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Re: FLASH: A Lego Set Brought Back a Great Childhood Memory!!
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lugnet.space, lugnet.general
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Thu, 10 May 2001 23:32:13 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Tim Courtney writes:
> "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?
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> Whoa...I totally forgot about that! That's gotta be a rush, I'm jealous :-)
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> 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
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~
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