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(...) Hi Jake! I believe a chat has a strong appeal due to it's interactive nature, and people like to be able to have a conversation with somebody in a position like yours. However, while reading the posts in this thread and reflecting on the chat, (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Agree. Save the spontaneous discussion for one on one bull sessions where no one is scribing so your words can't get twisted around... (1) This moves you more in the direction of a PR flack, which is not much fun, so do the scripted questions (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee wrote: snip (...) This is definitely a problem with chats. more snipping (...) I do not think that pre-submitted questions would alter discussions of chat questions very much. Some people will be happy with answers you (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) Submitting questions in advance would be fine with me - I'd rather have the best information than the quickest information. Perhaps a monthly poll could be held to determine the questions most in need of answering. I'd like to see a (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Not to make a bigger issue of this comment than was meant, but I am going to step in here quickly. Please remember that I'm but one person. I do my level-headed best to get and distribute as much information about "everything LEGO" as I (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I read it as regular yellow, not the light yellow. Light yellow could have been one of the pastel colors that was modified. I'll check on this. (...) OK, to clarify: What I'm saying is not that our quality control has gone out the window. The (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) On the flip side, I was very excited to see the 'outreach' that these types of sessions offer--how many companies do you know that allow a 'one-on-one' with a representative, free of charge? Especially one that we have a personal vested (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Another "unofficial" response: I think we can all make the general inference that the sets were at once ordered and structured. Lego itself is too disorganized, it doesn't know its right hand from its left, therefore, you have a disorganized (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This is not an "official" response, but I think that Jake was trying to say that the Yellow and Purple and some other non new colors had some quality control issues. I would also like to point out that these issues could be pointed to using (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) I don't know why I bother to read these sessions. I am usually left feeling worse about TLC than I would have had I not bothered. One exchange, in particular bugged me this time: [architect] ok, next to Jojo then [Jojo] Who is in charge for (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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At least here is O-zone ((URL) ) a hit with Dragostea tin dei - someone appearently made that video with minifigs! See it here: (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) ...SNIP... Hi Gary, very nice new infos :-) But I was a little confused on the picture of the town plan board: (...) By comparing it with the 60th town plan board in the early 60th catalogues (set no. 200) it seems to have a different (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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Eric Strand, who is helping me with the Lego CD (he's becoming a Samsonite expert) recently discovered some heretofore unknown Town Plan sets from the 1960's. The king of all 1960's sets was the Town Plan set with Town Plan board. In the USA/Canada (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well as the dimensions of a minifig are nowhere near proportional to a human, it's difficult to get an exact scale. I've seen scales ranging from 1:40 to 1:60 look ok with them, I think most people tend to scale in the low 40s if they're (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Minifigs have an exaggerated scale compared to the avergage human. However, the generally accepted 'standard' for minifig scale is usually stated as 1 stud= 1 foot, or 1:38.1. Personally, I think guaging a scale of the figure is a mistake in (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) For what it's worth, here's how I arrive at a scale for minifig buildings, vehicles etc. To make things simple I assume the average minifig would be 6 feet tall (1) if brought to life. i.e. that the minifig _represents_ a being that is around (...) (22 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Gaz, this won't be exact, but it might help. The Lego scale used for the classic era (1957-72) had Lego cars and trucks that were 1:87 scale. The classic Lego door was 3 bricks tall, and the modern Lego door is 5 or 6 brick tall. That would (...) (22 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This baffles me. Hasn't the color-consistency of LEGO been praised as one of the factors setting it above its competitor clone brands? And now we have more or less official confirmation that color-variance is expected and (presumably) (...) (22 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) I'm curious about this exchange from Jake's chat: Daimyo Jake, you have stated on Lugnet that the color changes would be limited to grays. Daimyo But what about the new yellow color change? sink21 no, not really... what I said was tha the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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Does anyone know the scale of LEGO figures, both Minifig and Technic, compared to that of real life? Where they originally designed to scale or was it a case of hmmm that size will do? Many thanks. Gaz. (22 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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