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The "it's grey, folks, but not as we know it" change has certainly provoked comments ranging from thoughtful through irate, and ultimately to the ludicrous and downright bizarre. Lego's apparent disregard for its fans is nothing new, and many (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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(...) Do I detect a hint of sarcasm? (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) <snip> Well this is funny, and it did make me laugh, but most of these changes that you mention are improvements to the product line. Very few of these represent a step backwards in the consistency of the product. I know that you are mocking (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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Lol. Very lol. I wonder if they'll make NewBrown pirate hull pieces... mmmmm pirates... Michael (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Looking at your post, I suppose that you yourself hate Galidor as well.... :-D And perhaps Bionicle too? What about the juniorization of sets? LOL. Personally Im not fussing about the colors, its the Castlidor invasion Im worried about. (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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I hereby nominate Richie Dulin for a Pulitzer. Made out of Lego. In the "new colors." :-) onedaycnn (sid) (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin wrote: <Lots of hysterical stuff I snipped> (...) Hey, I had that as a kid...I marveled at the tons of blue slopes ("how dare you desert me, Lego? Bricks are rectangular, not sloped!") And I also remember the front of (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Awesome thinking and writing there! :-) And a welcome distraction from, say other way of looking at the ongoing disregard of TLG. Of course, the ongoing changes *are* quite serious, but in time I'm sure most fans of LEGO® will get over it. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hehe. I sense a wicked, devious mind at work here. How refreshing, Richard. Unfortunately totally beside the point. Galidork and those new Knights doesn't affect anyone posting here. Simply put, it's not really LEGO and therefore noone has to buy (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) No, actually, I think he is right on. This outcry is flat-out hysteria, as we have seen here previously. (...) I can only imagine the hysteria the 9 volt train introduction would have caused were LUGNET around in 1991! (...) You are completely (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Rah, rah, ciss boom bah! Just Imagine, Just Imagine! Gooooo team! (...) I guess all you train types will be happy when TLC switches train formats again, right? "Woo hoo! Now my old stuff is incompatible - I'm glad for the opportunity to start (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(snipped some good stuff). LOL, well said(written). I can relate to everything from -78 and forward =) /Joakim (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You are going to have to keep up, Marc! The cheer is now "Play On" (as in "move on";-) (...) If they did, what should I do? Wring my fists and scream expletives? There are no guarantees in life. I try and look on the bright and positive side (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Richie; thank you for succinctly, sarcastically, and eloquently (with chronologically referenced examples to boot!) saying what I'd been trying to say. Which is, in a nutshell: complain all you want about the replacement colours; if they're better, (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Could it be you just lack .. dedication? Changing the color palette is no minor thing. It opens a can of worms. It is outrageous and a sound reason for becoming emotional. If you're really dedicated, that is. If you don't feel that way, you (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I don't think so. (...) If you are really emotional, that is. (...) I dare say that I have spent more hours sorting, more hours creating MOCs, created more MOCs, and spent more money on LEGO than 99% of AFOLs. Dedication is not the issue. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Excellent! Now we're getting to the core of it. For me (and many others it appears) it IS like TLC going out of business, or rather putting me into severe danger of entering a new Dark Age due to disappointment followed by lack of interest. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I could pick this apart piece by piece. For instance Duplo & regular bricks are 100% compatible. See: (URL) you need convincing. Technic control center to Mindstorms is growth not change for the sake of change. Lego has had a policy of being a (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Oops, there's a bug here that won't let that link work. If you don't know Duplo is compatible go to: (URL) click on the commemorative box car. Sorry about that, but sorry it's still not a laughing matter.-Ken (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) And you think the new colours won't be compatible with old? Several people have already said they can imagine the stone effects, etc that they could achieve. I'm thinking of different segments, armour plating etc that I could use on my Space (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Very Funny! I think everyone needs to chill out a bit, yes it is annoying but there's nowt we can do. I noticed your other posts on this in the other threads with amusement too. On a more serious note, no I'm not happy about it either and in my (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) While the other threads have not captured my amusement, they have well enough captured my bandwidth. Two days ago I downloaded over 100 emails on this topic and yesterday nearly 230. I'm not interested in debating the merits of the greys, (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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"Richie Dulin" <rdulin@REMOVEmla.com.au> wrote in message news:HoMKJD.1Lyy@lugnet.com... BRILLIANT. [ j o n ] (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Chris, I feel your pain, I really do. But I have never seen real train tracks that are a uniform color. Some of the ties are black. Some are brown. Others are faded in a non-uniform manner. It would seem to me that some color difference in a (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin wrote: snip (...) snip I got to about here when I was in tears from laughing so hard... :) Dave K (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Why would anyone be worried about those Knights that look like Galidor figures (with studs for interfacing with regular LEGO bricks)? Did the Galidor line stop LEGO from producing (or re-releasing) this past year some of the best Castle sets (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The more likely solution is that our club will simply stop buying new track. If we decide to expand our layout, we will probably just borrow track from our members. (I'll lend all of mine if necessary.) When you consider the significant (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Burkhard, what is it that makes you dedicated but John not? That he is willing to play well with new colors and you aren't? I just don't get it. Real life doesn't come in 3 shades of gray. The new colors will simply be another opportunity for (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hello! (...) I'm not worried. I'm just disappointed. If those figures are "Castle" (and at least they are called "Knights' Kingdom" and not "Bionicle" oder "Galidor" or what else) I feel like TLC is kidding me. And those figures are different from (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) ROTFLMAO!!!! Richie, that was hilarious!! Thanks a lot for the comic relief!! One Brick to Rule Them All! (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ahem. Only TLC going out of business is like TLC going out of business:-) (...) If something like a color palette change threatens to cast you into a Dark Age, then I must ask, "Where is your dedication?" We will survive this tragedy together, (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Not taking sides or anything, just wanted to point out another very cool use of DUPLO (roof slopes and a vanity mirror piece) by Greg P.: (URL) Maggie C. (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Actually, there's very good point to this. But it also got me thinking that if uniformity is what is really desired, you can still achieve a very nice effect by cycling through a small set of colors in a fixed order... say alternate between (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) Man, that jogged my memory of the same thought. That was one of the first sets I ever owned and I too remember all the blue slopes. (I also seem to recall that the model wouldn't stand up to too many "landings" before the legs (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Cool. Don't forget my Duplo spaceship ;) (URL) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin wrote: -snip- Well Played. Dr. Terrible (URL) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) R O F L M A O ! I for one won't stop buying LEGO's untill one of the following happens: -my wife forbids it (yeah...right) -I have to choose between paying for food and paying for Lego -LEGO returns to wooden toys (URL) goto-lab> (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) How, exactly, are the replacement colors "better?" I really would like to know. - Chris. (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The following is my personal 2 cents, and nothing else. I am perfectly happy that lego is rereleasing old sets, and I hope they continue to do so. For those of us who don't either want to spend our life savings on a misb or get a second hand (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) HAW! Now this is truly funny stuff! Humor! AR! AR! AR! This 1979 bit actually has some truth to it...Space never quite reached 2000... --Dave (21 years ago, 22-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hello! (...) Oh, it even went farther than 2000. Actually Classic Space was situated a hundred years in the future, that is in the year 2079. (URL) Bye Jojo (URL) (21 years ago, 23-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Even if your story was meant to be sarcastic or humoristic, about one thing I totally agree with you. I was very disappointed with the introduction of 9V trains in 1991. The models look great, but what happened with the remote-controlled level (...) (21 years ago, 24-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) cut cut cut cut* (...) HAHAHAHAHA! I love it, too funny... I found it a little late, but still, amusing... okies, that is the negative side that is running through this site as quick as larva from a volcano... so now do the positive side (even (...) (21 years ago, 24-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The same happened in the early 1970's when the remote-controlled points were discontinued. The first 12V points from 1969 were remote-controlled, later the hand-controled 12V points came. Niels (21 years ago, 24-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Gee, perhaps Im worried BECAUSE I AM A CASTLE THEME FAN. A real one not just those with a passing interest. As for the colors, I think those new greys can add more realism to the color of those castles. (21 years ago, 24-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Are you kidding me? Not much else they can do? HUH?!?! Try to have some imagination, there's still LOTS of possiblities with System Castle theme. Ever thought that perhaps they could make Desert Castles and base the theme on Arabian structures (...) (21 years ago, 24-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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