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Re: Where Have All the Studs Gone?
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Tue, 5 Dec 2006 05:25:06 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Chris Phillips wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Chris Phillips wrote:
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especially in response to a customer’s valid observation about a product I
just paid good money for.
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Chris, not wanting to sound rude, but did you open the front flap to find
the parts list right there on the box before you decided to pay good money
for it? Assuming you did, you obviously still felt the set was worth the
price you paid, even with it’s distinct lack of studded bricks.
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Having purchased the set online, no I did not have that luxury. I wanted to
get an NXT, I am satisfied with that purchase, and I believe I made that
clear in my original post.
But I wonder why all the smooth surfaces? Why is there no way to attach a
standard LEGO brick directly to the NXT or any of its sensors? Why can’t a
LEGO employee in a store which presumably has every currently-available set
in their product line show me a set that has any quantity of a once-common
and very useful part?
This is not “whinging”, these are reasonable questions.
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Indeed they are, but the answer as I see it has been touched upon many times
before - the LEGO system is constantly changing. It has always been changing, I
don’t see many sets with these or
these in them any more.
Again, you assert that studless are less versatile without providing anything to
back that up. My bet is soon there will be a whole generation of LEGO users that
wonder how Technic builders ever built with those pesky studded bricks. And we
are in a unique position to be able to show them 8?)
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Does TLG really want to send my business to
bricklink?
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I don’t really think they care either way - they’ve already made their money on
parts listed there. But that’s a whole different question.
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Either way, the question “Where Have All the Studs Gone?” is quite easy to
answer - “Other sets!”. They are still there if you want them.
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Maybe someone should tell the LEGO Retail employees where to find them, then?
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Probably, but again, that’s not the question you originally asked.
ROSCO
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| (...) My assertion about the relative merits of studded/studless beams would not have an easy proof, but it might make interesting fodder for the .technic newsgroup. (Congratulations on your new curatorship, BTW!) I welcome the opportunity to (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| (...) Having purchased the set online, no I did not have that luxury. I wanted to get an NXT, I am satisfied with that purchase, and I believe I made that clear in my original post. But I wonder why all the smooth surfaces? Why is there no way to (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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