TOO fun. :-) I just rented "The Wizard of Oz" on video. And while at the store I saw "Sleeping Beauty" on the shelf. I had forgotten (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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[snipped .belville and .faq] (...) I like the way the U can stand for all of these things. Poetic overloading of the meaning. :) (...) Especially the US cannons. Talk about useless and decorative. SPUD-ness is in the eye of the beholder. For some (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Rent? Huh? Oh, yeah--you've got no children. Heh. At our house, one entire shelf is devoted to Disney videos. 2 deep. And we've got Snow White and Wizard of Oz on LaserDisc. Steve (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Steve Bliss (<2WlzOPtb4LRF+A+DyP...@4ax.com>) wrote at 16:11:38 (...) Hmmm. Not sure about that. Can you build the current horse with bricks? Nope. Therefore it can't be a POOP. It does depend on your POV as to whether it's a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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TLM (The Little Mermaid) using some of the diver components, maybe pirate ship parts for Prince Eric's ship. -- (...) shelf. I had (...) So now (...) some fun (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yup. Same here, only now I'm starting to retool with DVD:-p -John (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Shiri wrote in message ... (...) Just got my 5824 today, and on the back of the instructions it has pictures of 5823, 5825, 5826, and 5827. The picture of 5826 is different from the picture in the Pause Data Base. It definitely shows the wall (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Right. But that set won't be reaching my hands at least until Disney comes out with a movie about Joany... :-( (On a side note, the real castle line will fit excellntly next to the belville one... Ooops. That's an EMPTY shelf... ;-) wait, that (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) I'm not *quite* that excited, but I am looking forward to getting some of these. For the parts though. :) (...) Or a giant mutated rabbit that goes on a rampage through your minifig community! :) (...) Too bad it doesn't come with any green (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Wow, the things we're missing out on... And I bet you know all those songs by heart now, right? :-) I'm actually not a Disney fan. We only own Fantasia (VHS). But I have a few Jim Hensen movies (loved the Muppet Show as a kid). wonderfully (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Tight budget here too. Keep a sketchbook. It hurts less once your ideas are down. Then assure yourself that in ten years you'll have a great job, able to buy up all those missing sets for outrageous auction prices. :-) -Suz. (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) fairy (...) shelf. (...) White. (...) me (...) Thanks for the tip! (...) Oh, you mean like that Metroliner I didn't get for $150 when I was 10 and now I'm just dying to get for less than $350? ;-) Yeah, I'm assuring myself that this instant. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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(...) Everytime my nieces come over, they always have to watch the Lion King...as often as possible. It gets very annoying... Luckily, I may have gotten them off that by giving them Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro" for Christmas. From what my sister (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I (...) I should talk. My sister was addicted to the Lion King, she would watch it EVERY DAY, I'm not kidding! I know not only all the songs by heart (I have the disk too :) but also the whole movie! "Life is not fair, is it? In the eye that I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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