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(...) So, out of curiosity: 1) Knowing just what you know, would you have made the color change? 2) Would you change the colors back? Personally: 1) No. I wouldn't have. There would have to be some pretty big undisclosed reasons for me to vote yes. (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) For some it is the whining that has tarnished the reputation of Lugnet. For others, it is beligerant posts like this one, and the people who find it necessary to spotlight posts like this one, that have forced people to filter their reading of (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Probably for the same reasons they aren't still producing the old colors alongside the new. Just because Jake managed to get a small batch through the system doesn't mean the same button can be pushed again and again at the same costs. Since (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) There's gonna be a lag between the old and new system. Think about it for a second: it's a new system residing concurrently with old results. It might even need tweaking. :-) I don't let spotlighting and highlighting determine which posts I (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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I will NOT sign that letter. Feel free to send along the following though; Dear Lego company, I too am an AFOL, and the above letter may let you believe that ALL AFOLs' feel this way. This is not so. I for one do agree with the statement that many (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I'm going to comment here, since those who disagree with the letter have already ignored the request to discuss its content in another thread. I can't believe you are seriously asking why TLC should make more of the old-color bulk packs, when (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I DISAGREE with the contents of this letter. I do not support sending such a letter to the LEGO company. John Guerquin (30), Toronto, Canada, $1k per year in 2003, $2k in 2004. LEGO fan for 27 years, who will continue purchasing LEGO products. (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hello! Since most of you ignored the simple request not to discuss in THIS thread but in this: (URL) anyway, it doesn't matter anymore if I chime in here. (...) So hopefully the new CEO is older than the LEGO Company so he is able to know how to run (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote: -snip- Disagree, and offer a more simple letter instead: "Dear LEGO: Changing basic colors that have been around for many years was a very foolish thing to do. Please, PLEASE don't do anything that (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Maybe the cross-posting was an (unsuccessful) attempt to get around the new (URL) Spotlight settings> that discriminate against posts in .color. The (URL) petition post> has 8 spotlights, but does not show up in the Spotlight sidebar. Perhaps (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Bingo! Thanks Steve. (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Whereas I agree everyone should have the right to express thier opinion--that said, the 'spamming' of every major NG at LUGNET was, in my humble opinion, taking that 'chip on the shoulder' just a tad too far. Post colour issues in colour, and (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
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(...) SNIPPY of list Hello Steve (And others), Thanks a lot! I really appreciate this. I guess I should have mentioned that I was looking for regular parts (like 1 x x etc) too. But this was still a great help. Legoswami Samarth (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) The whole reason Todd set up a Color newsgroup was so there would be a place for people to discuss the Color issue ad nauseam. (...) Come on, man. You've met me. I'm not a hostile person. The whole "Boo hoo, I'm not going to read Lugnet (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Disagree - because I can NOT pretend to know how to run a multi-billion(?) dollar company that has existed longer than I have. Steve Hassenplug (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I completely agree with Jennifer's statement, we like the colours when it suits us, but not when it doesn't. Unlike bley, I think this is a problem that only creeps slowly into the minds of technic builders as we can slowly deplete our stocks (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.parts, lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Just two points: a) The issue seems to be important enought to pop up again, and again, and again. If the topic was unimportant, it would have died by now. b) if you avoid LUGNET, how did you manage to answer anyway? Disagreeing with other (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
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"Steve Dunn" <s%te#ven.j&.du?nn*@...tr$a.c?om> wrote in message news:IAJKnu.oHo@lugnet.com... (...) I have some of these in white... very handy too. (...) peices (...) obvious. Agreed, I like the variety of colour that this has introduced, but do (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.parts, lugnet.technic)
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(...) The end of this para should read: "That's because LUGNET doesn't censor." (hit send too early, sorry!) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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