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(...) [snip] Suz, are you planning on becoming an elementary school teacher when you're done with school? I'd be envious of your students--wish my teachers had loved LEGO... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.edu, lugnet.promo, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: DUPLO Egg Gardening
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What a fantastic idea! I have copied your message and sent it to my sister in Chicago (who has two DUPLO aged kids)... She is also a plant lover.... Keep the ideas coming... ;) EC (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: DUPLO Egg Gardening
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Suzanne, This is very, very cool...and educational too! Hope the LEGO police dept. doesn't look too closely at what's sprouting in the green egg...hehe...then again, they've got their hands full with the Brickster. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | DUPLO Egg Gardening
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Child and their DUPLO figs can watch a mini greenhouse perform magic! see photo: (URL) DUPLO Egg as a Super seed starter: - easy open and close. - short base (don't need much soil), but tall clear top. - tiny drainage holes. - air holes that can be (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.edu, lugnet.promo, lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
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(...) I found a few other uses for the eggs. They've been sitting on our coffee table and I can't stop playing with them. I started some seeds inside one. My Dinos are finding uses: (URL) remind me so much of my Mom's L'eggs (TM) Eggs. you know, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
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(...) [snip] I don't know about space, but my first thought was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers!!! Skeletons turn into knights, darth vader becomes a fireman, the Adventurers mummies become forestmen. (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
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Does anyone else think that these would be GREAT space elements? I know I know there prefab and kinda big but after adapting them to system scale you could use them for all sorts of purposes. -a large cryo unit! -an escape pod. You could add all (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
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(...) It was I who did the shopping actually. I came across the eggs in the LEGO aisle with the DUPLO. This Allston/Brighton, Massachusetts Big-K store had only one box-tray out, so only 12 eggs for sale. I haven't seen them anywhere else (yet). (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.primo, lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) One (...) Where in Kmart did you fond them? I looked at my Kmart today and I couldn't find any. I called S@H a few weeks ago to find out where you could buy these. They said Kmart, TRU, Wal-Mart, Zany Brainy, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.primo, lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) My understanding is that there are to be twelve different eggs released. Your K-Mart promo though may only involve some of these eggs. Grahame (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.primo, lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:Frzr4o.Kn9@lugnet.com... (...) One (...) shelves (...) these (...) with (...) bottom (...) compatible (...) :-s (...) Friends (...) came (...) Has anyone in NC spotted these? I would love to (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.primo, lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Get thee out to K-Mart! :) K-Mart stores in Boston (maybe everywhere?) are having a BOGO (Buy One Get One 50%-off) sale on all LEGO, and the new LEGO DUPLO "eggs" are on the shelves here! :-s There are 4 eggs so far (I'm hopefully expecting more, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.primo, lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.market.shopping) !
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A couple of nights ago I decided to try to build a Canadian flag on a 16x32 baseplate. While I was looking for some reference flags online I realized that Canada's Flag Day was coming up. Head on over to the new Brickshelf gallery to see my version (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.fun.holiday)
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(...) Just a followup... We used about a dozen of the little sets from this year's advent calender; just used a loop of thread between a couple of the bricks, and most of them hung fine. We got lots of postive feeback from friends *and* family. :) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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(...) pulled (...) Reconfirming this, we just set up our basement tree and I put a folded dogbone layout around it. This takes up a bit more floor space but gives a LOT more running room than a circle. (see Nik's party page for an example folded (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: Canonical use for Lego Trains at the holiday is around the tree
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(...) A supply of Gravol on hand for unsuspecting guests? ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: Canonical use for Lego Trains at the holiday is around the tree
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(...) Actually neither is LEGO but, I do have a train under my tree and another in my tree. I have an N-Scale trian in the middle of my tree (its a fake tree). The trains, of course, run in opposite directions. But what makes it really fun is that I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: Canonical use for Lego Trains at the holiday is around the tree
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(...) This is my third year of having a lego train around the tree as well. Each year it seems I add another train and a little more track. So now there's about 25 feet of running track and three trains tooling around the tree. I should take a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: Canonical use for Lego Trains at the holiday is around the tree
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(...) This is funny... When my wife was raising eyebrows at putting the little Advent Calendar sets on the tree, I said "Hey look, at least I'm not into trains... then we'd have a train running around the tree!" She got this look of sublime horror (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: Christmas tree decorations
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(...) I was thinking about using the little sets from the Advent Calendar - they're so irresistably cute, they'd make perfect decorations. James (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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