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Re: Dark Ages story
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:12:35 GMT
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mibm@image.!spamcake!dkREMOVEUPPERCASE
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sinclair@cadvision.com (Ian Sinclair) wrote:
> The word BURP... does it stand for anything specific? or just the
> AFOL word for such pieces?
Big Ugly Rock Piece. I seem to recall it was the descriptive of the
ancient crater plates. Nowadays I find I'm not so... oh.. Now these
days it is used for anything that could be made with 4 or more
ordinary pieces.
> This trend reminds me of chocolate bars. One year they get smaller,
> the next they increase in price; repeatedly. LEGO just follows a
> slightly different strategy.
Use creativity instead of Chocolate bars.....
> LEGO obviously knows this themselves. Therefore, I'll assume the main
> reason for including BURP's is cost reduction.
But offering a big load of smaller pieces in a bucket OUGHT to be
possible, afterall if it isn't a set I could handle getting 11 of x
and 9 of y. In an odd bucket.
I just want the buckets, I dont care about the models much, I really
wish there were these bigger 1000 assorted town/ basic/ technic pieces
to buy for the end consumer.
Reasonable amounts of parents do not buy the same set repeatedly to
get some pieces.
The LEGO candystore: I'd like a $2 mix of the top two rows and $5 of
the 3 bottom rows. And Lord knows I would buy that instead of all that
candy. Just finished a chocolate bar. I am getting phatter and phatter
all the time.
-breiler who expect to remain the same size for rest of 1999 after he
buys the mindstorms and droid kits......
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| Mikkel Breiler: (...) It is the large (appr. 5x10x7) rectangular and triangular hollow boulder halves. (...) No. (...) No, no, no. That's a POOP: "Part (that can be built) Of Other Parts" Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The word BURP... does it stand for anything specific? or just the AFOL word for such pieces? Has LEGO officially said why they have chosen to use such pieces in more and more sets? I have two thoughts.. I would suspect that such pieces are (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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