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| (...) Hopefully, the contract should expire in 2003.And if it does, prepare yourself for a Space Legend set. Personally, I want to see either Cosmic Fleet Voyager, 918 Space Transport or a good old Message Intercept Base as Space legends. Or even (...) (22 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) I'd LOVE to see a MIB as a set. I worry that they may not have the tooling for the linear actuator (rack) parts though. (in this set they are the parts that provide the linear motion that opens and closes the large base halves) This URL should (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) The contract was to have the rights to produce Star Wars sets. Brad Justus, senior VP of LEGO Direct, said at BricksWest in no uncertain terms that there is no contractual reason not to produce any Classic Space Legends sets. However, there (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Yeah. Those are a few sets I've always wanted, but never got a chance to acquire. Hopefully, LEGO should release a Space Legend in the near future, if they EVER do. :) If Lego couldn't make the tooling, do you think it would be be possible for (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Yes that was the Company hogwash he recited. I work in a toy store. Life on Mars sets come in boxes printed; LEGO(the logo) SPACE. So the company's official position is that space sets at retail are ok but Lego Direct isn't allowed to release (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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| in general response to this thread.... i hate juniorization as much as the next guy but i don't buy those sets. The new SW sets are the BEST sets TLC has ever made, the curved pieces (finally) allow for stylish mocs, and the canopies can be placed (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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| Well said! If I may add a few comments: (...) I'd like to chime in here to remind people that juniorization of LEGO System sets should not be confused with the introduction of the quick-build Jack Stone sets. JS sets allow LEGO to provide simpler (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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| Paul & All, I have given up any hope of getting my work done today, so I will come in this weekend. : / Anyway, I saw this thread and wanted to put a few comments here: (...) Right. (...) There are some good sets here, and some bad ones. But there (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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| To All, I am sorry about the last post in this thread, I wanted to re-direct it away from LEGO Direct group, and turn it to space, where I think it should be, or at least SW. My apologies. : ) Scott "Always Lost in Space" S. -- (22 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Yea well I'll still take my Galaxy Explorer over any current LEGO set. Now over some people's own mocs, that's another question. :-P (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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| "Paul Hartzog" <panarchy23@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GssMxF.990@lugnet.com... (...) I could see what you're saying about old Space, but I'm not a Space collector. I collect Town, and there's no comparison with Town sets of the past (my (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars)
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