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(...) our (...) European (...) posted this letter (in October). In my humble, but "war-weary" opinion, I really don't care what continent's children the company belittles it self for. I just want them to strive for perfection in some division that (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Brad, THANK YOU (and the LEGO Group) for opening the door! I plan to be among those AFOLs you'll be doing business with in the near future. Some of the items I'd like to see among the offerings are retired pieces of great interest [to me - and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Not quite, though. My grandma has some of those, and they're _vastly_ inferior to Lego -- they don't really interlock at all. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) As a kid I never had Lego blocks (it was a long time ago). Instead, mum used to bring me tall cylinders of 'American Bricks' (which now I find seem to made by an Elgo company). These sets were primarily bricks, doors, windows, & roof pieces. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) And how about doors and windows in something other than red? I mean, red is fine, but variety is good. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Having grown up in that era (and as a kid who had shooting versions of the Battlestar Galactica toys and who remembers the media hullaballoo about that), I am still always amazed to see the number of shooting toys on the market that shoot (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I know, but... Acutally, it has nothing to do with American children, and everything to do with American lawyers, and lawsuit paranoia. See: (URL) version: someone's kid choked on a shooting toy, someone sued and won, shooting toys banned for (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Jasper- I understand your frustration due to someone else's ignorance, however, please be advised that you are violating the conditional use of the LUGNET service due to the use of vulgar language (if I am incorrect, please inform me): Please refer (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) less (...) Well, there's got to be SOME differences between European kids and American kids. After all, European children get firing cannons in their sets, and American children don't. This is probably due to cultural differences that give (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) You really have no clue at all, do you? Do you really think there is one _whit_ of difference between European and American children? Sheesh. Bloody luser. Jasper (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) for (...) as (...) Houses and other buildings -- this is something that the bucket sets could address. The first LEGO set I owned was a universal building set that had enough roof elements, windows, and doors to make houses, and, as a (boy) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Schools, houses, libraries, ... all would sell well among boys as well as girls. As it is, there is nothing to *build* in Legoville, just a lot of homeless mini-figs living in their cars. -Laura, who got into LEGO as a girl, and built houses (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ooh. I love the FX-Star Patroller. Naji and James, you might enjoy reading an extended ramble I wrote that mentions #6931, among other wonderful sets of that era (particularly the Gamma-V Laser craft). (URL) "Float on a river, forever and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) James, there was a long thread about this part of your letter when you posted it originally, because you had MISUNDERSTOOD the statement on which you based it and it has no basis in fact. While you were editing your letter you might have fixed (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) modifying (...) Hear, hear! The FX-Star Patroller was one of my largest sets as a child; it influenced years of my own spaceship creation. (And just take a look at the parts that went into those lasers on the bow of the ship... around 13 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Brad Justus wrotes: (...) I've been cogitating on this from a technical standpoint and I think I have come up with a general workable solution, all things considered. I agree that if something can be done, it should be done. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmmm... when I worked at a plastic parts plant in Fowlerville, Michigan, we had some new molds come in for the Dodge Neon Battery Box. The molds where around a 2 foot cube (2'x2'x2'). They cost the company around 500,000 each, and we had two (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yes, TLG does imbed worn out molds in buildings. No, the molds are not hard to make. It is the pattern making that is hard to do (the first mold) I would imagine that the LEGO molds have been done on CAM for quite some time...since the best (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I think it's fair to say that LEGO's plans with regards to juniorized sets are world-wide. If LEGO wanted to offer juniorized sets for one market, and nonjuniorized sets for another, they would, just as they have released Europe-only and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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