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I am not sure where these rumors of Leo turning down Episode II came from, everything I am reading indicates that quite the opposite has taken place. Leo was invited to a private screening or The Phantom Menace at Lucas's Skywalker ranch, and (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: What about the Micro Scout?
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In lugnet.robotics, Mario Ferrari writes: [snip] (...) I feel like that famous Roman senator (whose name I have forgotten right now of course", who closed every speach he made with "Cartago dalenda est!" On the other hand, I don't just vent to the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What is up with this?
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(...) The blue tubs are getting harder to find. I think only a few of the local stores have any left. If they aren't available, the $30ish that the price is now at is not absolutely unreasonable (compatable to the Classic buckets, but you don't get (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: LEGO Town Quiz
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(...) They have eight studs per side unlike the grey's 7 studs; They lack a white line after the green one (sidewalk part)? (...) It is the only plate of this type with an actual road design. (...) 6542 Launch & Load Seaport (...) 1987 - 6641 (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Mandtal
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Søren Bak: (...) Vi er otte der paa den ene eller den anden maade har meldt sin tilstedevaerelse her i gruppen: Jacob Sparre Andersen Esben Kolind Mikkel Breiler Lars C. Hassing Franz-Michael Marcus Jacob Schultz Søren Bak Leg godt, Jacob ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.dk)
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| | Re: Non-standard track connections
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(...) I used an exacto saw to remove the metal contact 'nib' from the joint. I put a red 1x2 tile on that piece so I don't lose it (in all my other track). I learned the hard way - trying to find a piece of track among a huge pile! (...) I sawed off (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego in the UK
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ben Pegler (<FIrs1z.MHp@lugnet.com>) wrote at 12:29:59 (...) Surely you don't have a low opinion of UK AFOLs? We all tend to hang out in loc.uk. Go and have a look, and find a part of the country that no one posts from. That (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: PCODER22.S19
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Your loading the wrong pcode file, you need to load pcode_hb.s19, not pcoder22.s19 Matt -----Original Message----- From: Paul DaCosta <germano@voicenet.com> To: Handyboard <handyboard@media.mit.edu> Date: 28 September 1999 16:57 Subject: (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Just testing character codes
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(...) Nope, there aren't any HTML entities (numeric or non-numeric) that are handled. By design, if you type '&', it's *always* converted to '&' by the web display interface, meaning that if you type 'æ' in your article, then the HTML (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Are any other Photobot II pictures availalbe? Suctionbot?
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(...) There are multiple pneumatic valves that are timed to release the pressure when pressing 'down' the suction cup, then closing the valves to maintain the pressure. Open the valve again, and you can 'lift' the suction cup with little effort. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Are any other Photobot II pictures availalbe? Suctionbot?
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(...) I'd also be interested in any info anyone can dig up on the suction-bot. I have the walking mechanism down, it's the suction action that's causing me problems. Pneumatics could work, but I've having problems with implementation. peace ---T (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: conical gear
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(...) -free rotation/shift on an axle -toothed-1/2-bush-style teeth (what could one do with those?) -4 slim teeth for a locking tube among its features, but nothing cone-shaped, called "conical"? thanks. -gbr BTW: as the new differential housing (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Non-standard track connections
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(...) John didn't say which question he was answering. As it turns out, this trick works BOTH to electrically insulate track sections AND to let them be mechanically separated. If you only want electrical insulation your options depend on your (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: WalMart prices...
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(...) Again this morning I had to go into WM for something. So I found the Toy dept lady and asked a few questions. It seems that there are several factors involved: First, she can only mark something down a minimal percentage on the first go-round (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGO Stereogram (see it in 3D!)
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(...) If you can see Chris's and not Todd's, it's probably because Todd's are more widely separated than Chris's (on my monitor, about 3 1/2" vs. 1 7/8"). Human eyes are typically separated about 2 1/2", and this is an effective upper bound on (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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Sproaticus: (...) There is a camera type for this. It should be enough to add "orthographic" at the beginning of the camera definition[1]. It could be fun, if the DAT Explorer switched to cylindrical projection so we could get to look all the way (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: 2000 LEGO Star Wars and more!
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(...) know (...) much (...) well... (...) You've got to check out (URL) the most complete analysis of the MF ever made. Approximately 33m is the realistic length. (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Non-standard track connections
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(...) 9volt trains will jump that gap with no problems at all. You can kind of see it in this picture, between the grey bascule bridge and the adjoining truss bridge: (URL) bascule section drops down 1 stud apart from the 'fixed' section, it comes (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: WalMart prices...
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(...) The stores near me must pick and choose which clearance prices to use. One store has 5988 Pharoh's Forbidden Ruins at 50% clearance, but has 8269 Cyber Stinger at full price, while the other nearby Wal-Mart has 8269 at 50% off and 5988 at full (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Non-standard track connections
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Hello everybody, I have two problems two solve that I imagine many of you guys solved years ago. I used the Lugnet search engine but wasn't able to find the tricks... 1) How can I electrically insulate a section of tracks, I mean two adiacent tracks (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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