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| | | I'm off to Toy Fair in a couple of days - if anyone has anything in particular that they'd like to see a bit more of, just let me know. Star Wars is our backbone but I do my best to cover the entire showroom. Tim (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Toy Fair —Jason Cicchini
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| | | | | (...) Spider man and Monsters. These look like amazing sets, and I'd like to see more coverage of them. -Jay (the Rascal King) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Toy Fair —Mike Petrucelli
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| | | | | | (...) I second this. -Mike Petrucelli (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Toy Fair —Matthew Gerber
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| | | | | (...) Yeah...how about me! I wanna' see ME at Toy Fair! TAKE ME WITH YOU TIM! TAKE ME WIIIITH YYYOOOOUUUUUUUU! 8?) Matt (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Erik Olson
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| | | | From the Toy Fair website: "In the aftermath of 9/11, many families chose to stay close to home during the latter part of the year and this trend is reflected in a 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys. The most dominant new arrival in (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) How was this innovative? It's their second coaster! The only innovative thing I saw about it was that the MSRP was a lot less (and it had differently abled (they had no feet) passengers on a coaster train instead of a 4 wheeled cart. (I (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) But it's the *first* time they've released their second coaster. Dave! (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) First? Heck! It's the ONLY time they'll EVER release their second coaster! It's a once-in-a-lifetime event! DaveE (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) That's what I thought about Kiss breaking up... Didn't LEGO recently release the Metroliner for the second time? ROSCO (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Chris Osborn
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| | | | | (...) Because instead of bending rigid rods and connectors to make curved things, they provided flexible rods that would conform to a curve. :-) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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| | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Erik Olson
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| | | | when was the first one released? The rankings don't claim "22 percent increase in innovation." I think they are talking about big sellers from 2001. Maybe that was the only adjective that the person could think of. (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | | (...) We've had a partially built one on our kitchen floor for months and the copyright date on the box is 1994. (Model 63030). Seems like there have been more than two of them. Maggie C. (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Chris Osborn
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| | | | | | (...) No, there's just the two. The original is more like a "wooden" coaster, and the newer one is like a "steel" coaster. In the new one the cars clip around the track and the friction is a *lot* lower. I wouldn't call it innovative, but it's (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Jude Beaudin
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| | | | | | (...) I think this conversation need to move to .o-t.clone-brands. Jude (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | | | | | Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Maybe. :-) And people ask why the media isn't held in high regard. (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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