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(...) Dave: Sweet piece of paper. Your collection of early catalogs/idea books, etc is becoming quite impressive! The back cover shows Kjeld on the left (about 6 years old, so Gary's date seems correct) and Gunhild in the middle. The boy on the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) I guess that's legos' "non-violent" play comming to the fore. What about a black torso and green pants? Technic stargate - (URL) Chris. (21 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: 1955 'idea book' Byggebog, translation help needed
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(...) I'm of absolutely no use in helping translate, but I just had to say thank you for posting this wonderful bit of history. The artwork (as much as the bricks) is what I really love about the pre-1970s LEGO ads and package inserts/instructions. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mating Game - moc up
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(...) Remember, the the winning entry (as determined by the scoring system) used this rubber band "powered" mechanism: (URL) elevate and close the latch. I knew that some felt this was "cheap" (including myself), but honestly, it outperformed (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: 1955 'idea book' Byggebog, translation help needed
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(...) Awsome is the word! Quick n dirty translation: 1. "LEGO mursten" ~ "LEGO Building Brick" "BYGGEBOK" = "Building Book" 2. "Her er..." = "Here all the single LEGO separate parts are" 3. "Med LEGO man bygger" = "With LEGO one builds, plays and (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ok mystery solved. They hadn't put a sales tag on their shelf, that'd teach me for not getting it scanned :) On a sad note though, when I looked they had a copy on their discount table marked at $55. When I checked it today, someone has bought (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) I will be setting up most of my completed models for an interview I am doing in my new studio, later this week. Perhaps then I can arrange for some video capture. Jama won't get scraped. The head may be rebuilt, and the hip sure do need (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: UDITE ! UDITE !! oops .. LEGGETE! LEGGETE !!!
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(...) Das? ma non è la plastilina ?!? :-O (...) L'ho sempre detto che siete una famiglia di pazzi :-PPPPP Ciao, G. (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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(...) Any chance of a vid, I was a little disappointed that I never got to see more of Jama, so can you make sure you get some footage of it moving and doing its stuff, as well as demoing all of the more manual adjustments, before it is scrapped? (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) The Pnuematic cylinder raises the head up and down. The High RPM 9v Motor moves the head left to right. There is also a clutch gear located in the geartrain, to prevent breaking from over rotation; left/right. I installed the motor for the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: 1955 'idea book' Byggebog, translation help needed
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(...) Awesome Dave! This is the earliest "known" idea book I have ever seen, and the only one I've seen with the early 1949-56 "slotted" bricks with windows/doors with "wings" that fit into the slots. By viewing all of the Lego parts on Page 2, (for (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: It's back! Long-Lost Jetpack element now being produced
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(...) As rare as that piece was, I knew that they couldn't have used up the life of the mold yet. Now if only we could get a color besides yellow... David "Fuzzy" Gregory (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yes, there is a standard Lego 9V motor for the steering. It is connected directly to the rack with a 12 tooth gear. The buggy controller is really well suited for hooking a polarity switch up to it directly. The axel output for steering is (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, FTX)
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| | Re: Mating Game - moc up
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(...) As it turns out, a fish sticker would not win a sumo compeition. While it's a good strategy to not-lose, it would also not win very many matches, and would finish in the middle of the pack. (...) My suggestion would be a minimum weight (like 1 (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) If one of the rules will be that you have to have a hole in the wall into which the bricks will be loaded, then we might need to use the RCX to actually locate the hole. I think that by making that one of the rules, it might make it a little (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) how about gravity??? see, you cant just say your bot ~NEEDS~ something just to make it a bot. you need to add a challenge that will make it easier to USE the RCX then not. For the BoP game, if you didnt want to see the tower robots, make a (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) At one time we did have an unofficial rule were you DID have to use an RCX. that has pretty much changed with Rob's "monkey bot" we have seen that cool solutions can be had without using the rcx. the best way to "force" an RCX event is to have (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Cool! That should sort the problem of how to propel 2-wide trains (for those who don't have N-gauge track)! Mark (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) the jokes are HALF the fun of this game. Chris (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) ineresting.... but i had a closed design in mind. as steve has said, this open top hopper makes it too easy to plant a box and walk away. so your standard repitcle. should be a X by X hole in a wall, vs an open top box. i think a hole in the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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