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(...) correct adress should be (URL) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Announcing the 2nd annual Midwest Lego train show Dec. 4th-5th
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Announcing the 2nd annual Midwest Lego train show. On December 4-5th the NILTC, IndyLUG and MichianaLUG will join forces in Winfield, IL to fill over 5000 sq ft with Lego fun. This year’s show includes an almost entirely redesigned NILTC layout (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX) !!
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(...) It seems like I remember reading somewhere that 10% of the SKNs at TRU are 'exclusives'. In some cases, that might be a combo pack of otherwise existing merchandise. In others, it might be the 'spring cleaning' tubs and (much more notable) the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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In lugnet.lego, William R. Ward wrote: snip (...) The (URL) numbers> (25%-30% drop in sales since 2002) don't support your conclusion that TLC is in touch with their market. That can't be blamed entirely on the color change, but does anyone here (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Bravo, and amen to that! A post like this is worth a spotlight anytime in my book. (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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I just got back from TRU. I believe to compete with Walmart most Toy companies allow "exclusives" and first right to display some toys. I wonder if TRU is really doing it with TLC!!! I saw all sorts of new sets on the shelves. Including one that was (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | UCS Naboo Starfighters in Stock
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Just in time for Christmas, 10026 Naboo Starfighters (the ones with all the chrome parts!) Find them at Falling Bricks on BrickLink: (URL) for looking, -Rob. (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Touche, bravo, and well-said. onedaycnn (sid) (URL) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: un sogno per SW + alcune considerazioni (no polemiche!)
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(...) Carlo c'hai ragione, come al solito: Da Gennaio 2004 il buon Ciccolella se n'é andato! Ciao, Guido (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) This causes a big difference. Do not be fooled, this is the most annoying thing about building white models for me. A lot of my Lego is 20+ years old and has been in direct sunlight. The white is a totally different colour, it's really (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Ok, Im online at the moment, still waiting for a better wether, and in a process of completing a few models, so I have something to fill my sparetime with. Anyway, enjoy www.jts-modeller.com (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Heavy ion cannon fighter
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(...) radars on the sides are a good look. The mounting for the huge cannon looks good and strong. I like the detailing at the engine exhaust as well, as it's not overdone. I'm not sold on the boats. Though that is an interesting use, I feel they're (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Sort-of-poll: Your most common Lego dream?
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SNIP (...) Hi Jeff, A grim scenario :-) I had a lego dream too, a few weeks ago. It was very strange. There's this loco I'd been working on, and I've taken a printout of a real world picture of it for the build. Anyway, in the dream, I realised that (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: RCX and the 9v system - help needed!
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(...) Thanks Larry. I have tried the 9v adapter. Regarding tampering with the RCX etc I would definitely be out of my depth and wouldn't want to risk damaging them. (...) Thanks again. You understood me correctly and "we" have posted in the same (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MOC: Apocryphal Blacktron Freudenshadow Racer
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(...) Thread advisory: newsgroups reset to only .space I'm not the curator of this group, but I'm wondering about the decision to post this craft to .space to begin with, even though the FUT was set only to .off-topic.clones. While I recognize (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: RCX and the 9v system - help needed!
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(...) You can hook an RCX 1.0 brick to a 9V adapter like the one that comes with the train speed regulator. I do not know of an all LEGO way to hook up the RCX 1.5 and above or the Scout to mains power. I know people have done it by makeing false (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sort-of-poll: Your most common Lego dream?
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(...) i just had another dream: there were new Lego sets pre built on top of red & blue small buckets. surprisingly, none of the sets had missing pieces. one building in particular was a gray 2-story townhouse with white trim & flat roof (on a red (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ha! Ok, that is kind of scarier knowing the orgin of that. Ouch. I managed to find in a Ukrainian dictionary that Horod is a kind of battlement on a hill. But nothing on Ris. Probably means light. Therefore the staff'd be a stoplight and (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: !!! Gameboy controller for Lego
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(...) (URL) That's REALLY slick. The movement of the "Wander" demo is really smooth too. Yes. Too bad we don't allow custom sensors ;-) (...) Hmmm... The whole system is not terribly cheap. You need the "Xport" which hooks up to the gameboy, and the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Horodris the mech
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(...) Worm gear count is eight. three in each leg, and one in each shoulder. The rest are mostly the new rotational click hinge. (...) I may be taking some more pics here, for my b-day I got a photography screen! No more taping the white sheets of (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | RCX and the 9v system - help needed!
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Hi everyone I am now the proud owner of my first 9v train (4511) and finally I can begin to experiment a little with various adaptations. But I would appreciate a little advice on the following: I can hook up both an RCX and Discovery Scout to the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Horodris the mech
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(...) Ah-ha! Hear that Sophie! You're going down, buddy! I got that supply of left monkey arms coming in from BL, you best be sweating bullets now. Thanks for the commentary on the arms. I was looking at that and the shoulder had to go through a (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: I love Lego
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(...) This rather sounds like a "someone hand me a brain please" plea. The level of ignorance is truly astonishing. I'm always wondering what's going on in the minds of I'm-not-at-all-bothe...nge-thingy people. They should make Teunis their (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Horodris the mech
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(...) That goat critter was Pan. The hand did go through about five rebuilds for this mech and was the origional inspiration for this mech. (repositioned fingers, shortened overall hand, wrist redesign) I started by fooling with hand designs and (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Turkey is Overrated Sale!
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Do you find yourself going to yet another Thanksgiving dinner today? Do you curse the inventor of sweet potatoes and long for a real spud? Did you wonder what you were really doing outside a Best Buy store at 4:30 am? Is this holiday really a (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Vendo 4x4 Off Roader 8466 69 € COME NUOVO, vedi foto!
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Idem con patate, stesso discorso dell'8458. Questo ce l'ho ancora montato ma l'ho scoperto solo per fare le foto, era avvolto completamente da una ventina di giorni da un grosso panno.... ma di quelli che non lasciano i maledetti peli!!! :-) Lo (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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| | Vendo Silver Champion 8458 COME NUOVA 100 € ... vedi foto!
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La Silver Champion, ispirata alla McLaren, è lunga 68 cm.!!! Il secondo modello, il Silver Truck, è ancora più fico... ci sono ben due libroni di istruzioni separati. E' usata ma... non servono parole, solo 7 euro in più per un paccocelere J3 :-) (6 (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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| | Cleaning Bricks
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Sure this subject has been broached before, but how is the best way to clean your bricks. I've heard the warm soapy water and a toothbrush, but is the dishwasher ok? Matt (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Part building advice - too many triangles/quads?
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(...) You can do it in LDAO as well, although there's no direct "round my decimals to 3 places" command. First, open your file in the editor. Second, go to Options | Decimals, and enter 3. Then put a line "0 SCALE 1" at the beginning of the block of (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Heavy ion cannon fighter
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Hi there Here's something a built recently: The heavy ion cannon fighter. The ship was somehow inspired by the work of John Douglass. You can find his ion cannon frigate "Feng Zhu" here: (URL) ship is more or less in micro-scale 1:35 (see the pilot (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Another Introduction and space moc thrown in for flavor...
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(...) I really appreciate this. Now that I have taken it appart, I see a LOT of things that I should have changed. I much rather have some one tell me how to improve so I can do just that than have some one tell me a not so good creation is good. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | A qualcuno interessa un 8485 "usato sicuro" ??? :-)
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Ciao ragazzi, non so chi di voi ha visto il mio post di qualche giorno fa in cui mettevo in vendita un 8485 MISB.... dico così perchè il forum nel giro di tre giorni è stato letteralmente sommerso dai vostri messaggini sugli splendidi diorami di (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: [OT] TERREMOTO !!!
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anke io di verona.... ee ,mi è caduto un quadro sul 8855 appena lo visto mi son messo le mani in testa...pezzi di puzzle e lego ovunque.... "Matteo Favalli" <lego77@tiscali.it> ha scritto nel messaggio news:I7pJrz.CuA@lugnet.com... (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Second draft
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Heh, tried to focus so much on being positive I left out the most important request. Honestly, part of me doesn't think they'll ever change 'em back, but I guess it won't hurt to ask. Your name Your Street Address Town, State/Province Zip Code (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.color) !
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| | Re: Another Introduction and space moc thrown in for flavor...
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(...) The bottom looks good and the bottom section of the actual station. However, I think the top section is far to square and flat... Nothing seems to be happening. The interior is quite good except for the fact that a huge section of it is empty. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: London Underground Train
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(...) Hello Teunis, The tube trains are 6-wide. They are running alongside standard trains which are also 6-wide so visually it was important to ensure that, if anything, they look a little narrower in keeping with the character of the prototype. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 20% off - shop closes 30th Nov - free S@H for UK*
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(...) extra 10% off for Aussies. *= People in the UK or who are attending the Brickish Xmas party on the 4th Dec, can order and I can deliver to them in person (= free shipping/deliver etc). Thanks and looking forward to seeing you :) Mel P.S. I (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Horodris the mech
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(...) Hey Mark, I did a Google search and I found that Te Horo is the name of a beach on New Zealand and DRIs is the Dietary Recommended Intake. Sooo...this beast was obviously created to search the beaches of Te Horo to take the DRIs of unsupecting (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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(...) What colour is that little logo next to your sig fig? (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Set #271 Policemen
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(...) Hi Ronald, I have seen that page. I believe that there is an old Netherlands catalog that shows this as well. I even have some old 50's parts packs with the extra "1" (written with Danish "System i leg") that were sent to Germany. The problem (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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(...) I have one already parked out in the barn. What can I say? I'm that good. (URL) ~Trev (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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(...) Snip (...) I have this feeling you have already drawn up the schematics and are preparing to build the real version now. (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Selling off large sets out of my personal collection
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I've added a bunch of used sets out of my personal collection to my bricklink shop. It's been far too long since I had any interest in these so, at the wife's suggestion, I'm clearing them out to fund new toys ;-). Due to storage (and past moving) (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Shopko deals was Re: Black Friday Deals
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Shopko has 50% off blue tub all weekend (also Duplo.) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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(...) Vehicles? Come now, that would suggest that I would have to had to purposely postion the seats off to the side to ensure a vehicle never touches an obstruction, as well as provide features for securing a vehicle inside the cargo hold. Possibly (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: ALC Orca Dropship
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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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| | 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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| | Re: I'll take a stab at the letter!
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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