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Below are the current bids (as at 4:00am (PST) 23/3) for six Unopened Maersk Cargo Trucks (#1831) (URL) Maersk Cargo Truck $26 P.Schildknecht MT2 Maersk Cargo Truck $31 P.Foster MT3 Maersk Cargo Truck $40 Verraco458 MT4 Maersk Cargo Truck $30 (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Pictures of (very?) old Lego Idea book
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Hi all! I've tried to take pictures (no scanner yet!) of my old Lego idea book. It must be from about 1960, I'm not sure exactly when - perhaps someone else can give more details... (URL) page is slow, and the picture quality is not the best, but (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: anyone out there?
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(...) Hmm, As my web pages show, I'm primarily into space (though I have a soft-spot for castle sets), but even as a kid, I remember never being too interested in the "Official" Lego models. They stayed built for about 20 minutes before they got (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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| | Re: Triangle folks
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You know, I think we in NC would be better served if there were a lugnet.loc.us.nc triangle (and possibly: lugnet.loc.us.nc triad). Having seperate groups for durham and raleigh really isnt that useful, since we're only 20 minutes away, and having a (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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| | Re: Microfig TIE Advanced Prototype (Darth Vader's TIE FIghter)
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(...) Hmmm, Good point. I wasn't really paying attention I guess. I'll take alook at this. Though, I think that the TLG model is not quite right either. I remember having the original Die-cast model of this ship and it wasn't quite *that* disk (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: blasters in sw sets
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I read in an article on the new Star Wars line that the initial classic set release had the fastest turn around time at lego ever - 1 year. I would guess that the number of new pieces in the sets would be limitted by that short turn around. They (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | ldraw part update?
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i remember seeing the voting last month.. is there an approximate date when the new parts will come out? ..joseph g (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Twin Cities LEGO minifest 033099
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Sadly (or maybe not so sadly) I will be in Florida during our first mini Legofest.[1] I propose, however, a monthly or bi-monthly meeting to get together. A mid-May affair sounds good; I'm toast for June, but July is good. We still are up in the air (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: blasters in sw sets
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(...) One of these comes with the Snow Speeder set for the Hoth Rebel Soldier that is included in that set. Although I would not call it the best blaster in the world. Seeing that they have Guns in the Adventurers sets I hope somewhere along the way (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: people i would most like to build with...
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(...) Wow, I didn't know you were so close! Barbara and I are going to Mesa Verde in Colorado this summer or fall -- wanna meet up with some Legos? :-, (...) I find that if I surround myself with talent, it gets much easier for me to, erm, "borrow" (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Nice Models all...
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(...) I have lots of Freestile bricks but when I was collecting sets it was primarily Classic Space although I don't have all the sets I have a fairly large collection. I would say that most of my bricks are Freestile (or became freestile over time (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: part: technic connector cross
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(...) Whoa! The "Technic Connector Cross" is NOT the 3651.dat Technic Connector minus the studs. The shape of these two pieces is vastly different. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: blasters in sw sets
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The old Classic Space sets had a piece that looked a hell of a lot like a blaster, The Official instructions showed it being used like some sort of camera but if you turned it around it made a greate Blaster/Rifle Check out some of the old sets like (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Any SW in VA?
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"Maria W. Campbell" zapped: (...) I went in last night (3/22) and even the shelf stickers were gone! I guess I can't rely on the TRU info from TRU people, either. She said that the trucks would be in on Thursday and they showed up on Wednesday. Good (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.va.new)
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| | Re: Twin Cities LEGO minifest 033099
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(...) So who else is going? What faces will I finally get to put to names? So what is the traffic like from 5 to 6 pm on 35W? Everybody is bringing stuff to show off I hope. I'll bring a box of six wide fire trucks. And John Neal, if you show up, I (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Who built the AT-ST??
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(...) Why not? It worked for Time Cruisers/Twisters.... ;-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Missing Letters in Lego unvierse?
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(...) That is a problem. How do the engineers express the concept of Delta Vee? ea ee? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Star Wars @ Tesco (Roytson, Herts.)
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Huw Millington wrote in message ... (...) Yes, I've used the high-res pictures from the LEGO site, but rest are scans I've taken. Ben (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: help with ICC11
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(...) Hi Gary, I haven't used ICC with the HB but I do use it with the miniboard. I've had good luck with dlm which I believe is available from the HB site. Karl Lunt (who wrote the brilliant SBasic compiler for the 6811) has a version of motorola's (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Star Wars @ Tesco (Roytson, Herts.)
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(...) I'm sure Ben will answer in due course, but aren't they the official box pictures? (...) HP scanners at 75dpi seem very good for LEGO printed stuff. Never any moire/screen and pretty sharp. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Star Wars @ Tesco (Roytson, Herts.)
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Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) *snip* (...) With all the scans I do, I always scan the image in at a larger DPI/Image Size than I actually need, then when you reduce the image to the size you want to display/save it as, it's lost a lot of (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: people i would most like to build with...
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(...) We're all probably pretty far apart. :-( I am in Phoenix, AZ - not _too_ far from Sproat in Orem, UT, I guess. Besides, if there were a legofest like that, I would probably not be much use.... being among so much talent would render me (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Simtek memory
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(...) [short snip] Problem is the Simtek chip needs a few (...) Bruce, they *do* work well. I haven't had to add any caps. I just plugged it in and it worked 8^]. And they don't collide with the LCD or exp. board like the Dallas battery backed (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: toolchain
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(...) Read the MPL again. It's not clear to me that you need to MPL all your code if you include unmodified source from something that is covered by MPL. But if you include MPL'd source, you certainly have to make it clear what code is covered by (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mega-Fig at Joe's Lego Page
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I want to add a me too. I think your fig is great. I cannot wait to see what you do to fine tune it! Chris (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Star Wars @ Tesco (Roytson, Herts.)
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:58:24 GMT, Ben Rogers uttered the following profundities... (...) Like the site! Question, if I may..... Your pictures are de-screened *and* sharp! I have tried de-screening and have very unsharp pictures! I am quite sure it (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Star Wars @ Tesco (Roytson, Herts.)
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On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:13:27 GMT, Huw Millington uttered the following profundities... (...) Thanks! (...) I would forward the motion that LL Windsor be a price barometer.... Landspeeder-5.99 Speeder bikes-7.99 Snow Speeder-14.99 X-Wing-24.99 (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: help with ICC11
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I'm using win98 an ICC11. I was unable to get ICC11 to communicate with my handybaord. I instead used hbdl to download the output (s19 file) from ICC11 to my handyboard. This worked without problems. My biggest problem was that in my project I (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Missing Letters in Lego unvierse?
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 02:42:00 GMT, Tim McSweeney uttered the following profundities... (...) And therein lies the answer to your question! Those letters were sold to help pay for the hammer! (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Microfig TIE Advanced Prototype (Darth Vader's TIE FIghter) [DAT]
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Karim, another nit to pick, with Darth's TIE Fighter. Its body was a different shape from the TIEs the grunts flew, more disc-shaped than spherical. I've made a stab at it, LMKWYT. 0 0 Name: TIEDV.DAT 0 Author: Karim Nassar 1 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Re: SW Microfig X-Wing (w/ movable S-Foils) [DAT]
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Whoops, wrong newsgroup! :-P Sproaticus wrote: Karim, your X-Wing is superb except for one detail. LMKWYT. Cheers, - jsproat 0 Name: XWING.DAT 0 Author: Karim Nassar 1 7 0 8 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 3710.DAT 1 4 0 0 -20 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 3710.DAT 1 7 0 (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | RCX IRPD - Kits being made
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Well, I think the initial analysis is in, the RCX IRPD works on at least three Mindstorms bricks! For those of you who can't leave "well enough" alone, read on for a directionally sensitive IRPD for the RCX For those of you who wanted me to put (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Missing Letters in Lego unvierse?
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John Neal roe in message <36F667B9.A1DD6AE2@u...st.net>... (...) Ony a crimina ou not kno he ifference beteen ha is iega an ega. I hink he shou be sen o jai. P.S. John, I hink his is prey amn funny. :erek OBLego: You can't even spell lego with the (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: WTBOT: red 1x14 bricks
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(...) To the best of my knowledge, the only 1x14 brick TLG has produced is the brick with a slot down one side that is part of the garage door ass'y. One of the 1999 ninja sets uses one of these, not as a garage door part, but just as a basic brick. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: I have a page up showing the current status of my Lego Tantive IV!
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Karim wrote in message <36F6D686.1E494319@m...ng.com>... (...) scale (...) Falcon...) It looks pretty good to me! As to scale--the Millenium Falcon is 27 meters long, while a Corvette is 150 meters long. So if it's roughly 5-6 times as long as the (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: WTBOT: red 1x14 bricks
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Uh?? I've seen 1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x6, 1x8, 1x10, 1x12 and 1x16 bricks. But 1x14??? Do they exist? (...) 6109. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Best Lego Store in Western Mass?
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Not Really, I tend to rely on Toys 'R Us and Wal-Mart. Unfortunately no little country stores that I have found. But I haven't given up looking yet either. Kipling Morris wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.spr)
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| | Re: Nice Models all...
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Welcome home, Eric. All classic Space sets, huh? :) Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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