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(...) Oooh! The prospect of DC itself is exciting, as I've only been there when I was three and naturally don't remember much ;-) + Outlet Store? Where is it? I'd love that too! Again, I can't drive (being 15.5 y/o) and making my dad drive me there (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Wanted: Alien Helmet
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(...) Sure. #6915 Warp Wing Fighter. -- Mark Nelson Speedy's Lego Page: (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [CW] FAQ - War
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(...) right! it all depends on the storytellers involved! much of the yarn spinning occurs "off-world", in e-mails or posts between members. how it is handled is entirely up to those involved! this provides one general structure for all stories, not (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | FA: 40+ Lots of Used Parts on eBay, all start at $0.17
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Take a look, there are 41 auctions closing tomorrow, and 40+ more I just posted this afternoon. There will be more Space and Airplane parts up tomorrow, time permitting. Here is a link to all 84 auctions: (URL) am accepting payment via X.com, so if (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [CW] FAQ - War
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(...) a bunch of lego fans getting together is more fun than you can imagine! the first DixieLUG meeting only whetted my appetite! like janet sings, in "rocky horror", "i've tasted blood and i want more! (more, More, MORE!)" i'm game whenever, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Stone Tower Bridge down to $20 at Wal-Mart
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Boy, I had to wait forever for this. I finally found the Stone Tower Bridge from the Ninja line at $20 at a local (SoCal) Wal-Mart. The Mummy's Tomb (don't remember the exact name) went through another price reduction to $10 (down from $22, then (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Wanted: Alien Helmet
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(...) flat surfaces, so not as tricky as the Insectoids one. I'll take a look and see how possible it is. Even so it won't be quick, I'm afraid. Chris (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: re-What is happening to LEGO in UK +others
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I can talk about this all night - But I'm watching Serpico tonight. Since you were young, some things have changed: 1. Kids 2. Society,and the way it treats kids. 3. They way toys are marketed and designed 4. Local retail structure. All 4 are (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Questionable eBay auction
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(...) Is this a common practise in the States? It seems like a blatant example of shafting the customer, to me. I can see a fee for MO's not in US funds, or for MO's not drawn against a US bank, but a US money order drawn on a US bank should be (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Stone Tower Bridge down to $20 at Wal-Mart
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(...) Where is this? Please tell! I wanted to get this but my budget was too strict! But for $20... Of course I'll buy it! Where did you find this? TIA, Shiri (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: [CW] FAQ - War
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(...) Yep, I agree! Just remember, if you have a story built via e-mail, put it on CW too so we can all see it! ;-) (...) LOL! Craig, watch out for that... Tree... :-) (...) Yay! -Shiri (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Has the new lego fotsball made it to the US?
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It is not out here in Scotland yet.... I though it was due out in the US in the Summer.... then I saw this on ebay: (URL) worried) Scott A (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Black
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(...) True, I was shocked at all the colors that were "white". I think part of this is due to the poor quality of the construction paper. Close examination indicates a fair amount of unstained fiber, for instance the black read a lousy 47, compared (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Castle (?) Legofest? (was: Re: [CW] FAQ - War)
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(...) Yeah, I love it here. Having easy access to the Smithsonian is great! :) (...) It's about half an hour south of DC along I-95. It is in Potomac Mills Shopping Center, in Virginia. (...) Well, I'd like it to be a general Legofest, and try to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Lego Set 1854 Velux House
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I was recently asked to search out this set and called Velux Canada, the Marketing Manager was obviously tired of my request to purchase this set. They have been recently overwhelmed with requests for this set from all over the world for "ridiculous (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: WB Store...Indy Storm and Countdown corner back in stock...
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Well folks, I placed another order. Let's see how much of this one goes through... Frederick. (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Stone Tower Bridge down to $20 at Wal-Mart
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(...) 71 freeways, I'm not sure which city that is, Chino Hills? But....don't bother looking, because I have all they had. The Wal-Mart is San Dimas had several last I looked, but whether they reduced it from $39 to $20, I don't know. I'd just check (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Castle (?) Legofest? (was: Re: [CW] FAQ - War)
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(...) If you guys are planning on doing something like this you might want to concider doing it in a high school gym. After all they are not being much used over the summer. (...) like boston as well as chicago or even chattanooga(where I go to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Interesting article in new Adventurers magazine
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(...) Sounds cool. Any scans? (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | 12 volt train motor almost completed!
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I have a few more things to do, I have the engine, Spare wheel (might be part of file (shortcut) ), Engine steam arm(needs work) , And 1 x 2 plate with steam arm insert(name?) all soon to be posted (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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I also tried to move the files into the "demo" directory and then change the makefile, but I still got the same error. Ian (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | URLs for Train area?
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Hi all, When I first put up links on the lugnet/trains page, I just picked a few that I knew were significant. Now that I have a bit more time to devote, I need your expert advice on how to make it more complete. Could you let me know what you would (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Castle (?) Legofest? (was: Re: [CW] FAQ - War)
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(...) I'm sure it is ;-) (...) Oh... I didn't realize that was near DC. (...) Yeah, I think that as much as having a castle-only fest would be fun and cool, having a BIG fest would be even better... If we plan this really well, this can be GREAT (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Interesting (old) Editorial
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As I was thumbing through some of my old MRC's (Model Railway Constructor, gone since 87), I came across the following little gem of a statement: "It is arguable that the Lego train sets, expensive and unrealistic as they may be, represent the most (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Interesting article in new Adventurers magazine
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Mark Herzberg <carorvan@aol.com> wrote in message news:Fp494G.3AD@lugnet.com... (...) I thought someone would ask that :-) I'll see what I can do... Huw (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Expansion Sets
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What do the expansion sets include? Specifically, Are there any sensors? \\\\//// ( OO ) ---o00---(_)---...--- | Anthony* | ---...---o00------ | | | | (__ l l __) | | | (__ l l __)<u (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Why Not...?
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Why not have a 'minimum piece order'? This would be where you could order individual pieces but had to order a certain number (total $$ amount or piece count). Maybe this has been touched upon in the past with all of the LEGO Direct stuff... I (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Has the new lego fotsball made it to the US?
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Appears (to me atleast) to be a promo set of some kind. Perhaps something sent to major retailers to introduce the new line. Troy Scott-A <scott-arthur@eh105j...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:Fp47Lv.KC5@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why Not...?
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(...) Good idea - that way TLC wouldn't have to deal with every little order and could ensure some profit. (...) <drool> ;-) -Shiri (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: WB Store...Indy Storm and Countdown corner back in stock...
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(...) It's pretty sorry of them that they got some in and didn't even give those of us with "canceled" order status the first shot at them. Personally I have already ordered one from elsewhere. (used a $10.00 coupon on Toysmart) The total was still (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: more on the rotation sensor
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(...) value) (...) The order is numerical, either 0->1->2->3->0... or 0->3->2->1->0... That's why legOS has them enumerated that way. The Mindstorms fw numbers them differently, which is why I mentioned it. (...) I don't think your specific example (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Fabuland anyone?
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(...) There has been no response to this. Presume coming legofesters are not interested. Anyway, I have posted a picture of the parts at (URL) I will put on ebay (never done that yet!) if no interest in trades. Wants would be castle parts, train, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Honk if your debugging?
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I have been doing an unfortunate amount of debugging. I really miss the printf statement to send myself messages like: what am I doing here? with these variables at these levels? But I have found at least one handy substitute based on the sound (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | 10,000+ Gray bricks for sale
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I have approximately 11,000 gray bricks for sale as follows. 1x1 - 2000 @ $0.025 each 1x2 - 5000 @ $0.04 each 1x3 - 480 @ $0.075 each 1x4 - 1200 @ $0.10 each 1x6 - 600 @ $0.15 each 1x8 - 320 @ $0.25 each 1x10 - 150 @ $0.35 each 1x12 - 32 @ $0.45 (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Honk if your debugging?
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(...) I do pretty much the same thing, but I just use various tones generated by the RCX... (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Honk if your debugging?
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(...) That's one of the great things about legOS. You can display hex or decimal numbers easily, and the rudimentary ascii display is really very useful. I've easily saved more time debugging just because of that than I spent installing legOS in the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Anyone need Wild West Soldiers?
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[[UPDATE]] We only have 6 left, as of 6PM EST Saturday, January 29, 2000 [[UPDATE]] (...) Joel (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: lego photo scanner...
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Jay <getochkn@home.com> wrote in message news:Fp0z10.D4H@lugnet.com... (...) The LEGO light sensor is a silicon phototransistor which is mostly sensitive to infrared light. It would be very insenstive to blue light. There is some more information (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | test
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Sorry for posting a test here, Outlook Express crashed on me, and now it seems to not want to display the messages after 1/25, let's see if this will shake it loose... Frank (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: test
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Frank Filz wrote in message ... (...) will (...) Oh, now it's really f-ed up. The test message is the only one it's displaying... Well, I guess it's time to unsubscribe and re-subscribe... Frank (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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