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(...) Studios and Life on Mars at TRU (on Thursday). For Studios they had: 1357 Cameraman $3.99 1352 Exploding Bank? $34.99 1351 Studio Backdrops? $59.99 Life on Mars: 7310 Mono Jet $3.99 7313 Red Planet Protector $19.99 7316 ? $49.99 I picked up (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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| | I think I really am gonna stop collecting this garbage
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I never thought it would end, but after 29 years of collecting Lego (100% Town complete; 80% Train complete), almost 1500 sets, close to 200,000 pieces, I need to seriously consider stopping to collect these absolutely horrible pieces of garbage (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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| | Re: 2001 at Retail NOW?!?
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(...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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| | Re: A good use for 2001 Alpha Team
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(...) I think I too agree that this is the same baseplate (new color) that graced the recent Avdenturers "Egypt" theme, a "classic" $29.99 set whose name escapes me (saw them at KMart before the August clearances hit) that had a kind of overgrown (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: New 2001 Lego Racers
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(...) Whoaah! Someone at TLC needs a wakeup call! I didn't ever recognise it as LEGO (I first checked the 'recent uploads' at Brickshelf before I read this post). What is LEGO thinking? What marketing research do they have to back this up? "If we (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ooooooh! This Racers! Nice high detailed Model Team sets! (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) I wonder if they have "Made in Taiwan" written on them somewhere... ~Nathan =) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) That's gonna be kind of hard with these(1). They only appear to have "imitation" studs. Gak. 1 - I know you know that, I'm just whinging. ++Lar (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) Or, better yet: collect all eight, and doubles of some, and build something new and cool and utterly unlike anything dreamed of by the people who designed the sets. (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) "Collect All 8?" Whatever happened to good old "Get the one you like best, and build something new if you get bored?" (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) Looks like they are after the "mum, can I have that ?" market. Cheap enough for the parent to give in, and look there is 8 in the set. All getting very HTO/Impulse purchase orientated. It's worked for fast food retaurants/breakfast cereal (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New 2001 Lego Racers
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(...) Yep... my initial reaction was literally "ewwwwwww". And it's only getting worse the more I look at it! (...) Well - I didn't like them *that* much more... but at least they were still *lego*... (...) It's so much fun, isn't it? ;-) I do it (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow. Those ARE bad. Are you sure you didn't get hold of some McDonalds advance planning stuff? Those look like something you get in a Happy Meal, not something that has anything to do with building. Sigh. However, remember that Lego has had a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) It's not a bad idea in terms of concept only -- but it went sour fast in the implementation. It should have been more Big Daddy Roth and less junior, or Duplo, or whatever...blech...(insert fake rubber vomit here). And I really don't see the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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I just got my Nov.-Dec. Mania magazine in the mail yesterday, and inside was an ad for the new Lego Racers. Y'know, those ugly little critters we saw artist's conceptions of (in the 2001 catalog, I believe). Well, they have the actual sets in there, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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| | Greek Mask Question (was Re: here comes the next wave of 2001 sets...)
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Mr. Istok: Since you have a pair of the better educated eyes on the subject, what scale do you imagine this green greek-style pop-eyed mask to be? The direct link should be here: (URL) would be so great to have this mask in minifig scale AND in gold (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Other new Lego for next year
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(...) For 1200$ I would expect more than a few large hull pieces with a motor. More life 5000+ pieces and a motor :-) Kev Z #142 (25 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) Get real! They would make a whole slew of new huge pieces that wouldn't even be *close* to real Lego. There would probably be a dozen plastic panels that snap together... and then you'd pay $200 for the motor. (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
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My roommate sent me a link to a review of the Lego Alpha Team game. (URL) it or not, it got a pretty good review, and there are some nuggets of information about the characters that might well translate over to the theme as well. eric (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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| | Re: When are the Movie Maker sets released?
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(...) According to the web site (URL) Available in the U.S. in January 2001 and globally in April 2001. BEN (25 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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