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And check out the funky ersatz Ronald! Or is that the way he looks in europe? Must be he's not getting enough vitamins, his hair seems a little flat... (...) Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com (URL) - - Web Application Integration! (URL) Lugnet(tm): (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Light Sensor in Mindstorms
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The sensor uses two semiconductor devices (that's as technical as I'll get, hopefully). One of them is light sensing and the other is light producing. The sensor works by sending out some light and then sensing how much of that light is reflected (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Heck, I'll go farther. I will nominate Todd for the Nobel Prize, he's obviously increased world piece (count). (what, it's for world PEACE?? never mind) (...) Ditto. But she's doing Heavy Research so that's an OK tradeoff. (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Light Sensor in Mindstorms
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Could somebody explain in layman's terms how the light sensor works? Thanks! Bryan (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Could somebody use this program?
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legOS runs fine under the cygwin environment in NT- I finally even tried it myself :) Was there a specific problem that you were having in the porting? The cygnus install is not straightforward- I'll be the first to admit that- but if you are (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) I think it absolutely terrible that you have created the slow torturous death of RTL. :') It has exceeded my wildest expectations. The amount of time and effort that you have expended to make LUGNET news as user friendly, organized, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | DUPLO at McDonalds too...and a rebate coupon
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In the Duplo advertisement/catalog I received today, it mentions there will also be a Duplo toy available at McDonalds in the happy meals. There is no picture. It also mentions "a special $3.00 LEGO rebate inside every LEGO McDonalds model". The ad (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce)
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(...) with (...) I do not recall what kind of arms the forestmen came with but I am sure that it is a real lego made minifig. The brown has the exact same glossyness as the rest of the shirt the pattern of the shirt is exactly like any other (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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But a inch is biger than a centemeter, a mile biger than a kilo metter (...) few (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Reply to "New Star Wars LEGO"
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oh but jar-jar is? :o) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Good vs. Evil
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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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(...) 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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