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(...) Not much of an HP fan myself, I read the books, not for the hype, but simple due to the fact I needed a good read. They were okay, I would admit, but I think mister Chris Suellentrop went a little berserk bashing poor Harry. (ouch!) (...) I'm (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Be careful... my suspicious mind says this article is a setup, that Chris isn't being entirely serious, and that he might be trolling for passionate defenders for some deeper purpose. But that's just my cynical opinion. (I'm in the camp that (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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I enjoyed the Harry Potter books that I borrowed from my folks. I didn't think that they were as great as the hype. They were fun, but imminently forgettable. Kinda like a good comic book, entertaining with perhaps a moral or two, but nothing to (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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If you like Harry Potter, you'll probably find this article quite ludicrous...and if you have not yet read the series, this article contains a myriad of spoliers as well. (URL) you don't like it, post your opinions on slate's message discussion (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) great too. Good work. -Jason +---...---+ Jason Spears MichLUG - (URL) Page - (URL) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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I commented when I got my 4730 Chamber of Secrets set that the bathroom was pretty cheesy. I've finished my MOD on the room to include four sinks, stunning tiled floor, two stalls with designer toliets, a pipe filled crawl space under the stalls for (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.announce.moc)
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(...) Not only does it contain only one golden snitch, but the one it does contain comes carefully packaged in the "box" the capes come in (I was beginning to get upset when I opened my set and couldn't find the snitch anywhere-- I was going to call (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.harrypotter)
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Greetings all! Again, I'm announcing that a new poster is up on the website, this time, an addition from Jonathan Williams, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. You can see his work here: (URL) of the contest are here: (URL) have until November (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Does this set follow the standard practice of including an extra 1x1 round of each colour 1x1 used? (Or did they adjust their sorting machine for this instance?) Cheers Richie (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Hey Robert, Here's my website. It is a work in progress, but eventually I want to do the whole book. (URL) I do my Shelob, I was planning on doing something like Elin Overnas did here: (URL) Andrew Cunningham also has a great design here: (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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This set also has the 1x1 round plate in gold, definitely new and very cool! Dave (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Bruce Hietbrink writes: snip (...) I thought that Sheelob was the only use for it too, I would believe that lego even had that in mind, that is at least, they might have if they werent preoccupied with Harry Potter (though one (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) I'm in complete agreement here. (...) Here I disagree. Dobby's master (Lucius Malfoy) is a great fig. That torso would be great in any Town setting. Blond hair is stil rare enough to be exciting. And the face is interesting. Almost the same (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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The Costco in Pentagon City VA has the following: --#7163 Republic Gunship @ 69.99 ($20 off S@H price) --#4730 The Chamber of Secrets @ 57.94 ($12 off S@H price) Also (not into these so didn't get specifics) --Bionicle --Galidor (I think) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Our solution for all our extra Harry/Ron/Hermione heads/hairpieces is to pull and store them and replace them with other faces/hairpieces so we've been able to build up our Gryffindor house ranks creating Fred, George, Percy, Seamus, etc. I (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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Hi, The house is just a model of my own design. The front first floor is similar to the model in 4728, but I had to use a lot of extra pieces for the top floor and back. I ended up using all the DkGray 2x4 slopes I had for the roof. I think I will (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-02, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.town)
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(...) How many green corners? I saw only one in the picture. There used to be a cardinal Lego design rule that you get an even number of pieces like this, or matched sets like in car doors. It was that grey roof peak issue that triggered my (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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Kerry Raymond wrote in message ... (...) and (...) excited (...) I disagree, there are some *very* nice parts in this set. Light grey 2x2 roof peaks (previously extremely hard to get), tan 2x2 roof peaks (not available before AFAIK), green 2x2 roof (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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Having acquired and built the new Harry Potter sets, here's a brief review of them. For each one, I give the prices I paid about a week ago through local retailers with the S@H price shown for comparison. The price per piece (based on S@H prices) is (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) I like the rebuild you have done, based on the teaser. (...) Yo-da, Yo-da, Yo-da! One of the great sets for building buildings (lots of tan, brown, burnt orange and sand green) IMHO. Kerry (22 years ago, 20-Oct-02, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.town)
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