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I say keep all the minifigs yellow. Don't get into color. As soon as you do then you will not have enough shades. The shade they use will not be dark enough or light enough. Also most ethnicities are not color but facial features as well. Do you (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports)
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If they do these sets with minifigs I wonder if this will force LEGO to address the "race" issue with the figs? If they try to make the figures after real athletes then I would think so. jt (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports)
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I just want a minifig (American) football helmet you can paint at home to make your favorite team. (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports)
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Still I think that the best sport-sets by LEGO would be the NHL sets! With all the NHL minifigs, arenas... WOW! Rene (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.general)
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(...) LoL @ the 4O's! (getting’ the old peach basket out!) (...) This has controversy written -ALL- over it… I'm surprised nobody had qualms with the minifigs in the soccer sets. Quite a few counties have notable ethnic players… 0penin’ a can of (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.general)
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(...) Red hair, don’t forget the *red hair!!! -R *infer any other color that Rodman may have had during his career. P.S. has anyone though of any other unique elements that may be incorporated into the sets? I'm thinkin’ shorts, obviously a (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.general)
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I see great potential here not only in the NBA agreement but with other sports as well. Some thoughts... If the NBA idea is fully exploited we could have all kinds of sets. The most obvious that comes to mind is all of the teams could be (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports)
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My vote is for tattoed arms and legs on the minifig arms! Do you think they will be printed or or just stickers? Todd (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.general)
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Here is a larger blurb from lego.com: May 31 2002 LEGO COMPANY AND NBA BUILD COMPREHENSIVE GLOBAL ALLIANCE NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2002 – The LEGO Company and the National Basketball Association have reached an agreement for a comprehensive multi-year (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports)
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(...) So much for the slogan "just imagine.....", Look's like Lego has used all their imagination. Maybe they'll make NBA dolls like the Galidor dolls. Jonathan (still longing for bulk packs....) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports)
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(...) I guess the SF Chronical is a reliable source, especially when they are quoting a company spokesperson. Kind of makes one wonder, though, when the clip contains some obvious factual inaccuracies (soccer). Unless TLC is planning to recreate the (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.general)
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(...) Great, just what we need, another type of minifig leg. I say we call them "Longies" Jude x-post to .general (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.general)
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Hi all, The 2002 World Cup begins tomorrow morning, organized by Korea and Japan. Is there any sort of LEGO-related activity scheduled for this event? Besides the Coca Cola promo, I mean... (Let the best team win! :-) Pedro (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.sports)
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Hi all. David 'Fuzzy' Gregory, Todd Trotter and myself all gathered at Michael Daniel's house in Oklahoma city this saturday. Here are some highlights: Todd told us to assemble a small army of 11 'soldiers' for some sort of activity. It turned out (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.sports, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.lugco, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: #3425 and other new addias sets - sticker or printed torsos?
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They are stickers. James (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.sports)
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I am thinking about getting the new soccer addidas soccer sets, but only if the torsos are printed. So does anybody out there know if they are stickers on not? Mark P (URL) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.sports)
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Matt Hein wrote in message ... (...) Why? Because there are very few people who could afford a model like that :-) Just the 7000 minifigs and you're looking at $7000 retail... Of course anyone who wants a custom model made can get one just by (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.sports)
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Joel Jacobsen writes: [ snip ] Over 320,000 bricks? 1600+ hours of building by Four employees? That's one nice stadium! I'm just wondering why Lego doesn't make such large models to sell. I'm sure production costs and all of (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.sports)
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Just had a friend send me this link from Annanova: (URL) a small article with only 1 picture but it looks impressive: Lego workers build 320,000 block World Cup stadium Four Lego workers have spent 1,600 hours creating a football stadium to (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.sports)
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Brad Justus, Sr. VP of Lego Direct did a question and answer session at Brickswest. I have completed the transcript of this event. You can download the .pdf file from here. (URL) Herrera (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.sports)
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