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Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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Date: 
Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:38:49 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
Shiri Dori wrote:

Really? The truth? I don't think he's ALL that awful. I mean, yeah, he's weird
looking and dopey, but brasso his shirt and stick the head under a helmet -
it's not that bad! (At least it doesn't seem that bad). I don't know how the
general opinion against Timmy came to be what it is today, but it seems pretty
funny to me that everyone hates him so much... he never hurt you, ya know!

The problem is that not only is he in every Time Cruisers set, he's also
in a bunch of the Freestyle/Classic sets, so you end up with tons of
him.

I'd just like to interjct and note that Mel the NLNLF was skeptical about
the current attitudes towards Timmy when I described them.  However, after
placing a Timmy in her city (as a streetsweeper), I was able to observe
her repeatedly running him over with a LEGOland truck.  Her comment:
"You're right, abusing Timmy is *fun*!"

J



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
(...) Yeh, I'm pretty much convinced that what's going on here is the same sort of thing that occurred with the Weasley Crusher character on ST:TNG. Some people thought it was okay, but a LOT of people just HATED the idea. And it DID get really (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)  
  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
(...) Let's hope she never builds a catapult :-) Rob (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)  

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  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
(...) Well, one can like the sets without liking the theme, yea I know, it sounds weird. I think for me the problem is in the details. The Flying Time Vessel is a nice concept, but just seems lacking in some way. The Mystic Mountain Time Lab is a (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)

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