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(...) I am sure it also happened to you: you see a thumbnail on BrickShelf and immediatly you know who is the model author. Lego is much more unlimited than i thought at first. Each builder has unique building style and techniques. And also a unique (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Glad to bring it up. I can't claim ownership to the topic though. Though I've spent a lot of time personally brainstorming this, I've also had a lot of conversations with various other people in the community on the topic - a lot of which has (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) I'm glad you started this Tim, I'm really enjoying this discussion. ... (...) It was my assumption that if there's a "Community Development Manager" then LEGO Direct, at least, has an interest in the identifying and reaching the LEGO Community (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) This seems to say that Lugnet is old. In my mind, Lugnet is still one of the more recent LEGO communities. When alt.toys.lego (which came years before rec.toys.lego) became a Usenet newsgroup, it certainly met your definition of a community. (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) :-) Glad you enjoy the discussion. Thanks for contributing to it - I think it's a good thing to keep going a little bit. I could have just emailed a few friends my original, but then thought, why not post to everyone? Especially when I know (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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WOW - Great discussion. I just happened to stumble across this discussion and I couldn't resist throwing my ideas into the pot. When talking about any "community" I think it's important to remember that any community can be defined in different (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Alright! Getting some discussion going! (I can talk about this stuff for days!) (...) But not everyone *is* part of a community right? Take a local town/community for instance. To be part of that community, you have to actually live in that (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Jake, The problem with your definition is that, superficially anyway, it comes very close to excluding people like me. Since coming out of my dark ages almost 3 years ago I have been one of your employer’s best supporters (trying the (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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We've updated our website this weekend. Todd's Brain results : (URL) Caption: (URL) 10 excuses Minifigs would give not to help clean the room : (URL) Top 10 List: (URL) Merliz new question/answer: (Question submitted by Manfred Moolhuysen) (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.announce) !
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Hello all, Having gone through some miscellaneous bricks (primarily Belville) late Friday "night" in search of some car body pieces, I became a bit annoyed/perplexed/frustrated, as I imagine most have, with not having a given part in a wanted color. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Please see Shiri Dori’s Acronym FAQ: (URL) will help you also with the other ones that you may encounter, and some are just plain fun to read. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (21 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Hey I was just wondering what IMHO stands for... thanks! Matt C. (21 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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And now some more: Galactic Family Room Crater Transmitting Bedroom Wonder how that works? :) Sunset Star-Pursuer Laser Kitchen Multi-Core Bedroom Inter-Galactic Wing Family Room Spaceship Carriage Transmitting Ride Robot Robo-Bathroom Sonar (...) (21 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
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(...) When I had left the service back in '99 and discovered that LEGO made trains...my jaw had hit the floor! And I was totally engrossed in LEGO (and the online AFOL community). However, since that time I have become involved in other hobbies as (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) [sniii...iiip] (...) WOW. This is really cool! I wish I had time to reply inline to some of the stuff you came up with. I think this is a great definition, and I'm glad you posted it. -Tim (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) The Community Development team (the team I am on), spent some time looking at this same question. As you can imagine, we get LOTS of questions internally about "What is community anyway?" To address that question, we developed a generic (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community) !!
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My favorite was always: Pizza Rescue Plane You may remember it from threads years ago. Mark (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
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(...) Carefull! That's how I got started with them too. Now my collection has exploded into almost every set of the series ;-) But does that make me part of the LEGO community? Probably. But more so does the fact that I _say_ I am part of it. Think (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) LOL - oh what a dork I am! I just tried raising that question in a reply earlier in your post here, without realizing you raised it yourself a few lines down. Glad I didn't post it and make a fool out of myself :^) [1] Anyways... I've seen (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Hey Ken - Thanks for posting this. I happened across your post first, then Matt's. I was very close to posting a reply I had written to his post, but didn't want to taint the thread with something negative. I think the ideas put forth in this (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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