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(...) That's stores. There are at least two, possibly more (based on availability discrepencies, I believe they have at least three locations set up currently). North America is served out of Connecticut, and Australia (I believe) is served out of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I think its one issue that needs to be addressed. For Lego Shop @ Home to really be a global operation, you should be able to get something whether your "local" fulfillment center is out of stock, or doesn't carry that particular item yet. Of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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Hi, have just been to lego's online store to buy 2 metroliner sets with the extra tourist car add , it's called "metroliner kit". Now you can buy the extrta car on it's own as well as the metroliner on it's own,but when I what looking for these (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Status of Brad Justus?
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Steve Demlow wrote in message ... (...) TLC's (...) nine (...) concerned (...) See here: (URL) kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news
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Jake, Would you PLEASE bring this up with the head office ASAP? I can't believe they would release a set with such *sloppy* color control. This is insane. Just how far is quality going to slip at TLG before someone wakes up? I was probably going to (...) (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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So, we've purchased our cool new servers, from Cambridge, MA vendor "PCs for Everyone". Todd and I and several other friends have gotten systems from them before, and have been extremely pleased -- they know their stuff, including Linux, which is (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: New version of part 32064
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(...) My copies of Motor Movers (#4094) had BOTH variations of the Technic Brick 1x2 with Axlehole. Half of the bricks had the symmetric cross, as earlier versions had. The other half had the newer version, similar to the current Technic 1/2 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Taking LUGNET to the next level
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Chats with people at BrickFest PDX last weekend got me thinking a lot more about LUGNET and its role in the community. I've bounced some of my thoughts off of various people (including three people from LEGO) and responses varied from positive to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !!
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| | Re: 2004 Set Pictures
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(...) Happy to do it! Oh, and there's more out there... Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO Community Development (21 years ago, 10-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct)
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On 11:46 06/02/2004, Bryan Kinkel wrote (...) Excellent way to spread the news... except for those strange sets with Doc Oak on ILTCO... I wonder if they are going to have any Doc OCK sets... :-) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Looks like Jake seeded official set pictures to various groups: Harry Potter & Knights Kingdom at Classic-Castle.com (URL) at ILTCO (URL) at BrickSet (URL) - thanks for sharing these with the community. Bryan Kinkel (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Mr. Justus (executive vice president, I believe?) was not mentioned in TLC's press release that discussed downsizing their executive team from 14 to nine people. Given all the hullabaloo over several topics of late, I am concerned that we haven't (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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LEGO Digital Designer 1.1 has been released and you can download it from: (URL) allows you to select a brickset to work with, has numerous small improvements over 1.0 and includes a preferences tool. Try it out and let us know what you think. -- (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'm really disappointed that they aren't making one last push on the robotics front. What if they released a 'bare bones' set that contained one touch sensor, RCX, two motors, and enough parts to make the Acrobot? Could they price that under (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think this would be a wonderful time for someone with a voice of authority, Jake or Brad for instance, to drop in and say Yea or Nay on this subject. With the Slashdot post, this topic will take on even more of a roll as 'urban legend'. This (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I haven't a clue. I got the impression that a newly arrived box full of any one type of brick equals a certain number of sales, so I presume it's based on how many cups you can fill from an average box of average parts. Some people will get (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) OK, I had to think about this for a while - but it does raise a question: How do they determine how many PaB cups of bricks are in a carton? Do they just guestimate, or do they fill a cup and work off of that? Because, AFOLs (and kids!) who (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) As for the bricks that are shipped to the Lego brand stores, if you ask about buying a lot of any one brick that's in the range, the brand stores can't sell them any cheaper no matter how much you want to buy. As I understand it, once a carton (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Suggestion for TLC: sell large bulk boxes of parts
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Basicly, I am thinking something that is basicly a large box filled with random parts. Perhaps, be a little more specific and have e.g. techic type parts in one thing and other parts in another. I know I would love one filled with technic parts or (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: More information on LEGO Digital Designer and other things
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(...) I downloaded the full package of DD from (URL) it I did not meet the full requirements and saw that that the interface of the installer is in Danish! I can guess what it says, but this is not handy :-) Jaco (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)
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