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(...) I am envious, I remember my excitement over an LL 924 on my Birthday (geez was that the 70's-oh my = ) I always wanted the Galaxy Explorer (LL 928) .....One of the Holy Grails I dream of.....more so than a BSB or Yellow castle..... (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) 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)
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What he said... Just don't package it in cardboard surrounds to make it easier to wrap, that misses the point. Again, to reiterate, that is, to repeat myself, or if you like, say it again for clarity... Plastic Thingies that are modular and that (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Or more bluntly, this stupid crap doesn't move. We know it. Store owners know it. Time for you to catch on as well. Just THINK about it, LEGO. You're shopping for just the right present for some kid, maybe even your kid. Are you going to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Crocodials, like in Peter Pan? ;-) (...) I would think that by the pound, with an understood margin of error, would be the most efficient, since they use scales to verify set contents right now. -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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The easiest way to do it is to simply order an element, and receive some arbitrary quantity (i.e. a "box" or "bag" full). That quantity might vary from part to part but would be consistent on a per part basis. That would be by far the most efficient (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Um, I know that a lot of us here are addicted to the brick, but when Lego starts advertising the "dime bag" of 1x1 bricks, that may be too far. ;) Ben Roller (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Oddly, I was always thinking about buying parts by the pound (or kilogram or whatever). TLC could tell us the *approx* number of each part per pound, then just weigh them out. We would know that we were getting an aproximation. Sorta like buying (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Great suggestion. I would go farther and suggest not only a minimum piece count, but also an incremental piece count. Example: 2x4 bricks - can only be purchased in intervals of 40 pieces (40, 80, 160, 2,000 etc.). Other piece types could have (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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My name is Alex Farlie I DO NOT WORK FOR TLG I am however devloping some ideas for a Haunted House and wondered waht the communities ideas were. I don't want this to be just to me thinking. Come on lets hear your ideas!! Alex (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I too liked the 70's boxes. But they were no match for some of the very heavy early boxes from 1957-68. The European Town Plan sets (700, 810) were heavy wooden boxes. The USA/Canada Samsonite Town Plan (725) and Junior Constructor (717) were (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:3897B05F.EB0C57...ger.net... (...) Besides the fact that most of these packages are a retailers product placement nightmare. Too much shelf space, not enough product. -Rob. (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Dear Lego, I note that your current plastic thingie set, Air Zeppelin, seems to be a glut on Walmart shelves, even at 9 bucks which is significantly less than original MSRP. Every single Wal Mart I was just at (and I hit about 10 in the last week) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yeah....what I would do with truckloads of Lego, and some professional film equipment and a masterful crew ;) (...) Yeah, I'd do that in a heartbeat. (...) up minifigs in ranks and they fall over like that?? -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.dear-lego)
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, James Simpson (<Fp9xAJ.J47@lugnet.com>) wrote at 23:01:31 (...) Too true. I really have to steel myself to open some of the old stuff that I've got. But I bought it to build it, as well as enjoying the packaging :-) Last year, I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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James Simpson <jsimpson@rice.edu> wrote in message news:Fp9xAJ.J47@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) box. I (...) and (...) classic (...) were (...) long- (...) dark-ages (...) was my (...) Dark (...) the (...) said (...) hearty, (...) grew up (...) whole (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) An important part of my Pre-Dark Ages Lego experience was enjoying the box. I remember fondly those substantial boxes from the 70's with the deep trays and wonderful Alternate designs on the back and inside lid. I loved the way classic space (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Tim, (...) Well, I think this thread started out wishing for the impossible, so I put up my impossible wish. I would be happy with another 20 so or each, but since it is impossible, lets go for the big numbers! :) I always wanted to build a really (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) DUDE - you could go *swimming* in a pile of several thousand of just one color of them, and not make any significant dent in your collection! What the heck would you do with all of those anyways? The bigger question is, would you have room to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Like 'The House With A Clock In Its Walls'? I read all of them that I could find in '79. So, yeah, there are others here. -Erik (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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