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(...) "New from Hasbro: It's Rough-n-Ready Mister Greenjeans, with Battle-Action Ploughshare and Corn Husking Power!" You know it's time. We'll make a mint! Does anyone have their phone number? Hey, it's no dumber than 'Pokemon.' best LFB XFUT -> (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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How do you think the Bionicle storyline will end? My ending: The Toa are fighting Makuta. He is extremly powerful. The six Toa fuse together and awake Mata Nui. He forms with the fused Toas and they manage to defeat Makuta. With the evil one gone, (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Bah, believe me, *every* booster has a rare, and one in three is a holo. With a lot of time, money, and diligence I was able to complete three sets of Pokemon cards. For this reason I know how it is to open 5 boosters in a row to get (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) That reminds me of one of our running jokes for the summit :) Also reminds me of the scripture which says '..and they will beat their swords into plowshares...' or something like that. -Tim (26 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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The Wall Street Journal article had a large-print sidebar quoting "They're not weapons, they're tools." Right..... As a side effect I've got a new understanding of "Codewarrior: Tools for the Professional Programmer." They're not weapons, they're (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Trimmed bionicle from FUT (...) I agree with Bill. Violence in a story isn't bad, per se. It's *celebrating it* as an end in and of itself that's bad. I hold with a philosophy that doesn't initiate violence but that doesn't mean I'm against seeing (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Trimmed bionicle from FUT (...) I agree with Bill. Violence in a story isn't bad, per se. It's *celebrating it* as an end in and of itself that's bad. I hold with a philosophy that doesn't initiate violence but that doesn't mean I'm against seeing (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This may stir up a firestorm (not my intent), but why is violence in a storyline so bad? Violence is a regrettably necessary part of life. If children learn to comprehrend the difference between violence that defends or protects innocence and (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I agree with both of you. I do think it's disturbing. I'd just like to raise some points to clarify some things. 1. If a computer virus is programmed not to like being killed, it won't like being killed. Now, this may not be true, today, but it is (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry, I hadn't read the Bionicle.com story yet. I didn't expect to find anything beyond the 2001 TECHNIC brochure found in the LEGO boxes. So now we have a character that is definately evil- is it okay now? I still think that evil LEGO was (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) 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)
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*** "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)
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(...) ...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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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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