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    Re: No new space sets? —Jeff Thompson
   (...) Yup - I realized that seconds after I posted it, but didn't have time to go and cancel and edit my message. Sorry! (...) What restriction? Where did we hear about this? Why were the Spaceport spaceships not covered? -- jthompson@esker.com (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
   
        Re: No new space sets? —Jonathan Wilson
    (...) They are not spaceships. Does nasa call the space shuttle a spaceship? I think not. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
   
        Re: No new space sets? —Jeff Thompson
   (...) So, since Paramount calls THEIR spaceships "starships" rather than "spaceships" it would be OK for LEGO to license the Star Trek universe and sell models of the Enterprise? Space shuttles fly thru space. I'd call them spaceships, even if NASA (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
   
        Re: No new space sets? —Matthew Miller
   (...) I don't buy it. I think it far more likely that Lego has _decided_ that Star Wars is filling the role of a space theme. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
   
        Re: No new space sets? —Jeff Thompson
   (...) Until I understand where the licensing-prevents-L...m-selling- non-star-wars-spaceships came from, that is my theory as well. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
 

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