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While Lego may be torturing Lego enthusiasts, they are helping out the internet hurting postal workers by making all of us pay high international postal rates to get the sets that are not availible to us. I know I save at least $5.00 a month paying (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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(...) (URL) appears they came in the Cyber Master set: (URL) Along with a really spiffy Frame (URL) the Bricklink part numbers all match (even the x428) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) OK, but the same tracks are on the MOC "New Excavator." They certainly do look like Lego parts. Andrew Meyer (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I dunno. Debatable I spose. Limiting yourself to a certain area does admittedly lessen your losses if the theme flops-- which some recent themes have done. And assumably if the theme does really well, you bring it over to the markets it's (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Gary Tabener wrote: <snip> (...) And whereas I'd probably buy a few Viking sets should they become available, the cost factor in sending both series 'across the pond' and other related issues, such as marketing and such, someone (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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"David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> wrote in message news:IDrHBJ.tru@lugnet.com... (...) three (...) reason (...) quarter of (...) it's (...) anxious (...) eager (...) get (...) Europe for (...) this (...) the (...) Attack' (...) fan of (...) In all (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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(...) fun are they? (URL) I wonder where they are now, or if they are lamenting the passing of their old style gears into the newer fine-pitch teeth :-) Imagine the uproar of changing the basic brick with holes into the studded beam. Heresy! Ralph (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) From my cruddy web-cam: Original bushing (URL) version of the "technic beam" (brick?): (URL) axle (seems translucent, but it could be age): (URL) u-joint: (URL) of these came from the 812-1 I still have parts for: (URL) A> (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) It's probably the earliest they could fit it into production. But I think it's expected to hear about the sets now. From my understanding, everyone's anxious to get their toys shown at the Toy Fair (in Q1) so that manufacturers are eager to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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Dear Lego, Why do you torture Technic enthusiasts? First, we get a preview of three very cool looking Technic sets (8421, 8420, and 8416), but for some reason the release dates of these sets are clustered together in the 4th quarter of 2005. Then, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic)
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