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Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
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Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:41:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Aaron Dalan writes:

I believe Tolkien conceived of caverns under the tower of Isengard, remember
when Gandalf instructed Treebeard to let in water to fill up all the caves
and caverns underneath the tower so Saruman could not escape?

Regardless, the sets look like crap.  Lego would have done LOTR better...

  I'm not so sure.  The Prancing Pony set seems to include more actual
bricks than all the Potter sets combined.  When was the last time LEGO
released an actual structure made of actual bricks, rather than a handful of
1x2x5's, or the equivalent?

     Dave!



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  Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
 
(...) Well, that is a good point. It is pretty sad when one set of Intellibox or whatever for $30.00 has more bricks than the $189.00 combined Harry Potter universe on S@H. My favorite thing about Lego is the minifigs, and those sculpted (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) I believe Tolkien conceived of caverns under the tower of Isengard, remember when Gandalf instructed Treebeard to let in water to fill up all the caves and caverns underneath the tower so Saruman could not escape? Regardless, the sets look (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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