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(...) I'm curious if anyone knows of any real analysis of the price of toys. My gut feel is that the quality toys have possibly actually fallen in real cost (LEGO certainly appears to have done so, looking at the Lugnet Set Guide, the 10 cents a (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I dunno, I guess I was getting too much into the spirit of "inciting to riot" since the post was here in .off-topic.debate. You know, can't be here unless you take up an intellectual position stating a contray point. "No, no you came (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<Sneep> (...) Dare yo question my carfelnees?!? I ar the mest crewful person I new!! Oops, I bimped my heed agast thee waal agen?!?! Ooch! Aaron West, Captain LSF Ertbergle (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's true. The Barbie I played with as a child had clothes with real buttons and zippers rather than cheap strips of Velcro. My Creepy Crawler maker had molds made of real metal. My Schwinn bicycle with the balloon tires later became trendy as (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think that the lower quality of later Transformers causes the earlier ones to suck. I'll agree that the stuff released toward the end of the 1st Generation sucked, however. ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not when you look at them from a play value/cost standpoint. You could get an Autobot car for about $8.00 back in the day. conversely, Jetfire (VF-1 fighter) cost about $40. The Alpha I had was around $25-30 and the SDF-1 was a similar price. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh. I dunno about that, but I'm glad you like the links. :^) ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, that Super Fire Convoy sure looks a lot more complex and poseable than my Optimus Prime ever was. Why do you say that they suck? ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I understand the NBA, as noted before here, and the guy retaliating always getting called for the foul. :-) I take it you didn't make it to the end of message, where I said the following: (...) Happy? Bruce (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey Bruce, watch yer attributions - You're actually replying to your own post ((URL) I really think such long & scathin) replies belong in e-mail, rather than a public post. I'd say the same to Robert / Matthew / Mad / ??? but I feel it would (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm still waiting on your cleverness... (...) Not for lack of trying. (...) Hey, I'm just having some fun! I think you need to develop a thicker skin. Note above how *you* are the one claiming *we* (that includes you, junior) are flaming each (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Original Voltron (Lions was cool, till they computer animated it), but the vehicle one was odd. I had the Lion toy (another import) and my friend had the vehicle one and it was hard for us to play with as it had three modes: 1) all fifteen (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You not watch cartoon, that why you not understand... 1) Spike was human, average size. Bumblebee, the robot, was average human size. When he transforms, suddenly he's bigger than a human. Whatever happened to physics?! Conservation of (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Here's an interesting quote from Albert Einstein regarding his thoughts on God, life and death: "I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I, nor would I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, I should modify my statement to reflect the all the sub-religions, philosophies or branches under the umbrella of a given main religion. In some religions, such as Hinduism, there can be significant differences from one village to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Immense powers of destruction! I sleep better at night knowing that. (...) And you're actively defending us from external onslaught! I sleep better at night knowing that too. (...) OK, clue us in. (...) When we said *who* was the Mad Hatter? I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I guess it sorta depends on what you're copying, I find when I make something that's modeled after something else it's easier because I don't really have to get creative, just work out angles, sizing, etc, as you mentioned. When I make stuff (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) People always copy real prototypes with their Lego, being a copy of a real thing doesn't affect how good it is. If it's a copy of a prototype you rate it on how good is it as a model and then how accurately the model portrays the prototype. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I wouldn't either, but it is kind of a nice view of the future, I think maybe that's why some people are really into it. All in all though if you monitor the space building group you won't find anything even remotely as accurate and well built (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well I wouldn't look for anything Star Trek on the net, I watch the program but apart from that I have nothing to do with Star Trek. I wouldn't want to be ever thought of as a sad trekkie. (...) I didn't menetion the Vortex because I hadn't (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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