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(...) this? (...) Sigh... No one reads posts anymore. Since you didn't read it, I'll explain. The re-releasing of non-castle sets is unfair, since Castle has been beaten down so much. I complain about the Guarded Inn coming back because unlike John (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That's a very good point, Anthony. And the only way TLC will triumph over collector's is to re-release a lot of stuff they are not now producing. Perhaps it's in the works. Who knows...? If they produced enough quantity of the rarer elements (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I certainly did read it, which prompted my reply. (...) Well cry me a river. Sorry but I don't buy your idea of 'fairness.' LEGO has no obligation to treat a theme with favored or non favored status on the basis that they have 'beaten it down' (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Tim, I think the term "sour grapes" doesn't actually work in this context -- or at least I'm not sure how you mean it. (...) Others can always do as they please. But there are several REALLY good reasons why Lego doesn't fit into the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Mostly haven't been in this thread, short on time earlier this week. Here's my take overall. Anthony: go ahead and feel that Guarded Inn wasn't the best first release item. Not everyone agrees, I think it *WAS* a great first release but you gave (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Now there's a resonable counter to my statement :) Actually, I find what you wrote there quite interesting, and would be interested in seeing your grading system when it is finished as well. (...) Well, it would probably be in their own (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I have no idea why I locked onto this, but I just did. (...) This is not in actual fact true. It's only true if you have an anesthetized frog. My experience is that a frog will try to jump out of *anything* a human puts it into. It's one of those (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not sure what bait I should be taking. I'm just a mild mannered LEGOManiac... Frank (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Until Danger(tm) rears its ugly head. Then you're an intrepid Cave Explorer, Pirate King, and Menace to Bad Drivers everywhere. Just shine the LEGO(tm) Logo into the sky and you'll come! ++Lar (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Danger(tm) must be a Lego-themed bad guy. They're the only ones with ugly heads. <GD&R> Then you're an intrepid Cave Explorer, (...) Unless it's a sunny day. James (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "...for a great metropolitan newspaper..." Is that a phone booth? :) LFB (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hah! Really? That's too bad, it *is* a nifty allegory. I hate it when one of those great sentences has no reality-base. Boo. (...) Hah! I know someone who *did* turn it on. Ewww. And amazingly, he's my best friend. ;-) I shudder at the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GEoLtx.HpA@lugnet.com... (...) That wouldn't be any corn-fed Lugnet readin' Iowan we happen to know, would it? Or is that your best friend, who isn't an SO? -Tim (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yep, that'd be me. Back in my younger days, y'know... but it was all my cousin's idea, I swear! I was an innocent bystander. :-) -Chris (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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