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(...) Haha!! I knew that the first guy to question my choice for MOC Highlight was gonna be Keith! and I had an idea that it might be about JP's Gunboat. While I am trying to make the sidebar updated more consistently, I want to keep the MOC (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: RC Car
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Wanna know wht I love TLC? So I get the very last 8376 from the local Radio Shack (John, if you can get me a copy of your directions, it'd be appreciated) but all tehy had was the 'off road' version put together--no spare parts, no instructions and (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) HUGE SNIPAGE (...) as jake replied to this post and i must agree, this is the right way to comunicate with the lego company. others are more likely to listen to you if you are calm, cool, and you take your time to think about what you want to (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) Of course you won't be successful if you're inept (not saying you are inept) at any aspect of robot building, be it mechanical design, programming, or (especially) mission planning. But I still say that a fairly simple robot with some good (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: [F-adh] AFOL'S diner sur paris le vendredi 11 Mars 2005
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Bonsoir, J'ai reserve une table de 12 personnes (nous sommes 10, mais j'ai pu oublier des gens) en non fumeur (nous sommes majoritaire) a mon nom : BERGAMO j'ai reserve pour 20h au The Frog & Bercy Village 25, cour St. Emilion Paris 75012 M° Cours (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) If this could be realised, were really there! I'd love to see this feature. Jaco (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament: Othniel the First Judge of Israel
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(...) Thanks, Bruce. (...) Definitely. It's a lot more time consuming to build with a ground level and then go below that, but it is a nice change of pace. Within this same set of stories, I also used upside down raised basplates to accomplish the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: RC Car
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I like the Rayovac IC3 NiMH 15 minute rechargeables. NiMH batteries can deliver a lot of current all at once, which I think makes up for the fact that the voltage is lower than an alkaline (1.2 instead of 1.5). They do cost a lot ($30 for 4 at Radio (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Vendo set lego spazio, città e fabuland
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Ciao ragazzi, sto rinnovando la mia collezione e vendo questi set: (URL) 6848 è il secondo, quello più recente! tutti gli articoli sono in linea di massima completi, 3 hanno anche le istruzioni e il 6397 ha anche la scatola. Poi per la seria (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | Well great.
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The LDraw rendering of my Mini-fig design I was working on is missing. All I can find is the beginning structure of the legs. Not a good thing. I know I had the legs, the hip joint, and the mechanics all worked out. Now I can't find any of that (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Evolution of the minifig
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(...) Excellent article. Thanks for doing the research. Only thing I would request is that you add an RSS feed to your blog. Blogger makes this really easy (under settings, then site feed) and would assist those of us who rely on our aggregators to (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Re: Vignette - Elbonian Airlines
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(...) Huh! I don't ever have a problem connecting, but I know that suave.net was flagged as a spammer a while back (must have been all those spams I sent out about studs and getting bigger stacks). So email *from* my suave account occasionally gets (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: Vignette - Elbonian Airlines
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(...) That's just too funny, Dave. We need more Dilbert MOCs. :P (URL) blogged> On a different note, I find that I often cannot access your site. I think it's a problem at your server's end, because I've found this both through my internet access at (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: (XIX) Legofest a Torino
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In lugnet.org.it.itlug, Mario Ferrari wrote: Ma dai, c'è un legofest a Torino! Posso venire anch'io, posso,??? :-P (...) Bello, i francesi fanno cose carine. Non so se avete visto il legofest che avevano fatto tempo fa ad Orleans. Son curioso di (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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| | Announcing the SALUG website.
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Hi All, I just noticed a small oversight. Our club has had webspace for the past few months and we have yet to announce it. So without further ado, here is the link to SALUG's website: (URL) those of you living in the Calgary area, feel free to fill (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.salug)
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| | Re: Cool new Lego sculptures at ToysRUs.... Wait a minute, is that?!?!?
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(...) Well, I can't speak with any certainty of Mega Blocks parts, since I have NO idea what they make one way or the other.... But I CAN tell you that Lego doesn't use non standard parts (well, not anymore). The last year I was at the park, the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: RC Car
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Man this head ache is killing me. This should read, I am *now* the proud owner of a lego RC car. etc. Derek (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | RC Car
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I'm not the proud owner of a lego RC car. Now I need to know what batteries to get for it. What rechargeable are people having the most luck with? How long to they typically last on a charge? Derek (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: What if.....
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(...) I find that once you go to 8 wide you pretty much have to custom build your base plates using crossed technic plates to form the holes for bogie plates. Building around existing train baseplates makes the base too thick. IMHO MIke (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) Michael, Is this something you would be interested in adding to MLCad? I could add it as an LPUB meta-command, but it would be best if it were an MLCAD meta-command that LPub supports. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: A not so deserted island
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(...) Josh, Tell Jonathan this is really nice. His waterfall was uniquely made, and the tribal stuff was a nice touch. The river/bay is cool, too. Thanks, George (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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snipping somewhat freely... (...) Given these two statements, why are argue so much about whether or not teams can use NQC? Being able to use NQC won't make any difference to the resultant program, being able to use NQC won't make any difference to (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO-related blogs?
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(...) Some of the ones I know of: (URL) thanks to Christian's prodding, I'm going to start putting effort back into my quasi-corporate, quasi-building instruction, quasi-general LEGO blog over at (URL) McKee Webmaster - BIP (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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In lugnet.color, Christian Treczoks wrote: Christian, thanks for your indepth response. We can have discussions much better when the posts are calm and logical like this. Just to make sure it's clear, I'd like to point out that you're absolutely (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, FTX) !
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| | Re: Rientro... con un'altro itluger
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(...) Complimenti! Un saluto e un abbraccio a te e Francesca. (...) Trattandosi di tuo figlio credo non dovremo aspettare molto per vedere la sua prima MOC. Che sarà, naturalmente, una betoniera ;-) Ciao Mario (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: (XIX) Legofest a Torino
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Ciao Luca, bentornato! (...) Complimenti, ottimo lavoro, molto professionale. Appena possibile* metterò un link alla tua pagina sul sito ItLUG. (...) Per la verità di LF di due giorni ne abbiamo già organizzato più di uno, ma lungi da me l'idea di (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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| | Re: More microstuff
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(...) I really like these Mecha. I like the colors and they seem to be very durable, playable and posable! The size is great too. (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Vignette - Elbonian Airlines
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(...) Sign me UP! This is great. You really captured the essence of Dilbert with about 25 bricks. Thanks Brian (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) Probably nothing. There certainly are things you can do in MindScript that you couldn't do in NQC until recently. You couldn't use pointers, for example. But I don't think that is what Steve Baker is arguing. He's arguing that his son's (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) They already do, via Pitsco here in the US: (URL) Brian Davis (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) Because any language that targets the standard LEGO firmware on an RCX brick can not result in any competitive advantage while the other examples you cite clearly would lead to an unlevel playing field. LEGO already provides a language choice (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Hall of Albirona - The full story (Director's Cut)
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Hello! (...) Thanks for the praise! (...) I don't hope so. Maybe I'd not be able to jump over it myself... (...) For the arched ceiling I used the most ordinary and non-specialized bricks imaginable, i.e. 2x4 bricks and 2x2 bricks :-) It's an (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: The Hall of Albirona - The full story (Director's Cut)
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Hello! (...) Oooh, actually you are the last one to have reason to feel humbled! Your skills of illustrating a story (the Bible, but whom do I tell that) are hardly equaled. (...) Hehe, I happened to have a not too small an amount of those flat (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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On Thu, March 10, 2005 1:46 am, Steve Baker said: (...) People with a mechanical background have a huge advantage over who? People without a mechanical background? Yes, I agree they can build better robots. So, just how is your son constrained? What (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cool new Lego sculptures at ToysRUs.... Wait a minute, is that?!?!?
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(...) Was it this one by any chance? (URL) can't tell from the picture what the non-released parts might be, but I'll take your word for it. I was in NYC in February 2002 but I can't remember the displays all that well. A big dragon is the only (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: The Hall of Albirona - The full story (Director's Cut)
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Hello! (...) Thanks for the praise! Well, the story... I don't build for the purpose of illustrating stories, but I wrote the story to accompany the pictures. I'm afraid this does affect the quality of the story... Henceforth there shall not be a (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The Hall of Albirona - The full story (Director's Cut)
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Hello! (...) Thanks for the praise! I too am pleased with the outcome of the sandy-grey mottling. I pondered to build it completely in sand (since the original is sand-coloured) but I didn't have close to enough parts to do it, and there wouldn't (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) So - let's write a two paragraph eMail to all FLL participants that says "By the way, NQC is a tool for writing RCX software - it's utterly free and available by clicking this link on the Lego web site to get to the NQC homepage. Some people (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: And now, for another theme bastardization : : Track MOW Ship
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(...) Hi Adrian, thanks for the kind words. I imagine this craft to be maybe 100-200 years in the future, when Mag-Levs have replaced all but a few trains, and the railnuts and historians are desprately trying to save the last, dying breed of (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) The page from which the original image came((URL) says this: "In this program, the RCX will continue beeping until the button is pressed six times. The container keeps track of each time the button is pressed." Having no way to tell simply by (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, FTX)
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| | Re: And now, for another theme bastardization : : Track MOW Ship
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(...) Glad to have inspired another .space MOC in whatever way I can :) This is rather a neat looking contraption. Though I question the necessity of a track cleaner/fixer in world where hover-vehicles are apparently possible. But bringing logic to (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Some trains
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(...) Thanks for the nice comments. Yes, I like the roof of the passenger cars too. In the folder, I made a shot of how it was build. In response to the 6-wheeled trucks, yes, they were used actually in long passenger cars, both in th US and UK. I (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Town & Train Display - GATS Pictures - MichLTC
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(...) I saw Steve mess with it a little bit (as it requires some tinkering occasionally) so I will answer the question as best as I can. Below the grid structure is two loops of 9V track. Neither is in it's typically placement. On those a motor can (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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Dear Jake, Long letters ask for long answers. Let me give you what you asked for ;-) Jake McKee wrote: > While we certainly have communication issues, I'm not sure this was or is the > source of all our problems of past and late. Certainly it plays (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Rientro... con un'altro itluger
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Uee!! (...) Ancora congratulazioni ad entrambi! Ma è un diversivo di Francesca per distrarti dal LEGO? ;-) ciao steP (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: A nice suprise.
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(...) Hm... TOTALLY unexpected move there, Rob. (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.year.2005, lugnet.town)
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| | SWELUG7-bilder
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Blev inte så många bilder men väl 1Gb avi-filer, skall försöka klippa ihop något så snart jag hinner. De få bilderna: (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Rientro... con un'altro itluger
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(...) Congratulazioni vivissime! (...) Che bisogno c'era di aspettare cosi' tanto? Ciao, Guido (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Quanto è alto vostro figlio?
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Ciao a tutti, (...) Il mio a 24 mesi e' alto solo 9 brick Plasticart :-) ATTENZIONE: questo link contine materiale esplicitamente NON LEGO :-) (URL) non stiamo passando al lato oscuro, ma non esistono prodotti LEGO che consentano costruzioni del (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) As a followup, I too would like these windows available in other colors. When one looks at how many different colors the 2x4 bricks (for example) are now available in... I think I counted somewhere about 38 different colors in Bricklink. And (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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Hell, let's just switch over to a meritocracy. We can imprison the inept and get it all over with. Who gets to decide whom has merit? In no way does LEGO or FIRST try to level the playing field by constraining anyone's abilities. They constrain the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mercredi 9 mars 2005
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** System, Duplo et Quatro ** par Didier ENJARY le 9 (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Rientro... con un'altro itluger
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Ciao a tutti, Rientro dopo un mesetto di assenza e porto con me un nuovo Itluger: mio figlio Alberto !! Alla tenera età di 3 settimane ha già stretto nella sua manina un brick technic 1x16. Mario; ha diritto ad essere iscritto o devo aspettare le (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: suggestions on a mixture of 2nd to 5th graders
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One activity I've used w/a huge age range is "A chair for Mr. Bear" (URL) being listed as a k-2 activity, I've used it on pre-K through college level. The challenge is deceptively simple--build a chair that can survive a fall from knee height. The (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) But it won't necessarily get perceived that way... it would be perceived that NQC is a tool for advanced users, and that it may offer advantages that the regular LEGO tools don't. Available for zero financial cost doesn't necessarily mean (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) Complete agreement. But it is unfortunately not the case. (...) Actually, they would only need to move the curser over any symbols they were unfamiliar with. The contextual help will spell it out for them. (...) Actually yes. And it is not (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: suggestions on a mixture of 2nd to 5th graders
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(...) Hi Elizabeth, As a favor to a community services manager I took on a class of 1st graders last year (usually I teach 3rd - 8th graders). It was a bit like hearding cats but I learned a few things from the experience. They're a bit young at (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) You can't possibly defend that position. ANYONE can have NQC for zero cost! It's an OpenSource project. Just download it from the NQC web site or use the brickcc tool from any web browser! You can even find links to it from the official Lego (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: And now, for another theme bastardization : : Track MOW Ship
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(...) Thanks for the kind words, Chris! I don't think un-bastardizing would be a good idea since the novelty of the model IS the fact that it is a combo of train and space. But I may do a stand-alone MOW later! Thanks again! Legoswami (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Group MOC Study - Pirate Gunboat
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(...) JP you really captured the spirit of the pic, in fact I think your version looks better than the source material. The shape of the hull is just flat out cool. -keith p.s. put it on the sidebar Lenny, you commy-pinko bastard! (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | March 26th Smart Meeting
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The next SMART meeting is just over two weeks away, on March 26th. We'll be meeting at Crossroads Shopping Center this month, but the time will be as usual, from 2pm to 5pm. The mini-challenge is a robotic Easter Egg Hunt. Build a robot that will (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Vignette - Elbonian Airlines
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A la Dilbert: Elbonian Airlines (URL) DaveE (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, FTX) !
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) .... (...) I agree... unfortunately, there's not a heck of a lot anyone can do about it. The easiest solution is to simply not compete with so dramatically less competent people who don't understand that while you may use different tools, the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) Nonsense. It's not the actual *code* that you need to understand - it's the ALGORITHM. Yeah - to the totally uninitiated, a bunch of boxes with an arrow pointing backwards tells you there is a loop - and maybe a 'for ( x = 0 ; x < 10 ; x++ )' (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) OK - so there are two horrible implications in what you say: 1) People who have more of a mechanical background are allowed to have a huge advantage - but people who have more of a software background have to be constrained to prevent them (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) Ben, I don't think the 1x2x2 classic style window will be retired any time soon. The reason is the same reason that it is still in production.... a large number of the Legoland Parks Miniland buildings have the 1x2x2 windows in them. I believe (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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On Wed, March 9, 2005 6:31 pm, John Hansen said: (...) But, without knowing what the icons mean, you came pretty close to knowing what the program does. I would argue that it would be much easier for most kids to explain 14 icons than 30-40 lines of (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) I must appologize for my poor choice of words. Obviously children are LEGO's core market. That being said, to ingore even 5% of your market is a pretty serious oversight. Do you really think that this colour change improved LEGO sales? Do you (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(snip) (...) Ok, it's a known fact that AFOL's make up from 1-5% in sales for TLG. How does 5% translate to a "core group of consumers"? Now, if you managed to get 40%, that would be a stronger point for debate... Scott (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) Assumptions. How are you equating the owners to TLG? Those are separate statements that don't have commonality. Yes, TLG is a private company, but the owner of the company isn't the CEO. You "doubt a switchback would drive TLG out of (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Cool new Lego sculptures at ToysRUs.... Wait a minute, is that?!?!?
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(...) Nice photo. The warrior is new style, but that TRU had a life-size bronze knight sculpture from the first wave of Dragons (2002). When I saw it, my first thought was: just like Lego, they've built it entirely from parts that have never been (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(snip) (...) Ok, there's your market strategy....video tape them saying that, or have them write a letter to TLG... If you really want old gray back, don't make it look like someone's whining about their color collection--make it business. Get the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) Doesn't Jin Sato's book have NQC on the CD? If it does then LEGO is already distributing NQC: (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LDraw.org's January Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the January Model/Scene of the month contests: (URL) MOTM, Martian Surface Rover, Tom Beattie> (URL) SOTM, Showroom, Allister McLaren> The voting for the March Model of the Month and Scene of the Month contests is (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) That doesn't matter. What matters is what people _perceive_... which is why non lego tools shouldn't be allowed. People who have more of a computer background would _tend_ to develop better robots, and would also tend towards using tools like (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, no, and no. If Lego themselves also acted as a distributor for NQC (heck, there's nothing saying that LEGO couldn't print CD's and sell them, is there? Sure, the software's freely available, but people buy CD's with free software on them (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | More microstuff
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After mod: (3 URLs) The new mecha are better proportioned than the older ones, and they hold together much better. The blue one looks like a gremlin, so I named it appropriately. Enjoy! Chris (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Some trains
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BrickBuy wrote: [snip] (...) Woah. Talk about an intimidating looking engine. Very burly looking. (...) Those coaches look very classy. I like the roof work and the doors at the end, but I haven't seen six wheeled trucks before (don't get me wrong, (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | IDLE time approacheth...
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'Twas IDOL time these yesteryears Which brought my face alight, In playing with sweet plastic bricks Not working day, nor night. Here rings anew the gath'ring bell - pick up your ABS, to celebrate with IDLE thoughts whilst making brickly mess. (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.announce, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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"Jake McKee" <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:ID3w61.61z@lugnet.com... (...) I would like to know what future changes LEGO is planning (if any) regarding the light bluish grey color change. It seems clear to me that the change to (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Group MOC Study - Pirate Gunboat
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(...) Thanks Kenn! At first when building this MOC I was only using white and greys. Later I tryed to throw in some color bits. I tryed mixing some yellow and dark red on the hull, but I didn't like it. The easy way to do it was to separate these (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Jason! About the bend in the front: I didn't try to fill the gap between the 2 parts because I want it to be able to open. I guess that's why it's not looking as "clean" as it could. For the engines, they are the part of that MOC I (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) mini-rant Wow, you're not kidding. Why in the world are we being required to learn a second drawn hieroglyphic language much like ancient Egyptian when we have evolved a much simpler use of an alphabet of letters from which to construct words (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Town & Train Display - GATS Pictures - MichLTC
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(...) I'll second that, how do the cars move? Here is an image of some of the workings, but how does it move and round the corners? (URL) Fantastic looking layout guys, can't wait to see some of this stuff in Cincinnati this summer! Build on, Robin (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | Re: the top 15 colors
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(...) So... if I am interpreting the above numbers correctly... MdStone now has been seen in 37% of the variety of parts that Gray has ever been known to have been produced in (but not neccessarily the same base group tho). Not bad for ~1.3 years (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Kabaya Ghost Stories
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(...) Thanks, Bruce! To amswer some of your questions: 1. The original toys are made of both soft and hard plastics. With the exception of the tunnel vignette which came in one piece, they all had to be assembled a bit, but not too much. 2. In the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Electronic Lab Kit
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(...) I won't kill you. But I wish to inform that I use clone brands like Byggis, and Tyco, and MegaBloks or already broken LEGO parts for my electric and electronic "hacking". /Tore (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A not so deserted island
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(...) -snip- (...) Very nice. Large enough for some adventuring, with a nice blend of terrain types. He needs some soldiers to take care of those pirates, though ;-). Cheers Richie Dulin (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Blockland, PC Wargaming
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I was a little surprised to stumble on this PC game in a non-LEGO discussion group but not mentioned here on Lugnet. (URL) the system requirements are too high for my PC:s, but I would like to share the link with anyway. /Tore (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) The difference is a really bright line. All of the examples you quote are to do with non-standard things ending up inside the robot. NQC DOESN'T end up inside the robot. Using NQC instead of RIS is no different from using a pocketknife to (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What if.....
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(...) I suggest 5 for the width (hey, half stud offset!), in case someone is swivelingright up to the edge and is using this inside an 8 or larger wide creation. (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) But not one single eensy-weensy bit of NQC ends up in the robot - it's just a tool. This is the HUGE misunderstanding that people seem to have. NQC *isn't* somehow loaded into the robot. Are you telling me that I can't use any TOOLS that (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I don't follow your logic. Are you saying that any change to the rules to allow non-LEGO programming environments that target the standard LEGO firmware (including ones that they encourage people to use by selling tutorials for them on their (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Wanted to trade: 6090 Royal Knight's Castle for Mindstorms.
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The 6090 Castle is still up for trade if anyone wants to trade it for a Mindstorms 1.0 or even 1.5/2.0 kit. All serious offers will be considered. Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde "Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) First off, judging the technical merit of a program of any significant degree of complexity by simply looking at the code (be it text-based or graphical) for 20 minutes or less is nonsense. The only judging of that sort that ought to occur (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO-related blogs?
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Hey Allen, Thanks for the comments on my blog (URL). I link to a couple of other blogs there, Jon Palmer's (URL) Zemi.net> and Bill Ward's, um, (URL) Bill Ward>. I'd love to add links to other LEGO blogs. On my blog, I actually just announced this a (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) Ben, Thanks. TLG, thanks. I'm one of those who strongly regret the color change. However, I didn't hope for a change back, since the 'damage is already done', as the different shades are already out there. But I was waiting for some point in (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | LEGO-related blogs?
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I saw this post today: (URL) included a link to a LEGO-related blog. I'm sure Bruce can't be the only one writing about LEGO in his blog. So I wondered: Is there a list of LEGO-related blogs somewhere? Or a way to search for them somehow? If no one (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Evolution of the minifig
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Hi Bruce (...) It looks really very good, I think. The only (minor!) thing I think would make a neat addition would be a nod at the ever-increasing number of colours in which minifig parts are available. A 1978 group shot vs. a 2005 one would be (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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