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Ok, the typo was fixed. Apparentely, *someone* is watching... :-) Pedro (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yep, that would buy me a car. A *real* one... Somebody should tell the folks at LEGO that this pricing is wrong on their webpage. It may be scaring customers away... Anyway, it isn't a question of changed commas/dots - I'd wish it were so. The (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Just a quick note to say thanks for the "Bob the Builder" Duplo sets ... not sure if that should be a sarcastic "thanks" as it now means my 2 year old daughter has just started her LEGO collection and is going to cost me a fortune in the long run ;) (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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"Pedro Silva" <el_gordo@netc.pt> wrote in message news:GLoH2E.KM4@lugnet.com... (...) Eek! That's just over £12,000, right? If that was 8000.00 BEF then that would be a bit cheaper than the UK price by around £35, so I think someone missed the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Sorry, I just noticed that I did not mention the country: it is Belgium. Yesterday I saw a price of about 800000 BEF for that set (and that is WAY_TOO_MUCH!) Pedro (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hi all, I was browsing and I came across with this: (URL) this price right? If so, why? Is this set a limited edition or so? Pedro (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) It's great that Fast Company did a followup to the article. Good journalism for a good cause... now if only LEGO would understand the error of their ways... (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Heh. Just about everyone does it (calls LEGO Bricks "legos"); athough I find it rather amusing that a show about law and lawyers misuses a trademark. :) thanks, James (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.mediawatch)
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As I was watching ABC's The Practice last night, I noticed that they were using "Lego" repetitively without saying "bricks" or "building toys". I read the Fair Play statement not long ago and was surprised to hear TLC's trademark being so blatently (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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This is *such* a good idea. I'd be buying them in 10s. (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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In lugnet.dear-lego, John Heins writes: >Unfortunately it seems that the whole Technic line is moving away from the (...) I think that the LEGO company is "missing the boat" big time when it comes to promoting the educational value of their product. (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) YES! YES! YES!!!...!!! and isn't this ironic, people BEGGING a company to let them buy their product....... Ironically, I see a parallel in another hobby. I have a few old convertibles that GM no longer makes parts for. For a while, I'd pay (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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(...) John... you have a great point here, I agree with you whole-heartedly. (...) Your two paragraphs above make a point that perhaps isn't always easy to see. Let me put it in my own terms and see if we can't get the point across. More than 1/2 of (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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(...) "Expert Bionicle Builder" for best results... :) - David (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Me too. (...) Well, you've summed up the argument perfectly in two lines. Maybe though as the Technic brand is being so poorly catered for at the moment we should pitch this as a Mindstorms basic bulk pack. Just changing the name not the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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(...) In the interest's of furthering this intellectual discussion here is my contribution. If we have beams we need connector pegs, luckily lego know how to put a set together(even if they don't have such a great idea of what set's to make). (...) (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I have wished for something like this for a long time as well: it would be really cool to have a separate tub for each colour of technic elements! The vast majority of pieces should be mainly beams, (without overly many small ones) and technic (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I most emphatically did NOT suggest anything regarding a universal set. While I also have more than a few copies of both the 8277 and the sub - and paid an obscene amount for a some large vintage sets, this is NOT what I had in mind. I WANT, (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I must say, I don't treasure my universal sets *that* much!! (...) And I dont really understand that - I think there were some great parts in that sub - I have 2. (...) Yes, that would be nice. But I think universal sets fill a different (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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"Suzanne D. Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:a05001913b7ee47...226.51]... (...) Great analyses of the current state of LEGO! All three peoples' comments were excellently crafted. Kudos to Allan (and to Jeff, though I don't recall (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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