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Re: New colors and other info
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:35:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steven D. Weiser wrote:
   but if you truely love this hobby, DON’T GIVE UP ON IT!!

Lame advice -- give up on the Lego hobby whenever you feel ready to do so, just as TLC has “given up” on the traditional colors that they have been producing for going on 20+ years!

Yeah, yeah -- we’re 5% of the market. Whatever. I have always taken this stuff with a huge lump of salt. Adult brick enthusiasts mean more to TLC than just money in the bank -- we evangelize, we create MOCs, we are the best free advertising they ever had. TLC should be kissing our huge collective ass!

Instead, we get this moronic color change crap.

I am holding up a single finger for TLC -- and it doesn’t mean I think they are “number one.” More like a heaping mound of number two...

-- Hop-Frog



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  Re: New colors and other info
 
(...) Every kid I have ever seen in the Lego aisle has behaved in a more mature manner than the author of this post. And that includes the ones that were bawling their brains out. What a shameful display of bad manners and ill temper. In my (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX) ! 
  Re: New colors and other info
 
richard marchetti wrote: ... [ranting deleted] ... (...) ... [more ranting deleted] ... "We"? If by "We", you are referring to AFOL's, I am almost ashamed to consider myself one of that group if this sort of raving is what is typical of that (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)

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(...) I believe that most of us AFOL's will be able to adjust eventually. After all, if we all love the hobby, what choice do we really have. I for one will try not to complain to much(WAAAAAAAHHHH). But there is no way I am going to switch to MB or (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)

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