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| (...) I have to agree. If TLG wants to be non-violent, no guns anywhere. On the other hand, I think maybe they could draw a line with things like modern day weapons. I think they can give the police hand-held pistols, and still do without (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| <snip> (...) You will also notice that there are not any real hand-held blasters in Star Wars. The closest they have come to blasters is a Classic Space camera thingy for the Rebel Soldier in the Snowspeeder set and Megaphones with trans-red 1x1 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was a direct quote. The words in quotes are my attempt to re-state what I perceived to be the long-term reasoning from TLG. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) I think the answer that Todd suggested (at the last NELUG meeting) was that swords, lances, etc., were added because they're 'historical'... and also you "can't have knights without swords"... as for the cannons, rifles, and pistols, well, I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) How is LEGO non-violent if it produces cannons, rifles, pistols, swords, lances, etc, etc. Scott Smallbeck scotts@contactics.com (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) The historical answer "green and brown (and a few other colors) can be easily used for military models, and LEGO is non-violent, so green and brown aren't allowed, except in limited situations". I don't think the cost of production was a real (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) Like Larry said, start with non-MPD parts. LDLite doesn't always render MPD files correctly, so avoid them until you know everything else works. If you are using Internet Explorer, you can set things up pretty easily. First, open Windows (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| I've always been curious as to why green and brown pieces have always been relatively uncommon; I realize that it now probably has to do with the higher production costs associated with adding a color scheme to existing parts; however, what I am (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| Steven Broughton: (...) It sounds more like a bug in your browser. (...) You aren't. That's just a name your browser grabs from the URL you download from. (...) No. They can end in whatever you feel like as long as they are identified as being LDraw (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| Try a simpler one first with only one part... I believe that when you install LDLite it will automatically make the association for you if you use netscape. if not, when netscape prompts you what to do with the file, instead of downloading it, tell (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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