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| | | The intention of my original email was to answer Henry Henkleman's comments that TLC should produce military based sets. He seemed to miss the point that many parents do not like buying war related toys for their young children. I think Star Wars (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —James Powell
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| | | | | (...) As far as the concentration camp models- I personally approve. They were NOT meant to be toys- they were meant as a serious statement (at least as far as I could tell). They were using something so innocent because of the effect that it has- (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Hey, James, I've been wondering... —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) What does that rank mean, in the overall hierarchy of a ship or a naval station? (I presume it means something other than "you have to stand on the prow for the entire voyage, or the fantail if we're going backwards". :) ) best LFB XFUT - (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hey, James, I've been wondering... —James Powell
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| | | | | | (...) Well...not quite, but close. I'm the 3rd lowest rank in the CF (OS-AB-LS-MS-P2-P1-C2-C1) for NCM. But, it doesn't mean all that much, since we have a lot of LS/Cpl rank people who are long service (12-25 years). (I have just shy of 7 years in (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hey, James, I've been wondering... —Erick Jensen
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| | | | | | (...) Nope that's not what it means. The "lead seaman" is the first guy out of the tube and leads the charge for that one almighty goal. Watch the opening scene of Look Who's Talking to see what I mean. Bruce Willis is the Lead Seaman. :) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | (...) Yes, but first of all that was a public post (not a private email), and second you made a value judgement about adults who *are* interested in the military and show this with LEGO in your words. Just as you did in this post. I responded to it (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Craig Stevens
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| | | | | | (...) I did indeed expect to be challenged and in your response, you have given me very good run for my money. For that I salute you. For the record, I don't deride people who create military MOCs (That's a bit strong) it's that I don't understand (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | | (...) Of course you'll get a good run for your money from me when talking about historical imagery and selective vision; I'm a professional historian, after all. ;) But why sticking the minifigs in tanks--that's an interesting philosophical (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Mike Rayhawk
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| | | | | | (...) Not to add fuel to this fire, but the are more than a few suicide-bomber and bombed-out-building photos on Brickshelf, and by coincidence I think all of them are in the context of BrikWars games. Specifically, NELUG's games, so we know that (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Gary Blessing
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| | | | | "CRAIG STEVENS" <SWFALCON30@YAHOO.COM> wrote in message news:H8MD7y.3Iq@lugnet.com... (...) If I remeber corectly there was one of these done by an artist not an AFOL, and it was funded by the LEGO company. there was quite a discussion about this (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Harvey Henkelman
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| | | | | (...) <snip> First of all, my name is HARVEY, and my last name is spelled HENKELMAN, get it right next time (...) <snip> Miss the point? I beg to differ (...) <snip> And it's too bad that LEGO® refuses to tap into it's competitor's market (i.e. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Craig Stevens
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| | | | | | Hi Harvey, You are the person I was trying to have a discussion with, before I got tangled up in all that morality of war toys stuff. (...) Okay, no problem. I'm not going to risk winding you over your name and type it in wrong again. As for me, I (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Mattias Martensson
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| | | | (...) Hi To all of you with opinions about of military models I have uploaded two new pictures. One specially for Craig and one specially for Harvey :) (URL) Lego models is just a game don't forget that. Mattias (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Harvey Henkelman
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| | | | | (...) I love that 'in action' shot! Pretty neat background... Yes, we must remember that LEGO® is essentially a toy, although fast becoming an adult toy IMHO. Again, I was at Wal-World today and informed a father and his son in the LEGO® aisle that (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | | | | | Re: MOC: German WWII halftrack and armoured car —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | (...) Ahh... You crack me up, thanks for the laughter! /Tobbe (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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