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How about just 3 catagories: ~100 pieces ~1000 Pieces ~unlimited So, you would have vehicles in the ~100 piece catagory, along with parks, park benches, and other neat (small) things. Smaller houses/buildings would fall into the ~1000 piece (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G6G54x.7Fp@lugnet.com... (...) Oh just go ahead and pick on the guy because he has more classic windows than any of us ever will. Sheesh. ;-) -Tim (25 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think we shouldn't let Gary participate at all (coz he'll obviously win). <grin> Kidding, kidding! But he prolly would, too. :-) -Shiri (who *is* actually considering doing something... but what? hmm) XFUT .o-t.fun (25 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not true. The TTTE stuff from Hornby appeared before the TV show was finished (in 1984/5). So, it was based on the books, and what was available in the Hornby mold room rather than on the TV show. (It also predates most of the C. Audry books- (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, I don't believe I did make that implication. If you drew that inference where it wasn't implied, I'd say that was sloppy, imprecise, non critical thinking on your part. (...) Well, you're certainly the expert from long practice on sloppy (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You're right, I don't want to be loose against you, too much chance of damage, I have a lot of parts that might break off. But I'm not worried about losing against you in the over 30 group, since there isn't one. There's just an 18+ one, and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Classic Space Contest: Final votes tallied -- results to follow
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(...) Sorry! How about "winner, but not the biggest winner"? After all, no one who entered is a "loser", all the entries are neat. (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Or go the high road and make an "Operation Lifesaver" boxcar. see: (URL) Larry, you just don't want to loose agaisnt me in the over 30 group! ;D SteveB (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Whew. Well for a sec there I thought I wouldn't be able to enter my "poke your eye out with a sharp stick flatcar load"... (...) Based on what we've seen in the mania magazines, I suspect the answer would be "potentially quite a bit". ++Lar (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Review: 7316 - Life On Mars: Excavation Searcher
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In lugnet.reviews, Karim Nassar writes an excellent, prescient review: (...) <snip> (...) Dude, how'd you *do* that? You wrote this, like, 4 years ago and you've been keeping it to yourself all this time?? Whoa. No fair. Mom, Karim's got a wayback (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, don't ask the fans, they're groping, get the professional's fifteen answers. I don't know who came up with this one, it might be Thomas Disch or Barry Malzberg or David Kyle: F&SF is "fiction set in an empirical universe other than our (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Markus Wolf wrote in message ... (...) Same with Pooh. All the Pooh toys out there are based on Disney's rendition of Pooh, not the original Pooh drawn by E. H. Sheperd. And the Thomas the Tank toys are based on the TV series, not the original (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I've bought some hardcover LEGO books, but then as far as I know, it's the only way to stretch for ultimate Pirate completeness (which is eluding me by one set, one book, some service packs, any keychains, all variants of boxes and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's one reason I like the term F&SF (Fantasy and Science Fiction). It nicely lumps everything together, though it is still hard to define (really, most fiction could be considered fantasy). There certainly are books I would consider part of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, if you post your off-topic message to an off-topic newsgroup, you shouldn't be sorry :) FUT: OT.F (25 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not me--I only buy paperback Lego(r). Dave! (25 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Leaves less money for Lego(r) ++Lar (25 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ??? What's to hate about hard cover? Dave! (25 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I noticed that too. I thought it'd be neat that there would be Grinch merchandice, because the original really is a classic. I really wasn't looking for it, but when I saw the grinch from a distance, I had to check it out. But they really are (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | The Grinch toys
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A few caveats: I am only posting this here because this is the only forum I find worthwhile, I know that this post is extremely irrelevant to Lego. I admit to a certain supercilious attitude regarding other toys because of my view of the natural (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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