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    Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Richard Dee
   What defines "completeness" within a theme? Despite rating the theme a meagre 5/10, I am theoretically "complete" in Space Port. However...... There is a value pack set, number 6469, in which can be found sets 6458, 6465, and set 6452. Sets 6458 and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —James Brown
     (...) I think it depends on whether you are defining "complete" as an enthusiast or as a collector. An enthusiast would be complete just having all the spaceport sets, regardless of where from. A collector would be complete only when 1 of every (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Richard Dee
     On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:12:55 GMT, James Brown uttered the following profundities... (...) Me, I am just an enthusiast, and bored, and looking for a topic to start......... (25 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Todd Lehman
     (...) Hello Richard, Sounds like a fun/deep thread. You might consider re-starting it in lugnet.general -- it's not an "off-topic" topic. The lugnet.off-topic.* hierarchy is for non-LEGO discussions. --Todd (25 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Larry Pieniazek
      (...) There is a thread about this on RTL at the mo too. I think if you went for complete completeness, you'd have to get each set of the theme in every different package (that is, language) it was ever released in. And even the most fanatical of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Richard Dee
     On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 03:24:56 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) still have 600 messages to wade through over there. Go away for a week, fall very far behind. I have only read 20 or so of the other 800 messages disposed (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Tom McDonald
   (...) Not that I'm rating Space Port, but it seems rather unfulfilling to admit that one is complete in a theme that one does not find to be his favorite. (Isn't that a Confuscian proverb or something? :) (...) IMO, to be "complete", you need to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Richard Dee
   On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:31:32 GMT, Tom McDonald uttered the following profundities... (...) Just a vague, random thought. No, 'tisn't my favourite theme, but I did rate highly some of the smaller sets, and besides, there are those great astro- naut (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Simon Denscombe
   (...) Well, that's where this LEGO community comes in handy. (...) Well, the big jungle adventurers sets are not available in the UK at the moment - according to the 1999 catalogue. (...) I keep my polybags because it is easier to pack away my sets. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Steven Vore
     Carbon 60 wrote in message <36A502A0.E956F1E1@b...ot.com>... (...) but do you keep the holes? -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | TC++MS++#15LS+M+HalYB64m (25 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Richard Dee
     On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:48:11 GMT, Steven Vore uttered the following profundities... (...) I just love donut holes! Had some of those recently! (25 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry.... —Richard Dee
   On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:09:36 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) Indeed! But the one Explorien's set I don't have was only available in South Africa (according to Pause). (...) But you forget my 3 or 4 trips to the US every (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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