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Just a quickie - plans to borrow a 'proper' digital camera have fallen through, so I was wondering if cheap web-cams (less than $100) have good enough quality for taking LEGO pictures? Some of the ones in my price-range are max resolution of (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Wow. Castle was good!
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I only had classic space (pre-Blacktron) and freestyle when I was a kid, so I never really knew what the castle series used to be like. I've come out of my dark ages tuned into castle in a big way (1). I've been collecting a lot of clearance Ninja, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Informal WB Store Survey
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I ordered 30 8445s on th 29th and 30th, after they were relisted on the site on the 29th. Anyone want to guess what happened to the orders? That's right, CANCELLED. And talking to the Catalog order folks, you can't talk to the web folks, you can (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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< cross posted to off-topic-debate > Rich, (...) Hmm... Being a Rush fan and a definite AFOL, I can see the logic of his thinking. Testing people on the ability to build anything, regardless of how good they might be, is a strange way of testing (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: [PDF] step-by-step Grabber Arm instructions from legomindstorms.com
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FYI... Get rid of the ending slash on the last URL to get there. It should just be: (...) Jim West NIC Team Lead NIC Oracle Developer and DBA in Training NIC Chief Cook and Bottle Washer MCI Worldcom (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | FS: McDonald's set #6, $1 each plus shipping (GREEN plates/slopes)
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I have quite a few #6 McDonald's Happy Meal sets for sale. They contain: 2 2x6 GREEN plates 2 2x3 GREEN low slopes 2 1x8 red plates 1 1x6 red plate 1 2x6 yellow brick 2 2x2 yellow bricks 1 2x2 red brick 1 2x3 inv yellow slope 1 2x3 smooth green low (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Extraordinary style + details in a spaceship
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Ouch! I bruised my jaw on my desk! What a wonderful microfig scale ship! I must link to this site. Pat J I'm putting the finishing touches on a ship that has a similar overall design. I'll post soon. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | WTT: 4537 (Twin Tank Transport) for 4543 (Flatbed)
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I'll trade 3 MISB 4537s for 2 4543s. I'd prefer the 4543s also be MISB, but "really good shape" used is fine too. I don't have to have boxes/instructions for both 4543s, though one box and instruction sheet would be nice. I'll also consider trading (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: 1977- Does lego wrap its box with clear plastic?
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(...) Johan, as others have already said, yes they did use shrink wrap. I purchased some of the London Bus sets (#760) from 1975-76, and they were sealed in plastic. Gary Istok (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Tom's Sets/Parts Wanted/For Trade page (Shell sets included!)
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(URL) I have added the 1252-1256 Shell sets to my Trade section, but am ONLY trading them for sets with garage doors, as noted on the page. I will not sell these sets (except for the ones going on Ebay, of course), I am only offering them as trades (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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(...) Today on the Rush Limbaugh Program Rush was talking about the above issue. Of corse Rush was disgusted that they were using Lego as a college entry exam. Details about the exam- Students are given a box of Lego. Then they are shown a Lego (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help Me......
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(...) What's stopping me from flying there is: a. I'm in school. b. It costs a lot. c. I'm going anyway in the summer so I'm trying to be patient about it - though sometimes it seems to far away. The shipping is also a problem for two reasons: I've (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I picked up this 60's ad on ebay
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Gary Istok (<38970C78.16DEDF06@umich.edu>) wrote at 16:40:25 (...) Aha! So you haven't been an *A*FOL since 1960 :-) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO as a college admission exam
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(...) Also on CNN. I read it from RTL. (URL) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Help with LDLite
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Hello, I've just installed LDLite. Everything seems to be OK, I can lauch it. But after openning a DAT file, nothing appears on the screen. I've tried to change the LDraw specified folder, but it doesn't work. (Ldraw and Ledit work fine...) Could (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | R: Pezzi ingialliti ed altro
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gianluca morelli <moebiusring@yahoo.it> wrote in message 20000131183810.14117...hoo.com... (...) Io non lo so ma è un fenomeno che mi incuriosisce. Ho un modello Technic (bianco) montato ed esposto nella mia camera da parecchi anni (6-7) che, senza (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) : how to use ?
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(...) Well, i got the definitive answer from Markus 8-). It was in german, so i'll try to translate it: the effect of __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) depends on the calling context: - in leaf functions (that do not call other functions), it makes (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Extraordinary style + details in a spaceship
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(...) That about sums it up for me. :-, (...) endeavor to clone. With credit where it's due, of course. ;-) Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: 9v train idea book: I might be making one, anyone interested?
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(...) Cool! The source is in the zip file at (URL) think the only tricky part will be the makefile. You can look at makefile.linux for ideas. There's really not all that much to it. Send me an email if you need any help. Don dheyse@hotmail.com (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: new unofficial part - the "Bone"/"Cattlehorns" piece
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This looks pretty good when l3p'd, but your use of spheres at the junction points of the cones is problematic in ldraw (ldlite, etc). If you use the part with a transparent color, or just use ldlite's wireframe mode, you will see that edgelines are (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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