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Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
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lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space
Date: 
Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:54:54 GMT
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In lugnet.build.contests, Mark Sandlin writes:
I buy the new ones, but I'd also buy the old ones, namely the original run
of late 70's sets. My parents couldn't afford to buy me the largest sets
when I was a youngster, so I missed out on the Galaxy Explorer and the large
bases.

What if they released an LL-932 super-gigantor Galaxy Explorer big-brother
ship and gave printed instructions to build an exact replica of the original
Galaxy Explorer and its two smaller counterparts as alternate models?

--Todd



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  Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
 
That could be fun as well. :^) I could build a GE with my current parts, but I don't have the "ship registration" brick, and that's a model I might want to have sitting around untouched... it's history, ya know? ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)
  Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
 
(...) That would rock!! -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)
  Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
 
Then I'd gladly sell a Kidney to get one : ) How 'bout new Blacktron (I & II) Stuff too !? I've always been bummed that I didn't get a 6981 Aerial Intruder : (...) original (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)
  Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
 
(...) I was thinking a bit more about the re-releasing of older sets, and decided that we haven't got a prayer. There's just too many elements in those older models that aren't being manufactured anymore. Wouldn't Lego have to make a tremendous (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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  Re: TLC: Use annual contests for Classically-designed set releases!
 
I buy the new ones, but I'd also buy the old ones, namely the original run of late 70's sets. My parents couldn't afford to buy me the largest sets when I was a youngster, so I missed out on the Galaxy Explorer and the large bases. ~Mark "Muffin (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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