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(...) And if you mix it with blue, you get green. Weird, huh? (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Apparently it also has a laxative effect. Make of that what you will. A (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It has been proven that a slight hint of yellow is used in school room walls. It helps to foster learning. It's a fact. David Just think outside the box for my e-mail address. (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yep, yep, all of the above are quite valid points. Something that occured to me last night... Was Lando the first minifig patterened on a real live person who was not caucasian ? I'm thinking that there were no prior SW movie characters, which (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It's basically all automated anyway. I figure they can handle it. :) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And of the nightmare at the sorting plant, trying to match up like-colored body parts before packing them in a set. And the nightmare in Customer Affairs, trying to figure out exactly which color head the dog ate. And the nightmare of people (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Oops--my cynicism is showing, alas. All too often, it seems, corporations like to pretend that their biggest changes are entirely driven by internal decisions made in a vacuum; they seldom if ever acknowledge that a competitor's practices are (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Depends upon which changes you are talking about. I would call Bionicle a radical change from System, and yet it is the most popular LEGO line. In any case, you are ignoring the fact that the world has changed radically in the past 20 years. I (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Well, I would assume this-- what else would motivate change? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" (and, of course, it's cheaper to do nothing), and perhaps the concept of all yellow figs isn't necessarily "broke", but perhaps profits are. Perhaps (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Out of curiosity, does anyone suppose that TLG's decision to move toward flesh tones might have been, at least in part, motivated by the fact that successful competitor brands have been marketing flesh-toned figures for years? This, coupled (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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