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(...) (Regarding Richard's query as to whether LD is listening to this or that that Dave! snipped) Yes! They are listening already! We have established that, so stop asking! (...) Hmm, I don't know. I think people want their cake and eat it, too. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Hey, like, is anyone there? (was: When is Mac support coming for LEGO Mosaic?)
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(...) Jake, That was a legal matter. Telling LEGO Direct about it seems an indirect way to report it to TLC's Legal team in CT. Are they open to receiving such discoveries directly? If so, how? -Suz (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!!
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(...) They shouldn't think of it as "bothering" at all! 8^0 In previous threads people have said that, even if TLC should go belly-up, they would satisfy their Lego needs on the secondary market rather than buying clone brands. That's a heavy (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Are you Lego Direct people listening to this VERY telling comment? Bring back some old elements in bulk offerings and you can scoop up losses from the secondary market, and people can then buy more lego with monies budgeted for Lego that they (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Hey, like, is anyone there? (was: When is Mac support coming for LEGO Mosaic?)
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Jake McKee wrote in message ... (...) hoping (...) tell (...) So is this the place to report these findings? Rose (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Rose, I wanted to follow up with you about this. Sorry for delay, but I was hoping to be able to pass on more info. However, when you asked the question, I had immediately (within 2 hours) asked some people on our end about it. The answer came back (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: shop.lego.com bug report
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Thanks for spotting this bug, Eric. It's a Netscape quirk that can be avoided, and it should be fixed soon. For the curious, the quirk is that Netscape sometimes treats style tags like script tags -- they were implemented around the same time, so I (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) of (...) at (...) ignoring (...) I know that I found it frustrating that LD was not responding at ALL to any questions posted here or even fulfilling their own commitments for providing information. I was the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) And this community was made possible by Todd and Suzanne. I know I owe them a lot for enhancing the online experience of LEGO...much more than I owe TLC. I am glad that LUGNET is getting some press recognition and I would hope that TLC is (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Hey, like, is anyone there? (was: When is Mac support coming for LEGO Mosaic?)
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(...) I believe the suggestion was that, when someone posts a friendly question about, for example, brown bricks... (URL) if there was some reason LD knew the answer but couldn't say, it would be nice to dignify the question with some answer (rather (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Mac Mosaic (Was: Re: Hey, like, is anyone there?)
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(...) After reading the above paragraph, I have the following questions: What level of Java is Mosaic written in (1 or 2)? Is Mosaic coded entirely in Java, or Java + "extras"? What version of MRJ (MacOS JVM) was Mosaic tested with? (Apple recently (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Hey, like, is anyone there? (was: When is Mac support coming for LEGO Mosaic?)
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Jake, Thanks for the detailed response. Posts that long take a long time to write, and I can understand why those kinds of posts do not come often. I think most of the ill will could be avoided by simply saying, "Oh, yeah, those menus are really (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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No problem. Happy to help. Now back to that dragon! jake (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Thanks for the post, Jake. It's good to have a status report! :^) ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Hey, like, is anyone there? (was: When is Mac support coming for LEGO Mosaic?)
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(...) Greetings All! This is your friendly neighboorhood LEGO producer/AFOL again. My apologies for taking so long to put this response together. I wanted to make sure I can get as much detail as possible, to avoid any misunderstandings, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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| | Re: Whither LEGO Steam Trains? (was Re: QT Movie of 4565)
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John Neal wrote in message <3A832BFD.F599C578@u...st.net>... (...) Yea, I'm just one of those people that likes to ogle over a set in person. Rose (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Thanks for looking atthis, Cary. I'm getting: <!-- Start topnav --> <style type="text/css" src="/styles/navigat..."></style> /Eric/ (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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This is not a JavaScript effort per se. The cascading style sheet specification is being interpreted as if it were a script instead. This is wierd. It is as if the Solaris is getting served this: <script type="text/css" (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Whither LEGO Steam Trains? (was Re: QT Movie of 4565)
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(...) You are correct about the cross appeal of trains, which is one reason why LD is interested in them. (...) One point of fact-- remember, LD is about *direct* marketing to consumers, bypassing the retail channel (I assume that is what you mean (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Whither LEGO Steam Trains? (was Re: QT Movie of 4565)
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"Jason J. Railton" <j.j.railton@cwcom.net> wrote in message news:G8G99D.BtE@lugnet.com... (...) Well, I'll do what I can, I've done lobbying for trains before, but I don't know what I can do beyond the scope of what was discussed at the Train (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Whither LEGO Steam Trains? (was Re: QT Movie of 4565)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) Can I ask if something was discussed? I have been thinking about the studios line. Every store is selling the accessory sets, which I think are rather limiting in appeal if you don't have the main set. Why (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hi, When I go to shop.lego.com and click on my country's flag (USA), I get a javascript error, and I cannot get past the flag page. When I look at the javascript console, I see this: JavaScript Error: (URL) line 3: invalid label. FONT-SIZE: 10px; (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | About Lego do Brasil
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Hi, I was told that the brazilian LEGO Company is about to close. I would like to receive more information about this and how is brazilian LEGO market will be? Will distributors be assigned? Or are we going to need to import LEGO for ourselves? Best (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Whither LEGO Steam Trains? (was Re: QT Movie of 4565)
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(...) One thing I would take as giving some hope to getting a new type of train driver is that TLC has created special parts which have so far only showed up in a single set, and not even a high volume set. I suspect that if TLC gets a good feeling (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Whither LEGO Steam Trains? (was Re: QT Movie of 4565)
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(...) Hey, don't get us wrong-- we shot for the moon! But Rome wasn't built in a day, and everything we wanted won't be produced tomorrow, and maybe never. But the Romans are breaking ground;-) LTCs and LTDs (LEGO Train Dudes) caught the interest (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Whither LEGO Steam Trains? (was Re: QT Movie of 4565)
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(...) I'm under NDA so can't discuss exactly what was said about what we want. But what do you think? You wouldn't expect that we would have asked for things way different that what we asked for publicly in this group and elsewhere, would you? If (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Whither LEGO Steam Trains? (was Re: QT Movie of 4565)
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(...) Gosh, thanks. I wasn't sure whether I could expect that sort of lobbying to be taken seriously! And I've clearly not been into trains for long enough or I would have remembered to mention _matching_brown_doors_. :) I'm a bit disappointed with (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
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(...) In what ways was this helpful? -Jon (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hmm...well, I'm not a train guy really, I don't know if the Train Summit mentioned those or not. I'll try to print this out though and take it. I don't even know what I want for my top bulk items yet....got a lot of thinking to do between now (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Guess who paid for those eToy Lego bargains?
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(...) Well, of course, that's just in *one* building. I'm working on an entire cityscape...;-) I look forward to the completed church! -John (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes, but over a few years, a child can accumulate a substantial amount of bricks to use. And by the time they have a large supply of lego, they most likely will have a job or other source of income to use towards the purchase of Lego. I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hey, was there not a company around that USED to be called eToys? oh ya they went out of business...(Ok on the way out of business) Great role model there Mr. Sunshine :^( (...) I don't see myself buying the common bricks in common colors from (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think a tie is a very stylish statement. :D (...) Uh, yeah, apologies- I didn't think to credit Gary, who sent me that picture some time ago. Sorry! I just wanted to make a point. eric (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Guess who paid for those eToy Lego bargains?
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(...) Relax, this picture is from 1963. They are from the Architectural Series parts packs from 1963-65 (#518, 519, 520, 521), a short lived, but not very successful series. In fact I took this very picture, and it got passed around. :-) Gary Istok (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) <snip> (...) would wear ties while building! ;-) -John (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Guess who paid for those eToy Lego bargains?
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(...) Well, at one time they certainly thought adults were worth marketing to: (URL) that in the top two pictures, adult-type people are building adult-type things with the bricks- and no children are in sight. Then again, the contents of these (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
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(...) And thanks to TLC and specifically Lego Direct for taking this step. I've been a part of such endeavors to overcome inertia in an organisation before, and it is not easy to do. In fact, the easiest thing to do is get lost in the here and now (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Guess who paid for those eToy Lego bargains?
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(...) lol Make no mistake: model railroading is by *no* means a child's hobby! Can you even *have* a "child's hobby"? Children play with toys. When adults play with toys, it's a hobby;-) We as AFOLS have commandeered LEGO as a hobby for ourselves. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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