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(...) -snip- (...) -snip- That's just a turn of phrase, right? Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10194 Emerald Night Announcement
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WOW thats good. I am SO going to get one and use the large train wheels to build an American 4-4-0. Not sure if 6-wide or 8-wide would be more to scale with the real thing (may have to pull out my copy of Back To The Future 3 to check) (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10194 Emerald Night Announcement
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It is now listed out on the LEGO Shop at home site. (URL) Andrew Reynolds (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Announce Strategic Licensing Relationship for 2010
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(...) I'm not having any luck pulling up any direct proof of it (most of the legit news source pages have expired, and all that's really left are Wikipedia and a handful of blogs that only hint at the LEGO/Disney/Pooh aspect), but here's the gist of (...) (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.disney)
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| | Re: 10194 Emerald Night Announcement
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Will the wheels be a drop-in replacement for BBB large wheels? This is grade-A quality, and the train set we've been waiting for since 4.5V. Of course, now we'll expect similar miracles of the new PF train-specific parts. :) -Stefan- (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10194 Emerald Night Announcement
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They really had me fooled with that "available on April 1st" part when I saw this on the Flickr LEGO Trains group. FYI, it's a violation of Flickr Terms of Service to just offer deep links without linking to the photo or set pages... but for the (...) (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 10194 Emerald Night Announcement
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(...) Ga, Ga, Gorgeous! Simply awesome. I am so glad my son has a birthday in April (4yo). He is so going to get this. (Some adult assembly required.) Can you tell us who designed this set 10194 Emerald Express? Regardless, please forward my (...) (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Announce Strategic Licensing Relationship for 2010
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(...) For real? I mainly follow the micro-scale Mega Bloks, so the comings and goings of the other scales don't really hit my radar. Do you have a citation for that Pooh info? This is the first I've heard of it. Dave! (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.disney)
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| | 10194 Emerald Night Announcement
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As per my Ambassadorial duties (and because I'm really excited about this set): ---...--- February 18, 2009 In acknowledgement of the many fan blogs and posts in the last week we are writing to confirm that The LEGO Company will be launching the (...) (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Announce Strategic Licensing Relationship for 2010
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(...) They also used it to produce Winnie the Pooh sets before they found out that Disney didn't actually have any legal grounds to license the property to them. But they'd probably prefer to not dwell on that... (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.disney)
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(...) These are the sets I'm looking forward to!! Hopefully lots more tan and some really cool decorative elements! Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 BAYLUG (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.disney, FTX)
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| | Re: The Polar Express Mark II
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(...) The cow catcher is nice. I'm curious how this flex track might work. I can't see it working the same as traditional (URL) Model RR Flex Track>. This will be interesting. Larger radius curves would truly be awesome though. Cale (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: The Polar Express Mark II
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(...) Vool MOC for sure! I really like the cowcatcher design. I bet you are looking forward to the new track geometry that's supposed to be coming out soon - that way a long engine like yours will look more prototypical when going around larger (...) (16 years ago, 17-Feb-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Do you think there are too many Lego® groups on Flickr?
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Some AFOLs send out invites to many or all of their contacts which gives them the opportunity to either join or deny/ignore the request. Just curious what the Community thinks about this. And do you consider invites to Lego® groups spam? While I (...) (16 years ago, 17-Feb-09, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: The Polar Express Mark II
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Hey Tony, this looks really good. The photos are very nice. I especially like the pics of the Locomotive and the way the passenger car tops come off. I was wondering do other Train Builders use that 2x2 printed plate as a boiler furnace door lid? (...) (16 years ago, 17-Feb-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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Just a few weeks shy of three years ago, I announced my MOC version of the Polar Express. Since then I've upgraded it many times, adding more and more detail. Tonight I sat down and photographed it. (2 URLs) Flickr> Gallery Post Mod (URL) Gallery (...) (16 years ago, 16-Feb-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | LEGO(R) Group Celebrates 10 Years of the Force
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World's leading construction toy brand kicks-off year-long celebration of LEGO(R) STAR WARS(TM), its first licensed construction toy line. NEW YORK, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- American International Toy Fair -- LEGO(R) STAR WARS(TM) celebrates 10 years (...) (16 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Announce Strategic Licensing Relationship for 2010
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Interestingly LEGO had a Disney license a while back and used it to produce some Baby Micky sets and some fabuland-esque sets with Mickey and friends. (16 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.disney)
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| | Re: LEGO Group and Disney Announce Strategic Licensing Relationship for 2010
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(...) Interesting. Mega Bloks has of course been (URL) producing sets> in the Duplo scale under their own license with Disney for quite some time. I'd be sorry to see Mega Bloks let the license go, though the situation would be similar to LEGO gave (...) (16 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.disney, FTX)
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| | LEGO Group and Disney Announce Strategic Licensing Relationship for 2010
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World's leading construction toy brand secures rights to develop toy lines based on three Disney properties for 2010 NEW YORK, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- American International Toy Fair -- The LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products today announced a (...) (16 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.disney, FTX)
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