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check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Melody Brown

Hey all check out the new Dinosaur and Jack stone stuff... with pictures! The maxi? hehe figs look cool, the Lego is like a cross between Lego System, Technic slizers etc and one other but I can't think of it at the mo'. Oh and for those who didn't (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Paul Baulch

"melody brown" <black666beast@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GB965F.DF9@lugnet.com... (...) System, (...) this (...) Ewwwww!!!! These new themes are juniorised as! Gee, and people were dissing the Podracer bucket. There is no justice... Mind (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Peter White

(...) (URL) did this dinosaur stuff years ago, who is copying who ? I would expect this kind of rubbish with a happy meal purchase. On a small scale blocks/moulded SPUDs don't work. (URL) interesting trans elements. (URL) stacking hen ? Obviously (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Aaron Coghill

one work on Jack Stone "UUUUUCK", this keeps getting worse and worse, first jouniorization of town, then killing that off (not offical but these JS sets look to fill a town void). I'm glad there are some other themes to help fill the emptyness that (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Kerry Raymond

(...) Agreed. However, can someone enlighten me? What is the significance (if any) of the name Jack Stone? Should I recognise it from books/TV/movies in the same way that I do Harry Potter? Kerry (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Dave Low

(...) Hopefully it will let LEGO introduce a new range of 7-14 targeted Town sets. Girls in particular seem much more interested in Town than all the "danger and violence" themes. --DaveL (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Kerry Raymond

(...) Speak for yourself, girlie! :-) I like robotics, technics, star wars, and have a ship of bloodthirsty piratesses. I am definitely Town-light, Belville-challenged, and Paradisa-impaired. Indeed, most of the Townies I know are male. What girls (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!) —Deidre Rushton Brumby

(...) As a child I had Barbie and baby dolls, a tea-set, stuffed animals, Matchbox cars, a train set, a racing bike set, a sandpit with a marvellous Tonka Dump Truck (which I still treasure even though it's rusty (the truck not the sandpit!)), (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!) —Kerry Raymond

(...) Well, that doesn't surprise me. In my KFOL days (pre Dark Ages) I was undeniably a Townie. When all you own is brick bricks, roof tiles, doors, windows, trees and flags, it does tend to predispose you to building houses and other town (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!) —Richie Dulin

(...) Why stop at kids? My grandfather, Dad, Mum and sister are all scoring a small Lego set this Easter (colour coded to match an Easter Egg and a painting from my three year old daughter). They can always give them back to me if they don't want (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!) —Richie Dulin

(...) TLC itself, unfortunately, continues to subscribe to this idea. IIRC the 1999 (or was it 2000?) catalog had pages for boys and pages for girls, and now the 2001 catalog has pages for all kids and pages for girls. Remember Homemaker, the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!) —Kerry Raymond

(...) Yes, and there are various threads in which I moan and complain about TLC catalogues for exactly this reason. And the craziest part to me is why would TLC want to promote the idea that certain sets are for a particular sex -- wouldn't they (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!) —Fredrik Glöckner

(...) There are probably lots of adults who enter toy shops to buy birthday presents and the like, asking for a present in the [A,B] price bracket, for a child of age C and sex D. Having a catalogue which lists sets specifically for boys and girls (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!) —Richard Parsons

(...) Don't know about this at all. It was my birthday recently. I think if one of my friends were to have walked into the local toy shop and said "I'm looking for a present in the $30 - $40 bracket, for a child of age 35, and sex male" they would (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!) —Deidre Rushton Brumby

In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes: <snipped for space> (...) I had wheels (but I'm a little younger than you :)). Unfortunately I don't have any idea what set numbers I had, so it'd be hard to put a year on it, sometime mid seventies. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!) —Benjamin Medinets

(...) Actually, that would probably be quite true....Kerry. I know a lot of female Lego Enthusiasts really like the pirate line and the castle line... (...) To Deidre: this is my intention at this point...sure I have a large collection. (My mother (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Aaron West

(...) Good about Dinos--tree branches and plane windows, not much else. Good about Jack Stone--some nice decorative elements like the various fences AND the figures will make EXCELLENT trolls in my Castle worlds! VERY good news about that Womens (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Melody Brown

(...) There were a few pieces I looked at where I thought may look cool for some underwater aquarium (a new feature for your town) and a few other pieces too that are quite strange but may be useful, but not knowing what these sets really look like (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Peter White

(...) Now, that would be something ! I'd rather buy one new off the shelf for $300, rather than $600-800 off the 'bay. (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Jason King

Unfortunately the collectibility of these sets is precisely why Lego will probably never re-release them. Although I am sure they could make a killing by doing it. Peter White <aztekium@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:GBC8Kx.8I0@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Frank Filz

(...) The collectibility of the sets has almost no bearing on whether TLC would ever re-release classic sets. The have about zero stake in the collectibility of sets (other than those they explicitly release as "limited editions"). Sure, a few (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Paul Baulch

"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:GBCG6s.23A@lugnet.com... (...) There are (...) volumes (...) most (...) but (...) I think it's more a case of TLC design/marketing labouring under the mistaken impression that older designs (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Dave Low

(...) On the other hand, they make new molds all the time (often for the most unlikely parts that can only have a very limited range of uses). They would certainly save on R&D for a re-release. I'm not sure about the volumes. Some toys like teddy (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Richie Dulin

(...) While that's true, TLC would not be able to "re patent" the design (patents are only good for 25 years iirc). They can patent new pieces, and this stops evil clone brands copying the current sets (and explains why evil clone brand sets tend to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —David Drew

As far as I was aware, you cannot patent a design, you can only patent a process. The designs have a copyright, instead. So the brick's design is copyrighted, the method of making the brick is patented. What do other people know about patents? (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Richie Dulin

(...) The term used is "method of manufacture" which is not necessarily a 'process' and can (and does) include products, processes, and methods. Lego *does* hold patents in his bricks. A search of Lugnet will yield some details. For instance: US (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Jonathan Wilson

(...) I believe that what lego brick designs are covered under is a "design patent" (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Melody Brown

(...) Oh yeah I can understand that but I also can't see why not, they want a profit booster, the older generations drool over them them and how many other times do they rehash/design/modernise/update etc other models such as fire stations and (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P) —Nick Cameron

(...) AVAILABLE MAY? MAY IS TOO FAR AWAY! NICK (who wonders why there is only 10-20 female figures in all his lego collection...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)