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Have a chat with Quentin Wilson. He got things moving for the UK car-prices rip-off. Organise LEGO shopping trips to the continent (or Ireland, slightly cheaper than Holland, which is similar to Germany. Don't know about other countries). ;-) Duq (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: What Kids really want. Not Juniorization.
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Lou's original post, on the current state of Lego, made me pretty sad. I'm now 28, so I grew up as a kid playing with sets from ~1978-1990, a truly wonderful time for Lego. Thankfully, I saved everything I had and they are now part of my collection. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Second Batch has arrived - ripping fans off again?
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About time, an update (...) has (...) for (...) Ok, how will you advert the new FAQ to non-Lug's? (...) Right so only 1 infected mask which is Hau. Now i can update the list again (...) see (...) mmmm, i wonder - collect tokens on ceral pack's or (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: Second Batch has arrived - ripping fans off again?
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(...) Hi Tomas (Team LEGO Direct)! (...) Yes, it certainly is time!!! And I am more than happy to see that you are working on an "official" list for serious collectors. I do understand that it's not possible to give out information about upcoming (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Bionicle correction and more info
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Christian (and Michael and everyone else), Sorry, I should have been more clear on one issue -- Christian is right that not all of the masks were included in the first release of the mask packs. So it's inaccurate to say that "all 73 masks had an (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Okay, good to hear you officially admit your "mistakes" now, although I still think two different batches are a marketing strategy, rather than a true misprint (which sounds rather impossible having in mind how much hope and efforts TLC has (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | shop at home australia
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can someone at lego direct or lego shop at home or whoever knows this stuff please provide some details: 1.what is the estimated launch date 2.what currency will lego sah austrailia use ($A or $US)? and 3.what range will it carry, will it carry the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Tomas, How about also throwing in a link to the lugnet.technic.bionicle newsgroup, for all the collectors out there that don't yet know about LUGNET? (URL) think this would be another nice way for LEGO to demonstrate its support without (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Bionicle correction and more info
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(...) Tomas, Could you clarify what you mean by "That's the official word"? The reason I ask is, usually, when someone says something is "the official word," what they mean is that everyone on the inside has been told exactly what to say and what (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Bionicle correction and more info
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What I meant in that case is "that's what I have been told by a person in Denmark who knows what's going on with the 8530 Kanohi set." In other words, it's information from Denmark, not from my own brain -- which is currently located in New York and (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Bionicle correction and more info
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(...) I appreciate your taking the time to clarify. (...) Hey, anything's possible on the Internet, right? It would simply be a question of LEGO either wanting to do it and doing it, or not wanting to do it, and not doing it. Brad Justus told us in (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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FYI, a filter was installed today on the news server to accept lego.com postings (i.e., LEGO Company employees using their official email address) in the following groups only: lugnet.lego lugnet.lego.announce lugnet.lego.direct (essentially the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | wow, THIS is funny.......
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(...) Lego screwed it up and gave us REALLY rare mask misprints... :-)))) Kanohi Ruru and Kanohi Matatu in Toa colours, Kanohi Kaukau in tryellow and trlightblue....... I am slightly amused by the fact that Lego created REAL collector items by (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Bionicle correction and more info
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I saw a mention of a trading-card game. Any news or more information? -gyug (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Still time to enter the LEGO Train Contest
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Attention LEGO Train Fans! It’s not too late to enter the LEGO Shop At Home Train Car Building Contest! You could win the grand prize of building instructions of your original model created and published on www.LEGO.com for everyone to see, plus (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I for one would be interested to hear the details on this... neither Tomas or I are really sure what happened to cause this change. (...) This is extremely awkward. When I first came to LEGO, I actually asked Todd about getting a secondary (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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Jake McKee <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:GA91n9.735@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) This concerns me too, I'd appreciate knowing reasons for this change. I can understand confusing a lego.com address with an official post, and (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Still time to enter the LEGO Train Contest
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(...) For all those interested, PLEASE DO. <snip> Hi Jake. Thanks for bringing this up. Please don't consider this post an attempt to rain on TLC's parade because I'm not writing to that end. I'm not beating up on you either. In fact, I'm glad you (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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(...) And a ROYAL pain in the rear - are we all to wade through the posts under the lugnet.lego to find the one post we are looking for? If they are talking about trains, masks, or whatever - then they should be able to post in that thread just like (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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(...) Maybe, as Frank Filz said elsewhere in this thread, it would be a good idea to keep the chatter in the lugnet.lego.* groups down. (...) It's not a matter of personal vs official posts, really. It's a matter of where LEGO is invited to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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(...) If this policy is to continue, let me make another suggestion to help with this: there's always lugnet.lego.announce - encourage LEGO employees to post there. Todd, I think it was probably a bad idea to institute this policy without discussing (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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(...) Is it really a good thing if someone at TLC happens to have TLC records which allow them to answer one of the "Dear Gary" posts, and they are allowed to share that information, to not allow them to directly respond to the original question? (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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(...) (Hey, I'm a technologist so I often propose technical solutions to social problems) How about a way from the web interface for members to have one of several precomposed sigs to choose from? That way when I am posting to make an official Guild (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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(...) They can answer the question. They just can't answer it in a fan forum. Which *is* a good thing, because when you see it there will be no doubt that it is 100% Official LEGO position. (...) No, I am saying that I would prefer to see fans only (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) This HAS to be an oversight on Todd's part. I can't imagine he did that on purpose. So I wouldn't worry about it unless it stays that way. But it seems clear to me that Todd acted in haste for some reason, it's not like him to overlook a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Would that really happen? if this was the only place for them to answer questions, the mass amount of posts in this thread would be staggering. Plus, if they do answer a question there would be some follow-up in the direct thread - there would (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Yes indeed. Of course it doesn't work 100% reliably (1), leaves no trace, and provides no opportunity for anyone else to comment, offer workarounds, etc. where that would be a helpful thing to do. Seriously... this blocking of posts to .admin (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) "That Larry guy, he just keeps trying to give money, I wish he'd go away." ;^) I've noticed the lost mail thing too, and the response rate. I remember he once said that he prioritized messages and replied to those, and still some got lost (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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(...) Only help for the web interface, though. What if they wanna post using e-mail or nntp? (...) ROSCO (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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(...) xpost to lego.direct, so employees can reply. Eric - I have mixed feelings about your statement, and I'm sure there are people on both extremes. I think its great that LEGO is posting their stuff here, afterall, we're a consumer market too. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Note that I think this allows you to "change" an address but does not give you an easy way, from one browser, to create two posting identities (which both link to the same real human being, and which both clearly show a way to contact that (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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(...) So you are saying the train people would not be interested in this post? It is about trains so, according to the TOS, it belongs in the trains group. I do not see how it is purley marketing - they are not trying to sell us anything, it is a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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(...) Well, I don't think LEGO can step on toes easily by posting here, but there are other ways they can. That's another facet of the relationship, one that I've discussed briefly with Direct too. They have a good attitude, and part of what they (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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(...) First, yes train folks would be interested. Just as they would be interested if someone had a MetroLiner for sale, that doesn't mean the post should be in .trains . Second, it is purley marketing, the contest is free to join but don't think (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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(...) I have to ask, so what? We want to buy their product, and as long as the groups aren't saturated with marketing (which they aren't), I see no problem. (...) Again...your point is? I don't care if LEGO is about making money, in fact, I want (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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(...) What may have confused people is if they were looking to some existing problem that this is supposed to be solving. It's actually not about solving a problem. It's about avoiding dilution of what the community is. LUGNET discussion groups were (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp) !!
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| | an idea for lego: A set design contest
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Here is basicly how it would work. Lego would: 1.set constraints on the design (size, number of pieces, theme etc) and 2.would provide a list of "approved" pieces that can be used in the design (which would be a "cut down" version of the master list (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | why are the TLC/LD contests US only?
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Can someone please explain why only people from the US can enter contest run by TLC/LD? I would imagine that if TLC/:LD could allow anyone to enter they would so why cant they? Does it have something to do with the laws that govern how these sorts (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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(...) I think Todd explained things pretty well here: (URL) if you want my *personal* reasons to know what "my point" was I will tell you. 1. Time = Money The time I have to dedicate to reading LUGNET is somewhat limited. I am not interested in what (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: The Relationship - LEGO and its Fans (was: Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
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(...) No one said that they cluttered up threads. They do have the ability to clutter up newsgroups, however: (URL) posts to lugnet.general and lugnet.dear-lego. I'd rather not have to wade through these kinds of posts to see MOCs, etc. eric (26 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.lego.direct)
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