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(...) How DARE you call that cool air pump a SPUD? :) Jonathan Wilson (wishing he could afford one of those cool air pumps :) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) Creator is 100% compatible with System -- the _only_ major new element is the fig. It's not classic Town, but I'd rather see a real building product line aimed at 3-6 year olds than the current POOPy rubbish. (...) Megabloks figs? They're only (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) What on earth do you classify as a SPUD? I see perhaps 2 or 3, the main one being the air pump, and ok, there's that arch piece. The tubes? I don't call those SPUDs. The tube holders? Well, perhaps their spudsy, but since they are an important (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) You don't have dogheaded monsters in your castle set-ups Frank? Shame on you!! It looks like Creator heads have the same connection as Belville, Technic and Fabuland (and Scala?): see (URL) With a bit of Brasso/craftknife work on the torsos (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) LOM has to be a continuation of the space port theme. C'mon, It started with astronauts and green crystals, and now it's astronauts and ugly green (or black or blue or pink or brown.......) aliens. Space always had no connection to earth or (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) Really? (URL) think not! eric (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001)
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All the talk about the death of the minifig, and how creator is taking over, but think, for years, maybe dacades, minifigs have been living in harmony with technic figs, duplo figs, scala figs, ect.. Did this "minifigures must live" argument start (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) Lucasfilm. There's that whole competition with Star Wars thingy we've all heard about. (...) Depends on who you ask. I don't think Exploriens or UFO were very good, either. Personally, I don't think there have been any really good Space sets (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) I would definitely be among those who like LOM. I just finished building the little promo sets, and a few days ago finished the big base. I must say that I have enjoyed building these sets. I think they are good designs (but like almost all (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, it all depends on how you look at it. LOM is not (at least, not according to lugnet) considered as part of the Space line (1). I don't know how accurate that is, I wouldn't bet my life on it, but there's probably a reason for it not to (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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Hi all HP fans, subject says it all. See: (URL) sure Suzanne will add this to .announce groups soon. Bye, Christian --- xTIAN. ---...--- Lugnet Member #479 -- The World is full of AFOLs ! mail: xtian@brickmaster.de web: www.brickmaster.de (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.lego, lugnet.games)
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"brickhead" <astan@gmx.net> wrote in message news:G84GBG.6uC@lugnet.com... (...) their way to 1000steine.de: (...) and security staff and only shown to selected people. No (...) However, his first impressions sound really (...) Hey Arnold, you've (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm not sure I'd place that much significance on the Creator figures. I'd note that they look to be a similar scale to Fabuland (though perhaps with not quite the charm of Fabuland). Fabuland came and went during the life of minifigs. In fact, (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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After I thought about it for a while, I began to think "Did our complaints start the creator line?". We asked for less juniorization, and the LEGO company may have made the creator sets to say "The point of lego is still to build. There is more than (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001)
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Unless 2002 shows some sign of turnaround in the LEGO world, I'm afraid LEGO will lose a fan/customer in all areas except for technic/mindstorms. Being a town fan, if I can't mix new LEGO with the past 20 years worth of my collection then how am I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001)
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"Rob D." <htduck.geo@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:B6A0F4E7.11222%...hoo.com... (...) on (...) the (...) new (...) the (...) I think thats what the previous post said. i.e. they were patented. However, patents eventually run out, as they now are (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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in article G85w3s.KKv@lugnet.com, Will Hess at willhess@simflex.com wrote on 2/2/2001 9:20 PM: (...) See, now I think this is just crazy. Why on earth didn't Lego trademark the minifig? Then (although I am no lawyer), patent or no patent, no one (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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in article G85sKw.DrI@lugnet.com, Kevin Zwicker at kevin1@netrover.com wrote on 2/2/2001 8:07 PM: (...) Yuck. An unholy union of minifigs and Bellville. Why didn't we have those weird Bellville people sterilized while we had the chance? Rob (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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"Kevin Zwicker" <kevin1@netrover.com> wrote in message news:G85sKw.DrI@lugnet.com... (...) don't (...) ICK POO!!!...!!! Long live the minifig! -Tim (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) FWIW I think the death of the minifig is more about the expiration of the patent on those elements than anything else. The Best Lock figs are a straight rip-off of the minifigs we all know and love. I'd suspect Lego is going in this new (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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