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    Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Kelly McKiernan
   The LEGO Ambassadors have been asked to provide some suggestions to the LEGO Shop at Home people about what types of things we AFOLs would like to see offered or available from S@H. This is a good opportunity for you to make a serious suggestion (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX) !! 
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Ondrew Hartigan
     (...) Well first and foremost THANK YOU for asking and providing a positive thread on lugnet. (...) Additional % off on bulk packs- up to 25% would be preferable for 50+ packs New metal rail train track geometry!!!...!!! stubbies, crossovers, half/ (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Timothy Carl Buchheim
      Not really shop@home specific, but I thought it was worth commenting on: (...) I agree .. it's very difficult to tell the difference between the model and the background on some sets. Often I don't notice smaller parts of the set because they get (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Lester Witter
     (...) SNIP (big time) (...) Maybe S@H could offer a moonbase part pack which would allow the fan to make several connections. or one generic modules that could be easily connected Alternatively the factory could include some base module parts as (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —TWS Garrison
     (...) When I think of S@H specifically, I think of service packs. I generally find the service pack selection from S@H to be bizarre. 10046? 10007? 10047? I suppose that there is some business case for those sets, but some systemization and (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Scott E. Thomas
     (...) I'd like to see detailed models of current production vehicles. We have the Enzo Ferrari, but not everyone can afford a real Ferrari. Perhaps team up with automakers when they launch new vehicles and launch a Lego version of it at the same (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Geoffrey Hyde
      "Kelly McKiernan" <kelly@anagrafyxx.com> wrote in message news:In950L.H11@lugnet.com... (...) Wow! And here I was thinking that somebody would never ask this kind of question! Guess I was wrong! ;) (...) Bring back elements that are out of (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Jonathan Lopes
     (...) Bulk packs of light grey (bley) 2x2 tiles (and more of the earth tone colors as tiles) If they can do black, red & white, why not light grey (bley)? All these magnificent train layouts, virtually flawless (IMO) with one exception: white tiled (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Dan Thompson
     (...) -An animal accessory pack(s). Something like a zoo builder with each one having an assortment of animals in standard and new colors with perhaps some new animals. Maybe on for each continent. NA: brown bear, black bear, tan owl, lightgrey (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Andrew Westrate
     (...) I have to say, I think these are excellent suggestions. I like the LEGO animals I have, but it's an odd assortment. If i were to build a zoo, there would be an elephant, a pair of polar bears, about 50 brown monkeys, and a huge herd of horses. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Daniel Wayne Poole
     (...) I would love to see Lego develop a true bulk parts mail order system. Currently, certain lucky AFOLs can go to nearby Lego stores or parks and visit the “Pick a Brick” section to buy bulk parts. I would love to see this expanded to a large (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)  
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Geoffrey Hyde
      "Daniel Wayne Poole" <dwpoole@conninc.com> wrote in message news:In9v5E.1y5F@lugnet.com... (...) They'd have to limit the quantity one person could order at a time to a small percentage of the total bulk stock, or they'd wind up with complaints (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —John Gerlach
     The ability to specify LEGO to 'ship complete order', instead of sending me stuff in multiple shipments. I've had orders where part of the order was shipped right away, and part of the order was back-ordered - so it was shipped later. And, because I (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Geoffrey Hyde
       "John Gerlach" <gmltc_j1@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:In9v6o.1ytG@lugnet.com... (...) Actually, it means a logistical quandary for LEGO - where do they store your order while waiting for the rest of it to arrive or be manufactured, and (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Patrick Bégin
     I second this. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Kevin Wilson
     **Real** bulk ordering. - Keeping the basic colors and sizes available ALL the time (last time I looked, I couldn't buy white 1x4's any more!) - A full range of sizes of bricks, plates, slopes and tiles in all the basic colors - A price point (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Steven Coallier
      (...) Good one Kevin! I will Paypal ten bucks to the first person who comes up with a way to do this. Apologies to the authors, but LDD has one of the worst and most frustrating interfaces of any 3D assembly/drawing/modeling program I've ever seen (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Orion Pobursky
      (...) We're going to work on this with LEGO. (...) I disagree. For the same reason LUGNET should stay independant from LEGO, so should LDraw. I don't want corporate suits telling us how to run our project. -Orion (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Steve Bliss
       (...) I agree with your sentiment. OTOH, I wouldn't have any problem with LEGO using LDraw tools in place of/as well as LDD. Especially if they'd contribute to the parts library... Steve (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Steven Coallier
      (...) EXTREMELY valid point. I wouldn't want that either...I was thinking of a one-way relationship. The only thing TLG could do, perhaps, is supply new .DATs for new parts. .Steve (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Kevin Salm
     (...) People on Lugnet always ask for **Real** bulk. But, I don't think there would be that much demand for huge bulk quantities even on a worldwide level. Sure, there are some people that would buy several units at 5,000 parts each for example, but (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Kevin Wilson
     "Kevin Salm" <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> wrote in message news:InB4Mz.MyH@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> This was in reply to a "tell us your wish list, no matter how far-fetched" post, you know Kevin. I'll let LEGO decide whether they could do it and how, (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Kevin Salm
     (...) Kevin, you are correct. I guess I missed the part in the original message about "the sky's the limit" and I should not have stomped on your suggestion in any case. And you are also correct that it is up to LEGO to decide if and how, not me, (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —David Weiler-Thiessen
     (...) I appreciate that LEGO stays away from warfare that is based on 20th century technology. Warfare/Violent based themes, e.g. castle, ninja, pirates that are pre-20th Century still seem okay. Things to add/change: new track geometries bulk bags (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Brian Bacher
     (...) Lots of good ideas already! (...) I'd like to see a "Roaring 20's" town theme: Steam locomotive train set (both passenger and freight) "Model A" style vehicles Corner Drugstore with soda fountain Gas station w/ 1920's style gas pumps (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Steven Coallier
     (...) LEGO/The Sims sets: Minifigs and expandable homebuilding sets, including road baseplates. Bring back the classic greys. REALLY let customers buy whichever bricks they like. The choice of availability at S&H (and PAB, for that matter) is very (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Tom Dickson
     (...) 1 pound color packs - simply one pound of any color, assorted and random. (...) Changing themes every 3 seconds. Bonktron. (...) More house sets such as 4886, and in stores! (...) Anything that's too large and complicated. (...) There is no (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)  
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Paul Sinasohn
     (...) Create and sell plans to the Miniland boats (!!) and land vehicles. Buildings and freighters are too big, but the small boats and cars/trucks could be analyzed and plans created. Espcially the sailboats and the Combine Harvester (...) Junior / (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Paul Sinasohn
     (...) Adding to my own post - I think a series of casino sets would be great, similar to what Tim did for Brickswest 2003. But they'd never do that.Of course, there WAS the Paradisa fun faire, with a wheel of furtune thing....but think of the (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Mike Petrucelli
     (...) Foliage (2 URLs) These parts should be among the most common, as they can be used in nearly every single theme. I can not for the life of me figure out why they are rare to the point it is impossible for most people to afford any usable (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)  
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Thomas Stangl
     Jake has mentioned that old greys would be scattered here and there in sets. I'd like to see a S@H "grab bag" of misc grey parts, available at a price point equal to the buckets. That I'll never see ;-) (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Geoffrey Hyde
      "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message news:InAIAG.1LIF@lugnet.com... (...) I think a lot of people would like it if LEGO would make available a bulk light yellowish grey (old grey) parts pack. Like an earlier suggestion in this (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Paul S. D'Urbano
     In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote: SNIP (...) 1) LEGO Factory with a huge palette of parts and colors that lets you buy a model exactly to the piece, without having to buy any extra pieces. 2) Mindstorms creations with realistic-looking (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Steven Coallier
     In lugnet.general, Paul S. D'Urbano wrote: snip (...) This was the second mention of miniland replicas as a suggestion. AWESOME idea. Like a model at the park? Buy it in the Big Store or over S@H once you get home. I third the motion! .Steve (...) (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Kelly McKiernan
     (...) Great suggestions so far! I see trends happening, which I am more than happy to report back to TLG (although my opinions won't be reflected in the report). After reading the comments so far, I don't see quite as many "sets" or "themes" (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Ben Fleskes
     Jaw Dropper Idea: A 4000 piece castle set that includes: 30-40 minifigs A big, four sided castle A big dragon made up of lots of pieces (like one the animal sets currently out) Ben In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Lester Witter
     (...) A really large castle set (4000 parts => >$200) but a coordinated set of castle components (following the castle standard) would probably work. This could be handled via slected models at the factory if appropriate part bags could be (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —John Cooper
     (...) Globe model kit (18" - 24" diameter). Besides families puchasing these, I can envision one in every elementary school classroom, probably being rebuilt each year by the new class. It could even become an incentive for good behavior: "Every (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —John Barnes
     (...) What a great idea!!! I want one now! JB (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —John Neal
     (...) Why wait for TLG? (URL) Have at it>, compliments of Corey Sanders.... JOHN (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —John Cooper
     (...) Corey has many terrific models, including the globe. My hope for a S@H version would include the use of plates to give better resolution to the continents, and to refine the spherical shape. Something like the one in The Ultimate LEGO Book. (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Gaetan Houde
     (...) I would like to be able to make my own order of bricks that I want from a database. Not only the one that they offer. (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Jesse English
     (...) 1) Bring back minifig packs for themes. I'm on my knees begging for this. What was so wrong with 5 or 6 bucks for 4 or 5 pirates? I find it infuriating that my KKII collection has more "named" good knights than mindless badies. Seriously (I'll (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Michael Dickinson
     (...) Probably the first an easiest suggestion i would have is pick a brick from s@h then maybe copies of old and new plans for sale which would include a list of needed components to complete the model the plans are for, ( this would increase pick (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Mark Near
     (...) a. I would like to see S@H sell grab bags of minifig parts. b. I would like to see some "building big" idea books. How to build a life size human head, for example. c. Speaking of idea books, a series of INEXPENSIVE paperback idea books called (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Allan Bedford
     Hi there, (...) I was delighted to see this posting this morning. But I wanted to think about my response for a bit to make sure it didn't just end up as jibberish. :) One thing did cross my mind. From the description above I wasn't sure if you/they (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Steve Demlow
      (...) See (URL). Now, widespread availability is another issue... Steve (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Allan Bedford
     (...) My apologies for replying to my own previouse response. It may be too late to include this suggestion, but I thought I'd offer it again anyway. I say "again" since this is actually something I posted nearly a year ago. It had sort of slipped (...) (19 years ago, 1-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Daniel Barrett
     (...) Theme buckets and tubs, such as space and castle. The closest I've seen was the not very impressive Star Wars bucket. Truly modular castle, town and space sets. You can expand your castle, town, space station by buying and adding the desired (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —David Gregory
     (...) • Get rid of the new grays & brown and bring back the old ones • Make some old gray pieces at least for Classic Space Legend sets • Make all the boxes with a yellow border, like they used to in the 1980's (not practical at all; just for (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Kevin Salm
      (...) One thousand times -- YES, I agree with that. Please bring back the classic gray and brown colors. I curse the new colors on a daily basis. I hate them now and I always will because I don't like them, I think they suck, and I think the color (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Nathan Todd
      (...) So well articulated I had to agree... I know the issue is 'case closed' as far as lego is concerned but I still think... God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (19 years ago, 30-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Walter Walters
      (...) Not to beat a dead horse, but I thoroughly agree! (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Mike Petrucelli
     (...) Of course the other point of view is that large sets are not worth buying unless you can get minifig packs to help outfit them. For example (URL) 7163> requires you to purchase two of them just to have enough figs to man all the stations, let (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Tony Alexander
     (...) * How about some instructional and/or historical book/CD-ROM series? * All the instruction scans from a year or set of five years... * Master Modeler series... * How'd they do that? - Miniland * A David Macauley-esque look at LEGO from design (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Jesse English
     (...) The best idea I've seen here yet. I think that the 20 second flash animation that they had on the website about how a brick is made was cute, but obviously nowhere near the depth desired. I want to see a brick from conception (why is it (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Jeff Findley
     (...) Moonbase for sure. But that assumes that LEGO does something else firt (see below). (...) A non-Star Wars space theme! Where has that gone? Now that NASA is planning on going back to the moon, where is our Pre-Classic Space theme!?! That would (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Ram Sreerangam
     Here are some of my wishes: Some sort of a way to get customized emails on the new sets available on S@H and new sets on sale. There is an email that gets send but it is too generic and does not contain specifics. It would be nice to have some sort (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Nathan Todd
      An idea not under these Qs: How about a loyalty card/scheme for shop at home? (...) Old grey/brown/dk grey!!! At least in some legends (to add some reasonability) Failing that some random old grey/brown elements (to use with the bricks). More (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —John Neal
     (...) Get the rights to the (URL) Spamcake Diner™> and produce it. (...) We need a "fleshy" fig pack. More fleshies in all shades. JOHN (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Ray Sanders
     (...) Reissue 3800 "Ultimate Builders Set", 3801 "Ultimate Accessory Set" and (possibly) 9731 "Vision Command" as a single SKU'ed set. Folks that bought Mindstorms back when it was new (or even have purchased sets 2nd hand recently) really want to (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Kevin Salm
     (...) New foliage pieces would be good: · Some kind of creeping ivy type stuff for attaching to buildings · Some new type of one-piece tree or shrub · Some new types of leaves for making trees For Service Pack/Bulk Pack ideas: · Tan Plates (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Walter Walters
     (...) 1. More large-sized ($150+) UCS / Model Team sets. For example: a life-sized Darth Vader bust (like the Darth Maul). (In fact, I was very surprised that such a set was not released this year, in conjunction with Episode III, which was all (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Chris Orchard
     (...) <SNIP> Ideas for S@H 1. How about being able to buy piece bags from current sets, or maybe last years' / obsolete sets? This could be linked with the factory concept. 2. % discount / free postage for large bulk orders. 3. repackage option for (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Kelly McKiernan
     (...) Awesome responses, thanks to everybody who took the time to pass along their suggestions. I'm collating everything for submission early in the week. I don't know what (if any) response will come from LEGO about this, but I hope we all hear (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Steve Demlow
     (...) Put all of the Pick-a-Brick inventories online and keep them current. The stores will ship but we need to know what they have. PaBTrak is still vaporware and we AFOLs haven't stepped up to the challenge of keeping updated inventories online (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Ken Koleda
     In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote: snip (...) Bring back classic light gray, dark gray and brown. Better yet, make a set like this (even if in the new colors): (URL) packs of minifigs like castle guys or vikings, for around $1 each fig. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Ken Dowd
     (...) 1)A Batman License. Spider-man was ok, but Batman would rock. A Batmobile, Batplane, Batboat, etc. A $90-$100 Batcave set. Villians' lairs, Arkham Asylum, GCPD HQ with Comm. Gordon and a working Batsignal. Yeah, give me Batman. 2)A 'Lord of (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Christian Treczoks
     (...) Return to the original colours, fist and foremost. How about theme- or colour-oriented bulk packs or buckets? Colour-oriented boxes like "Nature": green and brown parts, "Earth", with tan and greys, "Autumn", with reddish and yellowish tones. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)  
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Ka-On Lee
     (...) (URL) classic theme (Space, City etc) based buckets would be nice. (...) Gambling toy - i.e. Bionicle collectables. Yeah I know they are very common in the industry, and creates trade circles among kids. But you know we keep kids from casinos (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Gerhard R. Istok
     (...) A Greco-Roman theme. If anything, the old 1998 Erik Wilson Acropolis contest should be an inspiration for TLG: (URL) that TLG would need is to come up with a few column capitals (Doric Ionic and Corinthian), perhaps a 2x2x11 base + column (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX) !! 
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Steve Demlow
     Oops, forgot one: (...) Make rubber tires non-greasy. Or failing that, package them separately from other elements so there aren't oil smudges on everything. Steve (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Donald Alcorn
     YES! As an avid cyclist, I would love to see a bike race theme! Road race AND cyclocross! (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Douglas R. Clark
     (...) We are still waiting on a classic space legend set (preferably with the "old" grays; yes one more for the classic-gray vote). Personally I would love to see a "classic-space" bucket that contains pieces and instructions to build several of the (...) (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —William R. Ward
     (...) Wholesale S@H: This would be a very good way to promote LEGO trains. Unlike most toys, model trains are not sold through big box stores. Hobby and small toy shops have a notoriously difficult time with LEGO because LEGO's retail distribution (...) (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Mike Walsh
       "Bill Ward" <bill@wards.net> wrote in message news:InHMI1.147p@lugnet.com... (...) Unlike (...) small (...) retail (...) S@H (...) whatever (...) wholesale (...) allowing them (...) this, and (...) [ ... snipped ... ] This already exists, it is (...) (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —William R. Ward
      (...) I was unaware. But as you say, there are frustrations. My plan would make the entire S@H catalog available, and they could order it using the Web site and have it shipped exactly the way consumer S@H works, but they would get it at a discount (...) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Jonathan Wilson
     (...) IMO, what they need is a new RIS (call it 3.0 perhaps). It would include the current RCX brick plus the current sensors and electrics. It would include a set of elements built around the current technic selection (such as the various gears in (...) (19 years ago, 28-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H —Andreas Engel
   Hi What do you think LEGO would never do that you’d love to see? Please make ALL sets available in ALL countries. Trying to buy a set and finding out that it's not available in your country is very annoying. Please make some of the models available (...) (19 years ago, 1-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
 

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