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Lego: From Building Blocks to High Tech By Marcus Rubin NEW YORK (Reuters) - LEGO's showroom at the American International Toy Fair looks deceptively familiar. Brightly colored building blocks bubble around happily in plastic tubes. Small smiling (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.general) !
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In lugnet.general, Lawrence Wilkes writes: So much cool stuff here!! (...) <soapbox> More than anything this reinforces the need to fight against that insidious question: "Aren't Megabloks legos the same as LEGO legos, only cheaper?"</soapbox> This (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That quote is interesting... Maybe I'm reading it the wrong way, but it seems to be implying that tanks and fighter planes are violence for the sake of violence. I thought tanks and fighter planes were violence for the sake of national (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G8Jv6o.79@lugnet.com... (...) worried. (...) want (...) planes. (...) sake (...) sake (...) fantasy (...) violence (...) But surely WWF is the fantasy setting! It cant be called violence. No (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) What!? Remember the one that died a few years back (I think it was Owen Heart)? Josh (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Tell that to the guy that died last year from a stunt gone wrong. -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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Yes, it was Owen Hart. There are also other injuries that occur like the wrestlers getting paralyzed. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message news:3A8606AE.4E3755...faq.com... (...) Surely that is the point it was "a stunt gone wrong" No one deliberately set out to hurt him or kill him did they? regards lawrence (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Josh Baakko" <shi_web@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G8KE4x.GK9@lugnet.com... (...) Heart)? (...) Cant say I follow WWF. But from Tom Stangl post wasnt it a 'stunt gone wrong'? regards lawrence (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Or Mick "Mankind" Foley, who had his ear ripped off... (...) Ah, but you didn't say "nobody is deliberately trying to hurt anybody else", you said "No one gets hurt." There's a world of difference between the two. J (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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Folks, This WWF discussion should not be in general. FUT to off.topic.debate or off.topic.fun, whatever suits your fancy. Thanks! Scott S. -- Want LEGO Elements at Great Prices? Visit The Sanburn Systems Company www.sanburnsystems.com Scott E. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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Okay, down to the good part: (...) Yes! Female minifig heads! Oh, and another team bus. ;) best Lindsay (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Pink perhaps ? With pink train windows ? Yumm ! Ray (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, they'll all be wearing the new "Futbol Bus Intercom Microphones" ;^D ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And, with our luck, have attractive Wild West scowls. You know, I was going to type in "Without intercom mikes!" before, but somehow I knew you'd pick up the assist. Saccin' frassn' rassin'... (a nickel to anyone who remembers where *that* (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I bought the big soccer set (which is very fun to play, by the way) for my son because he loves to play soccer - like his Grandpa who played professionally for Bolivia. It came with a bunch of female heads and hair pieces which I thought was a (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Would that be prehistoric expletives a la Fred Flintstone? Bill (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Haven't seen a good 'ole Yosemite Sam 'toon a while! JR (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:G8LwC2.2rt@lugnet.com... (...) <snippage> (...) Mutley! from Wacky Races (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Snagglepuss! :^D ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Doh! I meant Mutley! Snagglepuss did that "Exit stage right" thing. :^\ ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It was, "Exit stage left e-ven." :~D Bill (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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Ray Sanders wrote in message ... (...) Pink? YUCK!!! Please don't insult us with Barbie pink. Rose (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh, but I need more pink train windows (yes, I said more - these really exist!). It'd be cool to have trans pink glass and windshield etc. also... What I'm hoping for is yellow windows, but green would be cool also. Frank (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hope so, And I'd love to work for the R&D dept in Windosr/Slough.. Sent Lego Europe North a CV and havee not heard anything. (...) Nah, Best Lock already doing a UN range. And ISTR a Uniceff truck already beinga lego set ;-) (...) Yeah but (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Now I would have no qualms about buying a cricket lego set... (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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Frank Filz wrote in message <3A8763B4.62BC5D21@m...ng.com>... (...) What about purple? Now that would be bold. Rose (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Anybody who doesn't like Pink Lego should go visit the Art Deco district of Miami Beach. It gives new meaning to building with color. Gary Istok (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My dream is to someday build a Lego rendition of the Don Cesar hotel (St Pete Beach FL). A 20's art deco revival monstrosity of a structure. Pink. Need I say more. Give me the architectural elements in various shades of pink and bulk bricks in (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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Ray Sanders wrote in message ... (...) of (...) Pete (...) say (...) months. (...) get the (...) We've been down this pink Lego, Don Cesar thread before. I grew up a few miles from "The Don" and all the other pastel colored architecture in Florida. (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My mom live's pretty close to it now (at least in the winter), she's got a place on Treasure Island. (...) I think the point of the pink discussion was more: "Gee wouldn't it be nifty for (some of) us if TLC did the stereotypical thing and had (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I see what you are getting at, something a bit like the "test match" board game. (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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