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(...) Unless you've been building in gray. My collection of 30 years was made obsolete overnight when they decided to discontinue making new parts in the pre 2004 shades of gray. Therefore, my continued support of their products ended when they (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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(...) Reading the LEGO Life article, I thought back to Jake McKee's (URL) original explanation> for the color change back in May. I noticed some discrepancies. Contrast this passage from the (URL): Reducing the number of used colours is part of the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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Reducing the number of colours in the palette seems like a win-win. It means Lego can be cheaper, and it also means that AFOLs will find it easier to build a decent selection of parts in each colour. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Indeed. I have a bag of 41752's here. I keep looking at the tread surfaces on both sides and the Technic pin holes and thinking... 'now if they could put pin holes in a rubber-band holder, why couldn't they do the same for the big hailfire (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: It can never end can it
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Hi, Jamie. My name’s Mike. I’m the guy who made the first post in LUGNET/People/Support. I know what it feels like to have life come crashing down on top of you. I know what it’s like to have things suddenly turn dark, for all the fun and joy to get (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.people.support, FTX)
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| | December meeting
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The December IndyLUG meeting will be on Sunday, December 19 at 2:00 at Jeramy Spurgeon's house in Fishers. Plans for the meeting include: • Planning the January GATS • Playing BrickQuest (click (URL) here> to see the BrickQuest site) - If you've (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)
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| | Re: Berlinetta
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(...) Well, as Paul said, this MOC was the Subject of Discussion (hehe, SoD) at the last Melbourne get together, it's a really excellent hovercar. it's compact, it's racy, it's swooshable and most importantly it's red. I really like the control (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: input used as output
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well I've decided to go with 2 RCX's anyway. Later I may switch to a non-lego controller ala handyboard, brainstem, etc. Anyway, for the record, the current is also pulsed in order to get the reading from the photoreceptor. I still suspect I could (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego in subdomains, legal or not?
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(...) I just wanted to add while I am fairly net savy, and I first thought www.lego.bugge.com was related to TLG somehow - like Pitsco, or something. Mainly because 'lego' came before 'bugge' and because I dont know what 'bugge' refers to. For all i (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Idea Crunching
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*pops out of the blue that is my laziness* One thing I've always had trouble with is getting a large enough nozzle for the engine. I use "fusion engines" with my stuff, but I can never seem to get that "tunnel into the darkness" and "there's a big (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) I think this is _critical_, that we as AFOL make it be known that we'd rather pay more for a quality product than less for crap. If I wanted to buy crap, I could buy Megablocks instead. That being said, there are times and places where the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) The rubber band holders come to mind. Those are curiously over-designed. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: MPD Builder ?
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(...) Might I suggest you try LPub (URL). It can create MPDs for you. -AHui LDraw Help Desk (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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In lugnet.color, William Howard wrote: (snipped) Thanks for sharing these and thanks especially for checking to see if it was OK first! Both are much appreciated. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: VIP treatment
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(...) Keeping with the common theme for this competition I like to see city/town buildings, like you did. I like to see stuff that's detailed and has interesting and varied building techniques. I look for things that not only look good but also (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) Well, uh- yeah, hence I posted here. Samarth (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: N-Fedge primitives
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(...) It's not really that hard, but my mind recoils at a senseless inconsistency, and this, and the following, are it. Note that I suggested an alias, not move, and certainly not removing the existing names. (...) "0 Circle 1.0". 5-8edge should be (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, FTX)
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| | Re: Anyone want a spaceship design?
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(...) this is boring. I dont wanna play anymore. welcome to rtl. we've had fun with the smack. I've got to work on a robot for R18 Chris "It is a very clever strategy IMHO, and I applaud Chris for thinking of it." K.C. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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(...) Thank you, Kelly - that is very kind of you. I was wondering who had the great train station, and I'm glad to see it's a fellow LUGNETer. I told my wife I would have been happy to lose to your excellent train model (it was a small 4-8 vote gap (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | PLUGS #2, when does it finish?
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I am getting a lift to PLUGS on sunday and need to let my ride know when I should be picked up from marks. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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