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LEGO was first introduced to Asia in 1962, when sales started in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Sales started off very slowly, and remained so for a very long time. One of my new chapters in my LEGO DVD download (free to current owners when the (...) (11 years ago, 10-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Activating an EV3 forum?
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(...) Love it! My young students haven't melted anything yet, but they've sure twisted a lot of axles in battle. Is the software only downloadable with a purchase key? It would be interesting to have my students download the software onto their home (...) (11 years ago, 10-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Activating an EV3 forum?
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Also I got an interesting reply from lego. I asked them why all of their motors were slow. I MOC'ed a 8090 Supercar together with a 30,000 rpm 7.2 Hobby RC motor. Great in theory… reality not so much. I got it to move quickly and I spun a tire off (...) (11 years ago, 9-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Activating an EV3 forum?
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Saturday Academy, the non-profit I taught summer camps for, provided my class with pre-ordered NXTs the week they became available. That was before the recession. They are in no position to replace their 60+ NXTs with the same amount of EV3 in the (...) (11 years ago, 9-Sep-13, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LEGO Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump
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LEGO® Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump By Christian Weinberg, Sept. 5, 2013 LEGO A/S, the Danish building-block maker, said first-half sales jumped 13 percent with the strongest growth in Asia amid a slower start to 2013 (...) (11 years ago, 5-Sep-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf hacked???
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(...) And can anyone explain why this folder (URL) is showing 3746713986 hits? That makes it the second "most popular" folder on Brickshelf. Again, the images within have less than 500 hits. Very suspicious. -Steven (11 years ago, 2-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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Hi everybody !! As promised, even if a week later, here is another program update. ---...--- Before continue: if someone downloaded the program on September 2, 2013 before this announce, probably got a wrong version. If this is the case, download (...) (11 years ago, 2-Sep-13, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RCX plus parts for sale
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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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| | Change in News Display
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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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| | Buffalo Bill Wild West Roughriders
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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 sold in Asia.... from Lebanon to Japan...
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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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