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(...) I guess that's the difference between someone who "collects" Lego stuff for the sake of collecting it and someone who wants to amass a collection of Lego stuff for the sake of having cool stuff, if that makes sense. My 6067 is valuable to me (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yes! In fact, if this were an externally measurable thing and if we ever had a need to sort the AFOLs from the speculators, it would be a pretty good criteria. But it's not externally measurable, and we don't have a need to do any sorting, I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I agree with this attitude. And this is exactly why I see little reason for re- releasing archaic sets. Let me give an example: My 8 year-old brother and his friends seem to have similar criteria for selecting lego sets. They like new or rare (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Okeedoke. I'm obviously wrong about my ideas about the re-release of older sets. I thought that there would be a group of collectors who would not want old sets to be rereleased because it decreases the value (not necessarily monetary) of the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) This ring sounds pretty fascinating, can you give more details on it? Whos idea was it and what is it you mean by calling it a ring? What happened to their market once the jetpack appeared? (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Actually, I think you're taking me a bit more literally than I intended. Many of the boys (and some of the girls, apparently) in his third grade class were heavily into Legos at the same time, and taking Legos to school led to arranging trades (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) When LEGO is outlawed, only outlaws will have LEGO ?? :-) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It is a cop-out of sorts. But the sad reality is that, with the possible exception of the Star Wars sets (and there are rumors Lucas insisted on higher quality for those), almost all of the current and recent sets SUCK. So yeah, I'd love to be (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) idea (...) rather (...) the (...) That would be fine if these new sets also contained older pieces which are no longer available in certain colors. Parts is what it all comes down to. I think any serious Lego collector could build some of the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) And what about the text in a lot of the older LegoCatalogues? Doesn't it state "and when you don't have the exact pieces you need, you try to build the model with different pieces" (It did say this in the '83 catalogue) Isn't THAT what (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) This is odd. The references line seems to be ok, yet Larry's post appeared as threaded to the original post in the thread, rather than what he was replying to. (...) Hell no. Just like with guns, psychos who feel they need guns to defend (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mark, Definitely not the point. I think TLG made the statement (I think it was in the older Idea Catalogues) about using parts you have simply because children cannot afford to buy the sets for the parts. Most AFOL do have financial means to buy the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) sets to (...) Few here are collectors first. To coin a Larry phrase "love of the brick" is the primary modivator. Scalper is the most evil name you can be called here, seconded by speculator. The more re-release sets = the better. In fact if I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) But if you need 450 black 1x4 bricks to build something, it looks pretty weird if you try to use the other "available" pieces to complete it :) Maybe that's why my 5571 trailer is stalled in mid construction until those packages arrive. Hey, I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Scott, Not that I don't like you or anything, but I _have_ to disagree. Back in those days, a lot of the Lego advertisements were about creating you own models. One of those that springs in mind is this picture of a kid with a thing in his (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Barry McFarland writes/wrote/has written: (...) LOL B-) And what is wrong with adventurer sets? <duck under desk> Or did I say something folish? B-) If you want to use 450 black 1x4 bricks and you have only, say, 400. Why not add 100 1x2 black (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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