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You forget that CS has a second chopper. It's of the boring, ho-hum, clone of a 1000 other TLG copters variety, so I'm not sure if it's an asset to CS, or a detriment. ;) Also, (just looking at the browser pictures--I don't have any of these sets) (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Question: Are reviews of non-LEGO (such as Mega Blocks) sets of interest?
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(...) Or .off-topic.no-fun. Steve (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Which airport is best?... an RTL Repost
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That link seems to be wrong. It seems that pasting in DejaNews URLs doesn't work any more?? Anyway, you can find it yourself by doing a dejanews powersearch on group rec.toys.lego with keywords century skyway and author Larry Pieniazek.. Maybe this (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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I just got a note from someone who remembered the comparision I did on RTL between the three airports, and I decided to repost it here in .reviews where it might be easier to find. Here's a Dejanews reference if you want to see the thread in (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Question: Are reviews of non-LEGO (such as Mega Blocks) sets of interest?
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[Crossposted to lugnet.reviews & lugnet.admin.general, with followups set to lugnet.admin.general] (...) Janet, Do you think a new newsgroup lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands would be useful? Here is a related thread for more background: (URL) That's (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Question: Are reviews of non-LEGO (such as Mega Blocks) sets of interest?
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... :This newsgroup is for reviews of LEGO® brand products only. Please do not :post reviews here of things not manufactured by LEGO®, especially clone :brands. :You could talk about clone brands (such as MegaBloks) in (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Question: Are reviews of non-LEGO (such as Mega Blocks) sets of interest?
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(...) Great! (...) This newsgroup is for reviews of LEGO® brand products only. Please do not post reviews here of things not manufactured by LEGO®, especially clone brands. You could talk about clone brands (such as MegaBloks) in .off-topic.fun, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Question: Are reviews of non-LEGO (such as Mega Blocks) sets of interest?
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I just became an AFOL (Mindstorms did the trick) and went hog wild buying a variety of sets. I hope to be presenting some reviews and parts inventories in the next week or so. I ended up picking up a couple Mega Blocks sets and would be happy to (...) (26 years ago, 2-Mar-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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I got a small handful of these sets yesterday and they are very cute. (yes, I do have a few extras, email me if you're interested). One thing they have is a small horse - I guess meant to be a foal. It's brown, no moving head and no space for a (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Lego Creator Activity Book
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(...) This reminds me: How many here pick up on all or almost all misspellings in books and stuff? The sheer amount I see makes me wonder if it is just me, or do publishers tend to employ bad editors? Jeff [Follow-ups sent to off-topic.fun] (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Not a bad user guide. I could do with a lot more "recipe" style instrutions, but overall a very good guide. Now as to the "publisher", there are numerous mispellings and dropped words. Kind of shoddy proofreading. (They even got my URL wrong). (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Jeff's Ramblings: Rain Dance Ridge
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(...) lately. (...) Hmm, What about set 6716 The western ammo supply wagon, 1 minifig, Two swords, Two pistols, one rifle, one pack of dynamite and a Cannon! oh, and 6 "cannon balls" This guys a regular rambo. Tim (No, Not that one) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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Just returned from the Tewksbury WalMart where I found a few sets on sale. Picked up a few Fright Forces at $3 and two Rain Dance Ridge sets for $4 [1]. I had only glanced at the latter, but figured it contained enough interesting parts to be worth (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: 6462: Aerial Recovery
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(...) They are plenty here, in Turkey, but I don't think that you want to pay for the extreme amounts charged for postage by Turkish PTT..:-) Selçuk (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) hehe... Sounds like future eBay fodder. I did build an ERC, but just barely could I do it and I only built one. It came apart the next day. Oops, I mean I took it apart the next day. Yeah, that's it... :) I seriously thought about a parts (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) piece (...) Hey, at least you could bring yourself to building youe ERC. Mine's still in the box. Jesse ___...___ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking for answers? Read the rec.toys.lego FAQ! (URL) in Deja News! (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: 6462: Aerial Recovery
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Selçuk wrote in message <36A26B8A.3ADDD2B4@n...ne.com>... :I've almost all of the RESQ sets except ERC (too much town jr.ish) and one or :two s@h only sets (2xxx sets released through the end of year). :The admiralship of the series is the RESQ (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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I've almost all of the RESQ sets except ERC (too much town jr.ish) and one or two s@h only sets (2xxx sets released through the end of year). The admiralship of the series is the RESQ Cruiser in my opinion. Aerial recovery set could have been very (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: 6462: Aerial Recovery
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(...) an (...) I give the theme a B+, as the Emergency Response Center has a few interesting pieces, yet is still very Town Jr'ish so that really lowers the overall grade with me. I have two, as they were over 50% off when I bought them. I wish that (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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