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(...) Ken Koleda, 39 (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) To clear up any continued confusion: Bruce Hietbrink runs (URL) Brick Tales> I, Bruce Lowell, or "Brucey-Wan", run the creatively titled (URL) Bruce's Homepage>. (2 URLs) (Bruce) (URL) LEGO @ Bruce's Homepage> (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Seth McCarus, 26 (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Light Gray is my favorite Lego color. I can never have enough of it. The variety of parts that are currently available in Light Gray will *never* be manufactured by Lego in the new color. Eventually this will make complex construction in a uniform (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Open are the double doors of the horizon Unlocked are its bolts Clouds darken the sky The stars rain down The constellations stagger The bones of the hell hounds tremble The porters are silent When they see this king Dawning as a soul Men fall (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) As Ryan noted... kids may not care at all about this, much less even notice it. (...) Then how do you explain the Designer Sets? They were resoundly declared by the community as a positive shift back toward the core values of creativity. I'm (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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To everyone at LUGNET and LEGO, I want to say this: I was first introduced to LEGO when I was five. My family and I were going on a long road trip and my parents bought me LEGO set #565 5+ Build-N-Store Chest to keep me occupied during the long (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !!
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(...) There were many complaints about "new colors". Google searches of rec.toys.lego will easily uncover such postings. Here's a quote from Charles B. Naumann (cnaumann@HiWAAY.net) way back on 1998/06/24, "I am personally tired of all the new (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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Grey is for castle walls, Grey is for Space ships, Grey is for Town Churches, 'new-Grey' is for inconsistency... Don't fool yourselves TLC, Kids WILL notice and say: "Mommy look, it doesn't match." And that's just the effect on the youth, on anyone (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) snipped out (...) First, "Thank You." I appreciate that you've done some researching for us and share much the same opinions already expressed. Now, I've got this idea but I honestly don't know if it would work so maybe someone out there could (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Aren't those just liftarms? The regular technic beams are still being made, afaik.... >> Mark (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, John Gerlach wrote: SNIP (...) SNIP (...) 10 or 12?!, wow, I'm OLD, I remember that: red, yellow, blue, white, black, (these 5 were in a wide selection of pieces) gray (few pieces, mostly classic space slopes, plates & tools: NO (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hi all, With all of the 'gray storm clouds' being discussed on LUGNET this week, I fear this MOC announcement may get lost in the brouhaha. But the final pieces arrved from Germany in an amazingly short time (5 days!), so I went ahead and finished (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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(...) Well, you could do something like this: (URL) or build a truss like so: (URL) or: (URL) Probably not quite as strong as the technic bricks, though. Cheers, Mark FUT lugnet.technic (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Respect is absolutely a two-way street. TLC has none for the adult consumer, not unless it somehow coincides with something they were planning anyway. Much is made of the tiny part of the market we represent, so fine-- that's just proof that (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Richard Marchetti wrote: SNIP um, wow. I guess Lego pieces aren't the only things around here that are 'off-color" Jeff (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Think about what it means when your colors don't match any more. I expounded more on it (URL) here>, but I think this shows a fundamental shift at LEGO, away from creativity (i.e., dump all your sets together and build something) and toward (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) You are absolutely correct on this point, and I couldn't agree more. I've been somewhat taken aback by the tone taken by many here the last few days, particularly with regard to the color change and the BioniCastle issue. Abusing Jake is not (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Edit: I know it's bad form to reply to oneself, but I wanted to try to respond to the previous post in the voice of the average, emotionless, lugnet-zombie... <delurk> Gee, I don't know what to say to that...I think I disagree. I want to find (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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