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(...) It sounds like we'll be making frequent trips to Atlanta! Naji (27 years ago, 11-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh, no hurry..... I just thought others may want to see a really nice Lego model. I am still very impressed! My rendering is only the icing on the cake. It's just a nice way to view the model. Now I need to find the time to actually BUILD a (...) (27 years ago, 11-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | LDraw Problems
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Apon trying to get LDraw to work and do some modeling, I got a run-time error 200 at 0003:0095. Anyone have the smallest clue on exactly what is wrong? I'm on a PII 450 running win98 on the service Pack update, not the SE CDupdate if this is any (...) (27 years ago, 11-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO store in Georgia
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thinice@avana.net (James J. Trobaugh) wrote in <FHv0xM.y1@lugnet.com>: (...) I was talking to a Lego rep a couple of weeks ago, and he mentioned these type stores as a new thing for Lego. He said there are two nearly complete - one near Atlanta (...) (27 years ago, 11-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Eric: sorry I haven't put the animation on my web site yet. I don't have much time,[1] so I'd like to wait until I have more stuff to update at the same time. --Bram 1) Every student of my Calculus teacher gets a 5 on the AP test, so that (...) (27 years ago, 11-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: A big round of thanks to Tom and Gail
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In lugnet.market.shopping, thou, David Eaton (wpieaton@wpi.edu), hast wrytted... (...) Hehe, ever heard of a program called figlet? 88 88 88 ,d 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 MM88MMM 88,dPPYba, ,adPPYYba, 8b,dPPYba, 88 ,d8 ,adPPYba, 88 88 88P' "8a "" `Y8 88P' (...) (27 years ago, 11-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Datsville Updated
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(...) John, if we ever need to remove a house like we did with the 'yellow house' can we burn it down to give my firefighters some training?? :) I'll do positioning of minifigs(but we'll have to wait until Chris has gotten more done on the hat). I (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Because in most places cars have red brake lights. That may not be in Australia, but I can't imagine that it isn't. Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: show-me training
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(...) You connect the motor to a differential gear. One end of the differential gear turns the wheel; the other end turns something to press the sensor. Or you suspend the chassis with shock absorbers, then put sensors to detect the direction to (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 3471 Plant Tree Pine
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(...) if that is the case then all someone needs to do is take the top of the piece that is already there and stick it onto a shorter pole. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Datsville petrolium tanker
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(...) Why? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Model 6824: Space Dart-I [DAT]
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This was the first Legoland Space set I ever acquired. Back in 1984, Legoland was not a theme park, but rather the largest commodity of the Lego Group's brick sales in decades! The Space Dart was one of those small and inconspicuous sets that could (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: Help with missing parts files
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(...) The ldraw.exe download file at my tutorial includes these updates. Tim, go ahead and use that file instead of the one that's up now at ldraw.org. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Redesigned website finally online!
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(...) With the Javascript, a new, small window pops up. This gets rid of the need to hit the "back" button after viewing an enlargement. ("back" doesn't (or didn't) always work correctly with frames) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: show-me training
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(...) How? (...) Yes, the CyberMaster touch sensors are all different from each other. :-) Laurentino Martins [ mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt ] [ (URL) ] (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: WTB: arches, etc for reconstructing Yellow Castle
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(...) You get one of these in the #6045 Ninja Surprise set. It shocked me when I realized this! --Mike. (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: show-me training
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(...) You can set up the touch sensor so it is pressed when the wheel rolls in one direction but not the other. With two touch sensors to detect the wheel directions, you still have one left for the bumper. (You can squeeze in more sensors by (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: WTB: arches, etc for reconstructing Yellow Castle
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(...) Unfortunately, that piece is only available in the Yellow Castle, and unless you find a bunch of LEGO with remnants of one, you won't be finding that piece "laying around". It's unfortunate, but TLG has a habit of producing sets with a unique (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 3438 - S@H McDonald's Special - scan of Directions cover
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Thanks for posting it, Tom AND for the piece review! :-) -John (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 'exploding' models in ldraw
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Thanks for the tips guys. I will take a look at LDAO. It's installed I don't know why I haven't messed with it much. Look for a house from me soon! John Matthews Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: web page in frames
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(...) No, what makes frames bad is that the browsers don't give any easy way to discover the URL for any but the top frame. This opens the door real wide for banner abuse, and there's nothing you can do on the server end to indicate beneficial (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: web page in frames
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(...) Those people are silly. :) I'm serious, actually. It's a prejudice spawned by a lot of sites with terrible use of frames. Sure, they're easy to misuse, but that doesn't make all uses bad. (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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Hello Gary, Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in article <37D92C5D.8826C9E@umich.edu>... (...) Another wonderful account of the history of a LEGO element. Thanks very much. As previously mentioned ((URL) the offer to host this material on the web (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Mavica-competitor from Panasonic on the way
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(...) Hmm. I swear I saw that 160mb card just the other day, but can't find anyone selling it now. (I'll look more later...) The 128MB cards cost about $300. Maybe the thing to do is buy several. :) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | WTB: arches, etc for reconstructing Yellow Castle
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I am trying to reconstruct the Yellow Castle set #375. Most of the pieces are pretty standard bricks and slopes (no juniorization -- not even in the horses). Anyway, here is some of what I need. Please contact me by email if you have any of these (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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Nearest thing I can find is the roof pieces in Fabuland, but they are larger than a 2x4 (more like 4x6). They are green, stepped, and "wiggly" tiled though. (...) +---...---+ | Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com | | (URL) | | (URL) | +---...---+ (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Legoland Windsor open through Christmas and New Year
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Hi, Long time, no post... LLW are trumpting that they will not close at the end of October as they have done previously, but will stay open until Jan 3rd, 2000. There will be the following special items (according to the brochure they are handing (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.legoland.windsor)
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| | hills and grades
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Frank Filz and Brian Darrow posted messages about building trains powerful enough to handles grades, but I'm wondering how you would actually lay track to start up a hill. Has lego ever made uphill or downhill curves, like you would find at the (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Idea: Wall-breaker
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(...) That's a great idea. To avoid the "chair problem", maybe you should make it bash only when it sees a certain color, rather than the other way around. (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New rendering/animation - Bram's Viper
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(...) Thanks! I use 3DS MAX 2.5. I am looking for a reason to upgrade to 3.0, because the rendering engine is supposed to be MUCH better. Also Mental Ray (used in all the feature film stuff) is being ported to MAX 3.0. Eric (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 8485 from DYA
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(...) In a word, OUI! Paul Sinasohn (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: New Mavica-competitor from Panasonic on the way
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn7ti6kh.8sh.....bu.edu... (...) Dunno, but with an AC adapter it wouldn't really matter to me. And 120mb wouldn't take that long if it were transferred at anything approaching the maximum (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Scaling Buildings in Datville
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John VanZwieten skrev i meddelandet ... (...) the (...) It is nice to see ones creations put out in a 'world' like this (you even put the tree right where it should be! How did you know?), but it sure looks wrong mixing scales! Either you 'demand' (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 3438 - S@H McDonald's Special - scan of Directions cover
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They snap into the frames like the window panes snap into a 1x4x3 window. So FOR ONCE, you can get 2 of these sets, put the doors side by side, and snap one in "backwards/upside down", and have proper swingout doors, since the door is horizontally (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | KAPAs Auction - last update
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That's the last update of my first auction. Thanks to all who participated, I will contact the winners to agree next steps. Thanks again, Kai Again for information: A 2kg (somewhat around 4 pounds) pack to the US is supposed to be 5.00 - 10.00 USD (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Note from BlockCAD author
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John VanZwieten skrev i meddelandet ... (...) multiple (...) This one's new to me (perhaps I'm too slow :-) - I'll look into it (when time permits). (...) Yep, there are many situations when the 'view order' sorting goes a bit wrong. Most of the (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: web page in frames
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(...) (Because people hate frames) (...) Ooo, I hadn't thought of that. I'll have to ponder that idea some more. Steve (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | LEGO store in Georgia
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My wife was at a outlet mall near our house today and said she saw a sign on a store claiming to be a new LEGO store. It was still underconstruction, but she did conferm that it really was a LEGO based store. Has anyone seen one of these stores (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mc Donald's Lego
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(...) Lowell is very good about letting us get what we want--as long as they have it on hand. We've even been known to hold on to duplicates (or undesired items) for later trade-in. (...) It all depends on how you arrange the plastic. (...) I don't (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr)
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| | Re: 3438 - S@H McDonald's Special - scan of Directions cover
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(...) sorry, I mean't frames!!, sorry (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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