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Re: It's all about parts
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Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:13:20 GMT
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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 parts, if only TLG would let us.
Scott Sanburn
Mark de Kock wrote:
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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.
> >
> > AND your creative possibilities are expanded by having more pieces to work
> > with.
> >
> > Dave
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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 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!
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> Mark
> "If it aint Lego, it don't count"
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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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| (...) 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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