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(...) This is a bad idea. If you don't stay close enough to the original, AFOL's will not like the set. If you don't Juniorize some of these sets enough, it won't be cheap enough to sell to kids (with parents who aren't AFOL's) at your local TRU. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hurrah - I totally agree if one piece should be brought back this is it. unfortunately what people seem to have forgotten is that the visors on the knights in the yellow castle have probably also gone and they are kinda integral to the feel of the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) John and I were both there and heard Brad say the same thing (unless John knows something I don't, which may well be true) but apparently we have different interpretations. I took Brad's comment about "no new molds" to mean that it was part of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) From my little corner one of two things can make a legend: 1) The original 'model' was creative, imaginative and showed off what you can do with the parts included (Guraded Inn, Redbeard Runner) 2) The original set contained enough variety and (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) The scans on brickshelf are a useful reference and i have found them very useful, but you can't, for example lie in bed and read them and dream (bout all i do when it comes to lego!) <snip> (...) To download and print out costs time and money (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yeah, I don't think of that one as a big loss in the age of cable, unless you were going for that 1950s-1970s look in a town MOC or something. (...) Actually, the crater plate probably exists. See this 1996 set in the database: (URL) No old (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'd guess that compromises would include: No old style TV antenna on the top of the mini-base. This I could live without. I always thought it looked kind-of silly anyway. Just replace it with a straight antenna (use one like the two on top of (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(This post is in reference to (URL) someone could cross-post this message there, I would appreciate it!) To our Australian customers, A question has arisen regarding a credit statement a few of you may have received after your order had actually (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) A legend is a model that is unique in design (for the time period) and beggs to be expanded, have a space port, castle village or town built around it. It is one that starts a whole line of story and truly expresses originality. If the spirit (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) <and later> (...) That's been my reading of the subject. LD has to go to the feeding trough as an intruding tendril of the company, rather than as its lifeblood--in a sense, it's a shoot off of the main vine that continues to get stronger, but (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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