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Hi I just bougth a town wood plate. It have a Blue Lego mark and it must from 50´s. I saw in your message that you mention a 1957 German Town Plan #700, where I can found a picture of it?. Or from the other Town plans? The second question is where I (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Agreed! Mars needs women. ...er, wrong movie. (...) Put a belville head on... ++Lar (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yes, one can. And that only emphasizes Lego's modern enlightened attitude that sophisticated construction toys are for boys, while toys for girls are specially made with more pre-fab parts and less building potential. (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Well, you can rip the head of a belville lady and jam it in the neck socket of a decapitated technic guy. Alan (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) And how about some female technic people? (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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sheree rosenkrantz wrote in message ... (...) but (...) Call up Shop at Home and see if they still have service pack 5393, it has 6 pony tail pieces and 3 shoulder length straight hair pieces. I agree though, TLC, let's see more ladies (or at least (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) They could just be women with short hair:) Alan (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Dear Lego, My 10 year old daughter has today become the proud and happy owner of set #3401. I see it as the first of many of this theme we are destined to buy. She has been playing with it for the last 5 hrs. Thanks for the extra ball. Women's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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Frank Filz wrote in message <38EDE013.446B@minds...ng.com>... (...) Some of the Mickey sets show up when you do a standard search on Mickey. Rose (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) There's tons of precedent on using trademarked names in titles of books. I don't believe my publisher was ever seriously concerned about losing a court case. But they didn't want to bother going to court, and there's a lot of value in a good (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ummm, obviously that page isn't visited much by LugNuts. I found it by accident about a month ago after trying to log onto the forums after someone emailed me that they had rendered my compressor in MLCad. The hoops I had to go through to get (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"Dave Baum" <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote in message news:dbaum-FAB69A.18...net.com... (...) Get both books, cheaper, from Varisty Books: (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) When I signed my contract with O'Reilly, they indicated that net income on a book was approximately 50% of the cover price, so yes, if they make a profit it's negligible at best in these cases... (...) In my case, the contract was based on net (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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In lugnet.robotics, David Schilling writes: [...] (...) From what I understand, Amazon makes no profit when a book is 30% off list and then grants a 15% referral fee.[1] The 15% is a maximum. A visitor to their site would need to buy directly (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Not to mention, of course, the whole thing where these books are nothing but beneficial to Lego, and much more beneficial if they actually use their name in the title. (To make another analogy: a book called "How to use Linux" is nice for Red (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) However, it seems extremely unreasonable in the case of books about a product. In fact, although I'm not a lawyer, this use of trademarks seems 100% within the precedent set for fair use: it's impossible to describe _without_ using the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I just think it's incredibly ironic, if not a bizarre turn of events. It's surprising to see TLC jumping on the opportunity to take advantage of books written by people in the AFOL community that support it. Maybe they'll give a portion of the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I don't really understand how the associates stuff works: if no one collects the referal fee, doesn't Amazon just keep it as extra profit for themselves? Certainly the authors don't collect a smaller royalty if a referal fee is given? So I (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I assume Jonathan (and ORA) went through the same discussions my publisher did with TLG regarding using "Mindstorms" in a book title. Lego had no problem at all with people writing books...in fact I've gotten a lot of encouraging feedback from (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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Suzanne D. Rich wrote: [snip] (...) Could you please explain further? What is an "associate code" and how does it work? /Eric McC/ (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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