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I'd like to add a couple thoughts that occurred to me which make me somewhat unsure where I fall on the spectrum of thought here, though I think I hie closer to where David is. Firstly, as an AFOL who has never lived anywhere near a convention, it's (...) (12 years ago, 6-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, for that LDraw.org has always been a niche - even here at LUGNET. Eventually we had to leave last year to get some fresh blood. The barrier to get posting privileges here had become so increasingly hight that ultimately there remained (...) (12 years ago, 5-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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I *never* visit Lugnet any more, but thought I'd pop in, and here you guys are! It's very interesting - over on the SeaLUG email list, we've been having a big discussion about all these changes, and the nature of LEGO fan-dom, fan cons, and whatnot. (...) (12 years ago, 6-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You old timer!! Dave K (12 years ago, 5-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Love the gungan ship! I'll be watching as the days unfolds! Nicely done! Dave K (12 years ago, 5-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote: <snip> (...) What? strong characters here on LUGNET?? :) I think if we post more, others will post more... I don't think it'll ever reach what it was. but I also think this is still the best place for (...) (12 years ago, 5-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey you kids!!!! GET OFFA MY LAWN! (ok, only kidding) (12 years ago, 5-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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How tall can a LEGO tower get? By Ruth Alexander BBC News Dec. 3, 2012 It's not just children who like to build towers with LEGO - the internet is alive with discussion on how many LEGO bricks, stacked one on top of the other, it would take to (...) (12 years ago, 4-Dec-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Dave, I agree on your thoughts.... Only some weeks ago I have been reminded, that becoming a LUGNET member ment paying a (small) lifetime membership fee (really had fogotten that fact completely). This has been definitely one reason why we (...) (12 years ago, 29-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually, that's a good way of looking at it. LUGs are successful. All the LUGs I know are doing their thing and (most of) they are having an awesome time doing so! So there's that. (...) Same! (...) I still can't think of any better SINGLE (...) (12 years ago, 28-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> <snip> <snip> <snip> <snip> and <snip> (...) Hi Dave, just wanted to report back, that I enjoyed this very unemotional look on Lego and the fan-ship-being (at least you tried to keep emotions out). So Lego wants to cut down costs. One (...) (12 years ago, 27-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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This guy.... (URL) it's Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen owner of LEGO! ;-) He was at Fanwelt 2012, the Cologne LEGO Show in Germany this weekend, and this picture was taken by my good German LEGO friend Sven Köppchen. Sven and a group of European AFOLs put (...) (12 years ago, 25-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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TLG has been advertising in magazines for over 50 years. Chapter 68 of my LEGO DVD/download has many advertisements that I've gotten from many LEGO AFOLs from around the world. Some are simple designs... others are works of art. In 1959 TLG got an (...) (12 years ago, 20-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Chris in that scene of The Tudors Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) was pole vaulting over a swampy area... and the pole snapped and he got stuck underwater in the mud. They must have "pulverized" the Weetabix to give the appearance that Henry (...) (12 years ago, 20-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You're right, it does! I have no idea of what that was about. The comment was about it being "too biscuitty". Maybe they had just smushed them up a lot. I will admit to doing that occasionally. -Chris Gray (12 years ago, 19-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Chris... like most American's, I've never had Weetabix before... I've based my entire knowledge about it on Showtime's THE TUDORS miniseries BLOOPERS clip... (starting at 3:13 in this clip).... (URL) looked like Chocolate Cream of Wheat... but (...) (12 years ago, 18-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm allowed to be off-topic, right? :-) WEETABIX is nothing like "Cream of Wheat". I don't know about the US, but for a while WEETABIX was sold in Canada as well. Think of small bran flakes moulded into an oval form, about 3/4 inch thick and 4 (...) (12 years ago, 18-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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TLG has been making LEGO Promotional Sets for other coumpanies ever since 1955, when the first Danish Esso Service Stations were giving out LEGO Esso vehicles. One of the most famous and interesting promotional LEGO sets was the 1592 Town Square set (...) (12 years ago, 18-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You missed it! It was pretty cool but it had to be turned off... I think someone complained. Then there was a study group formed but they couldn't agree what to study or how to talk so it all fizzled. (12 years ago, 18-Nov-12, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) Some pictures and a video of the waving Santa (URL) (12 years ago, 17-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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