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Wow!!! That is crazy. I can see an "amateur start-up" making that kind of rookie mistake but that shouldn't happen at a seasoned place like our dear Lego Shop@Home. I had one order this fall that was pretty messed up as well. I ordered a bunch of (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I think all you really need to do is switch the motor port between "float" and "brake". That's the same as opening and closing a touch sensor. I've used that for simple signals, and it seems to work fine, but I haven't tried more complex (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Amen! It seems like LEGO is trying to walk a tightrope, cutting costs, but still maintaining their image as the leader in quality. I don't think they're doing a very good job of it. IMO, LEGO is *currently* not being clobbered on price, but on (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption (was Re: Rolling ball clock revisited)
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(...) There will be a minimum throuhgput to solve that. Right now, we're testing with 1 ball/second. So, the very first module will be regulated to run somewhere just below that speed. As long as everyone else can meet the minimum, there will be no (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: anyone know where I can find this part in australia?
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A word about the part reference provided by bricklink to peeron - this is incorrect, as bricklink and peeron do not use the same part numbers. The peeron part number for this part is (URL) - they are found both in 6180 and 6199, however, finding (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption (was Re: Rolling ball clock revisited)
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(...) Looks fun ;o) One of my goals when building Bob's clock was to get my feet wet in ball moving... One foreseeable issue: if an upstream unit has more throughput than a downstream one, we shall get ball overflows! Philo (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) <snip> <big city boy comment> so like; are the cow's husbands OK with this? <end bad joke> Iain, auto-milking robots. Cool. thanks for the pics. 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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(...) Wait a minute. That's Daniel Siskind, as in "creator of LEGO set ´3739 Blacksmith shop´"? And I thought TLG would send flowers at your birthdays and lots of free stuff at christmas! :( Well, know-nothing company ogres can be that way. But I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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My father worked for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, and with that I was introduced to virtually every aspect of farming as a child growing up. My dad would often take me to farms, and early on I became fascinated with the technology in use at (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Thanks Ahui, I was not aware of this LPub feature... now if only I could find how to use it ??? Philo (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello, I am currently trying to implement a communication protocol between two bricks using just one of the copper wire given with the brick. The protocol is based on manchester encoding, using a well-timed alternation of up and low signals. My (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I just saw a video by DJ Timo ((URL) called "The Robots", and the entire video was stop-motion animation of a LEGO town. The song was Kraftwerk's "Die Roboter", with a more modern sound. I was impressed by the video - the creations are well done, (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Am I mistaken in thinking that this month's submissions look remarkably like last month's? Allister (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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At the last weekend's GMLTC showing, I found out from another club member that LEGO still had some of the light gray brick packs available. Still in need of several thousand pre-2004 light gray bricks to finish the stand for battleship project, I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego) !!
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| | Re: Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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(...) Wait-- how are these in contrast? Do you know that these came out of the same initiative? Do you know that something hasn't changed in the meantime? It's been over a year since the color change actually HAPPENED, and as far as I can tell, this (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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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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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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(...) The only version I can find is here: (URL) This version is crippled and makes Robolab seem extremely limited. I seem to remember a more complete demo of version 1.5 but I can't find it. Another option is "Robolab for LabVIEW" found here: (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Ending today and tomorrow: 4728 Privet & 3806 Gigamesh
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Lego Harry Potter Escape from Privet Drive 4728 New Lego Mindstorms Spybotics Set Gigamesh G60 3806 New as seen here: (URL) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette
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So we can expect to see them get rid of those pastey new flesh tones...right? (Please oh please oh please) (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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I can't believe what i just read: "... we are investigating to see whether some of the parts we make at the moment could be produced in other, cheaper materials:... and whether the quality of some of our parts is simply too high.." Didn't Ole once (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color) !
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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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What is the limitations of the demo version? It´s possible to get it downloaded somewhere? Patrick Levy "Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> escreveu na mensagem news:I8Ev9K.1DCJ@lugnet.com... (...) you (...) support. (...) Robolab (...) like (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: It can never end can it
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(...) Jamie, I don't know you personally, but I am aware that there are a variety of people here at Lugnet who know you and care about you. Please don't do anything rash - both Janey and David are good people and if you want to talk, they are (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.people.support)
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| | Re: What does RCX stand for?
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(...) Me, too. So, I did a search and found it here: (URL) Entering the buzzword "RCX" - out came "robotic command explorer", unless TLC intended it otherwise. C S Soh (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | RE: What does RCX stand for?
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I think it stands for Robotics Command eXplorer. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Anyone want a spaceship design?
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(...) sec. just just look at the RTL chain of command.... ME, Calum ..... all the rest. dave aint in the top 2!! sure he's a nice guy, but how can we respect a guy who does not even drive a legal vehicle?? (...) yep. walkers, robots. thats about (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | The Lego block radio in print
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I found this in a strange publication, the Ericsson corporate magazine, while thumbing through the "boring reading material in lunchroom pile". (URL) magazine is a half editorial, half advertisement for Ericsson products. It's sort of a mix of Wired (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: first mecha from my "protege"
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Well done! The shape and style of this Mecha is very cool! I think it has cool features and uses very cool parts. All the cool things I would like to see on a Mech have been done very nicely on this creation. A super looking model! e (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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(...) Robolab is an example of an IDE as well. Tom (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) good question. i've wondered about this myself from time to time. ondrew (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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i have been given permission to post this moc from an up-and-coming young lad in the lego mecha business. he goes by "chopper dave" and has been looking to me for advice in mecha building. his first moc is a gundam and he has taken a few ideas from (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Lego in subdomains, legal or not?
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(...) Yes, using the word "LEGO" anywhere in the domain or sub-domain is a no-no. It's the full Internet address as you quote from the Fair Play, not just the root domain. Confusion about ownership of the site can still result even if "LEGO" is in (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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Hey y'all- I have been looking at the lego technic models that have been on the market (like set 8436 or 8868 for example) and a thought occured to me. I don't know if this thought is proper discussion for the Technic section, but here goes. Has (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic)
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Very nice. I'm especially fond of the interior detail -- realistic looking environment for control and engine room stuff. BTW, don't let Baby Admiral be too much of a hinderance. I've got 3 boys and I'm only at 31. Mind you, I'm lucky to get out two (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) An interesting look into the process. Now all that the "bley" haters have to do is provide an alternate source for 3.7 million kroner and bing-bang-boom! everybody is happy. (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: set 8074 question
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(...) Check out peeron: (URL) 75 DkGray Technic Flex-System Hose (Pic) 14L 1 75 DkGray Technic Flex-System Hose (Pic) 5L 1 75 DkGray Technic Flex-System Hose (Pic) 6L multiply the length of the tubes by 8mm (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: anyone know where I can find this part in australia?
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(...) I have some...but you can't have them :^P The 6180 may be on a toystore shelf somewhere in Australia, but that sounds a rather expensive option. Who knows, someone in loc.au may want to rid themselves of one. (...) I wondered what you were (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: controversy resolution (was - Kits for sale)
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(...) That would be lo-res. (...) That would be hi-res. (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: all quiet on the loc.au front (was - Kits for sale)
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(...) Only when the .colour ng is created, will I see fit to post about that topic. (...) Maybe the statsmaster should post some up-to-date stats, I know how some people like seeing their name up in lights. pete.w (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Wheels and train wheels with metal axles
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(...) Now I am aware of the non existence of x245c01 (with normal axle). I didn't know that before you posted about it a short time ago. It's the 7039 wheel that came with both types of axles (I have both). I will fix the incorrect versions when all (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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(...) I'm actually quite familiar w/Robolab--it is NQC that I don't know much about. Robolab (2.5.x) supports The RCX, Scout, microscout, and the Control Lab Interface. It also supports the LEGO cam. I believe the demo is of a much earlier and buggy (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Wheels and train wheels with metal axles
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(...) thanks a lot for all your work on these cool and useful parts! I do not have the competence to answer your questions, but I have one hint about: (URL) part does not exist at all (as far as I know). Would you mind to delete that upload? [SNIP] (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PCS AGENA 1/B Cruiser
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come see the show... it's a dynamo... Welcome to the official PCS thank ye fer yer comments and reply post: Rick: Your Korolev is a smokin' pile of rubble. It makes me giddy. Build with white and blue, it looks more better. Mark: space. Gil: I don't (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Pictures from SCLTC's latest event! - December 4, 2004
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(...) I throw hugs and back patties in your general direction, in an AFoL and manly kind of way. btw, Seasons Greetings to you and your family. (URL) e> (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | The Brickee Mart - Highlighted Item (Armored Personnel Carrier)
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This is one of our very detailed models currently offered. It was designed after the "Aliens-style" armored personnel carrier many sci-fi fans fell in love with. For December we have this listed at 20% off. For all sales in December, we are donating (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: Wheels and train wheels with metal axles
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(...) Actually, James had some of the same issues that we are trying to deal with now because at first he did not know that 7039 was the official part number for the 4-stud wheel with its axle. In 1998-05 he issued 479.dat and 479a.dat. 7039 did not (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego in subdomains, legal or not?
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(...) Another way to look at this is, what if someone created the sub-domain www.bugge.porn.com Would you consider that fair play? I doubt you could do anything about it legally, but if someone did that to me I would consider it very rude. ROSCO (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: My Episode II Rant
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(...) as do I. Please, view what I wrote as simply my opinion. (...) ah Ha. I may have to have an explore, I played the missions two years ago, this would be why I don't remember Leg Godt Travis Matheson (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) Of course the number of combinations isn't 'unlimited', but if it takes more time than the life of the universe to check them out, it's 'practically unlimited'. (...) Not counting the endles possibilities of rotating one part :-) Take a look (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Déjà Vu. (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Pictures from SCLTC's latest event! - December 4, 2004
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(...) Eric- Kind works from a guy who has started his own school of LEGO design and had TLC publish a spread of his work. -Ted (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | Re: Pictures from SCLTC's latest event! - December 4, 2004
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Fantastic Display! WOW! (URL) e> (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | Spider Man at LEGO HQ
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Hey, I just want to say, our fav web slinger looks pretty cool in this pic... (2 URLs) See full size> (URL) See original> (URL) e> (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego in subdomains, legal or not?
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Hi, (...) Sure enough. I think that your Page violates the Fair Play Policy. (...) Well. What do you think is www.lego.bugge.com? I think it is an internet address. Can you tell me, how the normal, fairly computer literate surfer or a kid searching (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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Teaser - (URL) - (URL) are unedited (except to remove some names from the yellow block at the bottom of the article) (secondary links to same scans Teaser - (URL) - (URL) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.color) !!
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| | Re: The Incredibles Monorail Thingy
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(...) I saw the Incredibles last Friday. I thought it was a little scary but overall quite good. Pixar doesn't seem to be able to do any wrong. (...) Iain Hendry is a huge fan of these mini monorails, called PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) There's a (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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(...) And you won Week 3! Congratulations, Mark! Why am I so happy about that? Even though my train station came in a fairly distant second, I don't mind losing to such a kickin' design like this. But the important thing was that LEGO once again (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: See you @ Denny's
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(...) Sweet! I'd love to meet face to face. I even have a small ship I am pleased with to bring. My kids are just getting over colds so I sure understand last minute plan changes. Hope ta see ya there! (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.viclug, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
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| | Re: Lego in subdomains, legal or not?
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"Niels Bugge" <buggelego2@+antiSPAMmail. dk> wrote in message news:I8Co0J.87r@lugnet.com... (...) lot (...) I've (...) subdomains (...) (URL) Fair Play Policy> which, however, doesn't mention anything about subdomains, (...) source (...) bought (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: My Episode II Rant
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Thanks for your input! Always nice to get other people’s opinion about the stuff I love. (...) In CC the Sand People are in the Tatooine based scenarios in the Republic and Confederacy campaigns. You can also find them in the scenario editor either (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Thanks Paul! It was fun and something a bit different as usual. Should build something new now and send it in for next week. It's still hard to figure out what people like to see... Any suggestions? Nate p.s. Already started to rebuild the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Joe! I always try to put something in that isn't that obvious. Hey maybe you can build your Apache with LDD and send it in for the contest... Of what I can remember most parts are available! Nate (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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Scala Jewelery Rings set 4306 contained three different sized rings. Unfortunately I have only two of these rings, so I could not create all three. As my two rings have a 1 and 3 imprinted between the studs, I think I have ring #1 (the smallest) and (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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(...) Is that a piece of fairy cake? Dave K (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) From Hitchhiker's guide: "Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, 1st off, there's probably on the order of several hundred billion pieces on the planet. I remember reading in some FAQ the estimated number of pieces in the world, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. I know they make about 20 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Thanks!
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I'm glad you liked it! That one is my favourite also. If anyone has any requests for a render of an official set or MOC, I'd be happy to give it a shot! Trevor Hewer (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: N-Fedge primitives
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(...) Great - we are always looking for constructive help. (...) I don't see the benefit from this - the naming convention is well established and existing part authors know how to work with it. Is it that hard to learn? (...) Yes - as I have (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Another useful link Re: Super Cief Consists
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(...) I just would have been nice if ALL the hidden parts had been dk green, I already have orange and black. I was also dissapointed the jumper plates are black and not dk green. As for the build, I like the 4 stud cab, as it keeps it to scale with (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption (was Re: Rolling ball clock revisited)
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(...) One thing Steve forgot - think constant noise. Constant, *constant* noise. But it is a lot of fun... (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Dennis Bossman
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I like the flat bed truck model with the back-hoe on it. I can't remember where the link is to the picture, but remember it well. Is it on a website? (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: A brief thank-you.
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(...) Chris is the one who's been busy making 'just a little more space' lately... -Tim (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Auctios of rare and hard-to-find sets
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(...) Hi! I want just you remember that my auctions will end in less than 2 hrs! And prices are still very low!!!! Don't miss them! Bye, Luca (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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(...) The really big problem is that there is no agreement of any standard. This has been a subject of a "political" issue that I don't think is solved. My opinion is that James Jessimam from the beginning set the most reasonable standard in (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Patricia, That's way cool! A hardtop convertible. I may have to make one just for the fun of it. Thanks, George (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug)
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| | Ultimate ROBOLAB
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Finally, there it is: We now have Ultimate ROBOLAB ready for beta-testing. Ultimate ROBOLAB is an extension to ROBOLAB that allows you to graphically write your own RCX firmware. Find an introduction at (URL) ROBOLAB254 If you are interested, please (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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For all of your space station needs, or as I will be using them in an ancient alien temple, we have here the new Robits. (URL) > Human size, but not human looking and not clearly designed for any specific task. These Robits are meant for the odd (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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| | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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SNIPPY (...) Hi All, This is exactly the answer I was looking for. Thanks, Olof! Now to the others, (I'll write one reply, cause it's easier when youre not a member :-l) although you could combine 2 1 x 1 bricks in infinite number of ways by (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | N-Fedge primitives
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Hello, everyone. This was posted with NNTP, but seems to have dissappeared somehow, so I'm re-posting with the http interface. My appolgies if it turns up twice. I'm just getting started with LDraw, and returning to the lego-driven days of my youth, (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: It can never end can it
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In lugnet.people.support, Jamie Obrien wrote: <snip> (...) Well, lets dust off some skellys in my closet... Depression runs in the family. I didn't know this when I was younger and couldn't figure out why I'd get really really down every so often. (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.people.support)
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| | The Incredibles Monorail Thingy
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Took the family to The Incredibles last night...most excellent! I loved the set design (do you call it set design when it is all CG?) and one thing that jumped out was the egg-shaped monorail/personal transport thingy on the island. Extreme cool. I (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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Hi, (...) Actually, I've only played with the Robolab demo version. First, Robolab is for working with the RCX. I saw no Scout or microscout support. The target of Robolab is the use in education, for example at schools. Robolab is related to (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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