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| | | Fellow Lugnuts: I just had the good fortune/misfortune to receive 6095, 6094, and 6032 as Xmas gifts. I am not going to review these sets except in a cursory way. The gist of this post is to complain on behalf of new castle buyers -- that new castle (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...) —Paul Davidson
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| | | | | Sounds like they're trying discourage kids from making their own creations by making new pieces as useless and incompatible with previous Lego as possible. -- Paul Davidson Richard Marchetti <BlueOfNoon@aol.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...) —Tony Priestman
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| | | | On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Richard Marchetti (<FnEyty.98r@lugnet.com>) wrote at 19:15:34 (...) That depends. (...) This is a very AFOL oriented view. If you look at it as a toy for a young person, it has to be playable when finished. And by and large, the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...) —David Eaton
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| | | | (...) True enough... everyone's opinion differs (as obviated by the frequent posts on the issue :) ) (...) Actually, I'd disagree... Lego's niche is not in playability-- it's in creativity. There are PLENTY of toys that do cool things with trapdoors (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...) —Tony Priestman
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| | | | | On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, David Eaton (<FnGns0.IFH@lugnet.com>) wrote at 17:12:00 (...) <snipped on the one hand, on the other hand discourse> You're right, and later on as well. I was playing devil's advocate up to a point, just to counter Richard's (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...) —Mike Steele
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| | | | (...) Maybe it's appropriate for the queen to be wearing black. King Leo's got an awful lot of axes hanging around in precarious positions, and accidents do happen... --Mike (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...) —Rick Kurtzuba
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| | | | (...) I honestly don't understand why people have complaints about the Queen Leonora minifig, *especially* her hat. Black is a great color for the hat because it can have so many uses -- good or evil, young or old. And since it's a neutral color, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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