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I received four of the new 7000 Young Ankylosaurus today along with some other stuff. Unfortunately the actual dinosaur is not the same as the ones we saw in the preview pictures from the Toy Fair. My desire for these sets was driven by the green (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) in-set catalog shows it with the corner slopes, too!!! :( The set still has some promise, but man, what a let-down... A Very Dissapointed Green Brick Fan, Jeff "FLAT SIDE UP!" (24 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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Hey, maybe we can call Consumer Affairs and ask for the "missing" corners? ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support | Netscape Communications Corp | A division of AOL Time Warner | iPlanet Support - (URL) Please do not (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:GDE0GF.Att@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] As I suspected, my son (he is six) loves the dinosaur set. I had left it on the kitchen table for him to find when (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'll bet that the corner slopes were nixed by that fellow in Billund that controls the colors that Lego parts can be produced in (the Lego Color Master). I don't know his title or name, but the Lego folks are not at liberty to talk about him. (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) (URL) can't see any differences in color or parts selection. What am missing? Jake -- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Man, that's an awful model IMHO. If a clone brand had produced it, there would have been an outcry! Dave! (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think the very first image above has changed in the mean time! In the original image, there appeared to be a total of four green 2x2 corner slope bricks, if I remember correctly. Fredrik (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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Jake McKee wrote in message ... (...) Huw must have updated the picture on Brickshelf to be the real thing, those links do now show the same model. The original photo in the dealer catalog showed standard Lego green for the color instead of sand (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm with Jake here-- I can't see any corner slopes whatsoever on any of these images, and I also can't see a difference between the two... Did they change the image that's on brickset or something? Was there another picture that had the corner (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Doh! I guess my question's been answered... so does anyone have the old image? DaveE (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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"David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> wrote in message news:GEIKzq.7tB@lugnet.com... (...) sand (...) missing? (...) they (...) picture (...) I recently saw the original picture on a small in-box catalog. Of course I have since thrown it away. I think (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The original Ankle-saurus thing is at (URL) just scroll down the page and there is a section that has pics of the new summer 2001 catalogue, there is a link to the smaller dinosaurs sets and all four are on one picture. The set in question (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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Here's a direct link to the page in question: (URL) McDowell" <Skiing_Scotsman@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) another (...) copy of it? (...) image? (...) The original Ankle-saurus thing is at (URL) just scroll down the page and there is a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Nathan McDowell" <Skiing_Scotsman@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GEIvB5.FIr@lugnet.com... (...) another (...) of it? (...) image? (...) is (...) that (...) even (...) It was the only reason I ordered four of them when I first heard they were (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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Unless the color is WAY off on (URL) , it shows them as the sand green, not regular green (granted, it may BE way off). (...) -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support | Netscape Communications Corp | A division of AOL Time Warner | (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Those look like regular green pieces to me *shrugs*. Compare the pieces in the original version as seen in (URL) to those in the ones in (URL) and also the ones in (URL) . Do they look different to anyone else? I hope I'm not losing it =). (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, you're losing it ;-) (URL) and (URL) are so obviously sand green that it's not even funny. You need to get your monitor checked if it looks like original "Lego green" to you. It looks more like (URL) is a scan that's a touch dark. -- Tom (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh, it's been lost for years now =) (...) No no no no, =) I said that the original design (with the corner slopes) looks like it is in regular green and the new versions (without the corner slopes) as seen on Brickset and Mike's Brickshelf (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Blarg, that should say verdigris not verdigreen. My bad, yet again. I ought not to let my mind wander, as it is too small to go off by itself. =) ~Nathan (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have this catalog, and can say with certainty that 7000 Young Ankylosaurus and 7002 Young Brachiosaurus are most definitely regular green. It is a real shame they decided to change the colors for the actual sets, and a major annoyance that (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Also annoying is that the packaging for 7000 makes it look like the leg pieces are light-blue, when in fact they are regular grey. The sand-green is off as well. Hold a completed Young Ankylosaurus up to the box and it becomes apparent that (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) hmmm... are there _any_ pictures that shows the set correctly? (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I had to open my set to see what you were talking about :) Ok, the LUGNET Guide picture has been corrected, up to LEGO to fix the one on their site. :) Thanks for pointing this out. (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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yeah, the box picture from shop.lego.com matches the box we have, dan. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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