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Subject:	The LEGO Racers theme should have its own newsgroup.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date:	Sat, 6 Dec 2003 00:25:29 GMT
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Granted, many sets of theme are Technic flavored (those with mostly technic parts), and many are slighly Town flavored (those with a minifig, pull back motor and mostly bricks/plates). But the theme still hasn't got its own LUGNET newsgroup, and it's one of Lego' biggest theme at the moment (it single handedly replaced all the small Technic cars of the 90's, and the whole "Town Race" subtheme), and is home of all of Lego's RC cars. I wouldn't make a big deal of it, but come on, FABULAND, DUPLO, PRIMO and heck, even CLIKITS and (god forbid) GALIDOR got their own newsgroups! So what do you think? Once created, .town and .technic could both link to it (same as how .town links to train, .space links to .starwars, etc) Thanks for listening.

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		Re: The LEGO Racers theme should have its own newsgroup.
FUT: lugnet.admin.suggestions I have to agree. I just discussed something similar with the folks over at brickset.com - eventually they agreed. Even though it started as a subset of technic, it has expanded and is truly it's own Lego theme. Now all (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)

		Re: The LEGO Racers theme should have its own newsgroup.
(...) Maybe. I think 'Racers' is a branding thing that LEGO has choosen to do. To explain, sometime around the beginning of the 2002 set year, LEGO deleted the Technic moniker from most (possibly all) set boxes. Various Bionicle sets, which had (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)

		Re: The LEGO Racers theme should have its own newsgroup.
(...) Hey, wow, you know you are right! Our bad. ;) e (21 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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