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(...) I have indeed seen Erik's tilting metroliner. Very nice! I credit him for showcasing the use of the Technic spring-bricks to me in his crocodile locomotive. Master creations from Mr. Brok. I love his work. later, James Mathis (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What is Znap?
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(...) Think out of the box, please. Znap is tres useful for large engineering structures. Anyone who doesn't want their Znap is invited to drop me a line, perhaps we can work something out. (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.znap, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: megabloks answer our requests (Re: Brad Justus...)
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(...) With all of the positive comments that I'm reading about Megabloks, I'll have to take a second look at them. I sincerely hope that Lego is reading this thread. Memo to Lego: Does it mean anything to you that some of your most loyal fans are at (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Proportion of bad bidders on eBay?
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Transatlantic shipping may be part of the issue. I had one bidder whinge about fixed shipping charges being too high, and some other misc whinges from other bidders lead me to believe that there is a non zero fraction of bidders that don't read the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Contest Idea [was: Re: Ow. [was: Re: BeltWars Update]]
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(...) Excellent. Where's your website? --Colin __ __ __ __ __ __ | |_| |_| |_| | | |_| | | | Brick Engineer | | | Colin R Gutierrez | __ __ __ __ | 2000 | |___...___|| |_| |_| |_| ||___...___| |___...___| (URL) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Contest Idea [was: Re: Ow. [was: Re: BeltWars Update]]
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(...) I usually prefer a Mac/Windows style interface for CAD programs, but I'll give it a try...[it's down right now.] Thanks for the tip. --Colin __ __ __ __ __ __ | |_| |_| |_| | | |_| | | | Brick Engineer | | | Colin R Gutierrez | __ __ __ __ | (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: FA (Ebay) Old Space Sets
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(...) No, it's not disapproval, it's a mixture of confusion, dismay, and surprise. Why doesn't eBay make it _easy_ for people to find or follow auctions of a particular type? The fact that people [have to] resort to re-listing things elsewhere is (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | nodatchi battle armour (with the dat inline this time :-) [DAT]
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...A .dat from Colin R Gutierrez's most excellent Nodatchi Battle Armour... including some optional weapons and equipment. (Colin's web page: (URL) HERE---- 0 Model exported from LeoCAD 0 Original name: MECHA.lcd 1 8 189.77 -12.22 0.72 0.50 -0.00 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Imperial Guards (was: Re: Sir Steve interviews someone from Lego)
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(...) Noooooo! An Emperor's Shuttle. comes with 1 Emperor, 2 Imperial pilots, and 6 Royal Gaurds. Trans-red head with a red helmet. The helmet would have eye cut-out like the scout troopers but shaped correctly. Price point $99-$150. Put rebels in (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: MPD spec
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OK I have found the source code in Jacob's site, strangelly I got there from ldraw.org following the link for the MPDbuilder. I'm still searching for the spec ! P.S. Did someone already think about adding a search feature to ldraw.org ? I would be (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Contest Idea [was: Re: Ow. [was: Re: BeltWars Update]]
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(...) ...They should be posted up to lugnet.cat.dat.models shortly (ie, may already be there). I modeled the main model and a few extra armaments and equipment :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wildlink.com lugnet (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Senator Palpintine / Emperor
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Maybe Jar Jar will become a Jedi when they are all being killed off. The Jedi might be so desperate for reinforcements that they'll take anybody. (...) Jorge Rodríguez rodriguez.136@osu.edu (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | nodatchi battle armour - MECHA.lcd (0/1)
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...A .dat (actually, a .lcd leoCad dat file thingie) from Colin R Gutierrez's most excellent Nodatchi Battle Armour... including some optional weapons and equipment. (Colin's web page: (URL) can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Senator Palpintine / Emperor
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Just to add my useless two cents ... I consider Lucas to be the greatest example of anti-pandering there is. He financed the production of Episode I (and ROTJ, I believe) with his own money, for that express purpose: so that he could do exactly (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Another (semi-) standard field for inventories
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(...) A side note: The contents of any particular bag in a medium- to large-sized LEGO set can change over time on different production runs. I've seen it happen many times -- one copy of the set has, say, a 2x3 black brick in the same bag as a 2x4 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Catalog at Legofest
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I think Ian Bishop has a list of catalogues for trade at his web site. Try: (URL) think he said he wasn't make the next fest though) Phil. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Edwards <medwards@ukonline.co.uk> To: <lugnet.loc.uk@lugnet.com> (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Sir Steve interviews someone from Lego
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(...) Let's try this one more time... ;^) "Tydirium" is the correct spelling. ~Mark (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Is it OK to use new parts for old sets?
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(...) Well if you want 14 pounds of clones w/ a polybag set that would even out your Lego v. Clone eBay lot stats... Wow, all those big lots you outbid me on, and you only have 10 grams of clones?.....oh my.... (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | MPD spec
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Is there such a thing ? The ones I have seen, are very simple, they just use the 0 FILE filename Meta command, but is there any docummented spec. Also, where is that program which splits an MPD in it's DAT parts ? MPDsplit.exe ? Both those things (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is it OK to use new parts for old sets?
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(...) leave....and my cats are only interested in LEGO bricks.......I'm thinking of refilling my litter box with Tyco..... = ) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: set 1271 Jungle Surprise
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(...) The new Food Lion in Mebane (just off 85/40 - i believe it's exit 152) has them... don't know if you'd classify that as Triangle or not... but it's the only place that I've seen any Lego. rich. (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.nc)
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| | FOTW: Classic Castle figs and much more
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Yesterday I got the following for $9.99 at thrift store. While 85% of the weight of the bag was about 175 Duplo, primo, and Duplo clones it also had the following: 6 Horses (3 with saddles, 3 with older style caprisons), 3 16x16 green baseplates, 1 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | FOTW: Classic Castle Figs and more
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Yesterday I got the following for $9.99 at thrift store. While 85% of the weight of the bag was about 175 Duplo, primo, and Duplo clones it also had the following: 6 Horses (3 with saddles, 3 with older style caprisons), 3 16x16 green baseplates, 1 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Such a dark and drizzly place this has become.....
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(...) LOL :-) (...) Yes, it is sad. I'm a townie, but I almost never post here, because I'm busy building my own town. When there are no good sets to discuss, all we townies can do is build our own things. --Tobias (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Hangar 33
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Tom McDonald <radiotitan@yanospamhoo.com> wrote in message news:FqF6yu.4Kn@lugnet.com... (...) long (...) I (...) Lars' (...) sure (...) time (...) two, (...) bricks (...) Some very nice detailing on the hangar walls. I look forward to seeing more. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Where is everybody?!
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(...) Our numbers grow. Soon we shall be invincible! Or invisible! Or insurable! Or something. Welcome aboard. Eric "the" Lind (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Such a dark and drizzly place this has become.....
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Where have all the townies gone? long time passing....... A once lively little newsgroup has turned into a rather barren ghost town (no pun intended). All because of one word.....junior....It seems the only posts here ae about how bad Town Junior (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Such a dark and drizzly place this has become.....
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Where have all the townies gone? long time passing....... A once lively little newsgroup has turned into a rather barren ghost town (no pun intended). All because of one word.....junior....It seems the only posts here ae about how bad Town Junior (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Thinking of selling my entire 9V collection
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Thanks Larry for pointing it out, i do need to sort myself out, but time can only do that. (...) Yes, please do state your offers clearly, For the other people that have been dealing with me and it does turn out what you think it does, I think Larry (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Thinking of selling my entire 9V collection
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To Michael... If you are looking for prices, fine, but if you want offers, I beleive you are off topic for this group. "Best offer" deals belong in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade. Auctions, which is what I would characterise what you're doing now with (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Website update: Moonbase Io
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To Pat & Ben: Here's some hints on my intake construction techniques. For the Osprey: Take two 3x1 hypotenuse bricks & stick them side-by-side to a 2x1 single-hole beam brick. Then attach a 2x2 helicopter pin plate to the beam brick. Finally, mount (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Another (semi-) standard field for inventories
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I couldn't find a definitive prior discussion to followup-to, so I'm posting this fresh. So far, the general standard set of fields for an inventory has been: Part Name Part Number (where available) Color Quantity I'd like to suggest another field (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Proportion of bad bidders on eBay?
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(...) I don't agree. Out of 234 completed auctions this year I have one possible deadbeat. Out of >500 this year and last I had <10 deadbeats total. I think that's pretty good. Are your figures very different from that, Scott? Kevin (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Popula, the quirkiest auction site?
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(...) This is really a chicken-and-egg situation: in a venue where there are not enough bidders to run the price up, sellers set the price to what they hope to get and usually the item sells at or near that price. This is one reason I don't use (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Catalog at Legofest
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Ok 1970-1994 whould like them in good condition, don't mind creases, but rips, no thanks . Same goes for pen marks on the catalog's -- Michael - - - Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Likeness of a Talgo: Shared monoaxle
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(...) How can I like you better than I do now? You're already aces in my book. (...) Mostly imported except for the power unit. There was a big write up on it in Trains a while back... Acela is way way behind schedule though. (...) Sounds workable. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | [REV] Insectoids: the smaller the better
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Just thought I'd ramble on a bit here to kill some time before lunch... I haven't written up a formal review of these guys for my site yet, but while I was in Japan last October I managed to get my hands on the 4 Kabaya candy promo Insectoid sets. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Likeness of a Talgo: Shared monoaxle
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(...) need (...) The black nose comes from this set 6473 - RES-Q Cruiser (URL) set 6473 does not come with the trans yellow "Y" shaped headlight insert. later, James Mathis (...) a (...) two (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Catalog at Legofest
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It would be easier if you said which ones you wanted... "Michael Edwards" <medwards@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:FqFvv0.F5H@lugnet.com... (...) - (...) - (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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