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(...) Day 1, but not every article. (...) Jeff Crites started one. --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What would it take for them to police/enforce such a requirement? (...) What if someone wanted to buy 500 gray 2x4 bricks and there was a minimum purchase requirement of 10,000? --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Just curious, how far back have you archived RTL? Wasn't someone going to do a history of RTL at one point? (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It's impossible to know for sure, but I'd suppose there are somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000 total readers, all things considered (that is, lurkers and overlap between known sets of people due to multiple e-mail addresses). Some details: ~700 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I used to work in the toy department of a large department store. The markup on almost all of our stuff between our cost and final retail price was about 100%. Some was even more. (...) This shouldn't be an issue. TLG can easily have a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I wonder how much some of TLG new lines (some of which are fairly decent ideas) suffer from being launched all at once. Look at the Divers line. There are 12 sets, which are all more alike than different. It seems like every set had a sub (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Let me see then -- so 1/20 of a Gyugyi LU is equal to 1/2 of a Gyugyi dLU is equal to 2 Jessiman LDU? (...) :) --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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I saw the same thing on the UFO sets, but it has been two model years for the sets (At least in the US), and usually, some retailers mark them down if they stay on the shelves. I thought the UFO's were decent (They had some great parts!) but the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone else got the impression that the UFO's that were withdrawn this year might have completely flopped saleswise? I've seen tons of the two biggest UFO's going cheap. At the most extreme, Toys R Us had the second (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Mookie, If you work through this again, let me know what results (ie, errors) you get. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi, Jeroen! (...) Way cool. (...) Umm, as has been frequently mentioned, bulk part orders would be great. (...) Depends. If part of the sign-up is that TLG has greater freedom to use the ideas, concepts, models, etc. expressed by club members, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) But 1/20 is even better. Trust me, I use it all the time. Sometimes, I have a hard time down-converting to something I can discuss with other people without explaining myself. --Steve Studs are spaced at 20 pitch, Plates are 8 units high. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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What are people's views on whether the resale value of used boxed sets is affected by (a) whether they contain the 1-page catalogues and service sheets, and (b) whether they contain the transparent plastic bags most of the pieces come in. Generally (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have 3 6071's now. I want more. I might be satisfied with 10. I doubt it, though. (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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What are people's views on whether the resale value of used boxed sets is affected by (a) whether they contain the 1-page catalogues and service sheets, and (b) whether they contain the transparent plastic bags most of the pieces come in. Generally (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My local TRU has Extreme Creatures in great quantity (2 box width on the shelf, and both looked full all the way to the back). I'm not sure if they have 9730, though. Regards, BOB!! (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Even after I traded you one (with the river crossing on the side ;) you're still clamboring for more of her? :) What are the effects of cloning on a minifig? :) Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 New Lugnet Newsgroup? (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow! AND you read Lugnet too? (...) Don't know any real-life clubs, but I think of Lugnet as a GlobalLegoClub (...) Probably more than 1000 readers. Todd ? (...) Start making good, solid, nice models and sets again. Even if you keep making (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oops! (...) Hmmm, (digging through rilly old RTL news archives) wow, looks like the term LU meaning 1/6 standard brick height goes back at least about 4 years -- it appears first to have been suggested on 23 Apr 1995 by Kevin Horton. In a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote: [...] (...) Take care. Some people use "LDU" for "LDraw Unit", which is 1/4 LU. (...) I don't know. I thought you, Paul or David [1] coined it? Somebody had enough humor (and sense) to suggest that "deciLU" (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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