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(...) Sigh. That's what the big yellow (soon to be red) intake vanes on the front are FOR. :) This design has dual spamcake plasma drives (exo-atmospheric) and conventional scramjets (endo-atmospheric), both of which utilize the same thrust nozzles. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Mark, Coming from the Grand Admiral, that's a real compliment. On that note, I just finished swapping all the remaining yellow out with red. I'll have updated pics, probably Monday night. My wife took a look at it and agreed with (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Hello Jon Great looking train ! Is it a 6 wide or a 7 wide ? Thanks,Teunis M>ltc (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Winners ... wow ... 10001
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(...) Gail, I was handling one just tonight but had seen them in my local Winners about two weeks ago. They have two of them. Also (here in Brantford) some NASA Discovery Sets, SpiderMan (only a couple different ones) and Star Wars Minis. Peter (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
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(...) Did you just compare the Catholic Church and the Protestant Revolution to Lego and the color change? Are you the same guy who runs around on Slashdot and compares college kids being busted for pirating music to the civil rights movement of the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Set #271 Policemen
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(...) ...snip... Hi Gary, thanx for the additional infos. In one point I cannot agree to you by my current knowledge: The extra "1" was also used for sets in Germany. In an old German catalog sheet from 1957 (Jan Beyer from TLC got the date from the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) If you insist on going at this, why don't you do a petition from a more representative group of LEGO's customers, namely parents? (And they can sign on behalf of their children if you want, as you probably don't want to be "using" children for (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Winners ... wow ... 10001
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(...) That's pretty cool. I haven't seen any by my area (Southern Ontario), but I'll keep on the lookout.... (not that I need another metroliner...) ;) Benjamin Medinets (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) You're right, the files aren't UTF-8. If anyone is interested, you can convert ISO-8859-1 text to UTF-8 like this: characters from 0-127 (0x00-0x7F) remain the same characters from 128-191 (0x80-0xBF) are prefixed by 194 (0xC2) but otherwise (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) Don't confuse not getting everything you want and them not being concerned with you. It's impossible to please everyone (including themselves), so they have to make tough decisions. It doesn't mean they're not concerned with the people those (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) And you have evidence from inside the company that the net result of all the pros and cons of this change shows that this decision was a poor one? KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Ontario, Canada (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I love Lego
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(...) Matthew please cry me a river. I know Arizona needs more water. Give me a break. We are still talking about the changes that Lego has done. I thought we were all over this. However I guess the memo never got to you. If you don't want to build (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | London Underground Train
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Hello all, I've recently completed a model of a tube train like this one (URL) any of you have flown into Heathrow and caught the tube up to central London, this is the train you will have ridden in The lego model has been built 6-wide and (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains) !!
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| | Re: I Just Don't See It
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(...) I encountered one of these tubs at a CVS store today and picked it up. All the 'orange' 2x2s and 2x4s are the color that BL calls 'Medium Orange'. A few other parts in this color were found in the recent Walgreens boxes. (...) The greens in (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | MichLTC to display at the SE MI Model Train Show - Nov 28th
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MichLTC will be displaying at the Annual Southeast Michigan Model Train Show in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Sunday, November 28th, from 10am till 4pm. There will be over 100 tables of model trains and railroadiana for sale, several operating layouts, and (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: Weetabix Sets
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(...) Dave, The castle, in all those colors, has the unfortunate resemblence to a MOC that kids would make up if they didn't have enough pieces to build a big building all in one color. Like Eric said, the castle was earlier than the other Weetabix (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: un sogno per SW + alcune considerazioni (no polemiche!)
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(...) Guido, sei rimasto un po' indietro. La persona di cui parli è stata cacciata a calci nel ... dopo il "successo" della chiusura della linea Duplo e la produzione dei videogiochi. (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Convex / Double Concave
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(...) A (nearly) complete roof system is available in blue, yellow and white, and possibly gray. They can be purchased on Bricklink. Some parts, such as the yellow 1x2 double/inverted (what I used to call the "gable connector") are only rarely (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | WTT: MISB ColorLine truck 2149 for Maersk 1831 truck
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I have an extra MISB copy of the Color Line truck, (URL) anybody, with a copy of the Maersk truck, (URL) in trading this for my 2149? I'd prefer a MISB copy, although I will consider trading for an as-new set with instructions in as-new condition (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Horodris the mech
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(...) I like that gear-ratio reduction assembly to reduce the stress on the worm gear--tricky! Out of curiosity, what's the total worm-gear count? (...) Unequal length fingers, rotating thumb, the hand flattens out, sweet! (...) The black shoulder (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: First rough draft of the letter!
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(...) Where is the part about returning to the old light and dark Gray? -- Don GtwLUG St. Louis (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I agree with the everyone sending out a letter instead of a few letters with many signatures. They open one letter, read it, notice many names and go on with their meeting. However, many letters need many hands to open, read the contents and (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: First rough draft of the letter!
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In lugnet.color, David Simmons wrote: snip (...) You didn't ask them to change it back. Marc Nelson Jr. (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
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(...) I'm guessing you mean s\6898s01.dat :) ROSCO (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | First rough draft of the letter!
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Boy, that didn't take long! Read it and LMKWYT! David Simmons xenobuzz@earthlink.net Your name Your Street Address Town, State/Province Zip Code Country What would be the correct address? Dear Lego Company, As an Adult Fan Of Lego (or AFOL), one of (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | I'll take a stab at the letter!
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Hey all, I would be willing to take a running jump at the letter. I've already composed one which I've yet to send to the company about this very issue, but it's been sitting on my hard drive collecting dust for a couple of reasons. First of all, I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Flinstones micro car by my Brother Paul
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I thought this was so simple & accurately recreated Fred's car, I HAD to post this; my brother Paul made it with the blue Xpod set: (URL) cool, Huh? Jeff (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Winners ... wow ... 10001
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Greetings, I'd heard of someone walking into a local winners and finding a 10001 Metroliner for $99.99, but I wasn't 100% sure it wasn't an urban legend :). Well, it happened to me today. They only had one out, and the box was in perfect shape. It (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: One last Spring Cleaning set
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(...) I got 4 buckets - they had green and orange 2x2 corner slopes! (one each) Old slope - Exploriens pattern 2x3 low slope that was last in a Space Accessory pack. I also like the white 3x4 low slopes (2), green 2x2 low slope apex (2), white 1x2 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: One last Spring Cleaning set
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(...) My area K-Marts have priced them at $9.99. Deals at CVS with BOGOF, and the Walgreens boxes are much better. Usually when WalMart had the small tubs like this, they priced them low and watched them fly off the shelves by nine in the morning. (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) While I agree that the color change was a bad decision for Lego to have made, I'm almost even MORE nervous about them changing back. I don't want to see an already struggling TLC put millions into a reverse change, which probably wouldn't (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: !!! Gameboy controller for Lego
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(...) I tore into one of these a while back. Nice PWM motor control and encoders on the wheels. The reason they don't work is that whoever coded up the PID loop to control the motors obviously had no idea what he/she was doing. I have not yet taken (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Convex / Double Concave
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(...) Not really answering your question, but for the longest time I had no idea what this piece looked like. Even the picture on Peeron was a LDRAW picture, and I still couldn't imagine its shape! But now, Peeron has a photograph of the part so I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Trogdor spotted on H*R fanstuff!
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(...) Awesome Trogdor, Dave! Made me wish I had built it. :( Way to go, Josh (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: !!! Gameboy controller for Lego
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(...) The behaviour in the teach video (drive it around by hand and have it play back the motion) looks exactly what set 4095 Record and Play (URL) is supposed to do. Anyone know how it would compare, and whether the 4095 uses back-EMF or internal (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: un sogno per SW + alcune considerazioni (no polemiche!)
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Ciao Mauro, Luca e tutti gli altri "airmauro" <maulag@nuovacatena.191.it> ha scritto nel messaggio news:I7s4BA.1wq6@lugnet.com... (...) Anch'io purtroppo non sono potuto venire a Crema, ma ho provato personalmente ad organizzare un LF nelle (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Horodris the mech
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I really like the leg design and gearing. Gears are like muscles for mecha. The more gears, the more powerful the machine (appears to be). The spindly arms could use a gear infusion to beef them up... But I know you haven't made a lot of armed (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: TCLTC's New Home (pics)
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SNIP (...) Hi John, I'm not going to comment on that, and you know why. We've got enough about the colors going on. I prefer to just come here to see, read and display MOCs. If it suits you, great, go with it. And I say that without prejudices. I'll (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: un sogno per SW + alcune considerazioni (no polemiche!)
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(...) Bah, direi che è vero a metà.... Guardate le brickwars...non sempre lo scenario di un diorama o di un "gioco nel gioco" deve essere PER FORZA tutto lego. (...) Beh, qui entriamo in un campo difficile, certo in un contest, tipo Sumo, il fatto (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | RE: !!! Gameboy controller for Lego
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(...) This has been around for a while, and they are really doing a pretty cool bit of engineering here. It's not for the faint of heart in terms of complexity, but we ARE talking about a really deeply embedded system here. :-) I'm not so much (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | MOC: Apocryphal Blacktron Freudenshadow Racer
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Tony Hafner has presented his very cool (URL) Outcast Racer>, for which much praise is due. Very nice work, Tony! Seeing this fine craft, I was inspired to try something similar, adding my own (I hope) distinctive style. Please let me know what you (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: !!! Gameboy controller for Lego
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(...) That's REALLY slick. The movement of the "Wander" demo is really smooth too. The gameboy's not a bad idea either. It's certainly cheaper than a custom board. Calum (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: TCLTC's New Home (pics)
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(...) I don't know, but if you find out a way, please let us know! (ours gets dusty, and so we dust it) JOHN (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
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(...) 10 times is "well over". :-) (KIDDING!)... Thanks for the elaboration. I forgot just how big it actually is... (...) Exactly. (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: TCLTC's New Home (pics)
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(...) lol Thanks, Samarth! Patience. We literally did just get the whole thing reassembled and still have a lot of detail work to put in. The minifigs all took a vote and decided it would be safer to make the trip in a bin by themselves;-) As a side (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: Chessie box cars spotted
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(...) Getting more so with time but not unheard of. Boxcars usually only get painted when they really really need it so can go years and years with just the reporting marks area repainted to allow restenciling of new maintenance info and nothing (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Chessie box cars spotted
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Is it unusual to still see Chessie System boxcars? I saw some in Dearborn, MI a few days ago, looking a bit weathered. I didn't have my camera. Amy (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: un sogno per SW + alcune considerazioni (no polemiche!)
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(...) MEGA CUT Ci tengo a precisare una cosa. Io non sono potuto venire a Crema, però ho apprezzato molto lo sforzo compiuto da molti di voi che hanno allestito diorami, ecc. Ho apprezzato Dino, che ha fotografato tutto dettagliatamente e mi ha (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) Fine with me, it just makes the collecting of the signatures a lot more complicated ;-) Saskia (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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Hello! (...) I think any letters should be on paper, signatures handwritten. The letter itself doesn't need to be handwritten :-) Bye Jojo (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: B.I. Joe: Killer Whale Hovercraft
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(...) Thanks! They are mines of a sort...depth charges. Pomme de terre / Pomme de tErrE. :) And no...they don't really hurt whales. They 'kill' them metaphorically with witty satire and zippy dialogue. :) Cheers, -G (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: B.I. Joe: Killer Whale Hovercraft
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(...) You should! The mo' the bettah! (...) I was thinking of that when I was building it. In the end (like with quite a bit of the Joe stuff I make), I decided that play factor wins over accuracy as I wanted the missles to fit all the way into the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Another Introduction and space moc thrown in for flavor...
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Hi, may name is Chappie Adams. I am fourteen years old and live in Richmond, Virginia. I a member of RichLUG. Enough with all this, on to the creation. Here is the comm station. I built this a while back but finally figured how to post it. With (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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(...) I really like this ship. The more I look at it the more I like it. My only suggestion is if those things on the side are thrusters, perhaps beef them up some and add air intakes. (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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(...) It is from Jango Fett Slave 1 (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: B.I. Joe: Killer Whale Hovercraft
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(...) Thanks! The free motion of it works fairly well....got the idea from the new WC hovercraft hideout set. Cheers, -Gil (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005?
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(...) Well Parlugment will have a train show on Feb 5-6, so I would prefer a robot weekend that is far from that. (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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(...) Interesting ship, Trevor. The shape is immediately recognizable as a drop ship.....I'm always amazed how strongly Aliens has imprinted on our collective spacey consciousness. I can see where you are going with the colours...blocking them in (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Cleaner code
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I have a fairly large program written in NQC that's got rather unruly and is full of old bits of code that have been commented out. I was wondering if anyone has been using one of those programs you use to clean up C++ code on NQC code with any (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: [2005] Nuovo set 8652
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VENDO UNA FERRARI ENZO!!! (URL) l'OT ma non sono riuscito a trattenermi :-) Ciao! Gabriele (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: TCLTC's New Home (pics)
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when you have such a big layout how do you keep it from getting dusty? (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) I can do the same thing for The Netherlands. I'm sure we'll get a lot of signatures over here... When should the signatures be collected? Since we have our next event end of february. Should the signatures be handwritten? Otherwise we could (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Vintage Lego 12V Train 7740 Sale On eBay!
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Its here! Rare partly sealed from new Set 7740 Intercity Train set now listed on eBay (URL) also seperately a 12V transformer and some extra track. Take a look. (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [2005] Nuovo set 8652
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ma perchè nessuno si interessa dei set radiocomandati?? io ne vado matto!! (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: TCLTC's New Home (pics)
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SNIPPY (...) Hi John, Thats very well done. It sure is on an impressive scale. I have only one small question, which is about something which struck me as I looked at the pics. Where are all the minifigs? Samarth (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) OK. If someone manages to write up a petition, I'll see to have it translated in German for the next larger AFOL event over here (Frechen, January 8th and 9th), and round up some people to get it signed (Which should not be a problem at all, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) This is not only a valuable achievement, but also a valuable information. Thank You! (...) With the upcoming AFOL event in Frechen in focus, I'll do my best to get something (i.e. list of signatures) done right there. Give my lack of (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
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(...) Great work. The subpart naming standard(s)n are documented at (URL) So, I'd rather your subpart were named s6898s01.dat. Submitting a new part to the Parts Tracker is easy. You need to register as an LDraw.org user (at (URL)) and then request (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
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(...) Sorry Orion, I was not aware of that neat feature. I should get out of my LDAO-centric world more often. So, what I meant to say was : "There's this really cool tool called LDraw Design Pad that can do this for you". Chris (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) True, but new grey is locked. I suppose you could argue that we do not want to change clours, we want to reintroduce old ones. New grey would still be a core colour, it just wouldn't be used in any sets. (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Berlinetta
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"JP RIGNAULT" <jprignault@itnetwork.fr> wrote in message news:I7rJ0y.Dpq@lugnet.com... (...) Did you try looking through the stores on bricklink for anything suitably printed? Here's a few possibilities, you could probably swap or mix'n'match legs, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: I love Lego
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(...) HELLO !! Don't You understand why the Lego colours changed ? Look at todays World and SEE ! The Value that Lego Stand for, have gotten Better,and more Universal for every person in this world. All Lego bricks join together regardless of (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Convex / Double Concave
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Thankyou for the info Gary. (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: No one asked...
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(...) Didn't think of that...right! (...) I don't honestly think it's a big deal. It's not the clearance of the track, it's the clearance of the gutter train itself, because the gutter is low enough. I don't think apart from DaveK's SD70ACe (which (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Advent Calendar
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(...) Mastermind I think, as well as the new Toy Blox store. I got one for a friends' kids at the Whitby store. Calum (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
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Thanks everyone for the advice. After posting last night I went ahead and changed the hat puff to a 1/8 segment and called it s/6898s18.dat. Any conditional lines falling along the x, z, x+z (diagonal), or x-z axes were moved into the main file to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Weekly Update of New AuctionBrick Listings - 11/25/04
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This is weekly update of new items listed at (URL) as of Thu Nov 25, 10:26 AM PST. To bid, review details of any item listed or to register go to (URL). (2 URLs) 5904 Professor's Dino Chopper> MISB Minimum Bid: $2.50, Time Left: 2 Days 4 Hrs+ (2 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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| | Upcoming December sale at The Brickee Mart
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Hi all, just a quick note that I will be having a sale on everything in the store during December. I will be posting more and updating my page December 1 but I wanted to at least give people a 'heads-up' in case you had been eyeing something but (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) This seems a very valid argument to me indeed. (...) Taking the risk of repeating myself too often, that would be, indeed, the only necessary but yet sufficient move from TLC that would make me believe that they are, sincerely, concerned with (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Convex / Double Concave
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(...) Oooops, I made a typo, The USA/Canada spare parts pack from 1961/62 to 1965 was actually #280/3. Gary Istok (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Space?
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(...) (URL) ;-) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: The New Face of 3vil
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(...) Congratulations on the comeback, 3vil. I feared your association with a certain scandalous decorating diva would cause some upheaval and disruption, but I see I was wrong. May 3vil (and evil in general) ring! -- Mr. Evil, ( who just managed (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Convex / Double Concave
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(...) This piece was made from 1958-72, and only in red or blue. When Lego sloped bricks first came out in 1958 (in red, blue slopes came in production in 1960), it was one of a 13 piece roof system. The other 12 pieces are still in production, but (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Amen, and ditto to that! And that is all I have to say. (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) If the community is dead set on giving me a migraine over the color issue bringing it up time and time again, do me a favor and listen to Jake. Write a petition and get it signed at brick events [1]. I would be more than willing to put my name (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) has anyone ever thought that TLG could simply reintroduce the original grey? could be an easier solution. I like a lot of the new colors, but I just don't like the new greys. I would get involved in something like this, my time is very limited (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | TCLTC's New Home (pics)
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Well, we did it. We moved the main portion of the (URL) Twin Cities LEGO Train Club> layout to a new location and got it all set up. Now we can concentrate on finishing it! Actually, this is the first time we have been able to even see the backside (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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Has anyone seen the Advent Calender set in Toronto stores? I'd like to get one soon. Well, by the Dec 1, if I can. :-) Derek (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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(...) Actually it's a yellowish tan with a reddish brown ;) (...) It's a frightfully expensive model from the fine folks at (URL) Despite my color objections, you built a darn nice moc. :) -Grand Admiral .space Curator (URL) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: No one asked...
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(...) How would you do it with train track? It can most likely be steeper then you can make a ramp with train track. I'm still trying to figure out how to solve the width, interference problem. Might have to give up on the racer track and build a (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I don't use exclusively 1x1s... I use other size bricks as well, and at the seams of the baseplates beneath I make sure that I have larger bricks that spans the seams to hold the baseplates together. eric (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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Which colors does this part come in? (I am aware of blue and red, are there any others? How rare is this part in each color? (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
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(...) LDraw Design Pad can do this. You can find it at (URL) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: work in progress | more pictures and information
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(...) Great. Thanks for asking. Today I reached ´The end of the world' (in Ushuaia on Terra del Fuego). Great place. (...) I know it. The cylinders are too weak. Otherwise you have to make a smaller crane (of less heavy). (...) OK. That will be (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Eric, Very nice, just like all your other work. I am a newbie at mosaics so I have what it possibly a dumb question. If you build a mosaic out of 1x1s, do you use a layer underneath the 1x1s to hold the baseplates together? If so, what is the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| | Re: Weetabix Sets
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(...) Dave, Clark Stephens agrees with you. In this page he states that the Castle may be from around 1970 and that the three town sets came out later in 1977. The page also shows scans of the instructions. (URL) Eric (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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In lugnet.space, Jean-Pascal Rignault wrote: <snip> (...) Well, I do thank both you and Mark for the constructive feedback on the colors. If you ever see my older stuff, you'ld probably agree that I've come a long way. And like I said before, it was (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Fixed LGEO parts
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Lutz Uhlmann (Chaot!X) is the author of almost a thousand LGEO parts, which are very nice looking (rounded edges) POV versions of LDraw parts. The LGEO parts, however, haven't been updated since September 23, 1999. During the last couple of years I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Weetabix Sets
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Hi All, I have recently acquired a Weetabix Castle set. I also have all three of the other sets. Now my problem, the castle doesn't look like it belongs. It looks older than the other three, it doesn't have any mini-figs (even the old style) like (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Toy Blox - Lego Superstore!
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(...) Selling of Used LEGO bricks in a retail store I guess is a rare thing. I know of only one such store that does this in upstate New York, USA. The store is primarily a video gamer store. The used LEGO is just a gimmick to draw in kids and their (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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