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I like the white chuch, and I really like the trees. Also, I'm always amazed at how many different ways there are to build a 2-wide car with the limited LDD Factory contest pallette. LDD is growing on me too - but I wish there was a way to view a (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Berlinetta - Instructions
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(...) Thanks Paul! Now you can : I've just uploaded some (URL) instructions>. Enjoy, JP. (21 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Factory repeat entries???
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(...) Interesting. It probably depends on what Lego's definition of "entirely new" is, I suppose. As an example, the current Senior model vote leader this week is a blue baseball stadium, which I assume is from the same builder as another blue (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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(...) Thank you. I remember admiring the hospital and putting it in my personal top tier of entries. I especially liked the driveway cover made of glass, the red/white color scheme, and the wonderful micro-helicopter. To me, having good "playable" (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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(...) Well, I like seeing people calling for up-to-date stats! I've included a comparison to November 2002 (because that was the last published November .loc.au stats). In November, there were 62 posts to .loc.au (284 in Nov 02), 56 from Australians (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: (snip) I've ordered from S@H dozens of times, possibly over a hundred different times by now, and never ever had a single problem with either phone order (in the pre-website days) or the web service. (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Ultimate ROBOLAB
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(...) Hi Claude, Your email address doesn't seem to be working at the moment to reply to. Regards, Bernard (21 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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I certainly hope that when they refer to "some parts" being too high quality for their purpose that they will NEVER apply this principle to the brick. *gulp* I also think that the reduction in colors is a good idea so that the remaining colors can (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Wow, i guess i understand your robot. It seems to be a stationary light seeker. Imagine, you point a pocketlamp between the light sensors, such, that it is in the middle position between them. Such, that at the start condition left_sensor is (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: snip (...) What does the above passage refer to? What kind of special treatment do train clubs and "elite AFOLs" get? Marc Nelson Jr. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: PLUGS #2, when does it finish?
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(...) I'm not sure when we'll finish, give it a couple of hours ie- approx. 4pm Cheers, Braith. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | Re: Quasar Rocketship!
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I'm sharing some 'naked' pictures of the Quasar, showing how I gave it the rounded shape, etc. (URL) Basically shows the panels and how I used to snot to attach them. Its actually pretty basic stuff, given that you have one billion slopes. Which I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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I ordered $366 worth through the web site on Sunday afternoon. With 2nd (...) I have gone through almost the exact experience, I purchased a large S@H order, TLC charged my card, then sent an email saying the order was canceled. as Daniel said, I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Agreed, I was rumaging through my box of orange yesterday, only to realize I had at least 3 differtn shades! What mad man came up with that, it's freaking orange. Mat (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: la mia collezione
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(...) Io invece ho sempre troppe cose da fare, ma sono riuscito a risistemare la pagina della mia collezione che finalmente è tornata online: (URL) le pagine sono verificate HTML 4.01 Transitional come definito dal World Wide Web Consortium, quindi (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: N-Fedge primitives
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(...) I missed responding to this one specific point. In general, aliases amongst the primitives would be a bad thing. They would primarily add more files to an already too-large list of primitives, and would only provide duplicate function. In this (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, FTX)
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| | Set 8652 Render
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I recently modelled set 8642. I still need to do some file clean up so I'm not quite ready to release the DAT file but look for it on my website ((URL) in the coming weeks. Here's the render I did as a teaser: (URL) that the trans-smoke parts aren't (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: <snip> (...) See, much nicer with the wording. Maybe it is me, but I liked how you presented yourself in this posting much more than the other one. Dave K -can't we all just... get along... ;) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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(...) Oops. Thanks for the correct link, John. (...) debugging the existing ones. That said, version 2.5.4 is excellent. The event bugs have been fixed as well as a ton of others. Also, more (not all) of the underlying code is unlocked. This allows (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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Here, here, I was wondering what happened there and am glad it came out the way it did. My designs ended up in fifth and sixth place (waterfall scene with train and hospital). Pretty awesome considering those were some of my first ones. It seems (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Lego Factory repeat entries???
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Hi all, I wonder if anybody else has noticed that some entries are showing up more than once. For example, the Dutch windmill which is currently in second place for the junior contest (week 4) is also entered as a model for week 5. However, the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: <snip> (...) Eh, I've been off-base before, but that's the way the message presented itself to me. You've stated that you've had various negative dealings with TLC--my dealings with them have been (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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(...) Sounds great. But I run the nqc compiler on Linux and have no COM... (...) Sometimes I dream of a BricxCC written in Java, running on Win, Linux or OSX with Control Lab and all kind of features... something like an Bricklipse... (...) Well... (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) I guess thanks are in order to you Jake for looking in on this for me. I was not looking for any kind of special intervention to resolve this issue, which is why I didn't use any of my "pull" with employees I know in the first place. My point (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) Not to add fuel to the fire, but coming from a person who has actually benefitted financially from TLG, this has got to be pretty serious... -Bryan (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: New England Church - MOC for Lego Factory week 4
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(...) Thank you! Yea, I really am enjoying the challenge of using the limited pallate. Some people are making cool details that I never would have thought of! Anyway, you can see lots of cool designs on (URL) . -Alfred (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Part Confirmation
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(...) Hi, they match exactly without any gap. Bye Ronald (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) You are way off the mark here. I love the building system, have been playing with it for over 20 years. Yet I find it impossible to give any more money to a company has little regard for its cutomers other than making a profit from them and (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) OK, I figured it was worth asking. :) Steve (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) I seriously doubt that you'd get a "Jake who?" from anyone but the rollover call center. I worked and lived in Enfield for two years and have traveled back and forth there regularly for a year before and a year after. I've worked with and (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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(...) Not true RoboLab supports the Scout, microscout and Interface B. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Part Confirmation
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Can anyone confirm if part 30165 "'Brick 2 x 2 with Curved Top and 2 Studs on Top" fits into part 3659 "Arch 1 x 4"? Specifically, can I put them together like (URL) without a huge gap? -Rob (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | New Designer sets & RC parts appearing on S@H
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I noticed these new items have appeard on Lego™ S@H. Some of them do not have pictures yet. 7244 Speedboat (no pictures, except for the "zoom" feature works). 4881 Robo Platoon (no pics) 4882 Speed Wings (no pics) The following items appear to be (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: TR: North America's First/Only DeLaval VMS
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry wrote: Hi Iain, snipped intro. (...) After reading this, and being fairly familiar with the automated milking process, a few questions of this robotic process popped into my head..... and I was wondering if (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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(...) Here's a link to the "Robolab for LavVIEW" that Tom was talking about: (URL) is a ~50 MB download. This is version 2.5.2. You can download the patch (4 MB) to 2.5.3 here: (URL) tufts.edu site says that "Robolab for LabVIEW" has only been (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Unfortunately, that image is already (on my 17" monitor) about 50% bigger than the original. (The original is only 5x3 cm) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's November Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Well yes, kind of. Since I only get a max of about 2-3 entries per month for each contest, I roll over the non-winning entries until they win or for 3 months. This keeps the field competive and also allows well made entries that may have been (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) Indeed... and whos to say that the same thing isn't happening to non-AFOLs using the same type of card (PayPal or otherwise) ? TLC should be big enough (and have have a loud enough voice) to talk to PayPal and get something resolved about the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | la mia collezione
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non avevo un tubo da fare per cui ho fatto una lista dei miei set technic che dire...non sono molti ma nemmeno pochi. li potete ammirare qui (URL) che link! vi va di mettere anke le vostre collezzioni? (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In addition to other people's posts, I think it's also good to remember that in the month before Christmas, a toy company probably hires a ton of temp workers to man their phones. I'd be totally surprised if there weren't any screwups. (...) Not (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) Paypal is not exactly a bastion of customer service either. Clearly they enjoy their position as a market leader and the ability to bully and neglect their consumers that comes with it. I do agree that it's unfair to to chastise a company for (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) But, I seem to recall that PayPal goes to great lengths to say they're not a "bank"... As someone who both knows Dan, and has been a fan of LEGO for nearly 40 years, I'm leaning towards the "this is a busy season at Shop@Home" line of thought, (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) You may well get a "Jake who?".. he doesn't sit in Enfield and may not be in their phone system. Also I am not sure that Jake can (or should) help in specific cases. He doesn't work for Shop at Home. He's also not necessarily tasked with (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: ToysRus is taking your vote for your best toy award
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(...) And the winner is..... Not Lego. But not MegaBloks either, thankfully! Instead the K'Nex "Big Air Ball Tower": (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Deals at St. Jacobs LEGO Outlet
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I just got this email from my dad, I'll just paste it below. Iain ---- Today's KW Record had a full page ad for Lego @ St Jacobs Outlet. Your Lego train friends might be interested...4 rail cars listed at 1/2 (?) price..ie # 10113 reg 24.99 for 9.99 (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) I agree, let the bank fight it out for you. That is why we pay what we pay is service fees to the banks. Call Paypal and tell them the whole situation, they should take care of it for you. If they don't you can make an ideal threat to contact (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) Woah you had me scared for a bit. Looking at your subject and the way you started off your message, I thought you ordered original light grey brick packs and received new light grey brick packs (would've been worse if it involved dark (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) That's a foolish motto for business. Quality is always a trade-off against cost. You set it as low as you can while still achieving your goals for revenue & market share. The motto is more reasonable as: "Good enough is the best." KDJ (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Weekly Update of New AuctionBrick Listings - 12/9/04
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This is weekly update of new items listed at (URL) as of Thu Dec 09, 08:50 AM PST. To bid, review details of any item listed or to register go to (URL). (2 URLs) 3308 World Cup Small Tribune from 1998> Minimum Bid: $20.00, Time Left: 1 Day 0 Hrs+ (2 (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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| | Re: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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(...) I think the latest official gcc-binaries for brickOS are still 2.95.x. However, I have binutils-2.15 and gcc-3.4.0 running under linux and had only minor problems. Make sure you compile gcc without the stdc++ libraries or just ignore the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rtlToronto18 Draft Ruleset Posted
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So can we make the rule set FINAL? No more changes on scoring? Everyone happy? (....time to start looking for loopholes.... BWAHAHAHAHA...) -Rob A. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote: Snip (...) I couldn't agree more. With the new sets of 2004 and bulk tubs for the last two years, I have enjoyed the many new colors. But there are not enough in any quantity to build anything useful. Reducing the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | On eBay: 3 Large Ships 6271 6280 6286
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Take a look at: (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) I can understand being frustrated, but writing off the entirety of the LEGO company because one keyboard jockey at S@H made a mistake is pretty lame. It can often take weeks to resolve credit card mistakes because of the lengthy processes (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: <snip> (...) Are you sure this wasn't a PayPal issue? I remember reading a while back that when you use PayPal to purchase something, PayPal 'blocks off' the monetary ammount from your credit card (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: New England Church - MOC for Lego Factory week 4
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(...) What a progressive church -- everyone attending seems to be driving a Toyota Prius! My kind of place. You created a lot of pleasing detail just by choosing different 1 x 1 brick elements -- a beam here, a headlight brick there. Nice job. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | US S@H Phone Specials, Dec 8 to Dec 14
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(URL) (hit 1 when the recording starts, then hit 1 again when the S@H Specials recording starts, to skip the listings and get to a representative) US S@H Phone Specials, Dec 8 to Dec 14 Duplo 3278 Wallpaper Wendy 4.99 2.49 Clickits 7510 Trendy Tote (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | Re: N-Fedge primitives
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(...) The consistency is in the basic four fractions: 1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4. The other measures are (more or less) deliberate inconsistencies to name files that don't fit the basic standard. (...) Yes, that would be an incorrect consideration. Part (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, FTX)
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| | Re: Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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I think this is a new initiative to further cut costs. Its funny one part of Lego decides it needs to control the pallette and amount of "usuable parts" in the system, while another part keeps on coming out with new colors and new parts (molds) for (...) (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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(...) the color tiles can be read? Steve (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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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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| | Re: Wire communication
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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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| | Re: TR: North America's First/Only DeLaval VMS
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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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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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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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| | TR: North America's First/Only DeLaval VMS
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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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| | Re: MPD Builder ?
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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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| | Wire communication
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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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| | LEGO town stop-motion animation music video
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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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| | Re: LDraw.org's November Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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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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| | Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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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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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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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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| | 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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