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| (...) Dangit, this is the one HP set I wanted to buy this year. Are you sure that the (average) color of these parts isn't Violet? Hard to tell, even from the relatively good scan... --D (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LEGO Introduces New Collectable Colors Billund, Denmark -- The LEGO Group has taken collectability to a new level by varying the colors slightly, but perceptably, in its newest sets. "We've had an enormous response from (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general) !
| | | | | Re: Please Include the Mecha Community
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| (...) I don't understand this request. Are you talking all community-related issues? What defines a community-related issue? Are you also aware that this message will eventually become lost in the fray, and that you cannot expect everyone to copy (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| When cross posting to community related issues, please include the build.mecha area of LUGNET. Thank you, Eric Sophie Founder - Lego Mecha Hall of Fame (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | New LUGNET server hardware details
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| So, we've purchased our cool new servers, from Cambridge, MA vendor "PCs for Everyone". Todd and I and several other friends have gotten systems from them before, and have been extremely pleased -- they know their stuff, including Linux, which is (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce) !!
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| Update: Thanks to donations totalling over $4K from more than 150 people around the world, we not only hit our target in four short days days but exceeded it -- by a margin wide and comfortable enough to afford a superb hardware configuration and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: My New Lego Flash Game
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| (...) Glad you like it :-) Yeah, the point of the game is to shoot down 10 ships, so ;-) ~Nick (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news
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| The first of the new Harry Potter sets is now available in the UK. the 4755 Knight Bus has arrived, but, as others have noted in .harrypotter, quality is definitely slipping. The instructions seem to printed on a much inferior paper stock, but (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general) !!
| | | | | Re: AFOLs - The comic!
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| (...) It is obviously me... Sigh. I didn't 'understand' the part where these comics were for the internal employees of LEGO. That would make the colour change statements as hints that the AFOLS don't like the colour change... and that's a good (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| (...) If they tried to keep milking the original Hogwarts for every last drop, they'd be bleeding money to the Law of Diminishing Returns. There's a point where continued production of a set becomes a liability, and when the vast majority of stores (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Hey, if you're gonna be arguing about the meaning of the word "have", take it to .off-topic.debate. :) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) In order to have them they have to be able to sell them. I don't think I'm splitting hairs at all. I was just responding to your accusation that I was reading more into the word "have" than you were, which I still think was not the case. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) (sneep) (...) (snoop) (...) Man, I wish I also got in on the ground floor marrying two my big interests: LEGO and cartooning...but Greg is really awesome and this project is looking fantastic! I identify with this characters very easily, and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| (...) I'm not good at it (I know from experience ;-)) I like the way you made the game, but I keep missing the spaceships I have to shoot. Maybe that's the point ;-) Saskia (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) You're splitting hairs. In order to have them they have to produce them. However you want to split it does not cost any more to have bley and grey than it does to have bley and (any color). The main point should be that while developing bley (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) OK so nobody likes my term "Switched around". Matters not. The point is that they had nowhere near sold the original castle to all the people who would likely buy one. They couldn't keep going with it though because of the color change. So (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I never suggested abandoning the effort, just that perhaps a comic isn't the most effective means of doing it. And that doesn't mean the comic shouldn't exist either, just not as a propaganda tool. All this talk of 'tailoring it to different (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| Some of you may remember a MOC I made a while ago The Drone Transport (URL) Well, I made a new Flash game starring the MOC and put it on my website. Yes, it's really short and fairly easy, but it's pretty cute and fun if I don't say so myself... Go (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I think you're jumping to conclusions here. All we've seen so far was the version that was used for internal purposes. Significantly different audiences will need versions that are tailored to fit their needs and views. The whole greys issue (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| (...) They did no such thing. The new HP Hogwarts Castle is a 100% new design. The intent was to provide something that would appeal to those who had already bought the original Hogwarts, but that could still serve as a focal set for those who (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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