 | | Re: Is Bionicle violence?
|
|
(...) Makuta followed his brother, Mata Nui from there home. The islanders of Mata Nui worshiped Mata Nui because he had made the world into a paradise. Makuta was jealous and tried to get the islanders to worship him by using fear and pain, but (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Is Bionicle violence?
|
|
*** "Launching in late summer, the Bionicle line consists of six heroes, known as the Toa, and five villains, know as the Makuta. In addition to the figures, LEGO will launch two Bionicle video games. With vicious-looking villains and grim heroes, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
|
|
(...) ...Related to Magic though was the big disaster they had with Antiquities (at least I think it was Antiquities), where the distribution of cards was not random. Apparently someone at the card plant screwed up and the sorting didn't work out (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
|
|
(...) how the quality of the Lego brick is way down. Anyone that has old Lego can put it sid by side with the new ones and can see that there are huge differences in the quality. Here are a few: 1. The old Lego were much brighter and had a better (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
|
|
(...) I believe it's true for Magic. I would not be too surprised if it wasn't true for Pokemon, though. But I suspect it's against the law in at least the US, as it would be false advertising to claim something is available if it is not ever (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
|
|
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)
|
