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  Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
 
(...) So? If you "prize" these things for the reason I do, that you LOVE them, how could it be a bad thing to have them become available again? I value pitchforks pretty darn highly. I love the part and I wish I could have 10,000 of them. But it (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
 
(...) I wouldn't hold your breathe. They don't even support Windows2000. Bummer. And I REALLY wanted to get the MovieMaker set. Steve Martin martinsa@mail.com (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Wondering about creation rights (Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts)
 
(...) This amount is likely to be quite miniscule. Something on the order of less than $1 per copy of the set. (In the recording industry, artists usually get a dollar or two per album sold. And that is with the amount being written in a contract.) (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
 
(...) You mistake the idea of appreciation with patronage -- and those are NOT the same thing at all. Did Michaelangelo serve as patron to Leonardo? An overblown example, but you get the point... -- Richard (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
 
(...) You "prize" the wrong thing, in my view. You prize the collectability of the thing, or the elitism of owning the thing, and not the thing itself. That seems pretty whacky to me, considering we are talking about plastic toys! -- Richard (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)


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