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Subject:	Re: FLASH: A Lego Set Brought Back a Great Childhood Memory!!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.space, lugnet.general
Date:	Mon, 7 May 2001 23:49:05 GMT
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"Bob" <cg47@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GCzo4q.92F@lugnet.com... > Last week I was building a <set:6951> Robot Command Center that was MISB > when I bought it. While opening the bags, I saw something that I had > forgotten about. It was how the transparent colored 1 x 1 round plates used > to come attached to a little piece of sprue (of the same color). The > builder had to twist the plates off before attaching them. What a rush! > > I wonder when the switch occured to the current method of loose pieces? Whoa...I totally forgot about that! That's gotta be a rush, I'm jealous :-) They stopped doing that sometime in the early 90s, IIRC. I don't recall ever getting any of those scraps in Ice Planet trans orange, and that was 1992. -Tim

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		Re: FLASH: A Lego Set Brought Back a Great Childhood Memory!!
(...) Yeah, those were the good old days! Remember when you got legitimate parts instead of spuds? Oh wait, we've had that conversation. Do flowers still come on sprues? GREG~ (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)

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		FLASH: A Lego Set Brought Back a Great Childhood Memory!!
Last week I was building a <set:6951> Robot Command Center that was MISB when I bought it. While opening the bags, I saw something that I had forgotten about. It was how the transparent colored 1 x 1 round plates used to come attached to a little (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)

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