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Thanks guys! I can now send my wife for last minute Christmas gifts... Gene W Eugwe Coral (27 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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| | Re: 2000 LEGO in Knoxville TN
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(...) Well, they didn't look that bad, but they could have been better. The Slave 1 has some great pieces, but it could have used ~50 more. The sand barge was pitiful - there isn't even enough room to reenact the scene. (You couldn't fit Luke, Han, (...) (27 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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(...) ... even the Star Wars? -- pn (who can't wait to be back in K-town) (27 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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The Target at Downtown West has most all of the 2000 sets, notably missing only the two largest - King Leo's Castle and the Falcon. I really liked the new minifigs, but all of the sets looked a little juniorized to me. Naji (...) (27 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Have any of you Knoxville AFOL's seen any 2000 LEGO on the shelves anywhere? Eugwe Coral (27 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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(...) I actually foresaw the problem enough to have two separate entry categories - "set" and "original". Of course the judge was still clueless as to which entries were really sets or not, and apparently didn't even care enough to really (...) (27 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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(...) him/her.) Just my opinion, but doing something like this is just as bad as entering a Lego set. We have a contest in my city every year at the Homedays as part of the arts and crafts section. Fortunately for me, all of the homedays contests (...) (27 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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J G Gregory wrote in message ... (...) him/her.) (...) Well, far better than some reasons people have kids... Frank (27 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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(...) Ah, not a good reason... --Jack Gregory (27 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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I saw the same thing and decided enough was enough. I found who was in charge and told them about it. Her reply was that the judges don't know all the sets available currently. I offered to judge the following year and then I told her that if it was (...) (27 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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Steve (the other Demlow Lego brother) helped set up a "construction toys" category for exhibits at our local 4-H fair when he was in high school. I know this was at least a little bit of a problem then, too. I think lack of originality would have (...) (27 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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A few years ago, the same thing happened in a Swedish LEGO competition. I hated it! --Tobias James J. skrev i meddelandet <37F7BC08.62F5CC0@me...is.edu>... (...) (27 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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| | Re: Lego train club for the central midwest
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(...) if (...) way (...) meet (...) I am willing to provide a place to meet but only after the new year, it is going to get buzy here. As for interchangeable modules I think this is a good idea the The Pacific Northwest LEGO® Train Club has a site (...) (27 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.ky, lugnet.loc.us.ar, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.ne, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.ok)
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<-- snip --> (...) We have two or three people from St. Louis who are interested. We have a couple of people from Kansas City who are interested. We have one or two people from Kentucky who are interested. It seems like we have enough people to (...) (27 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.ky, lugnet.loc.us.ar, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.ne, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.ok)
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| | Re: We need to get together!
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(...) I'm game. I bet John, Marcia & Naji, and Adam would be as well. There might even be more people I'm not thinking of right now. We could be K-LUG? (27 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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| | Re: Roll Call
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Gene Weissinger Number of bricks - too many ? Age - 8 yrs old - for this birthday I got two or three space sets. First set - ?? classic space set circa 1983 I have lived in Knoxroughly three months....got married in May and she got a teaching job (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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(...) The Knoxville club for Lego-friends ... I am beginning to think that we might actually have enough people to begin something on that note. That would be kind fun to organize something in the future - on a lower scale for now - and get together (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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I must admit I am bery new to this Newsgroup thing - and new to the Knoxville area - moved here in July of this year. I came from Atlanta - where the Lego clubs were online with others around the world. I hope that I could join in if there ever was (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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(...) Same thing happened to me at the Taupo Hobby Expo. In 1998 I noticed a few creations that were not original and had won prizes. For example the Divers set with the whale skeleton on a large grey baseplate instead of the original base. So I (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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(...) collaborate (...) minds. (...) I'm in Garfield Heights, Ohio (An inner-ring cleveland suburb). While I wouldn't mind some copetition, we didn't have an originality problem last year. You may want to check with James though, the original (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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