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No, the microTechnic in the UK last year had the 5 length axles, as did at least one Technic set, considering I pulled my chopped axles out of my dragsters and replaced them with real #5 axles, and I did NOT take them out of my UK sets. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question]
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I bought one of every Lego SW set out there just because it was Star Wars Lego. HOWEVER, I bought the manymany further SW sets for PARTS, because the PARTS in them just flat out ROCK in most cases. I have seen many people post in RTL or (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: We need to get together!
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(...) Hahahahaha. We're ALL connected to UTK in one way or another, as far as I know. Naji, John, Marcia, and I all work there. Powel is a student there. (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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| | Re: Roll Call
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(...) Are they on at least 50% off clearance or something? If not, you can have all you want. I just got a Landspeeder from TRU Online for 73 cents. I'm going to have everyone I can find order one as well while they're still doing their $10 welcome (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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We need to plan a Lego get together for Knoxville. We've got a lot of people who are interested in town. I count 6. That's a lot for our mid-sized town. When I was in Chicago there was only me and Tim C. out-a 8 million. I'd hold it here, but my (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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| | Re: Logs
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I like the idea of at least posting a quick note like Ectal did. I especially liked his post cuz I'm next! Whoo-hoo! Julie (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Hi Naji, I had a roommate in Chicago named Naji. Very cool name. (...) You better believe it. I just cleaned out 4 of those new big Classic building sets at Wal-mart yesterday. Really tempted to clean out the rest of the SW Nabou Swamp and Speeder (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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| | Re: Castle-themed building MOCs
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(...) Very nice work! I have been thinking about doing something like this too. One comment/question - I've been intending to do mine with the horizontal beams 2 plates high rather than 1, to bring them more into proportion with the vertical beams. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
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Snipped most of the message... ok.. all of it.. :-) I have some thoughts on why TLG hasn't thought about trying to shut this down... I'm sure they already know the group as a whole isn't very happy with them. To turn around, and try to shut down a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 8448 ramblings
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Don't forget about #5 axles. Those are new for 99 right? btw, the helicopter has tons of them. KL (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | FS: Bricks and plates by SIZE and color
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There have been several messages recently asking where to buy bulk bricks. Well, here's one place! I have the following bricks and plates for sale. All are brand new. Email me and tell me the quantity you want of each size. See end of message for (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Bricks @ Guarded Inn Beta-Testers Sought
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(...) Hrmmm... kinda. I added a couple of EveryAuction add-ons that are designed to make it look more like eBay. I personally don't think eBay looks all that great, but it is what a LOT of people are used to, so I guess it makes sense to make it (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Looks like it will be cool. Also looks *very* much like EBAY. Is it just the particular program that is used to make it?? Ryan (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Lego Rally, a challenge
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Sounds simple, proving to be a pain... Design a robot that will cover "x" inches in exactly "y" time regardless of the surface (carpet vs. tile, for instance). The best I've been able to do is roughly target time +/- 20%. Jim (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Well, it isn't perfect yet, and it will probably never be pretty, but it's up. And it's free. I've told everyone I'd try to get an auction site going that is similar to my JABA site for a long time now, and it's finally up. Here's the URL: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Give me strength...
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(...) that place, and just have it controlled in my main control center in my military base. It kind of urked me as well, and I have no problem changing some obvious non-real situations the sets come with sometimes! I also hated the SAHS catalog (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Top 10 posters in lugnet.cad.dev
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Hey 34's my lucky number! Wow! Adam Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:37b751b6.341452...net.com... (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (...) -- (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 1857's, (remember those!), £7.85!!!!!!!!
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Nope, don't know what 1857 is. And it's not in the lugnet database either... Simon (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Give me strength...
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(...) I remember getting mine in my early coming-out-of-the-dark ages days. It was August 1997 and I was delighted to pick it up from the Entertainer store, reduced to about US$25 to clear. I also recall being a bit disappointed when it actually got (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lego addicts (was Re: Give me strength...)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37B6D93D.12481D...ger.net... (...) Sounds like we have yet another lego addict. I have nearly two decades of stuff that I will never get out of the boxes again because I move every three years (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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