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(...) That could be a mistake in the printing. I've seen LEGO yellow come out in photographs as looking orange. I don't remember the colors from our DK catalog. I'll try to remember to check it tonight. Especially as I'm supposed to be bringing a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Oh, definitely! :) Although I'm not as pleased with RR as I'd like to be, I do find myself (a die-heard Space head since 1978) wanting to collect AZ and RR as well -- for their "space-like" futurism and beauty and cool elements for building (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Greg Kramer wrote in message ... (...) I found out about their existance quiye by accident. About a month ago I was trying to find a 4555 Freight Loading Station and happened upon this web page: (URL) I called Busy Bee I was informed that they (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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(...) have a (...) poor (...) I do believe that adding a surcharge is against the policy of all major credit card companies, and is grounds for cancellation of a merchant account. Or atleast it was when I had one... (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [FS] - eBay - McDonald's Promo set, box only - 25 cents
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(...) Bit if that's the case, why don't they at least have an option for sniper free auctions? (probably because the increased auction duration wouldn't pay off that well, they want auctions to run the 30% of the time which will get 70% of the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6497 Twisted Time Train
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I'll be posting reviews here (instead of for the site I used to write for). Some of these reviews are older but unpublished, and there will be many NEW reviews for newer sets (Star Wars, Insectoids, Rock Raiders, etc.). ---...--- 6497 Twisted Time (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Price info on classic space
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(...) Well, he could definitely get more for them elsewhere. But that's not all that goes into setting the price. For example, if I were selling some computer stuff to a friend, I'd make the price a lot lower than what I could get on eBay. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Yeah, but conceptually, they're very space-like. I'd also consider putting the Aquazone stuff under space too. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. Gimme a little bit, and I'll post some statistics. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Firmware
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Check the 9V battery in the tower, and check the position of the RCX in relation to the tower--for the firmware download only, it seems to need to be at about the same level and pretty close together. In one of my projects, a "trambot," the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex [DAT]
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It seems to me that there are two major "camps" in the CW/CCW debate. A. Face-by-Face Method This method suggests that CW-ness be ultimately evaluated on a face-by-face basis. Each quad in a primitive or part would hold a value of CW,CCW, or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Maybe a way to hit inaccurate "hard to find" listers on eBay
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Well, I just did it - emailed one of the McDonalds Drive Thru sellers, quoting that paragraph, and pointing out that their listing (which states "This kit is not available in stores and was produced in extremely limited numbers.") might violate it. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: 8485 uploaded and new xxxx.txt format
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(...) before submitting their post? What's so difficult about a testing a URL -before- pasting it into a message? --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.scans, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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Hi, on my machine, original firmdl3 took 45.2s to download firm0309.lgo. - I increased packet size to 240 bytes, gaining roughly 2 seconds. - Added packet size prediction and bytewise decoding with a state machine (The decoder spent 50 ms per packet (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: New Meaning to Computer Aided Design
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(...) No offense, but I'd rather view the images full-size at their original location rather than slogging through yellow links and white text against a black and white pattern background somewhere that gets the image links wrong and doesn't even (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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(...) I haven't seen a LEGO commercial in years. I don't watch TV at the right time, I guess. Even so, in any competition involving construction toys, the judges should have some knowledge of what the commercial offerings are. If there was at least (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem)
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| | Maybe a way to hit inaccurate "hard to find" listers on eBay
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eBay has a "Powersellers" program for sellers who do more than $2000 worth of business a month on there. Powersellers are required to give a "Guarantee of Satisfaction". Here's what the Powersellers FAQ has to say: (...) "Accurately Represented" is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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(...) A very small part of me wishes I had noticed this so I could pick up 4 or 5 of them, mainly for my own use. Then again, I've never quite gotten into the whole freight train thing, so I don't know what good these would do me with nothing but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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(...) "Credit card orders add $2 convienece charge". Good for them rip off the poor and unsuspecting. Thats the way we like it :( . When does it all end... Eric K. Remove ".nospam" when replying by E-mail. The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Somebody help.
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(...) Yeah, that's a pretty harsh movie. I found parts of it hillariously funny, but I doubt any set of parents would approve of their daughter being taken to see it. (...) I guess it just depends on the situation, the people, etc. By the time I was (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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