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| (...) SPUD = Special Purpose, Useless, Decorative. Think yellow rafts from Divers. POOP = Piece Out of Other Pieces. Things that should have been multiple pieces. Think 5-high bricks, angled bricks with double slopes, Town Jr. elements. Steve (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Does anyone accually like 4561?
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| Yeah - I like it, and my mate Chris (a non-Internet AFOL) does too. I just got my 4561 on Friday and it looks a lot better built than it does in the catalogue. I won't say it's perfect - it has it's good and bad points. The obvious bad point is the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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town
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| | 4x2ReVu: 1785 Crater Critters
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| Odd occurrences at the Cratier Robotics Development plant: at the end of the work week (when all employees returned to their living quarters) the virtual alarms were silenced and production conveyor belts began moving on their own. Autobot units (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.space)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 7130 Snow Speeder
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| It's been hours since the first Imperial ground forces landed. Most of the rebel convoy made it to the wider confines of space but a few scattered remnants of those that didn't make it to the outer atmosphere litter the frozen, unforgiving surface (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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town
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| | 4x2ReVu: 4559 Cargo Railway
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| I'm including this one in lugnet.space because the set kind of fits in with a futuristic look. ---...--- Blacktron forces are among us! Subtly sneaking into the transportation industry, a new style of cargo train is appearing in train yards and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)
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town
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| | Re: Why I love Belville Service pack 5399 (Europe only?)
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| A service pack? As in, small pack, cool parts of the real stuff without the expense of the real stuff? As in "Town Accessories", "Diver Accessories", etc? A "Belville Castle Accessories"... Wow! Jealousy! I want one! I was thinking of buying the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | My ReVUE: 6471
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| Background: Well, I headed towards the local TRU to check out the 2000 sets and decided to buy this one to try out those new wheels. ---...--- Set Number: 6471 Set Name: 4WD Police Patrol Piece Count: 29 Theme/Subtheme: Town/City Centre Price Paid (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Short Review: 6455 Space Simulation Station
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| REVIEW: 6455 SPACE SIMULATION STATION - Tom McDonald RETAIL: $29.99, S@H $33.00 THEME: SPACE PORT AGES: 7-12 PCS: 240 MINIFIGURES: 3; 1 Astronaut with gold visor; 1 Station director in white coat; 1 Technician in red jumpsuit OVERVIEW: Don't get me (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: JJ'S REVIEW: 6095 Royal Joust
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| (...) I checked that TRU last year, the day after Christmas they were stocking many 1999 sets. Before any other Target, Walmart, Kmart or toystore in town (now you know who took all the good stuff.) Be sure to hit the Target stores early on the 26th (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.reviews)
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| | review: LEGO '99
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| A little over a year ago, we were all poring over the little 1999 one page mini-catalog (or at least the scans of it Huw had up at his website). Most of us expressed joy at the new sets while some showed disgust. Personally, I was excited about (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | 4990 -- Rock Raiders HQ
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| Over the weekend, I picked up set 4990 -- the Rock Raiders HQ. While lots of people complain about the Rock Raiders line being "juniorized" and having too many specialty pieces, I found the HQ to be far more pleasing than most of the other sets in (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | My ReVUE: 6520
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| Background: The day started out great. My wife has been begging me for a blue 540i station wagon, so I decided I would surprise her with one on the 25th. To my luck, the first dealer I called had the exact one I wanted. Or so I thought. After (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | My ReVUE: 5902
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| Background: Buying some of the new 2000 sets, I noticed this one. I do collect Adventurers and have not bought this one yet. Knowing it was discontiued, I picked one up. ---...--- Set Number: 5902 Set Name: River Raft Piece Count: 18 Theme/Subtheme: (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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town
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| | My ReVUE: 5956
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| Background: It was my son's birthday so I we headed over to TRU to pick out gifts. My son got a some LEGOs and Nintendo games, but I knew I could not leave empty handed. Knowing it was one of those "big plastic piece" sets and that it would be (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | My View of 6479
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| This will be an informal (maybe not?) review, since I already wrote a long one, but it got erased. Arrgh! And on my first review, too! Background: I bought this Emergency Response Center in LEGOLAND, so the price probably could've been better. It (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6520 Mobile Outpost
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| Crossposted to Town, I hope this is okay. ---...--- "It's the blizzard…you'll never outrun it." and then only static emitted from the radio. Kyle can see nothing outside the transport windows and knows he'll never make it back to the base in time (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.town)
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| | Review 7104 - Desert Skiff
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| The Undeniable: Set: 7104 - Desert Skiff Theme: Star Wars (Classic) Pieces: 53 Figs: 2 MSRP: $5.99 Part to $ ratio: 1:$.0885 The Good: Han Solo Fig! Lots of Brown including 2 1x6x2 guard rails. 2 Black Female Click Hinge 1x2 Bricks 2 Tan Male Click (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | My ReVUE: 4561
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| Background: This was a gift from my wife during the holidays. ---...--- Set Number: 4561 Set Name: Railyway Express Piece Count: 645 Theme/Subtheme: Train/1999 Collection Price Paid (Retail)[S@H]: $102.97 ($129.99)[$139.00] NEW! Price per piece (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews)
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(score: 0.842)
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| | Re: B-Wing Review
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| (...) I certainly am not. Both the A-Wing and B-Wing are awful models, IMO. They are tiny, flimsy and rather ugly, especially when compared to just about every MOC I've seen of them. Of course, I'm biased because of my MOCs, which are two of the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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town
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| | My ReVUE: 6090
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| Background: It was my now annual spring trip to Europe and this time around it was Spain. One full day we spent shopping in downtown Madrid. While my wife and daughter had fun at the department store, El Corte Ingles, my son an I ventured off to a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews)
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(score: 0.841)
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