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| | | (...) Abandon it's sense of reason to sell something that is "selling like crazy", they are a toymaker not some benevolent institution. (...) I could assemble may 651 tow truck set without instructions in 1972... clearly that was simplistic and of (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —William R. Ward
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| | | | | (...) It's risky. bit like day trading - when you're hot, you're hot, but when things aren't going so well, you can be ruined easily. What if Lego plowed millions into a new fad toy that never went anywhere? (...) I keep my Expert Builder pieces (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | (...) Heehee. Interesting POV. And perhaps I will be there one day too. Although currently, I am not one extreme or the other. I'd like to see some focus, yet not so much so that we only have basic bricks in five colors either. I like having Themes (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Allan Bedford
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| | | | (...) Perhaps I should clarify. I don't mean to suggest that they stop selling Bionicle. But rather that they not drop other core lines and design values for the sake of jumping on a fad product. The problem becomes... what happens when they follow (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | "Allan Bedford" <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@...vista.net> skrev i meddelandet news:GnLEz9.FG2@lugnet.com... (...) Maybe because 20+ years ago, the Space Race was still Big News (OK, maybe 20+++ years ago), kids only had 2 TV channels to watch, no home (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Allan Bedford
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| | | | (...) I guess I should clarify. If you look at the three things I mentioned: 1) Strong theme 2) Consistent colors 3) Incredible design You'll note that they don't specifically relate to the Classic Space theme itself. The question wasn't, "why can't (...) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Benjamin Medinets
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| | | | | <snip> (...) for me, it was just over 2 years ago, I was doing good fighting urges to go back to collecting the lego, avoiding the toy stores, trying hard not to look in the toy advertizements. Then I made the mistake of going into a toy store, and (...) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | "Allan Bedford" <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@...vista.net> skrev i meddelandet news:Gnn8E2.Cvq@lugnet.com... (...) I don't see any irony in that, BlockCAD is only a substitute for The Real Thing, and it _does_ have it's limitations. I'm using it to relax (...) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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