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(...) Mike, I keep track of rare parts. The hat you are talking about is not a rare part, but rather exists in a rare color. Black is harder to find, but the truely rare color is yellow. The hard hat only appeared in Yellow in 2 sets. Another rare (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You can always consult Peeron, but as far as I know nobody keeps a list of rare parts, because there are hundreds of rare parts! Here's the hard hat: (URL) came mostly in Paradisa sets, which are highly collectible. However it was also in Rock (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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Is there a list someplace of all the really rare elements? I just found two black hard hats while I was cleaning up my LEGO table and seem to recall something about that being a rare color for that part. Am I right? ~Mike (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) [snip] (...) Actually, my wife thought that the carpenter and the woman who broke the red bookcase (I don't normally watch this show) seemed to actually understand the labor that probably went into the construction. The designer clearly (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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Hello! (...) If TLC still made "friendly" sets they would need tons of (cypress) trees. They used to add one or more trees to almost every building (houses, police departments, gas stations) in the old days. Those many trees (and flowers) made the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(URL) It's Christmas time at the BIP! I've pulled together just a few of the great Christmas/Holiday related creations and building instructions I've found out on the net. Check it out! (URL) Christmas> If you have more Christmas/Holiday related (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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(...) My wife and I watched the show last night. Everytime someone said "LEGOs" my wife just about chucked the remote at the TV. It's not even something that I've discussed with her, but it just really bothered her to hear people say that. Then, we (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) (URL) should get you to all the answers, dunno if they gave real names or not, but that's the article all about it. (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.castle, Douglas R. Clark wrote: SNIP (...) Cost of new mold divided by number of parts needed equals reality check. TLC needed far more Chewies than they need cypress trees (or monorail track) despite what the AFOL community might feel. My (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) I bet the Mecha builders are already drooling over (...) As a mecha builder, i can say my mouth is indeed quite saliva-less :) Sure the new parts might be great for making strong and compact joints, but that takes the fun (and skill) out of (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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Who is the woman with all the LEGO on "While you were out" tonight on TLC? (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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"Douglas R. Clark" <drclark@cinenet.net> wrote in message news:Hq638w.12pI@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) years, (...) rising. (...) of the (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Which is really unfortunate because the click hinges are a far (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have yellows (produced within the same year) that are not the same shade. When the bricks are snapped together the color shift becomes obvious to me but not to my wife... although, I don't think she even looks when I ask :) I just recieved (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Snip! You bring up a lot of good points, Douglas. Although others have asked me "Don't you have enough LEGO?" before, I never gave that question a serious thought until now. It's because a) there's a cool new set, or b) like you said, I don't (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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SNIP (...) I've been thinking about this for awhile. It seems that in the last few years, the number of new molds per year that TLC creates has been consistently rising. For example, for 2004 it looks like they have pretty much phased out most of (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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Scott and all other BT users......... Yaaa...aaayyyyy! I got my job back! Rich fixed my broke Admin tool and all is well. Files just updated 12-19-03 at 12:08pm I shall continue updating the files on a daily basis. I usually do this in the Mornin™ (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, since "business performance" may reasonably be interpreted as the measure of the company's ability to sustain higher profits, it's not really a lie. Further, I don't think it's a sin for a company to be motivated by the desire to make (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep. With the US being a large market for LEGO, I wonder how much the weakness of the USD is affecting TLC ? I'm sure there are all kinds of hedges and plays to protect the repatriation of earnings, but still. Ray (22 years ago, 19-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) Works for me now! Thanks. I liked this: "The company said the firings were necessary due to thin business this year and that it expected continuing weak performance in 2004. Lego employs 8,000 people worldwide." Obviously, the company will (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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