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A version that does not involve cutting or gluing. (URL) How I Did It.> Fits snugly. LED shines through top. (22 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Catalog Now or Later?
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Hey, I was just wundering... how often does TLC send out a new catalog. And about how long does it take for it to get to different places or even two catalogs going to the same town (I.E. my neighbor gets a catalog and I get a catalog but sometimes (...) (22 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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Mladen says the Eastern Block needs to pick up speed. Well, the Eastern Block thinks Mladen should pick up his ticket to Gulag #22-54n. Presenting the Eastern Block E-117 Mastodon APC: (URL) Designed to compliment and work with the E-34 Elefant, the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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(...) The figures shown on page 2 in that PDF are NOT the same as on (URL) page 18> in the Danish catalog! I wonder which figures are correct? PDF or catalog - I think the last and don't think that flesh colored minifigs are here. Christian (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Exactly. Not only does some figures within the same theme seem to have different colors. But individual figures have diffrent colors: On (URL) page 22> the train man in front of the train is flesh, but the same train man in the bottom left (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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FUT: lugnet.events.brickfest "Christian Treczoks" <ct@braehler.com> wrote in message news:HsI25q.2zC@lugnet.com... (...) I'd be happy with streaming video online somewhere - it doesn't need to be live - and we don't need a streaming video server to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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Check out page 2 of this PDF in the Lego Press area: (URL) is a photo of a new F1 mini-figure set. The set depicts two real F1 team members, Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello. The set looks to me to use the same flesh colored ABS used with (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Signing off...till March
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Seems like I can post again. I wanted to comment this, that I have tried something like this, taking parts with me. It works, but limited, as when I am building, I am also contructing, and since I only had some limited parts with me, my projects (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What's next??
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(...) And also due to the fact that we don't have wired, high speed, network access. Streaming video or audio tends to be quite bandwidth intensive, as I understand it. ++Lar (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: What's next??
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(...) Not sure I qualify for "hard working" (possibly hardLY working), but as of right now, we don't have plans to stream a webcast from the live events. This is due mainly to limited equipment and the fact that we don't have some of the expertise (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming?
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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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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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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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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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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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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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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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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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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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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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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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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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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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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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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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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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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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| | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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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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