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(...) Kid fans of LEGO eventually grow up... and they either become adult fans of LEGO, pass them on to their kids (in which case not as much LEGO is bought for the successive generation, as there is already ample supply), sell them via bricklink, (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Spare parts - or - Harry Parter part duex (was: Castle Nightmare)
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(...) sniiiip. (...) Just wanted to say this whole post was very well done, Anthony! I couldn't have said it better. -Tim (22 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey All, After not sleeping last night due to being pissed off about this, I went out today and bought myself the mini star destroyer just to see what I was getting upset about. Upon opening the set I noticed the different colors and put them (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I totally agree. What I didn't agree with was the logic being used to suggest why these changes were being made. I was trying to express my disbelief that changes were happening because parts were getting too difficult to manufacture. If these (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Mark... they're serious. Speaking as someone who used to share your opinion it's important to note that this argument has come up many times in the past. The general opinion has always ended up that this statement is correct. (...) It might be (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Same reasoning why they don't cater to the Macintosh with their computer products - too small an audience. Mark (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Actually, Brad Justus and Jake McKee have always told us that they believe the adult LEGO buyers to make up less than 5% of the retail market. We AFOL's think it's a bit higher, but not much. A good way to put it into perspective is this: go (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yes, he's serious. By "not big enough", if memory is serving me correctly (too lazy to go digging through Lugnet's back catalogue of conversations), they mean "less than 5% of our sales volume" 95% of the Lego that leaves the shelves ends up (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Having now visited both a Lego Imagination Centre and a Legoland, I have to say that I prefer the pay-by-weight approach used at Legoland. I want to spend my time choosing my bricks, not spend hours trying to pack them into milkshake containers :-( (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Are you serious??? If by "big enough" they mean more than 50% of the actual head-count, they may be right... but I'd bet anything that if they looked at the bottom line, how much money gets spent, they'd find that more is spent annually on (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Color me.. disappointed. I think it's kind of entertaining that several folks have counseled either a 'wait and see' approach or that they personally were just going to sit back and see how it pans out. Honestly, what choice do we have? TLC (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: The first MOC (not my own) that I see in person, Eric Harshbarger's Crayons
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Hi all, I'll follow up George's post by pointing to my webpage I just typed up about the weekend: (URL) correction: Alphabet Blocks and Checkers were this year's inductees to the Hall of Fame (the toys George mentions were already in from previous (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Fwd from a builder: Colors don't match, among other things!
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(...) Lego has CONSTANTLY been perfecting the designs of pieces. Witness the hole in the minifig head; the slots in the sides of the Technic pin; etc., etc., etc. The camfering is another step in the ongoing development of product, though for what (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hello, By the time everything else in my life is taken care, I have precious little time left for lucny meetings, or brickfests, or meeting any other AFOLs. But, this weekend it worked out. Saturday, Mary (my wife) wanted time to clean up the house, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Cynthia, this is almost certainly aging. Any collection of gray bricks going that far back will have variations from contact with UV light. (I have not checked vs unopened sets.) White bricks are the worst agers. There is also such a thing as (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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I just bought the 2004 Mos Eisley Cantina this afternoon (#4501), and was disappointed to find that this set also has the new off colors. It wasn't just the 2 grays either; brown is a lighter shade now. The dark red, verdigris (sometimes called (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: New Snowspeeder uses new grays (was: Fwd from a builder: Colors don't match, among other things!)
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(...) Entirely the new colors (the set is largely white, recall). That's to be expected, I think, the light grays in particular are very close and there's really no reason to ship both of them in the same set. Kevin (22 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Well, I have no problem with those that build in whatever way they choose at all -- in my view, playing and building is the point of it all. I think we're on the same page there. I also don't have a problem with additions to the color line, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: New Snowspeeder uses new grays (was: Fwd from a builder: Colors don't match, among other things!)
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(...) hi, quick q: does it use the new greys exclusively, or in conjunction with the old greys? thanks! hoping its the former... I can't wait to get some new grey! (22 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Richard, With no offense intended, this sounds as if those builders out there who are "stuck" with the bricks they have (for whatever reasons) just can't be as good at MOC-ing as those who can buy the bricks they need to make the "refined" (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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