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Here's my two cents on the whole thing: (...) Why not simply substitute for newer parts. Great thing about LEGO is that it's entirely modular. (sarcastic remark, I apologize in advance.) Put another way.... if need be they could easily redesign a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Dear Lego...
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Dear Lego... I only have a small number of wants: 1) More train cars: Such as twin tankers, blue hoppers, etc. 2) A new train crossing 3) A new airport: something like Century Skyway would be nice; could call it Millenium Skyway heh. 4) Revive the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Fantasy sets! (was Re: Horrible quote from the Scala web catalog)
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And to reply to myself (losing it...)... Let's bring up the OTHER Fantasy stuff discussed before. Dragons - gimme a break. The current ones are TOO SMALL. Bring out dragon SETS - bricks/slopes/plates/tiles to build a *DRAGON* - i.e. 100ft scale (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I think you're allowed to use a magic bridle though. (You have to ask Athena nicely.) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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(...) ...and this would give rise to a new piece - 1x1 round TILE, to cover it, as they could switch to ONE mold for horses ;-) And they could make a grey war spike for horses, along with the horn. (...) SADDLE? On a PEGASUS?!?! How DARE you! ;-) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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(...) I saw some of these for the first time at a Target last weekend. You can open the lid of the box and look inside to see the pieces. They don't even look as if they would be LEGO compatible, although they claim to work with other building (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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(...) For the record, Karen thinks it's pretty awful too. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala)
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Señor Justus, You write that your firm intends to be more receptive to Adult Fans of LEGO. I am quite pleased to hear this. Although I like what I've seen from your 2000 catalog, I have a few new ideas, that I wish to pass on. After this small (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well I was off line for a while and am just catching up. Some of you I am sure have seen my postings relating to LEGO and girls in the "Introducing LEGO Direct" Thread. I actually seem to have started a lot of conversation on this topic with (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala)
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| | Re: Most money spent on Lego at one time (was Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes)
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(...) You're right.. we didn't want to know. Man. I would have loved to have had one or two extra 375s to go with my first, back then (not that I wouldn't now, of course..)(BTW, I was five then.. ;) ) Dear Lego.. how about more sets like 375/6075? (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Brad Justus is real
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Moving this to .debate, for lack of lugnet.off-topic.comp.risks. (...) BO isn't cracking - it's carelessness on the part of the crackee. Anyone can distribute happy99.exe, but breaking root on an up-to-CERT unix box is something very few can do. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, I dunno. I'll take a few 100-300-normal-brick pokemon sets (though pikachu wouldn't be first in line, despite his usefulness in the game itself). Jasper (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) You're right; I didn't mean to say that. Note my distain for the Scala line. I'd like to see the better non-conflict oriented sets for boys AND girls. But I also have a hypothesis that these sets would sell really well to girls. And when I'm (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) OK well an AFOL mother of a boy(2yrs) and a girl (10yrs) I guess I'm qualified to add something to this discussion. My daughter, would've actually loved the pink cutesy themed sets when she was three to five yrs old. That is when she started (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The large radar dish recently re-released in grey in set 4533, (and it looks like a pair of tan ones any day now in 7115) show that old pieces *can* be reintroduced, if there is a desire to do so. By the way, THANK YOU, LEGO, for doing that! (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) <URL:(URL), actually. "Worldwide Number 1 for Military Construction Bricks" doesn't sound exactly where I want to be going. :) They do have some interesting set designs. But from what I've heard, they suffer from quality issues. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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(...) Oooh, that's a dangerous path. I can just see it now -- Jrized versions of all our favorite classics. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) One reason that LEGO is constantly inventing new pieces is to make sure that as many elements in a LEGO set are patent-protected. The re-released old sets would not have that advantage. I wouldn't mind if they modified the sets to make them (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The knights vs the moo-men. The knights come with a king, a princess, and a warrior babe, steps to make the sets girl-friendly? The moo-men are much more boyish, testosterone-poisoned sets. (...) Right! A horse with a hole in his head for a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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And in fact when I was a child (not that long ago, born in 1974) Lego sets weren't all that conflict oriented either. The space sets of the time had no weapons for instance. The first set with a fighting theme that I can think of is the yellow (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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