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From the very first basic sets of 1949, until 1965.... all Lego Basic Sets were nicely housed in flat boxes with all the elements displayed in checkerboard and zig-zag patterns. It was almost like opening a box of chocolates, with everything so (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) snip 8< (...) When I bought a 4757 when thay went on sale at Wally-the-walrus-mart last year, I asked an associate why LEGO boxes no longer hav windows, she answered someting like, "Because kids would tear the windows and steal the elements". (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I hear you, Danny...! Not only technic sets, most of the medium-large sized System sets also had the cellophane window highlighting some of the sets' parts. Unfortunately, they did away with all this cool packaging to save costs. 9 times out (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) At least in the case of PC's the dead space can be justified for air flow and cooling. When I received the red technic pneumatic studless truck ((URL) there were two boxes, one for the truck, one for the back end, with some dead space because (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) You're right, the boxes are definitely way too big for their contents. But in addition to the billboard qualities of a large box, they also help justify the price. It would probably be harder to convince parents to shell out $30 bucks for a (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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LEGO's standard policy is that the main model on the cover of the box is shown life-sized. (At least that was the policy when I worked at the Imagination Center at the Mall of America.) If LEGO goes to a smaller box size, people will need to know (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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A link from a Prius list I run had an interesting blurb: (URL) Wal-Mart wants to help shape a sustainable future, and few companies are in a better position to do so. ... "Right-sizing" the boxes on just one line of toys—redesigning them to be just (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hi, You have certainly noticed that TLC offers free online PDF building instructions downloads. In fact, TLC has not, AFAIK, officially announced or publicized this. Until now, only old (more than 3 years old) BIs were available for donwloading, for (...) (19 years ago, 15-May-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.inst)
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So I downloaded the 1.6 version of LDD, and threw together a few simple mocs (jlug container car, simple town park, old red phone booth for town)... to check out pricing et al. The prices seemed fairly inline, until I did up micro version of the old (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) (URL) ultimate insult to a train fan. (:^o) (...) -snippage- (...) Yes, it's an attempted French 'pun', just for you ! :^) I almost used 'Santa Feigh'. Australians like to intersperse their language with French words and phrases, in a poor (...) (19 years ago, 10-May-06, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) It would be neat if TLC did a basic brick/plate/slope box(or one stud bottle), say a 200 peice, in each color for a reasonable price, around $6.50. No marketing required, just offer it in their retail stores/S@H and occasionally send out a (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Here they are : (URL) weirdest bag is probably this one : (URL) you can notice a train (grey) part among colored bricks. At least one guy has encountered the same problem with a BNSF set. (...) Is this a try for a play on word with the french (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains)
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(...) You may have received Santa Faux engines instead. (19 years ago, 4-May-06, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hi, Today I've received three Santa Fe engines. (URL) of them were filled with some pieces of paperboard and five creator-like bags (standard multicolored bricks). The pieces of paperboard was clearly there to fix the bags. This let me think it was (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.org.fr.freelug, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Dear Lego, Any idea when/if alternate building instructions for 7712 will be posted at exoforce.lego.com? My son and I have enjoyed the entire Exo-Force line and love some of the alternates pictured. All the other sets have alternate instructions (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Holy moley! Where did you see these? In Canadialand? Which province? And which dollar store (since there are so many variations)? And do you really spell it "Doller" up there? Is that like "humour"? Any idea of a piece-count in the bags? Do (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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Recently on a visit to the local Doller Store, I happened across this in the aisle-- (URL) Yep--MegaBlok packages containing basic bricks, all for a buck. I don't know if TLC would be at all interested in offering similar packages, but I would (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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Dear Fellow LEGO-Lovin' Folk, Again this year, I'll be celebrating a holiday I made up just to celebrate a holiday. Just to explain, when I started at my current job, I found that we employees had available to us something called a "floating (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-06, to lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.ne.oma, lugnet.loc.us.ne.lin)
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| | Re: Great Job on Exo-Force
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(...) SNIP (...) SNIP (...) SNIP (...) Ditto, I love this theme Jeff (19 years ago, 3-Feb-06, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Great Job on Exo-Force
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The new Exo-Force line is a huge hit with my family. My kids are crazy about getting them- for the lights, the figs (both human and robot), and the great parts selection (curve and slope bits, click hinges in normal colors). As for me, I actually (...) (19 years ago, 2-Feb-06, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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