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(...) All because you didn't trial run it first. But I have to ask, more fundamentally... Why even have a poll at all? the answers we've seen so far seem open ended, every person that's posted in response has had a quite interesting story about how (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've also since managed to repair a 4.5V train carriage roof (thanks to the Brickish Association member who supplied me a broken one for price of postage). I might see if I can put a page together with photographs in the near future. Peter (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq)
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(...) I was expecting to get to the end of your long message and see "it was all a dream", since much of it seems pretty fanciful to me. Here in San Francisco every TRU and Target has *plenty* of shelf-feet of Lego; several Targets even have an (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks (...) and Adventurers, Aquazone, Belville, Fabuland, Football/Basketball/Soccer Harry Potter, Scala, Town, Underground and Western. (...) OK, basically the only themes currently on my list there are for websites that already exists. If (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Geez, I knew it! Another poll of mine torn apart because of the wording. I'm not going to sit here and waste my time with more lecturing on poll etiquette, so forget about it and move on. The better answers might have (...) Okay, I don't see (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I didn't vote in your poll because of the aforementioned flaws (neither of those choices fits what I do). Depending on the size and complexity of the MOC, I may or may not take it apart. I have some, like Marvin the Martian, that I've had (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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Let me add here, that the font I saw was not the other lego font mentioned here ((URL) one I saw was letters like the lego logo. BR S Sonnich Jensen <sonnich@hot.ee> wrote in message news:HAvoqG.IJ@lugnet.com... (...) find (...) font--basically (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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I have once seen such one... try search at www.alltheweb.com you might find it Jonathan Babcock <jon@syngress.com> wrote in message news:HAo2KA.CIs@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) lot (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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Some I keep, but mosty the survive only for a while bacause 1) I need the pieces for something else 2) would require roo much space (and money ref 1) 3) lego is for rebuilding :-) ) Only a very few models I have made do still exist. And they go (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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In Vancouver (Canada) at the Toys R Us they put LEGO on one side of the asile and the Megablocks on the other. Of course it's someone from the LEGO who sets up the display, so they wouldn't settle with anything less. In my experience in buying used (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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Yaron, the site looks fantastic, but one glaring omission hit me like a Lego brick: Where do you put mecha? Even ldraw has it's own category and much of that can't be built IRL (cool stuff though). Tony Knaak's site: (URL) has quite a few mecha and (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:HAvB9B.9qp@lugnet.com... (...) have (...) if (...) irrevocableness (...) try. (...) sense? Lar (and others) did bring up a good point. I certainly cannot give a straight yes or no (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, and "Oh no, these pedophiles have links to the Brick Testament!!!" Well, they probably have links to MSN.COM as well, if they're using IE. Depicting Bible stories as Brendan does, is a wonderful artistic endeavour. If we start saying, (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm not sure he actually praised the BT directly (in fact he mentioned that there are people who have a problem with it), but offered support for BPS's *creativity*. He said that TLC trusts its brand to its fans, "even BPS"-- that's not to say (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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Well! I see that the meticulousness of this hobby often transfers into other areas. While I agree that the question cannot be answered with a simple yes or no, I understand it and would like to offer my comments. I've had three medium-size MOC's (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Even aside from how TLG may pursue the matter, the article reads as so much newsrag hype. The author throws around all these shocking terms and veiled accusations but doesn't even mention the fact, much less the implications, that these are (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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Wow, that would be interesting if LEGO was taking a position against the site after Brad J. had made favorable statements about the site at BricksWest. jt (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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I tend to scrap as soon as I get pictures taken. I hold onto things for a little while if I think I'll be able to make it to a LUG meeting, but I've only been to a couple of these. There are a few exceptions that I've kept together on display. These (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm with David. I don't know what "yes" means. The better answers might have been - I never build MOCS so the poll doesn't apply to me - Keep them together - scrap them for parts - Keep them together for some significant period then scrap them (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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"David Simmons" <xenobuzz@earthlink.net> mumbled in news:HAuA33.xy@lugnet.com: (...) Indeed! Especially when doing one of two things: Building with Lego and programming. Both tasks have that "many loose ends"- feeling that have been mentioned by (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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