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(...) Yeah. It was mentioned somewhere before (I can't remember where) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, Kyle. I find myself drawn to that color combo for some reason, but don't worry, I've got a different color scheme in mind for the next Mecha I build. (...) I thought it would be nice to make another hand-held weapon for a mech. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Sorry Anders, that's almost as hard to pronounce as my town (just outside Coburg, Bavaria, Germany) called "Mönchröden" (Monks of the River Röden), named for the 875 year old abbey in the middle of the town (I was baptised there). Gary Istok (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I noticed that when traffic on BZPower (which is a BrickJournal mirror) went through the roof. Good to know LEGO is popular with the digerati. Kelly (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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Well, BrickJournal has been noticed by both (URL) SlashDot> and (URL) BoingBoing>. Matt (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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Check out www.railfonts.com You have to pay for them but as well as lots of classic fonts and logos there is a variety of road signs, loco profiles etc. Tim (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Actually that's "Eskilstuna" (Eskil's town) :-)) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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Oooh, dang that's nice Dman. Love the lime. White + a unique accent color + dk grey greebs looks so good. --Kyle (URL) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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(...) Since this keeps being phrased in terms of good markets, etc... how much of a market is there to tap here (i.e.- how many potential sales have been lost due to "RIS programming being to complicated"?). Having watched a group of 8-year-olds (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Wow, this is great, I just printed it out for some enjoyable reading tonight. Congrats to everyone, and enjoy the slashdotting. George (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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On Fri, June 24, 2005 12:26 am, Kevin L. Clague said: (...) Kevin, That sounds good. I'm sure it will be more interesting than this little module: (URL) about you, Larry? Will you have any GBC stuff? Steve (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(URL) Chris 'Xenon' Hanson | Xenon @ 3D Nature | (URL) "I set the wheels in motion, turn up all the machines, activate the programs, and run behind the scenes. I set the clouds in motion, turn up light and sound, activate the window, and watch the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(URL) for the slashdot effect... Ray (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I still think that plug-in conception is still very important. Download program from PC - is complex task, yes it is. Why do not eleminate this step? (...) Main goal of computer exclusion is to decrease complexity, not costs of starter set (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, it is very good summary for people, who are targeted. I think that many of them do not like current RCX sets, but may like if something is changed. (...) Sorry, I do no think that this codebase would be very popular without support from (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Expansion kit, as I'm thinking about it, is not $10-20 program only. It will also include all parts needed for the robot. So complete kit would cost $25-30, two times cheaper than current expansions. I may be wrong with all these prices, but (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks Anders, Whenever I look at the old Antique Toy Books with their 900 pages or so, I keep thinking that with Lego included the books would be about 1/3 larger. Anders and I share one thing in common on LUGNET. In a way we are both "Lego (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Unless I misunderstood the thread - I thought the concept was that the inital box would come with some programs, you could buy others, or you could buy(or utilise) a module allowing the freedom to program from a PC. Its not restricting the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) OK, it's about 600 sets, 2000 different parts, 3 main colors (max 10 total), so it's not really in the 'competition'. But it's quite a nice toy... (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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Sorry for not trimming.... Wouldn't writing some programs to go with the constructopedia that ships with the Mindstorms kit be a giveaway lossleader/download to introduce users to buying 'your' build instructions and programs? Say that you do a full (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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