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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Poor packaging by TLC (was: Has any one else noticed...)
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(...) speaking of... My sister got me that new big ~800 piece basic set for Christmas. It's the one with six or seven smaller boxes of lego held together by a cardboard frame. It seems like a waste of packaging to me, especially the raised baseplate (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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If you cut out the center divider, and just snap the handle clips back in, buckets are very useful EXCEPT that the lid doesn't snap in tight. If they tip over, you have a mess. It would be nice if the lids snapped in securely. But those orange (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) When I went out to Portland OR last summer to trade some windshields with Steve Barile (1), we joked about that (especially since we could also talk about the clarity of the parts). (1) the real reason for the trip was to go to a week long (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I have a bunch of empty tubs (100 or so) that I would be glad to swap for some better form of storage, like the 6 or 9 compartment trays with handles. I do agree that the tubs are good, but I hate the buckets for storage. That handle makes it really (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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"John Robert Blaze Kanehl" <johnNYblaze44@webtv.net> wrote in message news:FpCLvJ.K12@lugnet.com... (...) the whole (...) Building (...) storage (...) frames.....an (...) I think the styroofoam is OK as long as you don't throw it away! Who could (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Mmmmmmmm... Guinness... I actually like the chrome exhaust pipes! (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I apoligize for the last post.....cat on keyboard..... The new packaging is a far cry from the "compartmentalized geek" boxes I loved as a kid.....To this day I still have the boxes to Universal Building sets 745 (1976?) and 733 (1979?). They (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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TUBS, however, are pretty useful. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The new packaging is a far cry from my "compartmentalized geeK (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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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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