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Subject: 
Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general
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Date: 
Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:30:52 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
I  think there's also at least one timelosers sets with it
                                         ^^^^^

Hehe, I like that... haven't heard that one before.

Now, please be honest with my here. I was unfortunate (fortunate?) enough to
not have enough cash and lego accessability while the time cruisers sets were
out. I don't have ONE Timmy or Dr Cyber fig.

Please enlighten me. I know there is a general hate directed toward the TC,
but I'm not sure *why*. OK, so it had just two repeating and annoying
minifigs. Is that a reason to hate a theme? I dunno.
Is it because it was an "all the themes collide" thing? I dunno again, I
thought that was actually pretty cool.
I didn't think the big set was that bad, although the ship was, well, weird.

Still, it seemed like a great theme at the time (for parts AT LEAST if nothing
else!) and I still haven't gotten to the bottom of WHY EVERYONE HATES IT!!!

Thanks! :-)

-Shiri
BTW, how come there's a group for EVERY theme and none for the time
twisters+cruisers? I guess Todd hates them too ;-)



Message has 7 Replies:
  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
Shiri, Well, I think the Time Cruisers series were a real waste of plastic, talent, and manufacturing time. It seems that they had bunches of spare parts laying around, so they thought, hey, let's make some models out of it! The sets contain some (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates)
  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
I have a feeling that your message will get about a zillion responses, but we'll see. I actually bought up several time cruisers set on sale laster year from LEGO shop-at-home (for about 1/2 price). I was primarily interested in aquiring a few rare (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
(...) Good parts ,Toss the instructions away, Hide minifigs in common pool-I love TT,tolerate TC-and grab em when i can ravi (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
(...) I think the general consensus is that: a) the official models suck b) Dr. Cyber and Timmy are annoying c) Either the designers were under the effects of certain proscribed narcotic or hallucinogenic substances, or TLC decided to 'just make (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
(...) Two big things that seriously bugged me about Time Cruisers: 1. Prices were too high. 2. Because of the high concentration of speciality parts, and the diverse nature of these speciality parts, it was very hard to build anything substantial (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
(...) Arrrrr, these here castles lubbers be not informed about us piratical types (I be having letters of marque and reprisal, I swear) love of Timmy. We be not a'hatin' 'im. So, all you pirate people run for cover, 'cause once again.... TIMMIES! (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
Shiri Dori skrev i meddelandet ... (...) In part it seems to be a thing an AFOL *must* do - hate Timmy, and TC. An unwritten law? The holy code of the community? It's just like any other group - you think like the group, speak like the group to be (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Pirate/castle helmet...
 
Jeff Johnston wrote in message <38DACFD8.1F4C8F79@m...ne.net>... (...) interested... it (...) found a (...) a bit (...) problem? (...) fantasy (...) pack (...) the (...) I think there's also at least one timelosers sets with it (a quick look at my (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates)

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