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Re: LUGnet -- home at last
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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 (...) (23 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) (...) (23 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.loc.au)

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