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Subject: 
Re: an update -- and an apology
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:59:57 GMT
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Comments below - Gary Istok

James Powell wrote:

> 
> > We need to limit our "wants list" to bricks in sizes and colors which are • currently
> > *in* production.
> 
> clear slopes - rare in most any set
> 
> Yep, in the 4291 bucket, has a 2x2 clear slope brick

Some sets in the 1960's had over 100 clear bricks!!!!

> 
> 2x2 windows - great for making skyscrapers
> In windows packs

Yes but to paraphrase a famous quote, "you can have it in any color, as long as it
is red".
Also, the current window packs (both regular and Dacta) are top heavy in doors.
I would love to order 1000 in each of the production colors:  blue, yellow, white,
red.
Remember these can be used in multiples:  4  could make a 1x4x4 window, 6 could
make a 1x4x6 or a 1x6x4.  These are very useful in mullioned (multi-pane) windows.

> (1x4x5 or 1x4x6 are too large for skyscrapers)
> I'd rather 1x4x3 myself :)  1x4x6 are good for MF scale buildings.

I agree, 1x4x3 is probably the ideal.

> tiles - in certain sizes and colors,
> Current Production (at least, I hope!)

But never in any great quantity.  The demand for these in white is.... well just
look at the Auczilla prices for these!!

>  corner slopes, especially low and steep slopes (rare in all sets)
> The 3x3 corner slopes Gary?  I think they are in blue in one of the current
> castles (Todd?).

Yes, but look at the price you have to pay just to get 4 or 16 of these, if that is
all you want.  And then there are the black and red ones.

> 
> 2x2 rounds
> Red, Dk Gray are around for sure, I would imagine not hard to find/get

White!  That is the color that is in most demand.  Especially for Architectural
uses (columns, collonades, Greco-Roman temples).

> 
> train windows and window glass.
> Yep.  Even if just the window glass is made available through L@D, since the
> frames are going to be available out of the football vans.  I'd like to see the
> frames also available from L@D, but I could manage without them, if it would
> mean we would get the 2x windows as well.
> 
> I will put down, that if train windows were available, I would buy _at least_
> 500 windows provided they cost less than $1 USD each.  I would imagine that I
> would not be the only one who sought quantities like that, provided doors were
> also available, and that both 2 and 4 long windows were available.  At 8
> windows each for my 3 axle coaches, and more like 14 on a full length coach,
> that still isn't all that many windows :)
> 
> James Powell



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  Re: an update -- and an apology
 
In lugnet.dear-lego, Gary R. Istok writes: <snip (...) I would agree that just to get a few 2x2 windows the Dacta and service packs are not the way to go. I actually bought 2 of the Dacta packs mostly for the 1x4x3 windows so I lucked out and got (...) (27 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)

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  Re: an update -- and an apology
 
(...) at (...) currently (...) clear slopes - rare in most any set Yep, in the 4291 bucket, as a 2x2 clear slope brick 2x2 windows - great for making skyscrapers In windows packs (1x4x5 or 1x4x6 are too large for skyscrapers) I'd rather 1x4x3 myself (...) (27 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)

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