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Re: And the July Surprise is...
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Date: 
Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:59:06 GMT
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Nah, that doesn't make sense.  What WOULD make sense is ONE corner wall and 2-4
straight walls.  Otherwise, you'd only be building skinny towers over time, to use
up all the excess corners.

Dave Low wrote:

In lugnet.lego.direct, Tom Stangl writes:
Heck, the set really doesn't impress me much.  I DO like the Tudor walls, and
would love to be able to buy the straight and corner ones separately in bulk,
so I could build decent-sized buildings.

Great idea -- why not leverage the production costs for the wall pieces by
producing a US$5 "Inn Expansion Set": 2 tudor straight walls, 2 Tudor corner
walls, and some black slopes and bricks?

--DaveL

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  Re: And the July Surprise is...
 
(...) My bad. Just walls, or bricks too? Maybe something like <set:3732> in red and black? Or a whole new set, a medieval townhouse maybe... --DaveL (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.theory)
  Re: And the July Surprise is...
 
(...) IMHO.. Any time you put more than one kind of part into a pack, you run into the problem of how many of each to put in. This is true EVEN when the parts are "paired" like hinge tops and bottoms. So this is a real challenge. No possible (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.theory)

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  Re: And the July Surprise is...
 
(...) Great idea -- why not leverage the production costs for the wall pieces by producing a US$5 "Inn Expansion Set": 2 tudor straight walls, 2 Tudor corner walls, and some black slopes and bricks? --DaveL (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.theory)

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