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Y’know why I like Jeff Blasterman…? …’cause he’s smart and innovative! The problem was self-evident to us all. Here’s a perfect recent example: (URL) Keith Goldman’s comment:" “lego-bows are almost useless, it always looks like the fig is offering (...) (20 years ago, 15-Aug-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.build, lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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I was looking through the newest catalog and noticed that there's a redesigned Harry Potter train that actually works on LEGO 9V tracks! I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but I do like LEGO trains, so back when the original set was released (4708) I (...) (20 years ago, 15-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop @ Home website
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(...) Understood. I'll eventually upgrade. :-) (...) Here's one: (...) Notice the "world's" has an apostrophe? "product.asp" line 188 is similar - it may be common to a lot of asp pages. (...) These two are likely due to my ancient browser. Thanks (...) (20 years ago, 14-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Hi Chris, Ideally, we would like to support all web browsers and operating systems. However, due to business decisions and resource constraints, we are limited to officially only supporting the most popular browsers (IE 5+ and NS 6+). This (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Virtual model tours? Where you can spin the product around 360 degrees to really get a good look at it? O.K. I know that's asking a lot. :) In all seriousness, it would just be nice to have larger (and more) pictures of the products. I think (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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I know my browser is ancient and nobody really cares about it, but there is one thing I've noticed that likely ought to be fixed. There are some places where it looks like a string is being supplied from a database or something, and used in some (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop@Home website
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(...) That's good to hear. Right after I made the original post on LUGNET I went to the LEGO website and filled in their feedback form, too. So LEGO's getting the comment from two places. (20 years ago, 12-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Jordan and Allan, Thanks for the feedback. While I can't reveal too much, trust me that "Hope is on the way". ;) Just keep an eye on (URL) over the next couple of weeks AND the next couple of months for some new and exciting features... (...) (20 years ago, 12-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Jordan, I couldn't agree with you more. It's sad that sometimes Brickshelf is the best place to see good pics of official LEGO sets. As for the LEGO site, I would think it makes sense to offer both sizes of pics. Many websites do this by (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Would you please make the clickable images larger? They are only 384x288 pixels, which is pretty small. I want to see super-up-close detail, so give us some higher resolution photos, please! (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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| | Re: Authorized Lego retailers
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Gordon Thomas wrote in message ... (...) and if (...) My experience (in Canada) is that LEGO doesn't necessarily come and check you out to see that you have a storefront. They rely on people's honor. Odd concept, eh. (...) The wholesale price is (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Is this a question for Jake at BrickFest this weekend? JB (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Gordon Thomas wrote: SNIP (...) The simple answer (probably) is that they do not purchase LEGO directly from TLC, they purchase through a distributor like Marz (Marz dropped the line). The distributor prices are only worthwhile (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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I am always looking for new places to purchase lego and came across the site www.theblockshop.com the other day. This site interested me mainly because according to the site, they are located around 30 miles from where I live and the fact that they (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Missing log bricks in set 4508
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Has anyone else on LUGNET built the new Designer set #4508, "Titan XP"? I built the giant robot, and it calls for four black 1x2 log bricks - but mine didn't contain any! Has anyone else experienced this? There's no inventory on Peeron, and I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build)
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Thanks for the detailed reply Scott! The problem is I am flying into Philadelphia and I am not sure which other places I will head to, atleast not yet. It will most definitely be NJ and NY. I guess it was convenience of having the information in one (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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I had been the following the posts from Jake, but was under the impression that there were a lot more stores opened than that this year!!! Anyway, thanks for the reply! I will do the digging around and consolidating the info so that I know what is (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: KK2 pricing
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(...) Yeah I agree with Ben. The KK2 boxes look VERY interesting. Last year's boxes were kinda boring. If I was a kid, I would be dying to get the KK2 sets. But I'm not a kid... -Bryan (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: KK2 pricing
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Hi Dan, Although this is speculation on my part, I believe KK2 is more expensive because of the packaging and playing cards. Some of the boxes have flip top lids which are die cut and are very glossy. All of the playing cards are glossy and die cut. (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | KK2 pricing
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I was wondering why Knights Kingdom 2 is so "expensive". Compared to the new lets say Alpha Team sets ranging from $4-$60. Where as the KK2, which is non-liscensed, is $9-$90. There are many possibilties I personally can think of I was just hoping (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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