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Actually, I'd say it the other way around. LEGO used to look like what Mega Blocks is focused around now, but MB uses more action elements in their sets. Basic and model building sets look a lot like what people who grew up with LEGO are used to. In (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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Actually, I'd say it the other way around. LEGO used to look like what Mega Blocks is focused around now, but MB uses more action elements in their sets. Basic and model building sets look a lot like what people who grew up with LEGO are used to. In (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They didn't have much choice in the matter. The main guns have to be fed ammo in a specific sequence to compensate for changes in gun barrel geometry due to heat from firing the previous round(s). Rumor is that they've just been working (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I don't think TLC will even do such a thing! But that has not stopped others from doing it already. Like this guy: (7 URLs) In addition there has been at least 1 instance that I know on ebay in which someone (do not remember the name and (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Mark there are NO more battleships in any navy in the world the last time I checked. The aircraft carrier replaced the battleship as the "main ship-of-war" in modern navies of the world. The only battleships you can still see/get on are those (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) True. See also the Patriot Jet, circa 1996: (URL) a modern "fighter jet". It just doesn't have any weapons. Does the 4403 model have visible weapons? if not, it doesn't undercut the argument (although it slices pretty close if you ask me) that (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) The way I've heard it is that they don't produce any weapons developed in the 20th century or later, and that the only reason why we have the Sopwith/Red Baron pair is because LEGO Direct operates under slightly different rules when developing (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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"J. Spencer Rezkalla" <srezkall@peoplepc.com> wrote in message news:Hy554B.13Fw@lugnet.com... (...) want (...) toy and (...) like (...) and (...) much (...) battleships. Note that set 4403 (Air Blazers) includes instructions for what would best be (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The U.S. Navy has apparently decommissioned all of its battleships: (URL) any other navies have battleships, or is the battleship pretty much obsolete nowadays? Mark Note: Still no generic lugnet.off-topic group to send this to... :-( (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I think it's more an issue that they don't want to produce toys that look like they can be used to emulate the modern warfare that they see on the news and such. Nobody fights with bi-planes anymore, but fighter jets are pretty much fighter (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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