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(...) I forgot to mention the RCX Remote control (URL) It is of course also in the package... :-) Ardjan (11 years ago, 2-Sep-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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I've not been here on Lugnet for a long time, so please bear with me if I violate the Netiquette... The Mindstorms EV3 is hitting the shelves around these days, and I am thinking about getting the set. My son (now 10y) had a 'robots for kids' (...) (11 years ago, 1-Sep-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Rotating a 6629.dat Technic Beam 4 x 6 Liftarm Bent 53.13
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Using 3.40 - Why can't I check Rotation Vector in the Rotation & Orientation window on a 6629.dat Technic Beam 4x6 Liftarm Bent 53.13? Seems the inability to check the box to activate this option has been problematic in the past. I've searched posts (...) (11 years ago, 1-Sep-13, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | BrickCon - Call for Presentations (Due 9/14)
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BrickCon still has slots open for presentations. Please submit your proposals as soon as possible. What would be a good presentation? Here's a list of possible ideas: (URL) something there looks interesting, or you have another idea, you can make it (...) (11 years ago, 30-Aug-13, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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All, following an increasing number of requests, I have today disabled display of the "From:" field on the News article pages. This means, while the author's name will continue to be visible, the From: header line containing the author's email (...) (11 years ago, 28-Aug-13, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | LEGO DVD/download 1 day sale...
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Just found some extras that I'm offering as freebies for 3 LEGO DVD/download orders.... only on August 28.... (free shipping of these paper items in a Christmas card + envelope)... 1) a 1969 USA Samsonite Catalog (not folded in superb condition) (...) (11 years ago, 28-Aug-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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The Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World shows created by William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, can be credited with helping to create and preserve the dramatic myth of the Rough Riders and the American (...) (11 years ago, 26-Aug-13, to lugnet.western, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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LEGO sales were started in Asia in 1962 and thereabouts in Japan and other countries... Hong Kong, Lebanon and Singapore... and later other countries. In Japan LEGO was first imported from Denmark by the Asahi Corp. from 1962-69, from Fujisho Corp. (...) (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: First LEGO Plastic was Cellulose Acetate and....
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Whooops.... goofed on that 2nd link in the previous post... (URL) way this can be mistaken for a non-licensed clone! Cheers, Gary Istok (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | First LEGO Plastic was Cellulose Acetate and....
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Well the first LEGO plastic produced for Automatic Binding Bricks (LEGO bricks from 1949-53) by TLG Billund Denmark were made of Cellulose Acetate. And anyone who has seen very old LEGO plastic can tell how much it warps. Just doing some research (...) (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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No LEGO in either the Walmart or Target flyers this week. ---...--- TRU flyer good from Friday Aug 23 through Thursday Aug 29. 15% off 3183 Stephanie's Cool Convertible. $16.97 (first time I've seen a Friends set on sale) 20% off select LEGO city, (...) (11 years ago, 23-Aug-13, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGO Wooden Box Sets sold to Beauty Parlors/Barber Shops
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A discussion with a LEGO Archive employee last year about wooden box sets, came up with a previously unknown use for LEGO sets... the fact that TLG was marketing the wooden box sets in the early years of their production to Beauty Parlors and to (...) (11 years ago, 18-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | How LEGO Service Packs got started...
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Service packs and individual parts sales are relatively new (only last 20 or so years) to the USA and Canada. But in Europe individual parts sales started in 1950 in Denmark, and Service Packs started as individual sales either from mail-order, or (...) (11 years ago, 15-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Red Coats Beach Defense
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The British soldiers shore up their formidable beach defenses ready to repel any invaders. The artillery crew man the cannons from their firing positions as more soldiers beef up the shore line. (URL) Clickthe pic for more details... AC (11 years ago, 14-Aug-13, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Price Guide for Finding old LEGO at Garage Sales and Fleamarkets
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Many folks have seen old LEGO sets a Garage Sales or Flea Markets, or as they say in Britain, at Car Boot Sales (where they sell items from the back of the car or truck). But you may have hesitated because you had no clue as to the value of the item (...) (11 years ago, 12-Aug-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | The Very Rare and Strange 800 LEGO Universal Set
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One of the chapters in my LEGO DVD/download lists the story of very unusual LEGO sets, that really don't fit in any other category or type. The old 800 LEGO set, only sold in France, Denmark and Norway, fits the bill as one of the most unusual sets, (...) (11 years ago, 10-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO DVD/download available for i-Pads and i-Phones as well as PC/MACs.
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For those of you who have my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide as DVD/download... if you only have it on your PC/MAC, but not elsewhere.... it is also available for your i-Phones and i-Pads. If you can't download it, send me an EMAIL for (...) (11 years ago, 8-Aug-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | The impossibly complex LEGO Promotional Sets!
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I just wrote some information about several 1980s promotional sets... such as the Dutch #1966 Repair Shop set (a Unox Soup promotional set there by Unilever Corp.). Or so I thought it was a Dutch exclusive... until I was shown some German catalog (...) (11 years ago, 7-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Adults only - Restricted
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(...) ;) (...) It was probably worthy of winning the Manure Spreader. ;) (11 years ago, 6-Aug-13, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | August rtlToronto dinner
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The August monthly meeting is soon upon us. I decree that we shall all meet, and dine at Swiss Chalet in Etobicoke at 7:00pm. Friday August 9th. Bring back the MOC's of the other guys you "accidentally" packed. What happened at Brickfete, stays at (...) (11 years ago, 5-Aug-13, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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