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Re: It's all about parts
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:49:29 GMT
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David Simmons writes:
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> 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 old sets they
> want from their hoard of pieces, it just won't be in the same colors.
> That's the problem. You want this piece in this color and they don't make
> it anymore. It's not just that the designs were better (boy were they
> ever!), you need that particular part and only this old set has it.
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> AND your creative possibilities are expanded by having more pieces to work
> with.
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> Dave
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 creativity (and therefore Lego) stands for? If you want to
build this-and-that but you don't have the NxM flat in yellow, you just have
to use other (yellow) pieces...
Use and train your creativity and your fantasy!
Mark
"If it aint Lego, it don't count"
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: It's all about parts
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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)
| | | Re: It's all about parts
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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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| (...) 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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