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(...) Sorry Eric, I didn't plan to address my complains to you. Of course I noticed that you are not disputing my claim; I only wanted to add to your posting that there is a VERY large difference between: 1) producing really randomly assorted (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer, lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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(...) Oh, whoa, hang on a sec. I'm not disputing your claim that all the wheels weren't produced- I wouldn't know, I didn't try to collect them. It's entirely possible. On the other hand, when someone complains that they got many of the more common (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer, lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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(...) Eric, I also love collecting all these things. I enjoyed when I saw LEGO coming out with disks, then wheels and now masks. I spent a *lot* of money on the disks, then I had them complete one day. A little later, even more special disks came (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer, lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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(...) I used to collect Magic cards (and play the game). I can assure you that you *can* collect a full set of these cards. It just requires patience, and a lot of money and/or hard trading. There's nothing uneducated about it. If you enjoy it, you (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Michael Edwards wrote in message ... (...) Can you say Pokemon. I refuse to allow any pokemon stuff into our house due to the blatant marketing of a .05 card. I just educate my son on not "collecting" stuff that is just a marketing ploy to get you (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Wellllll, when Marvel and DC do things like this, they tend to whip out the 2nd string artists and writers, so we'll see how much the art improves. :D (...) Perhaps. I got really excited at first, because I thought it was going to be a direct (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.books)
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(...) That's impressive. These will almost certainly be better-drawn than previously LEGO comic books like Jim Spaceborn and the Pirates one (the latter not being poorly drawn or anything, but a little too "Dinesyified" for my tastes :-)... I wonder (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.books)
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From (URL) : ...as part of the marketing push, Lego has solicited DC to create a three-issue comic book series for them, which according to a spokesperson for the publisher, will not be sold by them, but will be custom created for use by Lego as a (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Hi all, today, I noticed that TLC must have updated their bionicle.com area once again. - Looking through the telescope at Mata Nui you will now see 'new' stars that I never noticed so far. It's just a few white dots larger than the ones in the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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This is the 100th message in the BIONICLE newsgroup! I can't stand to see a group with 99 messages, I had to push it over the edge. By the way, can someone PLEASE scan a bionicle's face? NICK (-: (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) The throwbots each come with two certain disks: One of their disks, and one of another throwbots disk, always the same (e.g. Jet comes with one of his disks (two pip), and with one of Granite's disks (3pip).). 4,5,6,7, ect. disks only come in (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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I'm hoping that LEGO will do something with the Bionicles like the Toy Gladiator site, where you can register a gladiator, send the gladiator card to friends, etc. With the Bionicle potential for customization (different masks, weapons, Toa, etc), (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Hey is anyone else expiencing problems with the lego website?? It won't work for me, any suggestions?? Rex (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Works for me, you need to view the raw message source. A few mods, Weapon room - Jala's Room Fire? - Vakama (Tahu Shinre) -- Michael - - - Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Lugnet Member# 151 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) things. (...) Hear the alarm bells TLC! Christian has been the biggest Lego Fan on earth when I first got in touch with him. While most AFOL people are just fans of Lego products (basically the good ones from the past, hehe), Christian has (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Huh, spaced fine - you just have to click the "view raw message" link to see the fixed-pitch-font display. Which is standard procedure for viewing ASCII-graphic postings. Steve (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Uh, no. It's called "collectability". The higher pip value ones were more rare that the lower pip value ones. It's the same thing done with Magic cards, Pokemon cards... well, just about any kind of card, really. You get lots of more common (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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You know your right I sould have know that the extra disc box has THE EXTRA DISCS! what an oversite on my part. So if that was the case, and all the current mask bags have the same masks, the only way to get new ones is to have Lego produce more. (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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You know your right I sould have know that the extra disc box has THE EXTRA DISCS! what an oversite on my part. So if that was the case, and all the current mask bags have the same masks, the only way to get new ones is to have Lego produce more. (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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No matter what Lego says, the distribution of discs in the Throwbot/Slizer sets was not Random. The pictures of the sets that were on the on-lin catalog showed exactly the discs that came with the sets. The extra disc boxes aren't quite random (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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