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| | | | | Re: Now what? —Kecia Hansen
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| | | | | (...) Holy smokes! That's a BIG station. Kecia (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Now what? —John Gerlach
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| | | | | | | (...) We try to build to the scale of the 8-wide trains. The platform should actually be much longer. The GMLTC firmly believes that "bigger is better". We blame it all on John Neal... ;-) JohnG, GMLTC (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Roger, Roger! (...) Well, he started out to build a 2150 (in alternate colors but following the directions exactly), but as you know, the GMLTC members are known not to follow directions well. :-) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —John Gerlach
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| | | | | | | (...) HEY!! That's *OUR* line! <grin> We're also trying to come up with a way to put a large opening in that big black roof, so people can see into the station easier. Currently, if we want to show off the interior details, we have to lift the roof (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —John Kelly III
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| | | | | | | | I'm always the guy making him nervous. I love showing that the roof comes off! I've taken to brining a cooler so kids can stand on it and peek in at the scenes inside. No problems.... yet. (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Kecia Hansen
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| | | | | | (...) Heh heh. Love the idea, about a new colour. Kecia (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Now what? —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) A big AMEN to that. I'm all for bringing back classic *designs*, not necessarily *sets*. The 2 elements I'd most love to see produced in a color not currently available are the 4x3 low slope and the 3x3 low double corner slope in *dark gray* (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | Well, they've been CAST in dark grey, just not for public consumption. Someone posted a MOC from Europe a copule weeks back, using the dark grey low slopes gotten from a Red Letter day at Legoland, from what I can remember. Personally, I think they (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | | | (...) That was me, with my version of the Oakham, Rutland (UK) signal box: (URL) just about acquired enough dark grey concaves to put proper gables above the windows of this station too: (URL) it's insane how hard it is to get the bricks! The (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | | | "Jason J Railton" <j.j.railton@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:H07n5n.Fn6@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) for (...) I have come to the conclusion that Lego, and/or specifically Lego Direct, have little interest in increasing the variety of bulk (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —John Kelly III
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| | | | | | | | I always find these types of comments fascinating. It could be that LEGO has changed quite a bit since I was a Model Builder for them. (Well it’s changed a lot in that most of the shop I was part of was moved off shore.) One of the common (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | | | | | "John Kelly 3" <jkelly3@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H07sxL.5wA@lugnet.com... (...) any (...) complete (...) If (...) were (...) always (...) The inventory you had available to you in the model shop is nothing to do with the inventory of parts (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —John Kelly III
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| | | | | | | | | | Actually the bricks I had available in the model shop had everything to do with the inventory that Lego had. Where do you think we got our bricks from? You think that they would be unwilling to send us the elements we wanted if they had them? The (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Ludo Soete
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| | | | | | | | (...) Perhaps it is, but they made 'recently?' a whole lot of new models for the LEGOLAND GERMANY park, so, i guess they run a whole lot more bricks than they used for the models they build. I visited LEGOLAND WINDSOR too in the opening year and (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —John Kelly III
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| | | | | | | | Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I was in the American model shop in Enfield and we had constraints that the model shop in Billund did not have. (Windsor Locks was just opening in my time and the Billund shop was handling their models.) We were not (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Well, I have a couple dozen assorted 'swirly' bricks.... They are kept very securely locked up. Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | | | (...) Actually I have some of those, I found them inside of the sculptures that we rescued ((URL) They're kind of a funny brown gray color with lots of swirls. These were used as structural supports inside of the sculptures. While repairing the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —John Kelly III
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| | | | | | | | | You both have something that I tried for two years in the model shop to get my hands on to no avail. *grin* Congrats! Best I could do was some of the hand molded new elements that they used to prototype new model designs. -john 3 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Pocketses, my precious-sss...sss, Pocketses!! The secret to successful snarfing is lots of Pocketses. Gollum (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —John Kelly III
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| | | | | | | | | | I dropped the Lego Direct group. LOL Man, I tried. Actually I had such a mess of things when I quit as a Model Builder they just let me take home 2 K8s of bricks rather than have to sort through them. -john (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | | | Thats a nice truck JT. I especially like the personalized plate! -Rob "James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:H0BnwF.n0C@lugnet.com... (...) change (...) two (...) we (...) funny (...) supports (...) these (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | | | Thanks Rob, I bought it just for hauling LEGO, my wife was tired of me taking her van every month for train shows. jt (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | | | I just bought an 2003 Toyota Matrix for the same reason. I call it "hers" and let her drive it, but it hauls Lego really well! Rob "James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:H0DDCo.B8y@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) that (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Now what? —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) of those for my interlocking tower, too! :-) :-( -John (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | Re: Now what? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) than (...) Pink... (URL) sure there are better examples, but I couldn't find one. Frank (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Sheree Rosenkrantz
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| | | | | | | (...) pictures of a wide variety can be found at (URL) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Now what? —Jason Spears
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| | | | | | (...) Ok, I obviously need to keep my eyes more open. I don't remember seeing that last time I rode the train through Beverly Shores. Wacky. -Jason +---...---+ Jason Spears MichLUG - (URL) Lego Page - (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Now what? —Jared Chan
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| | | | Maybe LEGO can rerelease 4554/2150 in different colours for us to choose from, just like what they are doing to the steam engines KT10X, KT20X, KT30X, KT40X. (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Now what? —Dan Voelkerding
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| | | | (...) Yeah, thats probally where the color system would have worked, or maybe they should of tryed a SFSC Freight Unit(Blue and Yellow) Dan (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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