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(...) While they almost certainly have CAD/CAM files for newer parts, there are almost certainly some older parts which they don't have CAD/CAM files for. I'd strongly suspect there are parts we WON'T see because they no longer have a useable mold. (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I don' t know Ed, I think that the market is full of Red, Blue, Yellow and even Black. But I'd love to be able to order bulk Grey, Dark Grey and Tan bricks...maybe even Brown and Clear. Those would be great for building some nice downtown type (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Oh, I think I could find a use for 1000 tiles... Look at Sanjay D'Souza's Millenium City for some ideas... (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'll wait to see the price of 2*4 bricks from LD, before I think about any specials. Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Inn, (...) will (...) far (...) I hate to rain on anyone's parade but I don't see this happening except in the case of the Yellow Castle. Why not? All the other sets require PRINTED elements which would greatly increase the manufacturing costs (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) How about voting on all parts which are not commonly available that are required to build highly sought after classic sets like the 6067 Guarded Inn, 375 yellow castle, Galaxy Explorer or the Metroliner. We have the instructions so we know (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] (...) Brad this is very good news. However, I must state my pessimism of LEGO Directs success if the choice for initial elements is bricks. Bricks are very easily obtained in basic buckets. The current market is saturated (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Firstly, Having been punished by the rating system I apologise for the waste of space and hope this post helps clarify the points I (and others) wished to make in order to help you (The LEGO company) offer me (a customer) better services and (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Oh yeah! I'll buy that for a dollar. Cypress trees would definitely be near the top of my list. Although, I don't think I could ever use a thousand. Tiles! They would definitely be near the top of the list too. Oh my, I could get carried away (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) OK, this has changed. Posting privileges to lugnet.lego.announce are now disabled by default. (...) Still true, but now managed by the server, in case someone forgets or ignores the charter. --Todd (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yikes -- well, that sure didn't take very long, did it... (URL) it'll need to have a filter on it which only lets certain pre-approved (...) OK, this filter is now in effect. 6 people (3 from LEGO, plus Suzanne, me, and Chet Corbin) currently (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Thanks Brad, I dint hear it yet from my Dutch / European contact but I trust Ill hear it after all. Greetings and keep building Nico Hoogerbrug Secretary of De Bouwsteen Netherlands (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Thanks Brad, I dint hear it yet from my Dutch / European contact but I trust Ill hear it after all. Greetings and keep building Nico Hoogerbrug Secretary of De Bouwsteen Netherlands (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Thanks Brad, I dint hear it yet from my Dutch / European contact but I trust Ill hear it after all. Greetings and keep building Nico Hoogerbrug Secretary of De Bouwsteen (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) than will come in LCII Knights kingdom), classic town parts, pirate parts, train parts etc etc etc. Also the interface in lego creator is crap and you cant export to any usefull format (for rendering for example). (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) What will be the availability, if any, of getting some of these elements with specific printed images on them (e.g. various minifig parts, slopes, bricks, and tiles)? It seems to me (but I'm no expert) that there should only be a small (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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(...) Yeah, probably. I don't see why they'd have a problem with that -- it redistributes the small-orders workload to the purchasers. (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) There is one. (URL) link uses lugnet's referral code, btw.) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) This gives me an idea: An official lego modelling program. If they do have cad images of the elements they can somehow process those to reduce the precision on the decimal places (to make them easier to work with and to also make them usless (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) One thing that will probobly happen is that you will get several people, who all want 20 casle helments of one type, and get the whole lot putting in an order for 100 or so then distributing them. (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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