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Last week I ordered from the LEGO S@H site to the Netherlands and received the items mere days later: I was stunned by the speed of this first trial. Now I read about the new S@H train windows&doors and hurried to order a load of them. But now the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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I don't know if you have a similar belief but here, it's believed that if you wish something while you are in-between two people with the same name, you will have your wish..:-) Hehe... Thanks to the both Eric's..:-) Selçuk (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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(...) As a man who is producing parts from copper tube, copper green is not a bad name at all. Corroded copper is green..:-) Selçuk (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 1x in Bulk Please
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(...) Lets do a little selective reduction: The following are not _AS_ needed Blue Red Black White Green Yellow 1x1,1x2,1x3,1x4,1x8,...x3,2x4,2x6 Because they are available in the 3033 buckets. We would be better served for bricks like that in true (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: special kits Kxxxx now online available <- Not to the rest of the world they're not!
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Thanks for that piece of information Christian. I haven't seen the S@H catalogue so I'm working solely on the contents of the website. Nicholas Christian Gemuenden <GECH1@t-online.de> wrote in message news:G2uonz.4o2@lugnet.com... (...) soon (...) (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Dear LEGO, I would greatly appreciate it if you could consider providing Technic Beams of all available lengths in normal colors in bulk. Even modernist architects are sometimes budding gearheads! Thank you for your consideration. Build On! John (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Dear LEGO, At the very least, 1x2's in white would be extremely appropriate for us modernist architects who are also fans of your fine product. Build On! John Matthews John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 1x in Bulk Please
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(...) right, I might add that Lego should offer those brown boxes to Eric, not the x100 packs, he would go too fast through these (remember Mike Poindexter went through 713 of the 3033 1200 pieces boxes to this day, according to (URL) ) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | 1x in Bulk Please
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Many people have chimed in that they are wishing for 1x bricks in bulk. I am starting a new thread because I had been wishing for 1x orange bricks in bulk and now you have given us the halloween packet. While I am greatly pleased that orange is (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | please make better technic spares available
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Either through better service packs or through "bulk" (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Can we have 1x3 bricks in bulk please?
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(...) Count me in on the 1x3 bricks and plates! I believe I'm always looking for a 1x3 something. (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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The instructions are online. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: special kits Kxxxx now online available <- Not to the rest of the world they're not!
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Hey Nicholas, stay patient! The kits are not available from Germany either, but they are already in the printed version of the S@H catalogue, so I guess it will soon be available online for other countries as well. Bye, Christian --- xTI@N. LUGNet (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Can we have 1x3 bricks in bulk please?
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(...) I'll say "me too". While we are at it, I would add 1Xx bricks in tan (apart from the 2X1), dark gray and orange. Also, how about a "Town Expander Kit" with vehicle doors, mudguards, small wheels and roofs? That way we can "de-juniorize" the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: special kits Kxxxx now online available <- Not to the rest of the world they're not!
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Surprise, surprise! If you input any of these set numbers in to Lego S@H UK you get a picture of the product and a description, but are told it is unavailable in the UK. C'mon Lego, play fair and stop ignoring the rest of the world. I would love to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Can we have 1x3 bricks in bulk please?
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(...) They would be nice but what I desire most is plates in more sizes and colors. I can get by without the 1x3s till the range expands a lot. But then, I bought a lot of the 1200 piece tubs. ++Lar (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) And all the other colors just for luck. I need tan 1x3s. Plates and bricks. At least they're in current sets. While we're at it, the brown 1x4 brick is still a mythological creature. Never been seen in captivity. Speaking of brown, brown roof (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Me too. I buy 1x3s at auction. In fact, I'd like 1x3 plates too. I want plates and bricks in pink, black, white, brown, grey, dark grey, and clear. Chris (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Brad, I doubt I'm the only person who would like to be able to buy 1x3 (and 2x3) bricks in bulk. At least in the standard colors, I'd be much more likely to get these than the sizes that lego bulk offers at the moment (other than the 2x8's), since (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Ideas! (Was Re: S@H bulk pages are too slow)
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(...) about (...) pages (...) I want to be able to surf *.lego.com with lynx... That means, no javascript (cookies are fine) and uh, forget about pictures. Raph (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Ideas! (Was Re: S@H bulk pages are too slow)
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I was not complaining about the main page at the Shop at Home page. I was complaining specifically about the bulk LEGO page. The front page, (URL) , loads quickly. Loading the US Shop at Home page, (URL) , takes about a minute and a half to load (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) ok. maybe. now try to use lynx under Linux : lynx (URL) Incorrect Access Permission [ERROR.GIF] No cookie. To access this site your browser must be accepting cookies. ------ very useful... (yeah, that would be a good way to get rig of the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Just a quick note that my order arrived. The pumpkin is packed in the low cost clear cello bagging with adhesive label that we have come to expect for bulk. It doesn't come with any included instructions (unless I missed them) which is fine (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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Erik Olson <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:G2st8L.HGF@lugnet.com... (...) metals, (...) primary (...) done by (...) Oh well, I guess unless some pigeons want to contribute a lot of it, the statue won't be getting that kind of tint again. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Free legos at www.labvantage.com
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(...) Tough to qualify for, though, looks like. Someone ought to point TLC legal eagles at this site, they're using "LEGO'S" like it's a proper usage and I dunno what those weird bricks in the image are but they ain't The Brick. (lawyers are like (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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(...) Thanks for retrieving those details from the mint! If you want to see bronze in green, blue, black, brown, even blue, red and other wacky colors, take a look at some ancient coins. Surf ebay -- they have a burgeoning ancient coin section that (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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(...) Verdigris here too. It's actually a common term at the moment because it's very "in" in home decorating and has been for several years. We just need to put it in the FAQ as another term which people may not know - after all, there are plenty (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: [Fwd: Re: Train Windows and Doors]
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(...) Agreed, I am rather amazed and pleased... I normally don't Me Too posts but this one wasn't posted where Brad was likely to see it so I FUT lugnet.lego.direct. Maybe the Train people got (some of) what we wanted because we asked nicely and (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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(...) Time for me to weigh-in on this one. I remember seeing a show about the building of the Statue Of Liberty and they did know about the copper turning green and they specifically designed it using copper so it would turn green. They mainly chose (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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(...) Why not? Copper was used architecturally much earlier than that late 19th century. I'm sure *someone* noticed that the stuff turned green over time. :) As far as who sculpted it, it was Frederic Bartholdi (a French sculptor) who supposedly (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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John Matthews <jmatthew@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message news:G2rGM7.JD7@lugnet.com... (...) understood (...) properties (...) How do you come to this conclusion? I'm not sure of the background of the designer, but I'm fairly certain that when (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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I know I am looking forward to the Liberty set more than any other expensive set I want. After the main model, it will be to work out some other copper or bronze monuments. And the roofs... Also "swimming pool color" places. (...) Modern times are (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Bring back HTML ver 1.0! :) Build On! John Matthews Christopher Masi <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:39F08218.EEDF5E...ane.edu... (...) transparent (...) (maybe (...) (Mac (...) scrolling was (...) 4.72. (...) shopping. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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I am certain that the original designer of the Statue of Liberty understood that as copper ages it gains a patina. The patina actually helps to preserve the metal, and the color is quite remarkable. These are properties of copper that make it a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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Well according to the latest catalog, Lego is calling them new GREEN BRICKS. Rose Gary Istok wrote in message <39F057F0.406C3BAC@u...ch.edu>... (...) grey, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Ideas! (Was Re: S@H bulk pages are too slow)
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That's interesting. Using IE 5.5 on my DSL line from home, I have no complaints *at all* about the performance of (URL) said, I think they could take a couple of LARGE hints from well-done B2C e-commerce sites like Amazon, etc. and make the site (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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Does anyone think that this model of the statue coming out in the green color rather strange given that after it's restoration, the Statue of Liberty is now the color of new untarnished copper? I know it's rather strange, but if the original (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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Ah... sorry. I was replying to all of the messages in general and yours happened to be the one I replied to. I guess I forgot to delete the first line.. (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) snip... (...) I agree too. When web pages are designed to be fancy rather than functional, I try not to surf them. Thing is, lego.com doesn't look fancy. It just takes forever to look at, and the wait isn't worth it, IMO. Mark K. (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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I concur with John's description. As an architect myself, I would call it 'patina green' (depending of course on the real LEGO brick appearance). The Staute of liberty (according to architects and metalsmiths) is a pantina copper color (111 years (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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