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(...) Hmm, interesting. They were claiming you needed to use a credit card now. So much for that... They are seriously getting to the point of needing a good kick in the pants. They really aren't very friendly (though more friendly to sellers, so (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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Shiri, Well, I think the Time Cruisers series were a real waste of plastic, talent, and manufacturing time. It seems that they had bunches of spare parts laying around, so they thought, hey, let's make some models out of it! The sets contain some (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: I just died and went to lego heaven...
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(...) Well, I did live here when I was 3-6. So it's not like it's all new to me. Still rough at times, though. (...) I'll quote my math teacher on his favorite line: "Thinking is *HARD*!" (...) But thinking in two languages is so much harder than (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Some new belville-themed town buildings
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Thanks Shiri, I've thought about trying to tie them (the big pink pointed pieces) into a castle somehow, but this would be even more challenging than a town building. Interestingly enough, I found a famouse rococo-styled building whose facade (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | My first NQC
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I just have to share - I know it's very basic, but it's my first program with NQC! and it's even cooler, since I can now use my 486 to program the RCX, and don't need to steal computer time from my wife's Windows :P I just wrote a little prog to run (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Some years ago I walked in to an engineering building at MIT and summoned up the nerve to ask some professors what they were working on. They had been meeting in an open central area before splitting up to their offices. To my amazement, the first (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) heheh... when I moved to Boston, started taking math at BHS, and in the first test I got a 10 (out of 100). Definitely didn't make a good impression on my teacher. It took two months before I finally caught up with the terminology... :/ After (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.il)
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Thanks! Yes, before, it was a dinky 2-story structure. There is an interesting story about the start of the cutie store. I didn't used to like Belville, but my fiancee (NLF unfortunately) insisted on getting some because she thought it would make a (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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I have a feeling that your message will get about a zillion responses, but we'll see. I actually bought up several time cruisers set on sale laster year from LEGO shop-at-home (for about 1/2 price). I was primarily interested in aquiring a few rare (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How are these promotional sets made?
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(...) Notice how all these companies have a going concern to promote... that's what puts the pro in "promotional". I think Lego is going to be looking for well- known names that together enhance both brands. Maybe you should start selling cement or (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo)
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Oops - I put the reference to the 'famous" building, but I didn't notice that Shiri had clipped the original link to my LEGO building that bears a similarity (at least I think so): (URL) Hamilton <bhamilto1@home.com> wrote in message (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
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(...) If it makes you feel any better, so did I. I remember my friends all wanted cars for high school graduation, but I just had to have one of the first HP calculators. (Yikes! I guess I really must have been a geek.) : ) Maggie C. (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Has anyone used the big Belville cream castle part or pink spire in a mini-fig castle?
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I'm curious if anyone has tried to create a credible looking castle using either the Belville pink spire piece (the big clear one) or the cream, round castle pillar? (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Has anyone used the big Belville cream castle part or pink spire in a mini-fig castle?
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(...) I'll leave this spot open... but I doubt anyone ever did. ;-) The few BV fans/buyers that are also castle fans (Craig, Richard M, Frank F and Suz come to mind) haven't expressed anything about it, AFAIK... Frank even told me he'll try and (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I have never used any Belville elements before, but I just got my first Belville sets, the 5824 and 5823. The triple arches and the white double pillars with the cutout heart arch will be fun to use. I wish they made bricks in the paler yellow (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: infrared remote control of LEGO trains using NQC and RCX
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(...) I have seen people put the 12V center wheel from a 12V motor there. Not sure how they did it. If you do, you lose the outer cladding (which simulates the truck sideframe members, spring hangers and other stuff). (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Minifig What scale are they??
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(...) later ~ craig~ (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again)
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(...) They *do* require a credit card if you try to sell something (so that they can auto-bill you for their share), but not if you're just going to bid... I also wanted to clarify that this throw-away account was created just for testing purposes; (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: infrared remote control of LEGO trains using NQC and RCX
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(...) I have to go with John on this one. Afer all, he's my acolyte and some of that infallibility was bound to rub off on him. (...) No, the moral is, you're not going to be able to prove me or John wrong about stuff at this point in our (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: lego.com is actually (relatively) normal!!!
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(...) yay! (looks at site) ok, i'm bored with it, now. ;-) later ~ craig~ (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Has anyone used the big Belville cream castle part or pink spire in a mini-fig castle?
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(...) Hi Brad and Shiri (and everyone else, this is my first post) I have one planned ! I have all of the current Belville sets sorted out and awaiting construction (so many themes,so little time). The castle I have planned will be minifig scale (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again)
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(...) as (...) I thought they had changed it, perhaps it is one of the things to come in 2Q2000 (i.e. real soon now). Frank (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Lego Modular tables
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(...) Something that came up on the call is that for geometry reasons, if you want curved modules not to have overhanging track you need your track centers on multiples of 8 studs away from the module edge. So the outermost track should be at 8 (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Podracing bucket contents revealed . . .
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(...) lyk. (...) This is going to go against what everyone else is going to feel but I say put those pictures up on your site. We all know lego is going to release that set anyways so just satisfy everyone's curiousity. I'm like the little kid just (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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(...) The time lab is actually a fairly decent set (and has lots of parts potential - I've bought like 8-10 of them). I disassembled mine, but I did like the building. It's a little bizzare, but a much more reasonable construction than any of the (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Has anyone used the big Belville cream castle part or pink spire in a mini-fig castle?
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(...) Hi Pete! Welcome to lugnet! (by the way, how do you pronounce your name? I'm always at loss with Pete's. Is it Pee-tee, or Peet? I have no idea. :-) (...) Great! I'd love to see pictures when you're done! (...) <grin> tell me about it... (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Its that time of month again...
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Its nearing that time when we all go to the polls and vote for our favorite Lego renderings. So mosey on down to ldraw.org and cast your vote - there's some high stakes this month! (URL) am going away for a week leaving tomorrow, but I'll try to get (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | WTB/WTT cl. yellow shutters / gray very low slopes
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Someone please help me find 4 pairs of yellow shutters for the classic town 1x4x3 windows (I can also use a couple yellow window frames of the same dimensions). I am also interested in the smaller yellow shutters and shutter/ door holder 1x1x2 brick (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes: <snip> (...) Well... what other sets are left, then? I mean, there's only about one more set that's over $10, that you don't "sort-of" like. So basically you just sort-of like all the sets, but dislike the theme (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pirate/castle helmet...
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(...) I think there's also at least one Divers set (big set) that has one of these. best Lindsay (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates)
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| | OT: RIS 1.5 - la domanda del millennio 8-)
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(...) In quel momento, non mi ricordavo neanche che fosse di Blade Runner .... stavo cercando di ricordarmi chi l'aveva detto 8-)))) CiaoCiaoSergio (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Minifig Armies?
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(...) Hi Sun! I have a lot of knights here, visit the link below to go to a gallery on 1000steine.de where some of my knights and heroes are pictured (legion of Blue Falcons, Dwarves, Centaurs...) Regards from Germany, René (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: I just died and went to lego heaven...
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(...) For the record, ellipsis points. And yes, I use them far too often myself ... best LFB (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | LF4: premi
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Manca ormai poco al ritrovo; che cosa volete mettere in palio per la gara robotica? Fatemi sapere se devo passare a comprare un set Technic o se ci pensa uno di voi. Io ho già detto che starei su qualcosa di "classico" tipo 8856, 8456, 8425 (che (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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(...) So did a lot of people--S@H is out of them, at long last (just as I wanted to buy a second, naturally). best Lindsay (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Minifig Armies?
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visit the link below to go to a gallery on (...) I'm such a stupid, here's the link: (URL) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | New train
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All this talk of modules and standards inspired me to actually build something. (URL) a Baltimore and Ohio Royal Blue 2-6-2 steam engine circa, late 1930s early 1940s. Not sure if the wheel arrangement is correct since the leading and trailing truck (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Podracing bucket contents revealed . . .
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Michael Perri wrote in message ... (...) have (...) and (...) respect (...) to (...) talk (...) pictures. (...) put (...) set (...) just (...) all (...) I agree. To avoid getting anyone in trouble, why not post the pictures away from Lugnet, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Minifig Armies?
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(...) I like the dwarves...reminds me of J.R.R. Tolkien...Thorin et al...My sister got me a belated Christmas gift of a Box set of the hobbit and L'O'R trilogy on cd from the BBC radio program many years ago...I have been driving around listening to (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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