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(...) Is that a Canadian-centric reference, eh? ;-) (...) True - LUGNET has been designed to be international, but regardless of statistics, it is easy to *percieve* LUGNET as US-centric. This is probably just because more Americans are online more (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hmm, I don't quite grok what you mean. Ben, could you give an example or two of the phenomena you've observed, vis-a-vis LUGNET? --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Which, generally means that whatever US-ers say is what the rest of the world has to settle for. Unfortunately, most things from the US that are supposed to be 'international and world-wide' tend to be based on what would best suit the US. (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) like 393 & 394 (...) like 4011 or 5521?? (...) like 396?? (...) like 5540 and the afore-mentioned 2556? (...) so than that technic one they did) (...) type light plane, or a small private jet) like 5591? (...) there was 5541 (...) for the (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Mark, When you signed up, one of the things you agreed to is that you would not post auction announcements/update...flogs/spam in groups which do not explicitly welcome auctions in their charters. As you are well aware, only (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Eh? What gives you the impression that the concept is U.S.-centric? The truth is, the whole concept of LUGNET is to be international and worldwide. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) You mean like this: (URL) suggestions. I've long wondered why Technic gets the same 10 or 12 concepts over and over while Model Team only gets 2 or 3 over and over. :-) Doug (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Here are some model team ideas for TLG, if you are listening: 1.a motorbike 2.a boat (anything goes here, from an oil tanker to a small yaught) Or how about the ultimate lego model, the RMS titanic, complete with a little leonardo di caprio minifig (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I would if I know where it was and if I dodnt have a vital economics assignment due on the 29th of may to do that I havent even started. (...) I think that basicly there are a lot of overheads involved with being able to order individual parts (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Mark Harrison wrote in message <390EB8F5.7DC844EB@o...net.au>... (...) of (...) were (...) it (...) Hehehe, not afraid to play the raconteur, eh Mark? :-) Yeah, RTL may have been earthy and cosmopolitan, but it was also mostly market discussions. (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Hey I'm liking this attitude very much :) 12V trains could've taken lego far, they can still if they just apply the same sort of fancy stuff to the 9v stuff... Welcome to Loc.au :) (...) I (...) and (...) and (...) starwars (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Even better, we'll just organise LegOz 2000.4 at their place! I'm sure they won't mind, we can even take along cash and raid the treasure room! It'll be Aug so all the new sets will have arrived even though they won't be send to stores for (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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As promised here is the latest status of my lastest auction, Fabuland. The only thing that I should mention here is that all bids are in US dollars. I'm based in Brisbane, Australia. Hi Everyone, All sets are piece complete in very good to (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) This occurred to me to, but after the last phone conversation with one of the brothers I got the feeling they weren't likely to part with much at a reasonable price. (...) How did you guess!!! Yes, customer services now consists of one full (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) No, I'd spent to much on old stock sets in Australia. (...) Definitely!! It was our last chance to gloat. It will all favour the yanks from now on. (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I must say I like keeping the compartmentalised dorks on their toes. Most of them weren't around before lugnet took off and will never know what they were missing out on by having one big cosmopolitan newsgroup. It was alive and it wasn't (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I've eaten a lot of apple and blueberry Danish's in my time without effect. We could always.... 1. All change our last names to Ditman by deedpoll. 2. Setup a pirate Lego Australia (moored off the Sydney heads). 3. Pledge allegiance to the (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Mark Harrison wrote in message <390EA9ED.D286D372@o...net.au>... (...) Gee, that's pretty fair, not! Only want to play with the big boys, eh TLC? That's it, that's what _we've_ got to do. Does anyone in loc.au speak Danish?!? (...) Well, from the (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Maybe we should be purchasing from them :^) Or at least getting some tips from them about dealing with Lego. (...) Do you know how many people Lego Australia employs and what the rough breakdown is ? very rough will do ? I hope it's not just (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I was thinking of doing that......D'oh. (...) As I was telling you Paul, the blip turned up on the sales report and they restocked with even more. They are still $ 94.90 Mark, so let me know if you want one. They were down to $80 with K-mart's (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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