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| | | Any guesses on how much money The Lego Group would make, overnight! if they re-released the JCB set, the old red tractor or the original test car or indeed any of the many other fantastic technic sets there used to be? I used to have these sets as a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Call me a Lego purist if you will but... —Bob Sardelli
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| | | | | While I agree that the Technic sets of late are slightly dumbed down from previous advanced sets I don't think we can condemn TLG as a whole. It seems that the ingenuity that went into sets like 8880 is now being spent on Mindstorms. And you have to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Call me a Lego purist if you will but... —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | (...) I too think these parts are garbage and I refuse to allow any more of them into my collection, however good the rest of the set may be. (24 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Call me a Lego purist if you will but... —Ray Kremer
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| | | | | | (...) hate: (...) into my (...) I guess you have to be an old-school Technic collector to hate those, I rather like them. They are extremely effective on the 8448, for which they designed apparently: "Most of the Coventry concepts had body panels, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Call me a Lego purist if you will but... —Ronald Vallenduuk
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| | | | "Andrew Bissell" <ABNews@tesco.net> wrote in message news:GCB9Mr.H6A@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) with all that plastic.... Isn't next year the 25th anniversary of Technic? I think it was '77 when 850-853 were released. How about LEGO do a limited (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Call me a Lego purist if you will but... —Andrew Bissell
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| | | | | What a top set that would be Duq. But how about 8850 truck and 8862 JCB. Perhaps each limited edition issue could be a collection of types of model. Set no 1 could include the parts for all of the super size cars, Set 2 for all of the planes, set (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Call me a Lego purist if you will but... —Simon Bennett
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| | | | | | (...) Perhaps a more manageable idea (less pieces per bag) would be to organise by colour so: black - 8880, 8860, 8868, 8412 red - 851, 853, 8440, 8837, 8851, 8865 yellow - 850, 852, 856, 8459, 8460, 8828, 8862, 8853 Put me down for one of each - no (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Call me a Lego purist if you will but... —John Matthews
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| | | | <snip> (...) bet (...) I would like one of those! Build On! John Matthews (24 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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