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  Re: LUGNET's mention on LEGO.com---A Gray Area? INSIDE THE LEGO SET BOX
 
(...) I got in fine 2/29 1130. It's probably your connection -Orion (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: LUGNET's mention on LEGO.com---A Gray Area? INSIDE THE LEGO SET BOX
 
(...) Saturday the 29th....10am CST. Still not working or down again? I hope they pay you well because it can't be fun making excuses for this bunch...-Ken (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Article text
 
(...) You haven't been listening to lego then. They seem to be willing to defend this with their dying breath. (wich is what I would like to avoid) (...) You haven't made that point though. They have a virtual spectrum now. If more colors cost more (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
 
  Re: Article text
 
(...) The problem is that due to poor marketing they haven't begun to scratch the surface. You may hit TRU and make it a point of checking the Lego display but most parents don't, they scoot in buy what the child wants and leave. I know for a fact (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
 
  Re: Not Pinewood Derby Cars!
 
"John Heins" <Johnmhiii@aol.com> wrote in message news:Htq8I2.1GGA@lugnet.com... (...) LEGOLand (...) That picture was taken on a Monday morning shortly after the park opened. California schools were in session so the park was pretty quiet that (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news
 
(...) OK, what does the picture on the box look like ? If the picture on the box shows a smooth single-color bus and the bricks inside vary that much, this almost sounds like grounds for a recall. At the very least it would tread dangerously close (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news
 
Jake, Would you PLEASE bring this up with the head office ASAP? I can't believe they would release a set with such *sloppy* color control. This is insane. Just how far is quality going to slip at TLG before someone wakes up? I was probably going to (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news
 
"Dave Lovelace" <dave@umop.com> wrote in message news:HtttII.C6p@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) It's a new, or otherwise previously rare purple. See this comparison picture: (URL) the new dog: (URL) multi-coloured bus: (URL) picture makes is look (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Skin tone figs (was Re: The Knight Bus has arrived...)
 
(...) Eggnog anyone.....? Dawn (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
 
  Skin tone figs (was Re: The Knight Bus has arrived...)
 
(...) You know, those skin tones aren't bad at all... Infact, I kinda like them... *runs and prepares to be pelted with megabloks* Nathan (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
 
  Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news
 
(...) 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
 
(...) 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)
 
  Please Include the Mecha Community
 
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
 
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) !! 
 
  LUGNET server fund drive a roaring success!
 
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
 
(...) 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
 
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!
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Article text
 
(...) 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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