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Wow. I was excited to see this, but, it looks yucky. The Buckleberry ferry set has neat lanterns, if they detach. I would try these out to see if the details can be reusable. But: these sets have no soul. They don't even have three walls! FYI, the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I am sorry to hear that the Tolkien family are having trouble. Tolkien himself would have greatly disapproved of all of the toy sets. He liked the images generated by his work to reside in the minds of his readers, not by the forced domination (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) This from a text brought to my attention today: "Of course, there is no way of knowing what Tolkien would have thought of such newly written texts. It can hardly be doubted that if he ever returns from the dead, he will soon be busy with a red (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Well, if Middle-Earth can survive those awful rotoscope animations of the 70's, then there's little damage to be done by a live-action production. Peter Jackson is an actual director with a talent both for the fantastical and for character (...) (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) We got one already. Monsters Incorporated is great. (well, it's more slapstick SF than it is pure fantasy, I suppose.) I LOVED all the sight gags in it. Mike's car, for instance. Recommended. (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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