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Hello, I was wondering if any of you German Lego enthusiasts would like to help out an American studying German. For our class, we have to write short essays (75-250 words) once or twice a week. I am not very good at German grammer, especially the (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: De-lurk
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Welcome Alan! Sounds like you have a great *starter* set-up;-) So you say you are not on the dark side yet, but I say give it a try. Start out with a box car. Kitbash your sliding doors from one of your boxcars and see what you can do. Basically, I (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Verneer Chronices - Chapter 1
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(...) Wow - keep up the good work. I can't wait for chapter 2. You'll have to tell us all how you made the blurs. They're great! Was Kate's torso custom made? I think it was. Do tell how it was done. Eagerly waiting - <<KM>> (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The Verneer Chronices - Chapter 1
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(...) Wow - keep up the good work. I can't wait for chapter 2. You'll have to tell us all how you made the blurs. They're great! Was Kate's torso custom made? I think it was. Do tell how it was done. Eagerly waiting - <<KM>> (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Keeping Larry Amused
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(...) Well I can speculate, although I don't play Todd on TV, even... If you view the page source for the page I refed, the phrase: "You may be able to buy this set online from *eToys*" (where eToys is the hyper link expands to: <UL TYPE=SQUARE> (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Container grabber
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(...) Bite your tongue. But glue it to the roof of your mouth first so that it really hurts. Infidel. (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 2000 Lego hit Cleveland Ohio
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(...) Yeah...it looked terrible. Dirty and crowded stores make Christmas shopping very unpleasing to me... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: The Verneer Chronices - Chapter 1
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(...) Thanks ... I got a hold my Cyberstudio and touched the page up a lil bit (spell check, background, one column - the good stuff;) The forest took some bricks from Naboo Swamps as well as arches from ... I dunno;) The movements was kind of (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | [CW] Links
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I hope the links from the member's page are the way they should be. I took Frank's advice and use the "Target = "_top" on them. If you want to link to Castle World and want to use our banner, you can find a section I made specifically about that on (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Pantograph suggestions ?
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The shoe is the hard part. Getting to the shoe seems pretty straightforward. Look at how the croc or metroliner does it. (URL) shows the croc pretty clearly. (wasn't there an alternate model for this set???) All those parts except the shoe (top (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Who oversees the rec.toys.LEGO newsgroup?
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Lindsay, I think we are talking semantics here, and I can mostly be blamed for the confusion due to my less than accademic-standard grasp of the written and spoken word. (...) True, and that is one of the reasons why I accord him with a great deal (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | WTB: 4558 metroliner
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Does anyone in here willing to sell me a new 4558 Metroliner. I've been following the ebay auctions for a while and I found that there aren't many metroliner seller who would ship to Canada, while others willing to ship internationally are from (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Ideas with Technic Steering Wheels
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While I was building a lego Technic Ferrari, it was time I put in the steering wheel. I first used one of the black beams (forgot their name >.<), but I noticed how staright and un-atractive it looked. I then tried to tilt the steering wheel up, but (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Another update (was: Lion's Cove Update)
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(...) Really? Out of curiosity, I checked the NameDB(1), and this is what it lists: Name Origin Sex Meaning Variations Shiri Hebrew Female My song Shira, Shirah, Shirit I never even considered it could be a male name. Can it be? It doesn't list that (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Sentimental Journey (Was Re: What all has TLC done?)
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(...) You mean all those useless large parts that they obviously were straining to use in novel ways, like the corridor corners mounted sideways on top. :-) What were they thinking? That shape could have bene made out of slopes! Town Jr sucks but I (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: My first 8858 Rebel Wreaker
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(...) I also enjoyed the rebel wrecker very much, and I probably kept it together for about a year before, ahem, wrecking it for the red beams. I did, in fact, save the chasis of this monster truck for fun though. One day, as I was in one of my (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Positioning
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Hi Roger, This sounds interesting. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with Beacon mapping, though I hope to explore it some time in the future. Perhaps someone else on this list has experience in this area? David Leeper (would love to find (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!!
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(...) There is some evidence to support this: I noticed some more markdowns at the local WM today. I asked the toy dept person directly: are these local markdowns or did they come down from corp ? I was told these were local. So, based on several (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | why is the large teal wheel in the robotic discovery set mislabeled?
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The larger teal hub wheel in the RDS (the larger wheel visible in (URL) is marked 20x30 on the sidewall. By my measurement it's close to 50mm in diameter. Every other wheel I have is correctly marked. What's the deal? --Ben (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Interesting (old) Editorial
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James Powell wrote in message ... (...) gone (...) may (...) really up (...) That's harsh! 1983 had some fantastic Lego train sets. I could onyl imagine what they would write about today's crop of sets if they disliked the 1983 sets. (26 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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