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Great post Garry, but I wanted to remind everyone to keep the color discussion in lugnet.color. FUT: lugnet.color Thanks Frank Filz (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
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(...) Hi Terry, I'm still upset about it too. (...) Randall is probably as upset about hearing complaints from people like us as we are about the color change. The best thing we can do to honor requests from Randall and others is to talk about it in (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.color) !
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(...) The color change you speak of took place before I was born. The only way it has affected me is in the collections of old pieces that I have bought from ebay. Despite the downside of that era's color change, I would have to say that it was for (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) SHHHHH. Keep it down. Next thing you know people will start complaining that Lego does not read the message boards. Steven Weiser (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Given the size of your collection, budget and home, I'm just completely in awe of that. Blows me totally away, proportionally. But then, you're not someone that complains a lot, you just soldier on, having fun and doing what you believe in so (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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Amen. (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I have purchased as much as I could when I could. 40 bags each of the grays. I will keep buying as I can afford to until they are gone. Steven Weiser (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Good question. I did *MY* bit. My calculations show me that I bought better than .5% of the total production run. That's right... Half a percent of the whole run! I can't really afford it but I wanted that run to be successful. To send a (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) How about building? I just got around to opening my Maersk last night. It looks fantastic. I'm putting the finishing touches on a moc that contains both old and new gray. I'm plotting which of my existing mocs will work better with the new (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color) !
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(...) The problem is not having debates on LUGNET. The problem is having the same debate, over and over, with the same people saying the same things, and the same conclusions. At the very least, these debates should be contained to the appropriate (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
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(...) Terry - 1) Please check your attitude at the door. 2) Please set followups appropriately. (URL) -> lugnet.color -Tim (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
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(...) Paulo (and others) - Please set followups appropriately. Complaints and reiterations of complaints about the color change belong in lugnet.color, not lugnet.general. See: (URL) -> lugnet.color -Tim (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
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(...) Well observed indeed Alfredo! Did anyone else noticed that?? As for Kelly's post, I didn't get it a bit. Was it really an answer to Marc's? For example, see this lines: Marc wrote: (...) Kelly replied: (...) Hey Kelly, that's exactly what Marc (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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Well I see that the color change of 2004 has generated some strong emotions... The first color change (of modern Lego starting in 1957) was that of 1962-70. TLG replaced Cellulose Acetate with ABS Plastic, and in doing so the colors red, yellow and (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
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(...) Interesting that the date of my post is before the post referenced above. . (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) No, I'm upset because the parody rant competely overshadowed my polite and serious questions in a serious tread, dwowning them in such a way they that it's most likely they will not be aswered anymore. You've chosen to quote the first line of (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) The most appropriate place for this question is lugnet.admin.general, to which I've set followups, but to answer your quesiton: Appropriate posts to lugnet.general are posts for which there is no more logical group that applies. In rare cases, (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.admin.general)
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Thanks for being a voice of reason in all this ranting, Frank. I'm not exactly sure why people are spot-lighting the rants in this thread, but I'd like to encourage the more level-headed to spot-light your message. Yes, I'm tired of the rants - (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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Alfred, you have hit the nail on the head. I feel the same way and I'm glad to know at least somebody else out there isn't going to blindly follow (and you'd have to be for this particular issue!) where the Lego company goes. To confine the color (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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Thank you, Marc! You said it much better (and much calmer) than me. Perhaps that's why certain individuals didn't like my posts. Perhaps there was too much feeling in them. I can't help it. I've loved this hobby more than any other since I first (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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