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I am among the poor souls still waiting for the 2000 LEGO. I went to a WM in McAlester, OK yesterday, and there was a new cardboard standee on the main aisle. My heart leapt with joy! And there was not a single new set in the damned thing. 'twas (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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"Heh!" is right. Like your evil sense of humor. We could use some chuckles around here right now. Rob (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Heh! More: Mindstorm Y2K Bug - build a timer display that freezes when it changes from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00 Mindstorm Y2K Destroyer Droid - Build a working version of the Phantom Menace destroyer droid. Have fun making it roll around the room, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Y2K Metroliner / Fast Freight / Bullet Train set. Lots of track (your going to need it). Exploding trains (parts borrowed from 6755). Comes complete with BURP-tunnels (you really don't want to see what happens in there). No speed regulator, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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6421 Spaghettio Fiesta Comes with a full case of spaghettio's! New food group for minifigs. Includes 2 minfigs, 1 BURP, 1 can opener and canned fuel as well! Get yours now before they get bought up for the *rare* can opener! Build On! John Matthews (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Cash? Feh. It'll be worthless once everyone tries to yank theirs out. Better to have cigarettes, because you can build an empire of nicotine fiends once they run out and distribution is down! :) As for me, I've joked about putting a 50-lb bag (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Best-Lock, anyone? :) It's a military brick-system coup d'etat (imagine diacritical)! (...) This could improve sales of the LEGO Disassembly Tool That Cannot Be Named™, which, I will point out, has passed all Y2K compliance tests. (...) Y2K (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You know, they said this about Suez in 1956. ;) One modification: The set does not include working motors for the tug-trains. Purchase set #xxxx, "Panama Corvée Crew," to pull the ships along and work the locks/pumps with good ol' fashioned (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) How's this: Y2K Missile Command Base. Comes with 20 Military Personel, all trying to prevent the computers from launching all the Nuclear Missiles when the date rolls over. Can you, the Lego Maniac, reprogram the computers in time? Of course (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Set #9898 Titanic Includes 20k pieces. The most historicaly accurate set that we have ever made! Sail aboard the doomed liner, smell the cold salt air, the rotting corpses floating in the water. Can you, the Lego Maniac, get Jack and Rose (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) LOL! Or how about the Set 9897 Titanic - Party scenes complete with class envy! The "evil" rich eating with Jack and Rose, complete with cigars, bourbon (SP?) and silver plates, etc. and the poor "good" people with gallons of beer, dancing, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] And for the 2001 product line, a variation on Adventurers: Scavengers! Explore the abandoned ruins of the ancients, searching for food and supplies, but beware the hideous mutant guardians. Featuring Longwhisker the Quick (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Well, here's my try: 6445 - Y2K Media Frenzy. Comes with 3 copies of the contents of Crisis News Crew, one done in red, one in yellow and one in blue, and a 1x1 transparent round plate. Box cover features all three news choppers hovering, vans (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry, I forgot the "variant." US Version is non-firing. :) LFB (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Ever since I saw the 2000 catalog, I haven't been able to get this out of my head. This is off-topic (Y2k-wise) and completely tasteless, but how about: #1812 Alive! (250 pieces) Set includes complete soccer team (some as skeletons), airplane (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Wasn't it a rugby team? Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) Paepke wrote in message <3862509a.6724079@lu...et.com>... (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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