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Re: Hold on bub, this truly is the Golden Age of LEGO Re: Whatever happened...
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Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:06:07 GMT
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Calum,

That's my thinking. As long as the good outweighs the bad, which as far as
the online AFOL community is concerned it does by a mile.

So what can we do about some of the nastiness that has arisen here at
Lugnet? Well, look no further than this very thread! I refer to Rob
Antonishen's response, where he objects to my use of the word "tragic" to
describe the recent color change. I could *respond* to his post, where I
would point out the obvious of how my use of the word tragic is squarely
within the context of Lego, and not the world at large, or state what I
think he can do with his post, etc. But I will do none of that! Instead, I
will ignore the post, and will use the time I would have used to respond to
the post to instead peruse some MOCs that were posted to brikshelf.

Remeber the Mandroid!

"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message
news:I94t2w.23Ip@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Tony Kilaras wrote:
> > I've been around since the earliest days of rtl, and have followed the
> 
> Wow, good to hear from you!
> 
> > However, I emphatically disagree with those who bemoan the current state
> > of
> > affairs. To me, excpet for Lego's tragic error regarding the new colors,
> > this is truly the Golden Age. The MOCs and train show displays alone are
> 
> > Plus, we have Lego Direct, Bricklink, Pick-A-Brick, and yes, even Ebay.
> > The
> > sales and deals at Walmart, Amazon, KayBee, Target etc. that I almost
> > always
> 
> > As if that wasn't enough, we have LDraw, Brickset, Brickshelf, Peeron and
> > a
> > myriad of other online resources. I can look up just about anything I
> > want
> > with a few keystrokes.
> 
> > If you disagree, take the taste test! Head on over to Google, look up the
> > alt.toys.lego and rec.toys.lego newsgroups, pour yourself a cup of coffee
> > (or tea) and spend some time reading. There's just no comparison.
> 
> I'll agree we've certainly made a lot of progress since the wild days of
> atl and
> rtl, that there is no doubt.  Something like Peeron for example, I use all
> the
> time when I build (which is not as much as I'd like).
> 
> But we ended up with a lot of problems at the same time.  I guess you have
> to
> take the good with the bad.
> 
> Calum



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  Re: Hold on bub, this truly is the Golden Age of LEGO Re: Whatever happened...
 
Long time no see, Tony. Too long if you ask me, glad to see you around again. (...) Exactly. (...) Good idea. And in the fullness of time, I think he'd realise you're both right. In the context of world events it's not a tragic thing (what's going (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Re: Hold on bub, this truly is the Golden Age of LEGO Re: Whatever happened...
 
(...) Wow, good to hear from you! (...) I'll agree we've certainly made a lot of progress since the wild days of atl and rtl, that there is no doubt. Something like Peeron for example, I use all the time when I build (which is not as much as I'd (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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