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"Allister McLaren" <allistermclaren@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:H3qzE7.HJo@lugnet.com... (...) His ship is okay, but if you put some effort in I'm sure you could make a better one... -- Cheers, Paul LUGNET member 164 (URL) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yes :-). It's actually a bit cheaper than I expected... but comparing it to the street price of the Red Beard Runner (c$100), it seems about right. (3 RBRs = 2 BSBs). Cheers Richie (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) 16.7c per part, by my reckoning. That ain't bad at all, considering five of those parts are hull pieces... At last, the chance to discard the humiliating title as only BUG not to own a BSB! And I have the gall to call myself a pirate fan... If (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) You weren't the only one ;). Some of us didn't have money back in 1989. In fact some of us were only six that year. -Stephen (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) And others were somewhat older and had stopped playing with Lego several years previously, and didn't even know it existed until 13 years later. Fortunately I found most of the parts (and all of the specialist parts) for one in a second hand (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I remember seeing one in a shop during my dark ages. I remember thinking how bad it was that LEGO had used all those specialised parts rather than 'proper' bricks. And the minifigs had faces other than smileys! Ahhh, how little I knew then... (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Haha. Yeah, I was that soldier. I remember looking at the Lego shelves during the late eighties and nineties and thinking much the same thing. Maybe I was just trying to justify my lack of interest. Now I'm actually building with them again (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Allister McLaren writes: <snip> (...) ...although the Explorien cockpit/wing comes close! (NB: Port Block has some excellent space rowboats. See (URL) ). Cheers Richie (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I remember the late 80s was right about when I got into lego. I always loved lego, particularly space (I was overjoyed when they released the visors on the space dude's helmets). When the pirates series was release I just about had a spaz (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Heh, I loved the big explorien mothership. And I even found a very aesthetically pleasing way of using the cockpits - as wings. My final creation before my dark ages was an amalgamation of all my space lego building ability. I stole the dual (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) own (...) I don't have a BSB either. I was in my Dark Ages at the time. Kerry (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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