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(...) Yes, this is another way in which it'd be a win for Lego. :) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) ...That would be a nightmare, since then I'd have to buy dozens of each set to make sure I got all the combinations of minifig head colours/patterns! :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) #160 (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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You know, sometimes I could just kick myself. :^P (...) Spacecraft (...) all (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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Started up the new UCS Survey for LEGO - Posted news of the AAT and MTT hitting retail in the UK - Set up the first several steps for building Shaun's AT-ST - Wrote a column for the site - Posted belatedly about the 1999 LEGO Maniax exhibition in (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Making the Death Star as a UCS set wouldn't make sense. In order to make it large enough to see sufficient detail to justify the UCS status, it would have to be huge. I'm not interested in a $500 model that's essentially a gray sphere. I want (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Hello - I'm new. Here's my take on the matter: Jar Jar was kept in the film for the purpose of comic relief and making kids giggle. He had no relevance to the plot at all. That is what makes his presence different from the other films. In the (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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Everybody remember to vote for the Falcon! I did! :-) Dave (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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It's right next to Jabba's Sail Barge. It's called "Imperial Shuttle." Dave Kya Morden <erythrite@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:390d061b.806742...net.com... (...) interest, (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Mark's Lego Creations Update!
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Whats the address?? ---...--- (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Why can't we have a Lando: Lego's Race policy
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(...) to (...) Even with the 'Indians from India', doesn't the term come from the Indus valley civilisations (hardly the subcontinent), history buffs please help. (...) In Australia, some Aboriginals (a generic term that crosses oceans) refer to (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Just a quick note here: TLC had better hope this isn't provable in a court of law! Didn't Harrison Ford win a case concerning his likeness in the _Indiana Jones_ movies and its transfer to a PC game? I think the case was settled that Ford (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wack or wacky? ;) They have somewhat opposing meanings, so I'm just trying to figure out if you liked Anthro or thought they were nuts--not that both can't be correct. Oddly enough, the term "Sioux" is dragged through *two* languages, first (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hi Everybody! Just a quick note to let you all know that I have created a new Spacecraft section on Mark's Lego Creations. In it you will find the newly added Mithrandir battleship, and the HF-130 Freighter. The HF-130 was built entirely from Star (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) ARGH!!@#!@# Where's the Lambda Class Shuttle?! Fine *looks generally ticked off* That's second favourite vehicle up there with the AT-AT. Argh#@$#@$#@$ Anyway, pointless rant over (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | suing TLC for discrimination (was: Re: A simple answer)
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(...) You're right, they can't sue TLC for *that*, but... what if there were a lawsuit by TLC employees in the USA who thought they were being denied promotions due to their race. Could they use the "racially pure" minifigs as evidence of a (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And...I try to call them by their proper tribal name bacause Hopi are not Sioux, who are not Navajo, etc... (now watch someone tell me I managed to mangle the spelling of one of those, so I can tell them that those are transliterations into (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I didn't mean to imply they would sue them over a portrayal of ethnicity, I meant that someone might sue to have their group represented as part of TLG's population of minifigs (if TLG actually started making ethnic 'figs). Dave (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I doubt it. Even if someone wanted to sue LEGO, what could they possibly argue? LEGO has the right to free speech, and therefore has the right to make their figs any color they want. By not creating figs with various "skin" tones, LEGO is (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One might argue that action figures or minifigs represent the actors who in turn represent the characters... (...) Hmm. I'm a native American, since I was born in Pennsylvania, even though my heritage is entirely European. Dave! (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) IANAA (I am not an American), but would a special interest group really *sue* Lego over a portrayal of ethnicity? Incidentally, I think Lego _should_ be challenged over it's attitudes to race and gender. As was pointed out earlier, there seems (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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