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Reminds me of the time I left a variety of aquanauts, pirate, and town sets laying round my student halls of residence. Over the course of a couple weeks, the pirates monkey managed to abscond up a (real) bonsai tree with the treasure, and a good (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Reply to "New Star Wars LEGO"
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I would asume that the desingers at lego have been working unofficaly if not officaly on starwars style desings. The probably just found the new ep1 as the perfect opertunity to culminate them and ride the hype like every one else. Obviously they (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | The Best Basic Sets (725/730)
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[Cross-posting to lugnet.town becasue these are "town-based" basic sets] [Cross-posting to lugnet.general becasue of general interest] [Follow-ups to lugnet.basic becasue it needs some trafic :)] First, a bit of background information... A few days (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.basic, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) I would expect that if it were the case that the forestmen fig was *intended* to be brown, that the arms at least would easily be distinguishable from the red, since the arms are actually made from the same ABS plastic as the other brown lego (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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I for one, love it. I have met great people, talked about one of the passions of my life, got sets I never dreamed I could, debated things I never would with people I would have never met, and have so many things I want to build now, I want to go (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Favorite Adventurers vehicles (Re: 4x2ReVu: 5909)
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(...) a (...) Hi Joseph, Glad to hear your input on the vehicles. I heartily agree that the 5909 car is the best. I love the engine and exhaust pipes on it. The vehicle from the 2995 set is also superb, much like the Scorpion Tracker but the back (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Indranil
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(...) I'm a person who enjoys legos just like everyone else on Lugnet. Just because you haven't come across me in your lego dealings doesn't mean I don't exist. Are you saying that if I had anything other than a hotmail account you would have more (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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I saw the same thing at a Genesee County Fair on the outskirts of Flint, Michigan. I don't know who sponsored it, but there were a few creations that were just the sets. Man, I guess I could have one first place too! :) Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Reply to "New Star Wars LEGO"
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(...) Could be due to the fact that they had more to go on for the classic stuff... All that stuff has been well documented for years... Also, if they had the contract to design SW sets long before Episode I came out, the Episode I stuff might have (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) I just checked the 6071 instructions the 5 forestmen that come in the set are the princess, all green, red chest, blue chest, and black chest. I have checked all of the forestmen sets on brickshelf and none of the sets come with a brown (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Football Starter Set
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Lorbaat wrote in message ... (...) little (...) two (...) I think that's what they are supposed to be, since the keepers have different color shirts. The only convention currently is that the starting goalkeeper is usually number 1. It used to be (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Reply to "New Star Wars LEGO"
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(...) I don't know if it was just me, to some degree, some of the SW classic sets had this ... *feel* that they were designed a while ago and only updated lately. Like the landspeeder. As if the designer had something like this floating around for a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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(...) Saying that one of the systems is bigger or smaller than the other is meaningless. A meter is bigger than a foot, but smaller than a yard. And _my_ foot is the same length, no matter what you measure it with. [1] It's just a matter of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: What is Homecoming? (Re: Somebody help.)
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(...) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | RE: Mindfest
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Apparently Mindfest registration ended yesterday. Did anyone notice a deadline posted at their site? I didn't and I'm upset because it took me several weeks to get approval to go and I missed the deadline by 1 day. I look forward to meeting some of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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Metric is bigger than Imperial.. a 2 liter soda bottle holds more per "ounce" than a 2 quart bottle... same with a gallon of milk.. 4 quarts is less than 4 liters. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) Rich, The have printed forest men with brown chest designs. I know they were in the Forest Men's River Crossing (6071) and may have been in others. Its hard to tell form the pictures because they are either hidden or indistigushable from the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: MI/X (Was: LeoCAD for Linux (Was: Compiling MPD Builder/Splitter for DOS/Win?))
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(...) Trouble...not sure. (...) (URL) all OSS, so it makes life easier. I beleive (don't know) that the VNC client for Mac is stable, it's just the server that is beta. You'll need the matching packages for your linux system. They come in .deb and (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) database (...) I got the forestmen in a lego set that was open already which I found in a Toys r Us. When I opened the lego set I realized that it was previously opened and it contained 16 forestmen and various forestmen parts. (a dream come (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Football Starter Set
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I just got my UK Football Starter Set in the mail, and since I know very little about football, I have a question about it... On the Sticker Sheet, there are two numbers in black. Are these for the two goalies? Is there any numbering scheme that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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