 | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Richie Dulin
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| | | (...) it's not a valid comparison. [snip] (...) ...or others disagree about. (...) Except that you're not a customer of S@H. And not a major customer of the rest of LEGO either. [snip] (...) I'm not sure you do - you've invited me to "join the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Allan Bedford
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| | | | (...) Richie... For whatever reason, you seem to latch onto one or more specific notions and ignore other parts of my argument in order to make your point. The above is a perfect example. I have already stated that I was NOT comparing piece counts. (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Richie Dulin
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| | | | (...) I have “latched onto…specific notions” because I believe your arguments are flawed or contradictory. (...) But on what basis do you think it is a valid comparison… that they are two LEGO sets which are police stations? Why not throw the Duplo (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | We now return you to your regularly scheduled debate, already in progress. (...) Richie... I think we're getting somewhere. :) I'm sorry to come off sounding so verbally heavy-handed in my last post, but I really felt like our 'debate' was disolving (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | | | (...) [snip] (...) I think we are/were a long way from that point. At least I hope we are/were ;-) (...) [Same here. I've left in the relevent bits I'm commenting on] (...) I'd invite you to have a look at the parts selection in Slave I. There are (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Benjamin Medinets
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| | | | | | allow me to add some colour (oops...that's canadian...) :) commentary. <snip> (...) but it does raise a contentious issue of reality of the set (design) vs. ease of construction plus, the older sets could be made into other creations, if the the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Thomas Stangl
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| | | | (...) Well, hate to burst your bubble, but 50-60K bricks in 3 years DOESN'T put you in the "major customer" bracket. That's a drop in the ocean. Some people around here have bought that many bricks (or more) in ONE DAY. And even that won't begin to (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Attributing quotes (was:"MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com) —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | Tom, You should be a bit more careful with your quoting - most of this was actually Allan's comments. Also, it makes things easier if you reply to the actual post you're quoting most from. Regards ROSCO (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Allan Bedford
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| | | | (...) Tom, you're not bursting any bubble, you're simply confirming what I said. I am not, and do not consider myself to be a "major customer" by any definition. I have what I think is a fairly small collection for an adult. 50,000 bricks, spread (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) No, it's actually quite clear. As in the example above. ("I" am saying that YOU wrote the stuff that is marked with ">" symbols and YOU are saying that TOM wrote the stuff that is marked with ">>" symbols.) PLEASE DO NOT manually "correct" (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Erik Olson
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| | | | (...) You're right, though it could be 250-300 pounds. I don't think I have a ton of bricks, either. Now half a million is sure to be a ton of bricks. (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com —Thomas Stangl
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| | | | My wife keeps joking about our 2nd floor apt not being able to handle the weight of the Lego - good thing that ton or more is spread out all over the place ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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