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(...) Anthony - You are right Chicago is not in the exact center of the country. Let's consider logistics for a moment: 1) St Louis is 4+ hours from the nearest major city and only 3 or 4 major cities within an easy days drive (still 12 hours from (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Jeramy- I'm thinking more about co-locating (in time and space) a general LEGO event with the big LTC effort for NMRA. Possibly even at the same venue (there's a lot of event space at the Convention Center and NMRA is not even actually in the (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Steve- I think this is a very good point and some of us have certainly discussed it before. A public expo provides: A chance to show off creations to a big crowd Opportunity to spread the word about LEGO A bigger market for vendors An (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Hi Ted, By this, do you mean that you'd like to display multiple themes as well? Thanks, -Jeramy (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Dopo un colloquio con il responsabile del piano regolatore, Arch. Morelli ;-P siamo giunti all'accetazione della proposta dei 3 stud/metro, con la possibilità di localizzate compressioni (stile Legoland) in modo da rendere gli edifici (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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(...) Mark- I think the LEGO gods have shone the light upon us for NMRA 2008 (July 13-20, 2008 at the Anaheim Marriott, 700 West Convention Way, Anaheim CA 92802). This event is walking distance to the LEGO store in Downtown Disney (and Angel (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Well, it's not quite a perfect cube! I posted a challenge for this a while ago: (URL) there were a few really cool responses! There were... ~sort of~ a couple designs for a perfect 2x2x2 cube, but they weren't great. One involved cutting flex (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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Presenting (URL) Edo Castle!> (URL) My first Micro Scale creation, created for the LEAHI display at the Hawaii FLL on December 2, 2006. It is based on a (URL) 1/700 scale model kit> that I built back in 1999 (during my Lego dark ages). I haven't had (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) Congrats, Frank! I hope for the best for you and Saranna! - Jim F. (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Hi Philippe, Glad you liked it enough to build. The changes work quite well. Out of interest are you planning to build the passenger stock? Tim (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Yes, I remember that now, but it was quite a while ago. For the past few years they've sold at regular retail with the flat shipping rate. (...) A very valid point, but I'm not referring to retail outfits like Walmart, TRU, Target, etc. I'm (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I also came up with this cube and I am quite positively sure that a lot of schleimers out there also came up with this... However, I normally build this one using four (URL) part number 4733> so every face of the cube is connected to the core (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) Back when S@H's shipping setup was more advantageous (ie, lower), their prices were higher -- like 10% over retail, I think. I don't order a lot on S@H, so I could be mis-remembering. Also, remember -- there are different costs for selling (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I am curious; have you ever had a situation where bad firmware locked up the NXT? And if so, what was the process to restore it to working order? (I don't have a bricked brick, I'm just asking for future reference.) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) It depends on what you compare it to. Even at 5% of my total order, it's generally cheaper for me than if I had to drive to the "local" LEGO brand store (3 hours in one direction), or the "local" Toys R Us (2 hours). After a few tanks of fuel, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Concordo praticamente su tutto, tuttavia l'appunto di Gaetano è giusto: le città vere non hanno tutta questa continuità stilistica. E' importante che i moduli si interfaccino perfettamente, perché non c'è nulla di più fastidioso di distinguere (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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Now that the free shipping is over at LSAH, I find myself again very distressed about their shipping rates. Remember when we could buy all we wanted for a flat maximum rate...I think it was like $10 or $15? This new 5% of the order total prevents me (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Then maybe you should call it your gray ages... :-) (19 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I've downloaded firmware to NXT 100s of times with no apparent ill effect. (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Flash memories all have a limited number of write cycles before they become unreliable. Usually, the on-chip write controller will "load-balance" the writes so that different memory locations all get used the same number of times, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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