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Glad to see you have a sense of humor, Stephen! :-) That post just felt a little too specifically aimed and I was not laughing. :-| Let me try this one more time and then I'll shut up for good. I (and we) have watched TLG go up and down in many (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm with Orion. Just so long as he forgives me for what I said about studless technic. I'm young (14) and inexperienced... I didn't know what I'd started... Well, I probably did, but I didn't have enough sense to stop it. (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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Thanks to all of you who replied!! Every single reply had a snippet (or better) of useful information. I am putting all of them to good use. - Sorting by color first - Take each color, and sort out the really large pieces, then slightly smaller (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I wasn't talking about clones; I was talking about other types of toys like K'Nex. But you're right, it's an interesting irony that the one on the right might be closer to say MegaBlocks than the one on the left. (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) There was a problem that affected members who had contributed more than $20 this year so that ads were not displayed in their personal folders. The number of files/folders displayed per page and the next/previous links were not being (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.db.scans, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think the general view expressed so far suggests that many long-term TECHNIC builders are still firmly married to the studded system, that many people who have gone heavily into Mindstorms have found reasons to cross over, and kids are (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The ironic thing is that there is no TECHNIC clone on the market (making the one on the left more distinctly "LEGO"), and parents often get confused about what is truly LEGO product vs. what is a clone product. (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks Corey I to belive sum better pics would be really REALLY nice if they could be found. I hope someone can do this. But, being that the builders do not use instructions this will not be happening,,,,,sad. Tom (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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On 20:21 07/12/2004, Kevin Blocksidge wrote (...) Hey! I'm good with the sarcastic crap! I definitely do not think LEGO is above criticism... Its mostly that its like a repeating thread. wub doesn't let too much upset him... tho "next"ing thru an (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, and that's my whole point. Technic _was_ part of the System and it's not anymore. It's more Znap than System and that's what I (and probably some others) don't like. (...) You misread what I wrote. Modern Technic is cumbersome, not (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin wrote: <snip> (...) I'm going to go on the record in saying that there *nothing* too serious to joke about. -Orion (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The form letter left out a key sentence: This subject is far too serious to joke about. (...) But was he actually complaining, or just commenting? Cheers Richie Dulin (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I thought Stephen's post was humorous. He's got a point: people need to lighten up. I know of a lot of great builders who've gotten fed up with all the complaining that goes on at Lugnet, so much so that they don't read or post often anymore. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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Jeez, Stephen! Granted my post wasn't positive, but I think you now look the bigger whiner here. In my post I addressed completely legitimate complaints with a product I've loved for decades (and which I feel completely justified in offering an (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You know, even though you probably weren't trying to, I think you just answered my biggest question. I've always been looking at the old TECHNIC parts in terms of combining TECHNIC aspects into System constructions, which is a big advantage (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Not true. I've been collecting since the days of the maxifigs and non-articulated minifigs. Yes, I've found a new degree of freedom in the BIONICLE series that wasn't present before, but I do still build with basic bricks. I've just never done (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) You expressed several good points including some I had. I think a lot of the rants are coming from people who remember the first technic models and how easily they could mix basic parts in technic models and vice versa. Today it is a bit (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I guess I should have been more specific and restricted my request to just TECHNIC models. As I've said before, I use TECHNIC bricks quite a bit when I want TECHNIC functions in a non-TECHNIC MOC, but I rarely use them instead of liftarms in a (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The advantage of Technic bricks over liftarms comes when you want to add some Technic features (gears, etc.) to a mostly-non-Technic model. But for a purely Technic model like these dune buggies, the studless liftarms provide a much cleaner (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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Use the following message to explain why _you_ are a "Fan No More"(tm). Save this message for next year when a whole new batch of "Fan no More"(tm) messages will surface... ---...---cut here---...--- standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 [ ] (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general) !!
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