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(...) Is that just super-affluence of red curved slopes or was the carriage affected by a passing dementor? :-) Anyway, to compare notes, here's a link to my 8mm scale Hogwarts Express, a scale model of the Hall class engine (5972 Olton Hall) used (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: One more rule verification
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(...) I think that by leaving this option open many will build one part that goes around and dispense the blocks and the second part which can just stand in one spot and have many transfer openings. If everyone agrees to it then I'm fine with it (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module: Twin Mech Bay 10 - ZRX1 Armour Application Facility
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I dunno man - the idea is fun, but the execution is really lackluster. I think there's a lot of potential in the concept of mechbays that you haven't tapped with this giant-box-around-the-robot thing, and that's kind of sad, because I could see this (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
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(...) Okay, that's funny! Sorta like life imitating art imitating life. JOHN (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: turtle coding kit (Re: How would we (the rest of us) communicate ideas to the MDP?)
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(...) This sounds like a good demo that someone within the MDP program can create (hint, hint, wink wink, nudge, nudge). Show the difference between navigating through a maze using (1) the 'dead reconing' method, (2) the ultrasound sensor and the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Replacement Wire
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(...) The motor... easily, the loco/rolling stock however... :) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The pics I got at Toy Fair were of preprod stuff (witness the use of a metal railed turnout in old gray), so don't really help. The spoked wheels are there but the motor block on that one appears not to have technic axles: (URL) (and others in (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Finds at Orlando PaB
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"Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:Iv3u6K.vu0@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I think is where the disconnect for me is. I find the "cup" aspect of P-a-B annoying. I have purchased quite a few (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.loc.us.fl.orl, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: One more rule verification
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(...) Well, I want to hear what others (eg Derek, RobA, Iain, Vitali) have to say, as they are more important than my opinion...but... I would take the block count inbound of the two as the greater of the two. So if Part A gets 5 unique blocks and (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: BrickJournal 3 is REALLY out!
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(...) Great work Joe! I finally finished reading it yesterday and can't wait for #4! The writing and in particular the graphic design are excellent. It's truly a professional quality magazine that anyone in the hobby would be proud of. I'm sure if (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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(...) I've had a plan for a while now to build a Paris Metro train that runs on racers track using the new IR engine. Unfortunately the baseplate/batterybox design put a a minor dampener in my plan and I'll probably have to wait to get one and try (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I originally thought that, since the set comes with 2 switches, you could do a smaller half loop in a big one-- Bad ASCII graphix below-- ------ / \ \ | | | | | | \ / / ------ But I think you would need at least 4 spare curves, combined with (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Presumably you could make something like an articlated lorry, with the motor in the cab and the baseplate for the trailer. If you fitted an anti-jack-knifing mechanism you could get some control through reverse steering too. Then again, you (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
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--SNIP-- (...) --SNIP-- Now I see what's wrong with you eight-widers. You try to make things look accurate instead of doing things that are fun. :P Of course a square carriage would have been fine and looked just as accurate if not more so but (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) The only thing you missed is people saying the same before. ;-) These pics are the first ones where it has been possible to properly see the wheels,they look like cheap BBB knockoffs! (baecause the spokes are only relief mouldings) Pity they (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) As does the points pack. Another two redundant curve pieces. And some people thought that the 8 curves in the standard track pack were a waste... Jason R (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have to say I don't think I would bother with it on a Mk1, possibly on a Mk2 built 8 wide.. Tim (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | 120 copies of set 10027 Train Engine Shed parted out!
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I have parted out 120 copies of set 10027 Train Engine Shed into my inventory. This added over 78,000 new parts to my inventory! Newly added items can be found here: (URL) of interest: Black Train, Door Sliding - Type 2 (URL) Door 1 x 5 x 10 Curved (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Thanks Mike and ILTCO! Something just occurred to me and maybe I'm just clueless, but it appears to me that the wheels on the green croc are new, a la BBB small wheels, using a technic axle. Does the ICE train use the same wheel type? And if (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
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(...) Wow. Now that is what I call "sub-til";-) I must confess that I don't see much difference, and gauging from the curvature of the Mk1 I would have to say that it is nominal at best and trying to account for it at such a small scale is futile. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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