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Ben, You just described the UK 1966 Catalogue. AFAIK it was available free from toy shops from approx April 66, but was not included in any sets (except _maybe_ 050 and 060); hence it is one of the more difficult to find. Phil. ----- Original (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: SCORE!
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(...) Hm, that one too--but I was thinking of one specifically under discussion in .loc.au, or was that to be appended to Eric's? best Lindsay (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug)
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| | Re: Question on two sets(5571-8448)
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(...) Yeah the Super Cars are too big in relation to 5571. I've always wanted to make an auto carrier trailer for 5571 using pneumatics to lower/raise the upper level, but I doubt I'm good enough to do so. So whoever thinks they can build one, go (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Star Wars value pack @ Target
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Well.. as I recall Jorge did say he works at Target in the toy area... I wouldn't expect if he works there that he'd make it up.... *8) I just wish "ye olde bugdet" had room to include picking this up.. hopefully it'll stay around a while... a lot (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: PS Enterprise
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(...) I'd always been under the impression that the grade of coal in the exposed seams wasn't quite up to RN standards (they only want the best anthracite, have to keep that smoke down to a minimum!)--but I may be wrong, because I'm going off the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: set number 1181 - Space hovercraft...
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(...) Hebrew. (Maybe Shiri can confirm this?) That's interesting because I never quite realised that they made Israel-only packaging. best Lindsay (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Dwindling inventory marked down by 50% at Brickbay
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(...) I wish I'd been able to get my site up and running, but I can't do the trickle-in parts sales--it had to be eBay for me this time around. However, once I"m back...muhaha etc. (...) Interesting--lately they've only been pulling in $90. A (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: GPSP -- $22.45
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(...) Gungan Sub's RRP is about $135. TRU usually has it for a bit less, KMart regularly has it (and the Mos Espa Podrace) for 50% of RRP (if you can still find one there). James found the Sub at Target for $37.45, which is unbelievably good value (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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| | Re: Autonomous Robot
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I've done that exactly that. It was almost finished about one year ago. I used a CyberMaster. I lost all the sources when the partitions in my hard disk gone kaput. I'm almost certain I've made a backup in a diskette, but it seems to have gone also, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
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(...) Yes. (...) Yup, it's soccer. Football possibly refers to Rugby in some parts of Aus, but generally football refers to AFL which is a different game altogether. (...) Yes, but I don't think Lego Australia think for themselves in matters such as (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | New items on Yahoo
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Next to the BIG e-bay, there is the much smaller Yahoo auctions site. I will be putting there some interesting older sets (including the rare Holiday Villa 6374 and some castle sets) over the next days. You cannot pick out of 3000 items, just 250, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: set number 1181 - Space hovercraft...
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(...) You could be right, it looks like Hebrew, but it's not the packaging. It is a picture from a Lego Catalog. Selçuk (26 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: does anyone actually play this?...
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(...) Yes, it's great fun. One field becomes a bit too easy once you are used to it, 2 fields offer lots of possibilities including a "proper" 11 players per team setup, there has been some discussion of this over in loc.au. My 11 a side setup based (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
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(...) Expanding on this point: In Australia "round ball football" is called Soccer universally. It is very popular with schoolkids and there is a national competition (see (URL) ). There are three other codes of football that have a major following (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It was not in the annual 1999 Catalog in Australia but was one of a bunch of "impulse" sets that are added to the regular range each year. I think it is still fairly common here. Deidre drb@tasmail.com (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: DAT: Technic Liftarm 3 x 5 L-shaped
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(...) it aint from the 8448, thats for sure, if it was then it would have been on the list of "parts from 8448 not yet available" that steve bliss posted a while ago now for one thing. (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
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In lugnet.football, David Low writes: <some really good descriptions of different Aust. football codes snipped> Nicely explained, thankyou! I was hoping someone would explain it in more detail, I am really out of my depth with anything other than (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: PS Enterprise
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"Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:39892EAA.BF50F2...msu.edu... (...) As far as I'm aware, that wasn't a problem, as steam ships were pretty damn thin on the ground back then. Coal was used for heating and furnaces, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Lego reacts on pirated pictures in Theme Gallery
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In reply to an e-mail which I sent to the Lego Company, concerning the picture piracy in the www.lego.com Theme Gallery, I just recieved this from someone there: ***...*** Datum: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:36:22 +0200 Von: Consumer Service Help - LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help wanted with old UK catalogue [long and contains most text/in fo from it.]
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"Whytcross, Benjamin" <BWhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au> wrote in message news:1D0812CAE3E7D21...ccess.com. au... I'm looking for some information on a catalogue I acquired yesterday in a bunch of mixed parts from the 50's (?) to possibly the 80's. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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