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(...) Impossible to name one... Casper van Nimwegen's worker houses were a great inspiration for me to start building better and more detailled buildings : (URL) Yrizarry's Japanese Restaurant (URL) building techniques, the amount of details, just (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Here's a reality check. The way LEGO makes train track is realy just wrong. It's way more expensive than it needs to be. Result - LEGO really can't afford to keep producing the existing 9v track and hope to remain profitable. The way I see it, (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Years ago, maybe even on rec.toys.lego, there was a link to a european website of someone who had created a lot of traveling carnival rides, the kind that break down and travel on trucks. These things were amazing! More recently, I was amazed by (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hrrmpph. If its like their other factories, it will be useless and overpriced. But if they allow fan designed sets by contest(like the micro stuff) and make the price point decent($40.00 for an engine, $25.00 for a large bit of rolling stock, (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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It is nicely done - great proportion and articulation. I have to comment on the beam saber, assuming you are trying to match the original design: The beam part should be trans-red or trans-orange, and the saber hilt should be the white pieces (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Ok, I'll add my $0.02 to the pile. Summary: Lego trains are the reason there are now 100,000 Lego bricks in my Lego room upstairs. Details: When I was a little kid in Wisconsin in the 1970s, we had HO trains in the basement (didn't (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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No slight taken as I mentioned it was purely an internal LEGO thing, lack of proper passing of the torch. Hopefully we can all keep the 9v train line alive. SteveB (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Cool! It's about time. I'm really pleased with what you've done to Structures, Squads, and I heart the Unit Cards. Be sure to make those available for printing out at 100%. But NO tech levels? All weapons reduced to categories? Now those (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, FTX)
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(...) Steve, For what its worth the Ambassadors were not trying to step on any toes. A question was possed and someone specifically asked for the Ambassadors help here on LUGNET. I took that call for help and used my resources to get permission to (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This could create curves, arches or wheels by introducing angling on the sides. Using a technic plate at an angle, this is usable for stair steps. (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile wrote: <snipped a lot of info> Steve, You should put something about this on the front page of the ILTCO site that is in plain view, even if you link to another page with more details. It is great that you want ILTCO (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I won't be linking it until we're reasonably frozen on it: (URL) tend to hide them with a URL only on Lugnet's rtlToronto NG until we're reasonably solid it won't change. This is to make things a little easier on those who may not keep up with (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'm not sure it's safe to assume that LEGO would be the lowest cost provider of 9v items. What if they licensed it to another entity to reduce overhead, marketing and production costs? I agree with your main point, however, that private party (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hi All, As you know there haws been a change in ILTCO's contact person at LEGO and unfortunately the "9v Announcement" was made via the Ambassadors list rather than the normal ILTCO channel. Moving forward we hope that this issue has been fixed. (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Mr. Enjary, Excellent! I can’t wait to get home and play with this idea. I have a lot of these hinge heads lying around. There are quite a few possible applications going through my mind right now. Thanks for the inspiration! Attack! Mike (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Non credo proprio. Almeno non inizialmente. Ciao Mario (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote: <snip> (...) but i don't want to be a pirate!!! i mean, don't want to reply to your e-mail 'cause i've been soooo busy tat i haven't had time to look at it yet. maybe I'll take a look tonite and see (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) YOUR ALIVE!!!!! YAY!!! Daves ALIVE!!! yay!!! now if only he would reply to my email. Chris (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I think this is a very important point. Most of us are quite resourceful and some have come up with their own custom track parts. The problem is most of us don't have those skills and to purchase those parts on the second hand market is very (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I wanted to try to use the new fender elements that come with many of the little racers sets on a truck cab. I was also feeling that my trucks with 4 wide cabs were looking a little wimpy. I wanted to beef them up a little. This is what I was able (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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