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If you need the letter translated into danish I'll be willing to help you out. Just email it to me, ok? (21 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) this one? (URL) (21 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2005)
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(...) Has it been a year already? wow. I've been away for a long time. I totally avoided the color battle because I didn't want to get upset. Just recently, I returned to buying large amounts of LEGO elements for those "spring cleaning" boxes. I (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I concur. I offered this as a discussion point before, with little to no takers. Overseas production by Oxford / Brick makes "spot on" classic grays. You want classic colors, approach them for a bulk order. I don't see copyright infringement (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Dave, I dream about LEGO from time to time too, sometimes I wake up and hate it when I realise it wasn't true :( The most common LEGO dreams I have are 'I am somewhere in a place I have no idea in the real world but seem to know in my (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi there, I understand this situation... love it or hate it... the colours I'd like changed back, light/dark grey and brown, also minifigs to be as they are known and loved 'yellow'. For me that represented something different, no-one is (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jonathan, I went through my bonus tubs and found the piece of which you speak only in the one 2714. Four 2814s didn't have any. But don't despair, there's plenty of variation in the bonus boxes. Peace and random selections, Ley, aka (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Peter I agree. I too have a lot of old bricks. Many of the white mint bricks I have from the 1970's have "tanned" as well, due to sunlight. Interestingly enough, I think that Cellulose Acetate white bricks keep their whiteness better than ABS (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) This causes a big difference. Do not be fooled, this is the most annoying thing about building white models for me. A lot of my Lego is 20+ years old and has been in direct sunlight. The white is a totally different colour, it's really (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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SNIP (...) Hi Jeff, A grim scenario :-) I had a lego dream too, a few weeks ago. It was very strange. There's this loco I'd been working on, and I've taken a printout of a real world picture of it for the build. Anyway, in the dream, I realised that (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) i just had another dream: there were new Lego sets pre built on top of red & blue small buckets. surprisingly, none of the sets had missing pieces. one building in particular was a gray 2-story townhouse with white trim & flat roof (on a red (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Ronald, I have seen that page. I believe that there is an old Netherlands catalog that shows this as well. I even have some old 50's parts packs with the extra "1" (written with Danish "System i leg") that were sent to Germany. The problem (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) ...snip... Hi Gary, thanx for the additional infos. In one point I cannot agree to you by my current knowledge: The extra "1" was also used for sets in Germany. In an old German catalog sheet from 1957 (Jan Beyer from TLC got the date from the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) If you insist on going at this, why don't you do a petition from a more representative group of LEGO's customers, namely parents? (And they can sign on behalf of their children if you want, as you probably don't want to be "using" children for (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Don't confuse not getting everything you want and them not being concerned with you. It's impossible to please everyone (including themselves), so they have to make tough decisions. It doesn't mean they're not concerned with the people those (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) And you have evidence from inside the company that the net result of all the pros and cons of this change shows that this decision was a poor one? KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Ontario, Canada (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) I encountered one of these tubs at a CVS store today and picked it up. All the 'orange' 2x2s and 2x4s are the color that BL calls 'Medium Orange'. A few other parts in this color were found in the recent Walgreens boxes. (...) The greens in (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Dave, The castle, in all those colors, has the unfortunate resemblence to a MOC that kids would make up if they didn't have enough pieces to build a big building all in one color. Like Eric said, the castle was earlier than the other Weetabix (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) A (nearly) complete roof system is available in blue, yellow and white, and possibly gray. They can be purchased on Bricklink. Some parts, such as the yellow 1x2 double/inverted (what I used to call the "gable connector") are only rarely (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Not really answering your question, but for the longest time I had no idea what this piece looked like. Even the picture on Peeron was a LDRAW picture, and I still couldn't imagine its shape! But now, Peeron has a photograph of the part so I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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