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| | Iris LEGO Containers
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| Just saw these tonight at a Seattle Fred Meyer (URL) units in the center look like tackle boxes without dividers, and retail for $9 each (and come with a 10inch baseplate). The bins at top seem more like plastic shoeboxes and weren't priced (also (...) (15 years ago, 25-Nov-09, to lugnet.storage)
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| | RE: any video of LEGO fire fighting bots?
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| Joe, Certainly there have been instances of lego robots in the contest. The department at Trinity College sponsoring the competition sells videos of the competition each year. I have several of those from years long past. I bought them from the (...) (17 years ago, 5-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| fred (score: 0.438) |
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| | 7787 Bat-Tank 50% off at LEGO brand store (Oregon)
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| I just got Set 7787: The Bat-Tank: The Riddler and Bane's Hideout for 50% off at my local LEGO brand store near Portland, Oregon. I love 50% off. It's my favorite price. This set originally retailed for 49.99, so I got it for $24.99. The brand store (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | FRED- flashing rear end device
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| (URL) FRED- Flashing Rear End Device (URL) Full Gallery> (once moderated) Inspired by one of John Neil's hopper cars with an integrated FRED, I set out to build my own for the double stacks. It took me a while to actually get one of the smaller (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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| In lugnet.trains, Benn Coifman wrote: <snippage> (...) Good work, Benn! I had wanted to do the same thing with my Huskey Stacks, but I was deterred by the cumbersome LEGO lighting. I think I'll just stick with my hidden light trick on my Bethgon:-) (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| fred (score: 0.409) |
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| | Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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| (...) Solution: don't put the light on the end. Put the light interior to the container, and pipe it to the end using a fiber-optic piece. The size of the flasher (about the size of a stud) would then be more correct, and it could be hidden about as (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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| (...) I like this idea - it adds a nice bit of realism to modern train consists! Too bad Lego lighting wasn't smaller, but for what you had to work with, vool job for sure! And I just saw a History Channel show on trains and they said that trainmen (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | RE: Mindstorms USB connection and memory
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| There is a lot of "not quite standard" to existing USB capable products. Some things like digital cameras and thumb-drives get along fine with current operating systems, but most of them have their own drivers available to implement extra features. (...) (18 years ago, 20-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| fred (score: 0.404) |
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| | Re: Straight LEGO Country Flags of 70's and 80's
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| Willy, Here's the comments from the Bricklink Canada Flag thread: My comments: (...) And the comments of a Canadian collector named Fred: (...) Fred, do you have (or remember having) an Australian flag/sticker and an Irish flag/sticker among your (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Re: Cool link
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| I am also impressed by the site. I very much enjoy the effort expended to document the work with a variety of prepared computer-graphics, photos, screen-shots and excellent technical explanations of the both the overview of the current (...) (18 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Re: Cool link
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| Just be thankful it doesn't say "B E A T M I C H I G A N !" -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Juergen Stuber Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:14 AM To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com Subject: Re: Cool link (...) (18 years ago, 18-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Straight LEGO Country Flags of 70's and 80's
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| (...) Well I just got an EMAIL from Fred Wiedemeyer from Canada who purchased the sealed British #939 on Bricklink. But unfortunately it was not totally sealed and someone took some stickers off of one of the sticker sheets. But here is what Fred (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Straight LEGO Country Flags of 70's and 80's
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| (...) Willy, unfortunately, the Irish Flag was removed from the sticker sheet and put onto a flag in a rather poor manner (this was how Fred got the set). Figures it had to be that sticker sheet! I will see if I can at least get you a sticker sheet (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lunar Ice Harvester
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| Still would be sweet to see. Do the treads roll it around as well? Bummer I missed your showing last weekend at cherry creek. Didn't know that they were having such an event. (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jul-06, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| fred (score: 0.400) |
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| | Anybody seen 6112 in stores yet?
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| Hi I'm looking for (URL) this set> (URL) It's also available (URL). I searched Froogle and everyplace that had it either didn't or wanted too much. I also checked the following brick-and-mortar stores: Toys "R" Us Fred Meyer Target Wal*Mart No dice. (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: More vehicles
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| I had not even noticed hat it steers! Is there an actaul steering mechanism from a wheel of some sort on the body of the truck? Perhaps you have to move the wheels by hand. It's so tight I can't tell. (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| fred (score: 0.398) |