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Hey Y'all: Taking a tip from another Lugnut, I ask: How many cypress trees would you order if they came back as an accessory offering? At a price point of approx. $0.75 USD each, I would order 200 minimum. -- Hop-Frog (proliferating beyond my niche) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Given that price point, I would probably order 10 (because, at a guess, that's the volume they'd be available as). I doubt I would order more. James (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Just had to go check S@H's prices: 10 large spruce for $6.99 - .69 ea. 25 small Psruce for $7.99 - .32 ea. .75 ea. for cypress trees would be a steal! I'd order 10 bags of 10 trees for that price! Bring back the round fruit trees, too. I want to (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Not very many.... (...) Ya, that's about what I'd order at that price point. That is: "not very many". :-) Still I think it would be neat if they *were* available and I think it's cool that you're taking a survey to see if the numbers are (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Put me in for order about 4-5 bags of 10 trees each! (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) At least a 100. We need more trees that are taller than people. John #388 (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I would order a dozen trees-- $9.00 worth. Enough to make a small tree lined boulevard, and if I liked the look I'd order a bunch more. BTW I wouldn't place a separate for order these but would wait and append them to my next (larger) S@H (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I would order a dozen trees-- $9.00 worth. Enough to make a small tree lined boulevard, and if I liked the look I'd order a bunch more. BTW I wouldn't place a separate for order these but would wait and append them to my next (larger) S@H (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Probably 1-200 if they were about $.75/ea. I'd LOVE it if they were even cheaper, though ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) 200 Cypress Trees would be about right for me, too. AND, if a new, larger size Cypress Tree were introduced, I would take 200 of those, also. PLUS, if a new trimmed hedge-stye shrub or bush were introduced, I would take 500 of them. __Kevin (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'd go for 50 or so. Dan M. (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That is my absolute favorite tree. We need taller trees. I would order at least 50 or maybe even more. They look great in parks and around tall buildings. John W. (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) You mean something like these? (URL) Frank Filz ---...--- Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please) Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'd probably order 50-100. (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Frank Filz wrote in message <3B321A90.5358@minds...ng.com>... (...) take (...) hedges, good idea Kevin (with a name like that, how could he NOT have good ideas? :-) ) Kevin Wilson ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'm not long on cypress trees, but the more variation, the better. 20 - probably not much more. But I don't do town, where I think they would be popular. In general, I'd like to see more vegetation. I have about 50 spruce trees, and I'm (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Personally, I wouldn't buy any. I'd rather build my own, a la John Gerlach's creations here: (URL) about packs of *those* elements or something similar-- then you could build whatever size, shape, etc. you wanted. These trees make the cypress trees (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) take (...) I'm thinking 3-dimensional trimmed hedges--like about the size of a 2x4 brick and about 2 bricks tall. The ideal piece would have the round 2x2 base like trees have now and a short stem about 2 plates thick and then the 2x4x2 (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) If you aren't afraid of clone stuff, Little Tykes made some hedge pieces similar to this. I have a couple, but no pictures unfortunately. They came in the LittleTykes LEGO compatible sets of a few years ago. I have been able to find these at (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I'm so pleased to have people discussing different types of foliage...that is so cool! =) On another note, does anyone have any information regarding how many other persons are represented by the persons actually posting to Lugnet? I feel sure that (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'd order a whooooooole freakin' lot! :D 100 to start, more later, for sure. Jeff (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hmmm... I'd probably have to buy a few hundred too. I don't consider myself to have a small collection (ok its tiny compared to some of you out there) but I've never had a cypres tree :( (cue violin music) I do have one of those old bushes which (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'm just not seeing that as a "lot". Certainly it's not a whole woodlot because it isn't a lot of wood. Forests have thousands of trees. Can you see a whole module carpeted with an assortment of these, the smaller ones, J1's trees, etc? Most (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Calling Out the Man Behind the Curtain! (was Re: How Many Cypress Trees Would You Order?)
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(...) Well Lar, I ask you this: Do you find $0.75 USD for a cypress tree a realistic price? What would you propose in the alternative? And anyway, I thought you were Mr. Moneybags? I thought I would never ask this, but TLC is SO bloody slow with (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I can see why it *would be* a price point that LD would go with. I'm not sure if it's realistic or not because it's a different plastic so I can't draw parallels from say, 3313 prices. (...) I'd like to see a price closer to 20 cents each in (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) BTW: What is the brick height of a Cypress Tree? Somewheres around 9B I would assume. (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) About eleven and a half bricks high. Maggie C. (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | I WANT FOLIAGE!!! (was Re: How Many Cypress Trees Would You Order?)
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Previously, I wrote this: (...) Today I bid on this: Lego #5192 CYPRESS TREES X6 SERVICE BAGS! Item # 1609955387 which closed at $109.50 USD. Why didn't I win this auction? Because that is WAY TOO MUCH @$$%!#@ MONEY to spend on such a thing, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Speaking for myself, I am NOT Mr. Moneybags. For this reason, I am quite happy with the speed at which Lego Direct releases new selections. Due to the financial constraints of the normal working [1] individual, I'd say that LD is doing many of (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) REALLY (...) me too me too ME TOO!! greens please! Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Lego auctions: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Don't we all :) I need more even though I still have some bushes left after creating this.. (URL) <warning, not the best pic, I didn't get a chance today to get some decent ones> total of 9 large trees <so far>, many bushes and numerous other (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Okay Richard, someone has to say this, and I don't mind doing so because I know what a nice person you really are in spite of the reputation you try to cultivate here, so if you chew my head off I'll know it's because you are trying to (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Um, I don't think he dares do that... because if he did, his sweetie might give him a kiss. And you know what happens to frogs when they get kissed! They turn into princes. That would completely destroy his rep here. ++Lar (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Maggie, Maggie, Maggie... Don't you recall that I have A VICIOUS STREAK A MILE WIDE? But thanks for forcing me to prove this in a public forum. I was purposefully running up the price on the bigger fool, fool enough to pay those prices. At the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Thanks for trying to give me the benefit of the doubt, but unfortunately I am a Prince of an entirely different kind. See my other post... -- Hop-Frog (mean and green) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) What would you have done if you had gotten the bid at 99?? (that is, the other bid was topped out at 98 and then no following bid happened?) I'd hate to see you actually get stuck! Or worse, violate the eBay ToS by retracting... ++Lar (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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I seem to remember Richard saying in some other thread that he'd simply follow through on the sale. Shouldn't we FUT this at this point elsewhere? I don't think it really belongs in .direct anymore. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I see you jumped from $79 to $99.99 in a single increment. I would say that was taking a colossal risk, especially just to prove someone a fool! And if you want to impress upon TLC the desirability and value of these elts there are other ways (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I think I was getting lazy there. I had decided that the person had bid something over $100 USD. And when I bid by proxy, I bid a little over what I would wish to pay -- so a decent proxy bid would be something like $100.99 or even more. It (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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To everybody in the discussion: Do you want to know the scary thing about the trees? Over a 4 year period I bought a 140 service packs (1988-1992) from a mail order company in Denmark for about $2.50 a pack. I listed 8 single packs 4-6 month ago on (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not sure I am following you here, Mike. What exactly are you saying? ++Lar (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hi Larry! When I reviewed the posts on cypress trees I saw that one of my auctions became a topic of discussion of whether OR not to spend outrageous amounts of money on an item that The Lego Company should have never dicontinued in the first (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for clearing that up, Mike. I'm not trying to start a war or be critical here so take what I say with a grain of salt, but it seems to me that you ought to be able to do what you see fit without letting what others think get to you. I (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Please don't feel you were the target of any sort of criticism. I don't think anyone who participated in this thread holds anything against you for auctioning off the trees. If anything, it was good that you made some available to others. And (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Michael: I hope you are well aware of the fact that I was in NO WAY slamming the seller of the cypress trees, in this case you, in any way. I was just being silly about the trees and how large a price they fetched. I wasn't sure if I made you (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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