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| (URL) - select Saturday, February 14th's comic. Tom Armstrong's comic strip Marvin, featuring LEGO today in that familiar way we can all relate to. Notice where the stars are coming from in the third cell. The only thing is...he tried to use the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite LEGO Theme?
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| (...) Thats the easy one: space, or to be a little more specific: Blacktron-I That theme was the first all-evil/misundersto...-childhood group of sets with the coolest colors ever. (...) Hmm, a harder choice. The minifig-with-standard-smile, does (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Pictures Of This Set?
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| "Jeff Barnas" <jmbarnas@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Hu4M1L.1In8@lugnet.com... (...) this set? (...) Will building instructions help? You can find building instructions at (URL) Steinnes (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.boats, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Lego Playmobil-like figures at McDonalds
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| I got one and took some snapshots of him. (URL) The pictures are here.> Like was said, the only piece that seems to have any practical building value is the leg section, because of its compatibility with both bricks and technic pins. Though, as you (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Space, and to a lesser extent Town and Technic. Space, because it allows me to create everything I visualize without worrying about its "suitability" for the theme, and Space is really the only theme where you can do that. Space owns all. Town (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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| (...) I think you may have heard wrong. I first read Destination a long long time ago. I read CoMC about the same time and I've reread both of them several times since, and in my considered judgement, they're not at all alike. Not even close. Sure, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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| (...) (Ahem..) Alfred Bester's job was writing and editing Detective Comics through the 1940s. Batman worked for him. However, what I meant was, the movie version of Batman and Joker leap out of the pages of Bester's Tiger, Tiger. The momentum of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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| (...) That would be a bit difficult, since his story wasn't published until 1956, 17 years after Batman first graced the cover of Detective Comics #32, and 16 years after the Joker was introduced in Batman #1. Ironically enough, the first Joker (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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| (...) (snip lots of good reasons why the book is indeed, a top 10 on many lists, and why thiis movie would rock!) All I can figure is that it's too obscure... that or there is a fair bit of introspection on the part of Foyle (his motivation for (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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| A novel which has, inexplicably, never been filmed, is Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. This is surely one of the top ten greatest Sf novels ever. It was written by a veteran radio and TV writer as an intensely paced male action hero (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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