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(...) well....that is correct....that the line was brought out by Lego Direct.... HOWEVER..... <geek cap on> the role of dear.lego is to convey messages to the company. Lego Direct is a facet of the company. <I think>, that the newsgroup lego.direct (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.town)
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(...) I was under the impression that My Own Train was brought to us by Lego Direct. I could be wrong... Thanks, Jonathan (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.town)
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(...) well not any police stations or fire stations, especially not juniorized ones. (I already have 3 different juniorized (fire) stations, but only 1 juniorized police station.) My own house would be cool... 4 different house designs in 4 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.town)
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How about "My Own Town"? A line from which you can buy all the elements needed to compose your own town, the way you want it yourself: Houses, petrol station, fire station, police head quarter, restaurants, various shops and cars and buses and so (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.town)
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(...) Well, the answer is simple...... They want more Police Officers! lol Or They want to teach the kids early on how to escape! lol Nah, but really, toys are a reflection of our society, and unfortunately it includes more and more prisons. Who (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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a carefully designed conspiracy with the sole purpose of annoying lego collectors (and the pleasant side effect of droping the price of jail doors). hope that explains everything. please note the jail doors have NOTHING to do with playability or (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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(...) And then the bad guy can escape to start the cycle again... (...) Right, and IIRC sets with a prison cell also include an opposition character to lock up in it. Hmmmm interestingly, King Leo's castle missed out on a cell (though it did get the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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(...) Because kids like to play "good guy / bad guy" games (cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, etc) and locking people up is part of that game's scenario. The bad guy locks up the good guy as part of the evil plan, and the good guy escapes, and (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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(...) These specific trucks are all over the city (I live in NYC). Not with this particular mural, but these 100 foot ladder trucks are standard in NYC. I see them all the time. They are huge & magnificent. We also have numerous tower trucks that (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Great rigs ALL over that sight! (...) Yep that is one great truck isn't it..... (...) Hee hadn't noticed that:-) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Did you sift though the pics of the types? There's a great tiller... Are you looking at the one with the Flag!? WOH! 'jaw drops'... BTW,notice Seagrave's Logo in the top left corner? Notice the resemblence to the LEGO fire logos? HEHEHEHE Josh (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I like, I like (translation, I WANT IT NOW!) Josh (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.town)
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Guys I was checking out firehouse.com as i often do and ran across this.(URL) .Any one want try and do a moc of this?:-) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Good idea. I suppose they could do the same with just about any theme (depending on sales) to allow some colour/size options/customisations. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.town)
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(...) Have you never seen the a-team? Jails are for the good guys to break out from! :) Scott A (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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(...) sure...why not...sounds like an excellent idea!!! Benjamin Medinets (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.town)
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I had an idea for this a while ago. I am sure you are already moving forward with ideas and products for quite a while to come, but I figured I'd throw it out there anyway. Like 'My Own Train', why not make a 'My Own Truck' series. There could be a (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.town)
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Same reason they add falling axes/swords to every set a lazy way of adding what they see as playability -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado "Benjamin Whytcross" (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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I don't know if anyone else has asked this in the past, but I was curious if anyone has an explanation as to why LEGO seem to add prison/jails to such a large percentage of lego sets? Any ideas? Benjamin Whytcross [And Mandy...the person behind the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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Kevin Wilson wrote in message ... (...) beginning (...) Please don't send me entries or voting registration requests just yet, people - I'll be posting on or before Feb 1st about exactly how to do both. I'm glad to see you're not all burned out on (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.town)
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