 | | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
|
|
(...) I agree with your sentiment (even though I liked the pharoah tube thing)... There seem to be more useless (and expensive at MSRP) bits nowadays...... Unless I am trying to recreate a hydrogen bomb, some sort of Hindenburg re-enactment or a WWI (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
|
| |
| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
|
|
Mmmmmmmm... Guinness... I actually like the chrome exhaust pipes! (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
|
| |
| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
|
|
(...) I was in the store a couple of nights ago looking at the toy isles. I actually had a hard time determining at first where LEGO sets stopped and Playmobil started. Look at set 6600, Highway Construction. Tell me that it doesn't start to look (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
|
| |
| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
|
|
(...) Well, they have a prefab building system. I picked up a Playmobil catalog at Target and it was frightening how much the lines were similar, right down to the color schemes for things. (Playmobil has a blue and white railway express train and a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
|
| |
| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
|
|
(...) I think Star Wars and G.I. Joe are exactly why Lego is making so many specialized pieces. They are trying to compete with these guys. I remember as a kid back in the early eighties(82-83?), I started to get heavily into GI-Joe. Prior to that I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
|
| |
| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
|
|
(...) Hey, GI Joe was great! Sure, when I got my first one, I had him pegged as a weak-minded pawn of the military-industrial complex[1] (probably because of the booklet showing how to pose him in various boot-camp situations; calisthenics, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
|
|
(...) Hm, I got into GI Joe just as they introduced the Swivel-Arm Battle Grip™. I loved the things--after a couple of years where fingers broke off, they changed plastic formulation for the forearms and solved that problem. I finally liquidated my (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes (...) I kind of spaced on the busted finger thing. I remember Zap ("bazooka expert" or something), my first GI Joe, hade some serious finger problems. Not only was the hand's plastic (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
|
|
(...) It wasn't the loss of fingers that was so troubling, it was the loss of the groin region! Very very bad. 8-0 (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
