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Eric Brok wrote in message ... (...) Point well made. I guess I should have elaborated on what set is his favorite set is versus what sets are easy for him to assemble himself. Setslike the the Recycle Truck (6564), Race and Chase (6333), and the (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Matthew Bates writes: [Snipped a lot of good stuff] (...) I second that! Lego is still the best construction toy around. However, this is more and more due to the lack of quality you get from the 'other toys' where it used to be due to the quality (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Snip (...) How illustrative, 6550 not being a Town Jr. set :-) If Town '98/99 was like 6550, the Town Jr. debate would never have come up. Eric (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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I was interested to see the topic of Brio trains come up during this thread. My son (just turned four) was big into Brio trains for about 18-24 months. He stopped playing with them when he was three. I am not sure why his interest wained but they (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Alex Wetmore wrote in message <916762648.707732@phred.org>... (...) Ah. Seems I've only seen old Brio about then... my mistake. I guess I see the inside of my doctor's waiting room too often! Steve ---...--- Why not visit Llegogogoch? (URL) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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James Brown wrote in message ... (...) 8, 8, (...) regularly (...) that (...) that (...) things, (...) I just got done ranting about this in .dear-lego. TLG is about to lose that always-come-back-to-Lego thing if they let their product and service (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) But would LEGO actually do it? (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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I have been thinking about a similar concept recently. What about..... <drum roll> Technic Buckets? I would have loved to have had a couple of silver technic beams... Greg (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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I am proud to announce, the release of WebSpirit, which enables you to control the RCX Via the ActiveX Control, and JavaScript, got check it out @ (URL) Ickna / Nick H. | (URL) Ickna@-nospam-aol.com | Remove -nospam- to send | You're not really (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)
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(...) I guess it wouldn't be. Unless the plates were soft. Kittens digestive systems are fickle. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Lacking children of my own so far, my test group is my three nephews(aged 8, 8, and 10). I have also noticed the attention deficit problem, but with an interesting twist. They keep coming back to the Lego. Other toys regularly get abandoned in (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) AFAIK round brown plates never existed. There where ever these? Paulo (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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I'm quite happy that my 5yr old son is into Legos. He comes up with some pretty interesting ships. Though (by MY standards) they might be cheesy, they are very creative. He does like to play with computer games/Playstation. I think the biggest (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:16:06 GMT, Jesse Long uttered the following profundities... (...) Had just purchased the two silver freestyle sets for my nephew. He enjoyed the two puny Shell sets and Santa set I gave him, and thought that some more bricks (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 03:24:56 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) still have 600 messages to wade through over there. Go away for a week, fall very far behind. I have only read 20 or so of the other 800 messages disposed (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually, in '96 there was at least the Briefcase set, a Universal fiber optic set, and the Technic Control Center II. There may have been more, but these are the universal sets in the Technic line that I know of. (...) You may be right on (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> (URL) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Mark Tarrabain wrote in message <36A4D43D.EA1EFA19@l....bc.ca>... (...) At (...) to be (...) universal (...) be. (...) of (...) Has there been a time when there have been multiple universal sets out at once? From my memory (which is missing much of (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Mindstorms has something like 720 pieces or so. 8485 had over a thousand. At any rate, I don't think any single set, universal or not, is really going to be enough for a die-hard enthusiast. A combination of 3 or 4 different universal sets, (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Mark Tarrabain wrote in message <36A4B9E1.9FAFDE89@l....bc.ca>... (...) of (...) 9719 seems to replace 8485 to me (8485 also includes a bunch of "unnecessary" electronics). It cost the same amount as Mindstorms does as well. I don't understand what (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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