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(...) I can "me too" this. I saw the sets at a "Rite-Aid" pharmacy. No fanfare or advertising from TLC. Not available from Shop@Home. But there they were -- on the shelf at a store in Oakland, CA. -- Richard (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Winnie The Pooh Sculpture
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(...) Very nice work. I think LEGO Company should start making sets like this. It shows good detail and small eough to be affordable and not too difficult to build. (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Picture piracy on lego.com
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(...) The problem with this kind of mark is that it's easily lost if the the image is resized or even jpeg encoded. (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I think this solution loses more than is gained. Open file formats are a good thing and it'd be a shame to lose that -- especially when it'd be easy to "fix" any image with a graphics program anyway. (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: New Chrome Castle Sets
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(...) Actually, some of the Kabaya sets HAVE been released in the US. Not in the same packaging, and not always with the same set number, but I have found several sets which were released in the Kabaya promotion. Specifically, the sets (finding a (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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One of the beauties of the 5x5 pixel idea is that there is no cost. It would simply be a small selection of pixels that would be put into the image by the author into a field of like colored pixels. this allows for about 32 million different (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <BXL34@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) never (...) Yeah. But if Artemis ever does become a reality - the new file format could be encoded and a 'parts author status' could be granted and (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: I can't believe it's gone!
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I've Been looking at Calum's page for some time now, me and my older brother are showing up, but not participating. As soon as i save up enough money, i'll be buying a mindstorms kit off ebay, but i'll also need an upgrade kit available only from (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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| | Re: I can't believe it's gone!
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Welcome! Welcome to the conspriacy, er, ... Where is "right in the middle"? I live downtown, near Bay & Gerrard. We also have wayward members in Etobicoke, and so forth. So, what are your favourite Lego themes? If you're into Mindstorms, you may (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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| | Re: WHOLE MISB Lego Castle Silver Armour Series
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(...) Wasnt sure what the sarcasm was here. However, there seems to have been several sets over last year that were available in Europe before the US. Remember Lego is a European company and manufactures in Europe, so it would make sense if some (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | I can't believe it's gone!
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No Legoland At Ontario Place???? But, why bother even going now! noooooooo!! i join in your waling.... and, a little off topic, i wanna join the Toronto Lego users group, i sorta just found out about em, but i'm really into lego and working on a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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| | Re: WHOLE MISB Lego Castle Silver Armour Series
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(...) I don't pretend to understand how the Lego comapny works... It makes sense that TLC would release soccer sets in Australia and Europe first due to it's popularity. I can understand the tour de France promos being more of a European thing also, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: WHOLE MISB Lego Castle Silver Armour Series
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(...) Heh... that is to say (correct me if I'm wrong): If it was released worldwide, surely a North-American would discover first? But since a European did, surely it is European-only. Sorry, just a little bit of sarcasm, not directed toward you (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I'm not so sure that's necessarily true. It will depend on what Lego ends up charging for shipping and handling. Particularly here in the states. Unless they ARE going ot reissue older sets that are not available in local stores, I'd just as (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Broader context (was Re: New VLC Logo Idea -- TLC's reply
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(...) Right on. Here's to the future. Every club that acts responsibly, does interesting and neat stuff, and builds a good rep with TLC (well, with TLC individuals) makes it easier for the next one to leverage that good relationship and to move on (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.org, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) in (...) selling (...) that (...) returns I (...) returns (...) Didn't know this about France. It explains why it's so difficult to find old sets in France. (...) LEGO (...) Yes, they definitly will be unhappy, though I suspect that direct (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yes but the contract with the shops/agents/etc may preclude LEGO from selling sets direct - this is pure speculation on my part. As for France, I know that LEGO operates on a "sale or return" basis there (DYA, BB etc buy the returns I expect) (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) That's what I liked best about the Bat Lord from FK. Aside from the weird hair bits, he was just a regular smiley with the smile inverted. No weird snarly mouth. I could live with that kind of bad guy face. Steve (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Is the LEGOLAND at Ontario Place open during the CNE?
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G'Day <Horrible waling , whining type noise > THERE IS NO LEGO STORE AT ONTARIO PLACE THIS YEAR !!! AAAAAHHHHH !!!! </Horrible waling , whining type noise > <whine> Brad , why not ? </whine> <beg> Please bring it back. </beg> "Bradley Dale" (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor)
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(...) messages, (...) they've (...) Shipping (...) off (...) at (...) want (...) I'm not very competent on the matter, but I suppose that if Amazon can Lego could as well (Amzon just to mention one among thousands of English-only websites that sell (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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