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Subject:	Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space
Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:54:54 GMT
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In lugnet.build.contests, Mark Sandlin writes: > I buy the new ones, but I'd also buy the old ones, namely the original run > of late 70's sets. My parents couldn't afford to buy me the largest sets > when I was a youngster, so I missed out on the Galaxy Explorer and the large > bases. What if they released an LL-932 super-gigantor Galaxy Explorer big-brother ship and gave printed instructions to build an exact replica of the original Galaxy Explorer and its two smaller counterparts as alternate models? --Todd

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		Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
That could be fun as well. :^) I could build a GE with my current parts, but I don't have the "ship registration" brick, and that's a model I might want to have sitting around untouched... it's history, ya know? ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

		Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
(...) That would rock!! -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

		Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
Then I'd gladly sell a Kidney to get one : ) How 'bout new Blacktron (I & II) Stuff too !? I've always been bummed that I didn't get a 6981 Aerial Intruder : (...) original (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

		Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
(...) I was thinking a bit more about the re-releasing of older sets, and decided that we haven't got a prayer. There's just too many elements in those older models that aren't being manufactured anymore. Wouldn't Lego have to make a tremendous (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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		Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
I buy the new ones, but I'd also buy the old ones, namely the original run of late 70's sets. My parents couldn't afford to buy me the largest sets when I was a youngster, so I missed out on the Galaxy Explorer and the large bases. ~Mark "Muffin (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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