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MSNBC Link on Bionicle: (URL) apologies if this was previously posted... (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Remote Control figures? Eh? Did I miss something? ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Me too, I guess... Remote Control Figures with a 60-80 price point were mentioned in today's (hardcopy) Wall Street Journal article as well ++Lar (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That's interesting. I wonder if they're going to RIS these things? Or take it in the direction of LEGO racers (*shudder*)...as to why they come out in Europe first, I'm pretty sure (disabuse me of this notion be it wrong) that Slizer (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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Wow, TLC really has a good idea this time. I read this part of the press release: To play up its message, Lego plans a $15 million marketing campaign, its biggest-ever launch. In addition to television commercials, Lego hopes to link the product (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Umm, you left out sailing around, what are you, some kind of landlubber? You don't "drive" ships, and they don't fly, vroom, or whoosh either (well, ok, so Captain Ahab and the especially cross piratical space dudes do fly, vroom, or whoosh (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, remote control. The link to pictures is here. They were gotten from the Canadian toy fair. They are a repeat of images shown on Brickshelf a couple of weeks ago and pulled off. (URL) link was posted a couple of days ago here: (URL) seems (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Jonathan Lill" <jonathanl@myriadweb.com> wrote in message news:G83F1r.K1q@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) line (...) has (...) story (...) structure (...) sets. (...) This brings up a point that has been bothering me ever since I came out of my dark (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Right, except Trains. Their action best involves "crashing". :) Steve (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I hope my ambivalence on the subject is clear. I, too, have always preferred the minifigures without names and without predefined stories, enemies, etc. However is the pleasure I take in the Star Wars line based solely on the strength of the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, but to be honest, I'm not sure it's off-topic and thus I don't think it needs to be relegated to .o-t.debate. Best to keep it where it is (er, was...), where LEGO-interested folks will continue to comment. (But for actual o-t xposts, you (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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in article G84zKs.Fs3@lugnet.com, Timothy D. Freshly wrote: <snip> (...) I'm not sure where I stand on this one. When I was a lad, I would make up my own stories and characters, regardless of the toy or the toy's story. I think in order to survive (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Stories (was Re: Remote Control Figures? (Was Re: Bionicle Sets))
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"Jonathan Lill" <jonathanl@myriadweb.com> wrote in message news:G853FG.2ID@lugnet.com... (...) [snip] (...) my (...) This is a good point. It is difficult now as an adult not to impose our desire for more complexity, more complete sets, etc. onto (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Lego Stories (was Re: Remote Control Figures? (Was Re: Bionicle Sets))
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(...) This was particularly nice for my brother and I. We tended to have each other as an opposing force. Now, these days, there would be good guys and bad guys and one of us would've been stuck playing the bad guys. The way Lego was at the time, we (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If I were an executive at LEGO I would not consider the AFOL market a group to which to cater. AFOLs are only incidental to the core market and marketing that LEGO has developed over DECADES. AFOLs may just be a temporary anomaly. Yes, we seem (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Lego Stories (was Re: Remote Control Figures? (Was Re: Bionicle Sets))
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(...) So the problem seems to be that enjoyment of the sets is limited to the extent one can contextualize or decontextualize them. You didn't particularly enjoy star wars so this limits your enjoyment of the sets. Others have enjoyed the sets (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Stories (was Re: Remote Control Figures? (Was Re: Bionicle Sets))
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Err, can we keep this out of off-topic.debate? FUT: lugnet.general (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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