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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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(...) Mark's line of thinking is very much the same as mine and I'd like to add something. The yellow ABS that has made up the minifigs heads and hands for decades are NOT just being used for heads and hands. You have (just about) all sizes of (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) OK, here's your first question, this will give you 10 days (just ten days to (URL) Brickfest!!>) to come up with the answers: The color change: Why? Who got canned for making such a stupid decision? When will it be corrected? I guess that's (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) You are making the case that TLC needs to change in order to get back to profitability. But you are ignoring the fact that TLC was profitable up to the point when it started making radical changes. Those changes were not a response to yearly (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Like the return of gray, maybe? Sorry to bring it up again. Couldn't hurt to rub it in unless really everybody at LEGO HQ in Billund turns green every time the issue comes up. When I hear those "community developement"-stuff now, I can't help (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) It's part of what remains of the former Brunching Shuttlecocks, which was one of the funniest humor sites on the web before its recent demise. Probably not coincidentally, today's Book of Ratings (another fragment of said site) also refers to (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Then I will sincerely ask.... what kind of blog is it? (...) And then why not just use it the way the company has asked? I honestly don't see why people put up such a fuss over this. When speaking with friends, or just in your own head while (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yup. :) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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-snip- (...) -snip- Lar, I'm glad to hear that you have included Classic-Castle in on this. I've posted this over there in our forums: (URL) And hopefully some of our members will take you up on this. ;o) -Lenny (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure a webcast is in the cards. I don't think we have the bandwidth for one. However I am going to try mightily to capture the talk in real time as I usually do, and further, I am going to try to have chat sessions open to get incoming (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) *having fingers crossed Larry Pieniazek will use his fast typing skills once more* (22 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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