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Re: LUGnet -- home at last
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Date: 
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:34:17 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin wrote:

Welcome back!

You'll find not much has changed in your absence. There is:

Cheap Lego in Australia (yay!)
Reference to a possible future STUDS meeting

December is approaching people...

Complaint about Lego's product (new shade of grey, and rounded studs)

3 new shades of grey, 1 new shade of brown, but old shades get the chop !
Is this Lego recycling Galidor back into standard bricks or Lego changing ABS
suppliers and saving pennies.


IP theft (of stolen IP)

IP theft to the second power !

Discussion about clones that are Megablocks vs clones that train fans want

vs clones that are Lego vs clones that are just clones.

Defense of someone on the basis that he is a 'nice guy'

And they called it Courtney Love.

Claims that Castle is being poorly treated

Because Lego will not produce castle sets for castleheads to criticise,
and the scarcity of good Bionicle parts to use in castles.

Criticism of Bionicle

Bionicle fans protest too many Castle elements in the new Bionicles.

Demands for 'nnn' set, containing 'ppp' pieces from Lego

...and if there demands aren't met.

A question about Bricks Magazine (and the usual short, uninformative answer)

As featured on 'America's most wanted'.
There is a theory of a second shooter on the Carlsbad grassy knoll.
The autopsy wasn't completed in a satisfactory manner, there were rumours of
rounded stud marks on the body and the brain was a new shade of grey.


I'm sure all these things could be combined into one mega-thread without too
much effort...

That would be much too difficult. It would involve the co-operation of too many
different semi-secret government agencies and toy corporations.



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(...) Nonsense: LegofanX demands that Lego cease ignoring castle fans and produce a 1000 piece set, for US$50 ($A30, naturally), which is not made in ugly, useless Bionicle style, featuring Bruce Hietbrink's Aragorn minifig, and include only the (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)

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(...) Welcome back! You'll find not much has changed in your absence. There is: Cheap Lego in Australia (yay!) Reference to a possible future STUDS meeting Complaint about Lego's product (new shade of grey, and rounded studs) IP theft (of stolen IP) (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.loc.au)

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