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Eric, What a great job. I love the realism (I.E. Steps, and so forth.) I am building several more realistic models of my own, your a great inspiration! Good luck, it looks great so far. Scott S. P.S. They have gray service packs now? (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Indranil
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(...) How about "Excellent price guide for recent LEGO sets. Invaluable for serious LEGO collectors in the US. Saves you from getting scammed by eBay rip-off artists^H^H^H^H^H^H^...H^H^Hpower sellers." Seriously, there are plenty of items posted on (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Indranil
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(...) Emailed to "riffco" from ebay, cc'd to powersellersinfo@ebay.com : to: *suppressed* subject: lego, revisited holy c****t! (blasphemy, for the believers) i thought your sleaziness was limited to the mcdonalds sets. a friend just alerted me to (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: eBay rip-off artist hides feedback
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This is what I got from him: Unfortunately, eBay allows anyone to leave feedback about anyone. Regardless if the person is a customeror not. Too many people seem to have too much time on their hands, as they use the feedback profile whichI feel is (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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Odd occurrences at the Cratier Robotics Development plant: at the end of the work week (when all employees returned to their living quarters) the virtual alarms were silenced and production conveyor belts began moving on their own. Autobot units (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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(...) inside (...) True. I was just thinking that with Primo/Duplo, then Lego, it's really easy for a family to climb past 10 sets, especially when you consider the dozen or so sets under $5.00. Also, it strikes me that the people who aren't into (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Insurance
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(...) I'm pretty sure they'd find some way of wriggling out of paying for $5,000[1] worth of replacement Lego if you don't specifically mention it as an item though. Richard [1] Random figure - I'm sure it's a lot higher for some people! (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2150 at Busy Bee
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They also have some 3225 in -- Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of the UK Technic Club Magazine Web site: (URL) models and going up Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FJ50AD.6L1@lugnet.com... (...) in. (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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(...) Good point. And this seller is a Powerseller and that paragraph I posted earlier *does* apply to him. Someone who doesn't care about their eBay status could complain (I am reluctant to do it myself because I sell a lot on eBay - with what I (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | 2150 at Busy Bee
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I spoke with Busy Bee again today and they got a few 2150 Retrostations in. They were filling UK orders first followed by US orders. I am anxiously awaiting my Train Station. Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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(...) But you still use MPH on the roads... Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 5909 Treasure Raiders
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"Well I'll be superamalgamated! Posthumous disfigurement to the cranial structure with a proclivity toward the assessment that the act was vehemently executed!" said the gaunt-featured archaeologist, William Harper Littlejohn. A smile played across (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:37f4e224.551573...net.com... (...) If no one else does, eventually I will probably start something. I would probably set my sights a little lower than an all-encompassing, consistent (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: SPUDs and POOPs? (Was: Does anyone accually like 4561?)
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(...) SPUD would be "Special Purpose Ugly Design". Eric Remove ".nospam" when replying by E-mail. The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Inverse grey corner slope availability
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Does anyone know of a current or recent set with an inverse corner slope (LDraw part 3676, "Slope Brick 45 2 x 2 Inverted Double Convex" (see url) in light grey? I've had a quick (not exhaustive) search in db.inv and can't find anything. Any help is (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Any info on 9700 (aka TC-0) ?
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Set 9700 is probably a Dacta control centre kit of some kind, though I don't know which one. 9701 is the current "Control Lab Technology Building Set" and the other Dacta control kits are in that 97xx series. Kevin (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What set(s) is this piece found in?
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(...) It's also in the Flame Fighters fire station set, as a light bar on the small fire chiefs car, though that's no cheaper than 4551! Kevin (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: SPUDs and POOPs? (Was: Does anyone accually like 4561?)
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(...) An acronym list would be keen... The RTLSpeak list is referenced in the LUGNET FAQ material (1), but I don't see any reason why LUGNET can't have its own copy. Unless the acronym list is copyrighted? BURP = Big Ugly Rock Piece SNOT = Studs Not (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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(...) <snip> I guess this begs the question however. Would these people be going to the LEGO web site and filling out the form? If they are not that "into" LEGO I would guess not. I am sure that there are plenty of folks out there that don't have (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The beginings of my modular Star Wars base.
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<snip> (...) This is something that would hold a B-Wing while on the Hanger Floor while major repairs were being done. It would also have repulsor lift capability so that mainenance crews could move the B-Wing to another area of the Hanger. <snip> (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Attention Calgarians & Edmontonians - Hobby Show
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(...) Yup, one or two. :) I haven't heard too much out of Calgary, but we've got between 3 & 6 active AFOLs in Edmonton (and St. Paul) that stay in semi-active contact, and a few more that come out of the woodwork every once in a while. (...) Is (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca.ab)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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(...) How widespread are the three-liter milk jugs? At my local store, they have the gallon (3.785L) jugs next to the 3-liter jugs. It takes some quick math to figure which is the better deal. The price levels seem to switch weekly. Steve (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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(...) I know a few... mostly, I'd say people fall in the "under 10" category or "way over 10" category. My younger brother and sister's collection (they don't care for it nearly as much as I) is about 4 or 5 sets... Also, our neighbors family has a (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I'm famous (or infamous)
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(...) Just a footnote to this little incident. The information came from an interview I did with a reporter in Denmark for the Bloomberg Newsgroup (like Associated Press but on a smaller, growing scale) about two months ago. It was originally for an (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: number and letter bricks (was: Re: When should the 2000 Catalogue Appear?)
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(...) existence (...) set. I (...) Alphabets (...) Todays signage (...) Lego Dacta is still making English Alphabet and math signs. I don't know about other alphabets. (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lugnet Interviews?
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As we do have quite a varied set of interesting people on here, it could be interesting to 'interview' some of them! Although you can find out a lot about people by just using Lugnet, the psychology of an interview (on a chat or irc) is completely (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Maintenance sled? (...) Yeah, it doesn't HAVE to be Hoth, just thought it might be more recognizeable, what with an AT-AT (or AT-ATs? Shaun? :) ) approaching the base... But we could also go for a more earthy tone too-- I could try and work in (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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(...) <snip> (...) I can't think of *anyone* I know, nephews and neighbors included, that don't have either 0-1 or 10+. James (URL) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Indranil
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(...) Hmm. same guy that i posted feedback on for the mcdonalds set. has he called you threatening a slander suit yet? i think its time to contact ebay and get his "power seller" status withdrawn for being sleazy. -dave (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Actually, Star Wars belongs square in the middle of that thing known as Sci-Fi ("skiffy" I've heard it pronounced). It's "hard science fiction" that SW doesn't fit into. Although the SW technology is a bit closer to HSF than Star Trek's. Not (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Somebody help.
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(...) that. (...) You must confront Vader? James (URL) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Trains and Rock Raiders
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(...) So sets 6821, 452, 493, 886, 889, 6952, 6989 are not part of Space? How very interesting. Steve (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Proxy bidding mechanics questions...
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Chris Busse wrote in message ... (...) increased (...) set (...) 2x4 (...) of (...) was (...) shows (...) bid (...) by (...) So far so good, I would agree with everything that you've said so far. (...) bid (...) rae's (...) Rae's (...) her (...) do (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: The beginings of my modular Star Wars base.
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<snip> (...) Finally!!! It has been a long time in comming I just wish I had started ordering from S@H earlier. (I also wish there were more 1xX bricks in the Service packs) (...) this (...) That would be fine. A lot of the detail is going to be (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: The beginings of my modular Star Wars base.
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(...) --snippage-- (...) I like the bay portal/door and the way you have the B-wings stationed (nice photography, too). Keep up the good work! ..joseph g (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Minifig Art Museum update
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Cool! I like the Sine of Fire--I'm imagining what the "interactive" element is like. Of course, the oversized exhibits in the main hall are very intriguing as well. Steve (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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(...) Yeah, that was kind of a disappointment... I would have expected at least something like 20 or maybe even 50... (...) I think probably there's more of a danger in it in this respect. If you bought your kids 12 sets, and you therefore fit in (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: eBay rip-off artist hides feedback
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(...) Cool. If they hide their feedback, people will be less willing to buy from them. I read feedback, even when the seller has a large positive rating. I've decided to to buy from a couple sellers who had large positive ratings, but had negative (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: New angled beam
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(...) So we have as much as three sizes of balloon tyres? Aw, all these different Technic wheel! They make my mind boggle. (...) The rims, you mean? I'm not really a fan of the use of "chrome" wheels. The 1998 sets had chrome wheels all around (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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Troy Cefaratti wrote in message ... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) price (...) As Troy pointed out, the auction ((URL) mentions not available in stores. This is false advertising because I have personally purchased this set in a store. Granted that (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: New angled beam
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(...) Of course! It was Jon Wilson who introduced the 5571 Model Team set. (...) Certainly. However I still had a good time assembling the 5571 Black Cat. It is very well designed in my opinion, with a lot of "clever" design solutions which gave me (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Insurance
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(...) I (...) I just overinflated my contents coverage. The agent doesn't really care what you have in your house, so I didn't mention the all that I have in Lego. The only things that are specifically called out in insurance coverages are things (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Woohoo! Lots of grey! (...) Hmm.... I might take you up on that... However with most of my grey bricks being in use ATM in my AT-AT, I may be short to make a fully fledged interior module. However, I have plenty of extra grey burps, and enough (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: number and letter bricks (was: Re: When should the 2000 Catalogue Appear?)
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(...) I have the German Alphabet (includes ä,ö,ü, but not ß), and the Samsonite USA Alphabet. There is also a Danish and Swedish set. I was wondering about the existence of a French Alphabet set (with é,â,ä,à,ç,ê,ë,è,ï,ô,ö,ò,û). Or even a Spanish (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Insurance
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I'm not sure if this is the right area to post this but here goes.... Since some, if not most of us on here have huge Lego collections, has anyone put there's on their home owners insurance policies yet? You know in case of fire, flood or other (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | WTB: Train and Adventurer Sets
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Hi everyone, If anyone has any extra train sets they'd like to sell, please contact me. I'm mostly interested in the 9v train sets, but if you have anything available (4.5v or 12v), let me know. I was hoping to find some sets that someone didn't (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: New angled beam
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(...) Well, yes. However, you'll note that I said _Technic_ set. According to (URL) largest sets overall are: 5571 with 1743 pieces, 8448 with 1408 pieces, 9280 (Giant LEGO Dacta Basic Set) with 1401 pieces 8480 with 1366 pieces, 8880 with 1343 (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: PRESS RELEASE- LEGO Watch Systems Range Launches; It's Time for LEGO Watches
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My first reaction: Huh? LEGO's been making watches for a couple of years, at least. It doesn't sound like these are really new, except for colors and face design. Thanks for posting this, Chet. Sounds like LEGO watches are here to stay. Does this (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: PRESS RELEASE- LEGO Watch Systems Range Launches; It's Time for LEGO Watches
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(...) Ooo. I missed that one. Poor Shannon. I pity her, almost. Steve (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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(...) Well, they obviously have their sites set too low. I can't believe the "how many LEGO products do you own?" topped out at 10. Geez. (...) It could be they didn't want to scare off casual users/buyers. "Who the *heck* would own 100+ sets? Those (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | eBay rip-off artist hides feedback
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Well, Mr. 6420 decided to hide his feedback. *** I have had to hide my eBay feedback, because too many people have decided to use feedback as a forum for issues that are irrelevant to interactions made directly with me. I reccomend that all eBay (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Indranil
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(...) Looks like Mr. 6420-rip-off got mad at me leaving feedback for him. He request my user info (which I discovered is quite a bit out of date) and responded to my comment noting how little business I had done on eBay. Guess if you don't buy and (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Todd & Suzanne, Congrats on your first anniversary! So much has taken place in the past year. It's amazing how much LUGNET has evolved in just 12 months. I have the feeling that for the 2nd anniversary, it'll be even more spectacular. (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <37f9f5c6.74291430@l...et.com>... (...) not (...) inversion. (...) For WizardCAD I was intending to change the behavior of the mirror functions depending on what type of file the user opened the file as. If they open a (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Indranil
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(...) Looks like Mr. 6420-rip-off got mad at me leaving feedback for him. He request my user info (which I discovered is quite a bit out of date) and responded to my comment noting how little business I had done on eBay. Guess if you don't buy and (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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(...) [snipped way-cool graph] Very interesting. I hadn't thought of "draining" in terms of number of messages, I was thinking in terms of signal-to-noise. Which is a bit harder to graph. But the anecdotal evidence seems to suggest LUGNET is having (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 8880's New Mint and in unopened boxes!
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(...) What are you after? -breiler (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Could somebody use this program?
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Michael, You can program the RCX and CyberMaster with quite many languages (such as Visual J++, Visual C++, Visual Basic) using the spirit.ocx. Also the RCX ControlCenter with NQC is pretty good. (The legOS would be the ultimate thing, but it's more (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Standardized Inventory File Format?
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(...) I don't suppose I'd have a problem myself. My code is a little messy, but it (usually) gets the job done. I was thinking of other people, who may have recorded inventories in spreadsheets, or HTML, or whatever document format they found handy. (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Track names (was Re: To Tore Eriksson)
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(...) Don´t bother to dig the set up. Tore found an instuction scan at (URL) it clearly shows that the track parts from this set also have slots in them. Greetings, Manfred Moolhuysen. (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Hi Greg, Pat Linnero posted a message to rtl and Lugnet on the 13th August about all the great sets that Busy Bee was possibly able to get. I must say that I was surprised by the lack of discussion this info generated, but probably everybody else (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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Hey Larry, Send the bidders email address and details of where the item is cheaper to me and I'll email them. Everyone knows how much respect I have for ebay, stuff this TOS business. Mark H. (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: FS: Used Train and Town sets (with pics)
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(...) I'll give you $17.00 for this one. Mark H. (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | RE: Could somebody use this program?
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(...) <snipped description of new environment for RCX/Cybermaster> (...) Michael, I just downloaded mlCAD and find it an excellent bit of software. The rendering of each step is a bit slow unless you turn on wireframes, but that's not so bad. My 7 (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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(...) The last three parameters define a vector, not angles. The nested commands are rotated <angle> degrees around the vector. To rotate 45 degrees around X, do: 0 ROTATE 45 1 0 0 ... To rotate -45 degress around Y, you can do this: 0 ROTATE 45 0 (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New angled beam
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(...) 5571 is by far larger than 8448. (Judging by the number of parts included, obviously.) Fredrik (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: What is Homecoming? (Re: Somebody help.)
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(...) Yep. The odd thing I think is that my high school didn't do anything for homecoming, other than the homecoming game. There was a game every year, and we actually had a pep rally 1 year... but the profound lack of school spirit made it (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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(...) True. But mirroring is an advanced technique. Well, maybe intermediate-level. Anyway, it's not for beginners. (...) True. Allowing mirroring/inversion for parts authors allows them to use a single set of primitives, while keeping part-files (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Would have (Was Re: Signed up for MindFest
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(...) Yes. Mail me as soon as you know you'll be in town. Todd and I were hoping you'd come. Anyone else who missed the signup should send mail directly to me. -Suz. suz@media.mit.edu (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Lugnet Roll-call
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Name: Dan Moquin Gender: Male Year of Birth: 1972 Mental Age/Status of Inner Child: 10 Location: Stafford Springs, CT, USA (10 minutes from Lego Headquarters) E-mail Address: moquind@neca.com , moquin-kac@kaman.com LEGO/home page URL(s): Nothing Yet (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: RCX + C + Windows
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(...) Miguel, It depends on whether you want your programs to run on the RCX (case 1) or on the PC (case 2). Case 1: Try legOS. It uses gcc and a cross assembler to compile C directly to the RCX. It requires that you download alternative firmware. (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | SPUDs and POOPs? (Was: Does anyone accually like 4561?)
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[ XFUT lugnet.general and lugnet.faq ] Kya Morden: (...) I can't remember SPUDs either. Steve? POOP = Piece (that can be built) Of Other Pieces Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Indranil
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(...) How about something like: This catalog lists many of the hard to find LEGO sets which can be shipped anywheres in the US. You are doing nothing but describing exactly what the catalog is. Now it may be against eBay rules to sell catalogs, so (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Signed up for MindFest
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(...) ... (...) Way cool, John John! :) Steve (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Could somebody use this program?
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(...) (URL) think that fits pretty close to your description except for the building block part. Søren (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rotary electrical coupling
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G'Day If you are willing to use 'non-pure Lego' parts, then Radio Shack has a telephone cord 'detangler' that plugs into standard RJ-11 jacks, has 4 conductors, and 360 degree motion. Works rather well, esp. with some contact enhancer for a cleaner (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Would have (Was Re: Signed up for MindFest
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I WOULD have signed up for this but couldn't see spending 75 USD on the off chance that I could make it. Then I decided to take the plunge anyway and visited the registration site yesterday. It was after 5 but before midnight eastern (dunno if it (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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(...) Yup, me too. 'Course, I probably have 10 or so legitimate e-mail addresses also... (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Now here's where you might have a legitimate beef. If the seller has modified the image, they are definitely violating fair use guidelines of TLG copyrighted material. Unfortuanately, eBay might not do anything unless TLG pursued the issue. Of (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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(...) If you won the bid, it probably wouldn't be against the TOS to leave a comment that you felt swindled, but you would not have recourse to back out of the purchase because of this (note that even Todd doesn't allow this for Auczilla). Once you (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Is it the largest set ever? or is 5571 larger? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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Here is a link to some pictures I have taken of the initial stages of the construction of what I plan on being a large modular layout of a Star Wars Rebel Base. Much of my Ideas are still fermenting in my head but I plan on this base houseing a (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Some questions about the shell promos...
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(...) Just got the instructions for this set from brickshelf.com. This is accually a sticker. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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(...) There is a difference here. Your proposed TOS is saying that since you've visited us, you must pay. It would be like a store saying that now that you've come in the door, you must pay us. There is no opportunity to read to the contract before (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Technic Shuttle
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(...) My mistake that should be Boyes in Louth. They have branches in York, Darlington, Whitby and at least 20 other places (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Halloween Lego Design Contest Reminder and Update
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I've had no trouble viewing it with IE4.0, but I've changed it quickly just now. If it's still off it'll have to wait until after work. Brian (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | New part: Fence spindled 4x4x2 quarter ring [DAT]
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Hi, I've run out of dumb questions for Steve (thanks) so here's my first attempt at a part. I use a new hires ring primitive which I posted yesterday. I inlined it here so you can see the whole part. Feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Don 0 Fence (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Pneumatic bits and pieces
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(...) Yes, there are 4 of them in service pack 5109 (along with some tubing). Cost is about 4 USD. I don't have the US spares service phone number, but somebody out there can probably tell you. Stuart (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You get 4 'T' pieces in accessory set 5109 with two lengths of tube. Regards John Stormes (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Does anyone out there know if there are "T" pieces for the pneumatics stuff, and if so where to get them. They don't get a mention on shop at home, catalog, or Pitsco. Regards, JB (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) My reply from Lego just came. It turns out that they are not ready to answer e-mails in the USA. So now I have to call some phone number. Sounds to me like they don't know the answer and are wasting time so they can find out. (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) All the backslashes in the URLs in the code of the first page shouldn't be there. The rest of the site works fine. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some questions about the shell promos...
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I have them all, opened them all, but have not yet built them, so here's my best guesses in the absence of any other replies: (...) I have noticed the 2x3 red sloped bit with the Ferrari symbol, 2x1 grey sloped bit used for the petrol pump controls (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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(...) Nope. They're smaller than the ones on the 8459, but bigger than the ones on the, say, 8414. Also, the whatchamacallums, the thingies inside the tires look pretty cool. (...) Yes, there do seem to be a lot of those. Wasn't, erm, (damn, lugnet (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: I've just overhauled my Lego Website.
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(...) I chuckled when I saw that too. Touché Scott! :) The 'premier' bit wasn't intended as a dig, in fact I had clean forgotten about Scott's site, hence the 'Scotland's only website' bit. (though I admit I half expected to be challenged on that (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Star Wars LEGOs
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I'm looking for some Star Wars LEGO "give aways". These aren't really promos about I'm hoping someone here can help me. Please let me know if you have any Star Wars LEGO sets that aren't avalible in stores, I have the Denver Celabration brick. There (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Indranil
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(...) And nothing else. Your postings come from a hotmail account, I didn't see a roll call entry and you haven't mentioned whether you have a website. Whereas I am rather well known in the community and a lot of info about me is available if you (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Track names (was Re: To Tore Eriksson)
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(...) You could not find it with that loose and sloppy description! :-) (URL) Sorry about that! (...) You're right, slots are a better name than notches for the openings. However I would say that "tabs" are a better name for the part on the sleeper (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What set(s) is this piece found in?
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(...) at both ends but is a straight cylindrical part, (very common) or the piece that connects to IT which only has one and is two rods with the ends bent down. if the latter, that is a pantgraph shoe. See this page: (URL) particularly the terms (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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