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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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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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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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| | Re: London Underground Train
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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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