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Well, now that I have all the cards on the table, I'm kind of just back into Lego. I mean, when the pirate theme was discontinued, Lego somehow lost me. They started making heads with little headsets with the space people and that made them too (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: (CW) Realm Scale
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(...) long shots! my first two structures have long since been sorted back into the collective! for the red dragon fortress, mephisto's lair, it provides a great oportunity to rebuild/ re-design, bigger and badder than before. (c'mon pawell ~ go (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: (CW) Realm Scale
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(...) But why do I have to build each and every structure/area involved in my realm? It feels like Castle World is turning into a contest, and I thought this was supposed to be a collection of castle-related objects. I also don't have the time and (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Ok Larry: US vs Canadian Discounts
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(...) great (...) Zellers is decent. About the only place to routinely discount (15% once a month)... Sears and the Bay are also good places to go - their prices start 5-10% higher, but because of that, they often have older stuff, which can be (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: bridge designs for big space MOCs
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(...) I built a three-foot ship once ('once' being the key word - the thing got demolished about a week after I finished it *and I forgot to take pictures!*) that originally had two of the big blue quarterdomes laying on their sides (vertical didn't (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: WTB: Baseplates
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(...) Hi Jon, I can't help you directly (I need all the baseplates I've got!), but I can give you some information. First off, the XL baseplate (48x48) exists only in grey, as far as I know. Your best bet for tan plates is to try and find some of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Could I get and island in CW?
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(...) in (...) Great! I need at least a small island or two... (I'm hoping to trade for some Island baseplates. Anyone up to it?) and a maybe a few streams... but can we really choose *everything* in the realm? Will adjoining realms be similar at (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
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(...) Well, I don't like the idea of asking someone to install runtimes before "my" program will work. It looks cheesy, I think, and unprofessional. And it certainly wasn't an option for the company I was doing this project for or for me, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Layout Electricity
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Regarding restricting track voltage, I opened my controller up to see what could be done, and actually, there isn't much in it. But 2 physical stops could be added (glued) to keep the knob from being turned all the way either direction. A 1x1 glued (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: How much memory finally?
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(...) I believe it has a 16K ROM and 32K SRAM. Within the 32K, 16K is occupied by the 'firmware' downloaded to the RCX. About 6K is reserved for bytecode program space and the datalog. Presumably the rest is working memory for the firmware (stack, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Electricity in layout (was Re: Structural weakness in MOCs?)
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(...) thinking is (...) feed (...) It might not. I don't like doing that cuz IMO it'll strain the 317 regulator to put out what it's supposed to. Even if it could put out 9V with a 7.5V supply, I can't imagine the current remaining the same. I know (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: AAT
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(...) Wow, good eyes! It definitely looks like a battle droid hand to me. It makes sense too, and I like the use of space for putting a droid in the tank. Is the printed piece above this area a hatch? I seem to remember the hatch being located on (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: bridge designs for big space MOCs
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(...) Drool! And grumble... Drool, because the design is really a feast for the eyes. Nice job. Grumble, because I was hoping to be the first to use eight of the quarter-dome pieces to assemble a spherical enclosure. You have essentially done that (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | AAT
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Now that we are throught ripping the MF, I am curious about the AAT. If you look under the wedge piece with the print on it, does it appear that there is a battle droid inside the hole? It looks to me like you can see either a hand or a horizontal (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Newbie Info (was Re: SPAM)
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(...) Cross-posting an awfully good idea back to where it can get discussed... James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Could I get and island in CW?
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(...) alan ~ you will be delighted with the wide selection of small to medium size legocean islands that will be availlable in the "CW real estate showroom". they come in a variety of shapes and colors denoting various textures. (wooded, sandy, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: (CW) Realm Scale
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(...) Hmm. That's a much smaller scale than I was thinking it would be. I was thinking of realms more in terms of "miles" than in studs...I assumed more of a map scale, where a city would be represented by a dot... in this scale, I can easily see a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: (CW) Realm Scale
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(...) Me too. I know some people have really big stuff, but I'm not one of them. I don't even have that many baseplates. Geez, I never realized people have *such* big collections. Jeff S.'s castle is 80x80... Mike Ulring's is a full 512x512?!?! I (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: (CW) Realm Scale
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(...) I don't know about other folks, but my stuff comes apart when I'm done. I'll take multiple pictures of it, and record cool design points I ran across in the building of it, but when it's done, it comes apart. If people want to invade it later, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: (CW) Realm Scale
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(...) Consider (...) boot, (...) mountains (...) Okay, I screwed up my math, I only calculated it one dimensionally. ;) However, it is *still* pretty small. You can see my map sketch here: (URL) These countries are many hundreds of miles across. As (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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