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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:FxF8AJ.HMo@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) be (...) yet (...) Where did this number come from? While I suspect the WAMALUG members are buying lots of stuff from the Outlet I find it (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I heard that from a few WAMALUG members when I was at Brickfest. The manager of the outlet store (WAMALUG member, I believe) reports WAMALUG sales figures separate from general sales figures to her boss at TLC. Kinda nice, that way TLC is more (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I still have the receipt from one order I made when I was about ten years old. :) several trees & flowers service packs, some crater baseplates and space landing baseplates, and other good stuff :) (26 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) When I was a child in the 80s, I would buy from S@H Canada. I would think long and hard about what I wanted. I would stare at the last pages in the in-set catalogue. Then I would figure out what I could afford with my limited budget. I would (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well, I used S@H from Israel and forced my uncle to ship the sets to me... (I think the first time I did that was at 13). -Shiri (26 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I had severl orders, from 8 years old until I was 18. If you count over 18, well, it is a lot of counting! : ) Scott S. -- (26 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I disagree. Consider the example of mold tooling that was built to the same form factor for the same machine. To change from one to the other requires merely a substitution of the tooling and a change in settings for amount of plastic to (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow! Where did you hear that number? I wonder how much of that is me? ++Lar (26 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) factor for (...) to (...) That may be, but when I worked in the plastic part plant, and I changed material and colors numerous times when I was a Utility, a color change merely required a dumping of the material from the hopper, blowing it out (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Maybe. I dunno. I guess I would ask not how much *labor* was involved, but rather, how much time transpired while the machine was out of production. In your description, for example, the bull time to bring the new mold from storage has no (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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