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(donning flame-retardant attire) When these young people walk out into the real world, they will find that not everyone is testosterone-driven, regardless of their gender. Gender and aggressive behavior do not line up evenly. I have known aggressive (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Nope. The message I'm being presented by LEGO is that they don't care enough to proof their text. 'faciest'? Steve (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala)
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TLC has produced some non-conflict sets, the one that comes to my mind is 6595 'Surf Shack'. I somewhat suspect that this set was sort of a prototype-Paradisa set, although without the pink. Train sets would also fall into this catagory. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Part of my frustration is that it's difficult to _find_ Lego system toys that are generally appealing to girls. Almost all of the sets are fire trucks, police stations, race cars, or space/castle/pirate sets, and as someone else mentioned, all (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Eric Kingsley wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> I know I'll prolly get lit up good for this, but here goes. Generally speaking, I don't see LEGO as being a toy sought out by girls. Now before you ignite the torches, let me explain. First, take an (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Why not? BO2K runs on Windows NT and Win2000 boxes. (The new version of Netbus does too, but I'm not sure if that's publicly available yet.) (...) But if you anticipate what packets the remote side will return, you can generate the appropriate (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Easier than designing and making new parts. (...) Ditto. (...) They do this anyway. (...) Ditto. (...) Ditto. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) A good point. And arguably (perhaps unfairly, but that's a further debate) a traditional male testosterone-driven worldview. Why does "play" mean "conflict"? (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Wow. You think it is such a bad idea you had to let us know twice? You must really hate the idea, then. ;) Jeff (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yeah, but just think, with a Pikachu Lego Piece, you'd have a new "Evil Monster for Knights to Slay(TM)". :) Although, I think I'd save that spot for Jigglypuff. On the upside, I'd have a Jesse Minifig(1). ;) (...) Ick. Is that show still (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn855j5l.1bu.....bu.edu... (...) Hmm, I wonder if the mispelled word was supposed to be "fanciest" or "fascist"? ;) (...) building (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala)
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"DaveG" <peagreen@intergate.ca> wrote: <MASSIVE CHOP WITH LARGE CLEAVER> (...) ...An excellent parallel I can note here is Games Workshop and their Outriders groups. GW actively supports these groups to basically go places and champion and talk up (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) issue. If TLG were to go to the expense of reissuing sets they'd have to: 1) begin production of parts that haven't been available for some time 2) print instructions and boxes 3) sort the parts into poly-bags and the poly-bags into sets 4) (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) For the architectural stuff, we would need a second TLC motto: 'build well' :) (...) TLCs motto (IIRC) is 'play well', not 'build well'. A large portion of the existing sets have to do with battles or adventure (Castle, Pirate, Star Wars, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The Pyramids at Giza are some of the most fascinating relics in human history, IMHO. James, have you ever read any of Graham Hancock's books? (URL) If you are a Pyramid fan, you will be *completely* absorbed in his works and ideas. For (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Point 1, he uses IE on Windows NT (if we can believe the first message, at least). So no remote breaking in. Which leaves physical access - which is IMHO rather unlikely. (...) Break into a high-security FreeBSD box? Highly unlikely, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Dear Lego: Regarding the Adventurer Series Egypt tile maps, a small nit that I, as a geographer, feel compelled to make: The Pyramids of Cheops are on the west side of the Nile, not the east. This may seem trivial, however, the Pyramids were built (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Why would they want to prevent it? Complete sets would almost certainly be cheaper than purchasing the parts directly, so there's not really an issue. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Actully, I think your last sentence captures the issue more than the first point. The problem with Paradisa isn't that it was marketed for girls. The problem is that it was a weird pink and has strange architectural stuff going on. I think (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) [Snip] Now that I have had a day or so to mull over what I would like to say here it is... Open Letter to Brad, TLC and the LEGO Direct Staff Many of the posts and letters from AFOLs and others that you will see have requests for solutions to (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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