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| Spotted this article today in the Sunday Telegraph Newspaper: (URL) Simon Bennett can write another similar letter in reply to this as well. TT. (23 years ago, 8-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| "Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> skrev i meddelandet news:GG1utI.nE@lugnet.com... (...) what (...) Meccano is also juniorizing, and putting out more "models" and less basic sets. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) That's great, Simon! I hope all of our comments and input were constructive enough. Your final revision of the letter was not too long, hit some very important points, and certainly made a good argument that Lego is a better "building system". (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Crikey ROSCO, all I did was write a letter, you built the bridge! Psi (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Cheers Larry, I've got a nice warm Lugnetty 'included' feeling now! All we have to do now is just sit back and watch New Civil Engineer not publish it! Psi (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) [text snipped] (...) Well, I didn't comment yet in this thread, because I'm not an engineer or a teacher (though I did start in engineering at uni), and I hadn't really thought much about it. I did have one small Meccano set when I was a kid, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| In lugnet.loc.uk, Simon Bennett writes: <snip> (...) <snip> You rock. Very nicely done. I think I speak for a number of people when I say "thanks for doing this, well done!" ++Lar (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I have now sent the letter. I didn't change it that much and it's still very long but I wanted to get it out there before I got cold feet about sending it at all! The text was: "Dear Sir I would like to take the opportunity to respond to (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Media Site Updated
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| I did a few minor updates to my Appearances in the media site: (URL) discovered that I lost the Television page when I looked at the site (for the first time in months). :/ So I am going to redo the site this fall and replace that page with (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| (...) LLC and LLW have some very large scale Technic parts, but I think they're made of fiberglass rather than ABS, and no doubt have steel armatures. (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic)
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