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(...) see (...) 6718 Rain Dance Ridge has two bow & quiver sets and one spear. Also, I think it has been on clearance at TRU lately. Dan (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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First, let me apologise, if you get this message twice. It seams that the old e-Mail address (L-CAD@LISTSERV.UH.EDU) does not work completelly. Because I got the message back, but couldn't see it in www.lugnet.com/cad/dev note: i am subscribed in (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: KB KIDS.com 20% Off sale (and 50% clearance items, more importantly)
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(...) The order rejection I received said the quantity limit was 6. My order for 6 was accepted.It's still possible I'll get an email telling me they are out of stock. Here's what they say in the email confirmation I received: Your order has been (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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BAH! (to the writer of the nasty letter in the ACM communications) If one but peruses the Robot Store catalog (www.robotstore.com)--which I actually use as a source of inspiration for Lego 'bot building, one will see that Lego is by far the least (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yeah, I tried them with the black ninja weapons, but it didn't really have the same feel... black spears and axes really work the best... and I'll have to see about black bows 'n arrows. (...) Don't quite think I'll go for muskets & pistols in (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Are there any US available promotions other than McD's ? I was thinking about this while driving down the highway yesterday. Is it possible that McD's has an exclusive promo arrangement with Lego covering the US ? We keep hearing about the others (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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Rachel Kingston wrote in message ... (...) There's my wife.... Model Team complete, and town "hound". She's 37! Just imagine our lucky 3-1/2 year old... With parents who saved their old lego, and got back into it when he was just a glimmer in our (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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And if they (TLG) knew that, what could they do ? Lego ads in Sports Illustrated or The Economist ? ;) I'll make a SWAG (scientific wild-assed guess) of 5-10% of sales. Anyone have any better intel ? Ray (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Unfortunately, the sale expired on 30 September, IIRC. I don't know about S@H's policy on holding firm on such dates; might be worth a phone call to check on it. Cheers, Roger (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Gray, clear, and Trans-Dark Blue, too. Clear and Trans-Dark Blue are really old though. Gray were available in the World Cup Press Box (don't know the number). (...) And 4 red ones here: (URL) 2 Black ones here: (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Lego shop at home has the sub discounted to $25.00. It's a deal! You get pneumatics stuff, including the blue tank, and a lot of other handy technic stuff like long yellow beams. JB (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) bows (...) Black Katanas from the Ninja line come to mind. There's usually some parts auction going on, or about to happen - these are the best places to snag a particular item. Black spears, arrow sets, Katanas, hand axes, muskets, pistols, (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: In town the rest of the week
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(...) not quite so easy. Tomorrow might work better. Actually, a trip to Jillian's might be worth doing... (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | LEGO robotics dis'd in CACM Forum.
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Howdy, Has anyone seen the October issue of Communications of the ACM? On page 13 is a letter critical of the recent article, "Using Autonomous Robotics to Teach Science and Engineering," that appeared in the June '99, page 85. The article is all (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Cool! Especially since these are on sale now! I'll have to check 'em out... DaveE (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Actually, remembering from my days of higher activity in F&SF fandom, Star Wars would fit in Sci-Fi, however, Isaac Asimov would be considered an SF author, not a Sci-Fi author... These days I see the same sort of disdained distinction in (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: To sell or to auction, that is the question.
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(...) That's a seller option, I believe. I think you can choose 7, I KNOW you can choose 14 or 21. I had been choosing 21 but have now been going with 14. I may go 7 if I can. eBay now allows 10 as well as 7 but there's still the fixed end time (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) collar (...) What he meant was that someone took apart some 'figs and remade them (this is called a custom minifig), not that someone moulded their own pieces. Personally, I think it is probably a custom 'fig using Dark Forest parts. The two (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I do like it, though I think it would have been better if the new piece was just the skid part and not the support. Then you could use different spacings. (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.town)
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(...) enough (...) only (...) in (...) Black axes came in a many vintage castle sets - off the top of my head 6040,6041 (With the black sword) etc. There are many black spears in the indian subtheme. Also they have black bows and quivers which might (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi everyone! can anyone recommend a place where i can get pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders, and hopefully at reasonable prices? my team and i are planning to build a robot making use of those cylinders. has anyone done the same? any advice would be (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 3055 set
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Does anybody out there know of anyone selling, trading, or even mentioning set 3055? It is a small Adventurers themed car with Johnny Thunder and was given out as a promo for Kelloggs cereals in the U.K. If anyone can help me in this matter it would (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: To sell or to auction, that is the question.
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(...) Here we go again... I'll let Larry or someone else jump in on the "fairness" of auction vs. straight sale. Yes an auction is more complicated than a straight sale, but need not take weeks or months to run (true, Auczilla runs several weeks, (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Lego Article (Re: I'm famous (or infamous))
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James Brown: [...] (...) ^^^^ (...) It is only "some" of the 4e9 DKK that are bought by adult men for themselves. The question that is interesting from our point of view is how much LEGO is bought _for_ adults, not by adults. Apparently nobody knows (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Weapons for the Undead Army?
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When I first got a force of 8 skeletons, I was rather struck with the idea of making an Undead army, perhaps under the control of Majisto (Fright Knights wasn't out at the time, way back in 1995 or so, otherwise, the Witch looks much more sinister (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: KB KIDS.com 20% Off sale (and 50% clearance items, more importantly)
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Scott, (...) and had (...) Placed my original order yesterday afternoon around 3:00 pm EST. Other items on the order remain, but the entire order for Outback Airstrip was wiped out. Couldn't they have just reduced the quantity to an acceptable (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Building a moon-display for your space models
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In lugnet.build, Christopher Tracey writes: Greetings, Christopher, (...) in (...) about (...) of (...) Rather what I'd thought to apply-- having been a bit of a RR-fan in my past. I'm planning to pick a couple of books on layout design to refresh (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Blue Air Tanks
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Zany Brainy stores in the U.S still have a stock of the submarine model with the air tank. KL (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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I did something similar to this when I was messing around with animation back in high school. A friend and I were making an ice planet movie(it never got that far) and needed sets. I built a few by first making a frame out of 1x2s about 2x3 feet. (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 7150 TIE Fighter and Y-wing
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The pilot kicks his father's ship for the hundredth time. He waited all his life for the opportunity like that of helping his friends with a raid on the empire's deathstar and now, so close, his father's rusty Y-wing decided to stall out on a nearby (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: KB KIDS.com 20% Off sale (and 50% clearance items, more importantly)
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Gene, I bought 4 of those last night, plus a whole bunch o others for parts, and had no problems. They might be running out! Scott S. (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Blue Air Tanks
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I've used a very light aluminum air freshener can called OZUIM. It's about 7-8 inches in length and a little over an inch in diameter. My guess is it is about 3 to 4 times the internal volume of the blue tanks. By removing the spray nozzle and using (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: KB KIDS.com 20% Off sale (and 50% clearance items, more importantly)
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Tom, (...) Had my order for 20 rejected by KB... "quantity above limits." Figures. They finally sell something at a decent price, then don't want to let it go in any kind of volume. What's REALLY annoying is they didn't specify what an acceptable (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: The beginings of my modular Star Wars base.
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(...) Last time I looked, Big Lots still had several of the #6495 Time Tunnelator sets. The minifig in this set wears one of those hats. See it here: (URL) Roller (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Building a moon-display for your space models
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(...) True, but since I live in the land of earthquakes (California), I will want to ensure a safe 'landing zone' <grin>. Bad enough to see that my work- table has been 'walked' across the room, but to have the models on it forcably dis-membered (so (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Favorite Adventurers vehicles (Re: 4x2ReVu: 5909)
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(...) I haven't heard anything at all. If anything, I've heard that the Adventurers are on their last year (with the current trend of a two-year lifespan to themes). (...) Hey, that would be cool...especially one of those old time diving suits with (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Inverse grey corner slope availability
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Blue, 4536 Hopper Car, which is why I ordered them - good trade material. (...) | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The beginings of my modular Star Wars base.
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(...) OH! THOSE hats! ... ok... I don't think I've ever seen them in black before! I just have them in white, and I used to have 1 in red, I think... Are there any sets on the market now that have 'em in black? DaveE (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Embedding plates, that´s a good idea. For bases etc, I thoguht that I´d build the model on it´s own baseplate, then just put it on the display, like it´s done in the catalogues. I don´t know if it really is necessary to embed plates, if you can make (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: The beginings of my modular Star Wars base.
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That's right - the sailor/IrishPubCrawler cap, not the baseball hat, like the guy in this set has: (URL) Thanks be to Kevin Loch! The result is suuficiently Nazi-esque to really look like an Imperial Officer. I'll post pictures along with everything (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Building a moon-display for your space models
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(...) Greetings, Tobias... You might also think about -embedding- smaller plates here and there (inside craters or rills, for example) to enable you to achieve a more solid footing for your models. I've thought about this myself, both for space (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: female figures
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In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes: [snip] (...) Nope. Not printed. (...) I think the only colors they came in are black, white, blue & red. Let's see there's 2 in red in both : (URL) Huw Millington's Promotional LEGO® set database ((URL) up (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Building a moon-display for your space models
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I just got this idea that I´ll try soon. By using papier-mache, some glue and sand, you could build a planet plate to play and display your space models on. This would be especially cool with classic space. You form the landscape, spread glue on it, (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Favorite Adventurers vehicles (Re: 4x2ReVu: 5909)
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(...) the (...) I haven't heard anything, but I'm fairly certain that the rumours about the artic line are based on the fact that the Adventurer's Club attraction at LL:Carlsbad has three portions: Amazon, Egyptian, and Artic. James (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: female figures
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The 2x2x2 white "skirt" slopes in the Space Port set are not preprinted, the printing is a sticker. There is a fire set which has them in red, but I don't know which it is. I have 8 of these in white and 8 in black (undecorated, not witch skirts) (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Zach's third LEGO auction (update 14)
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All high bids made on or before 10/2/99 have advanced to GOING 1; those that were GOING 1/2 in the last update all have advanced to the next level. Welcome to my third RTL auction. It has been about 18 months since my last auction, time for another (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Does anyone accually like 4561?
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(...) But minifig accessories are okay, yeah? I think of the raft as just a really big example. (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Favorite Adventurers vehicles (Re: 4x2ReVu: 5909)
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In lugnet.adventurers, Mark Lindsey writes: Attention everyone: (...) Let me hear some facts, opinions, and ideas fellow Adventurers. (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Lego article (Re:Im famous(or infamous))
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(...) No, I'd say about 1 in 100. KL (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Any deals around town?
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There haven't been any new messages for a couple of weeks here, so I thought I'd try to get things rolling again. :-) Has anyone seen any good deals around town? I haven't looked for a month or two myself. (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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| | Lego article (Re:Im famous(or infamous))
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Um...What about adult women? Or am I just one in a million? (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: female figures
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(...) The only other female (AFAIK) with a skirt (2x2x2 sloped brick) is in 6081 King's Mountain fortress (URL) there are other sources for the 2x2x2 brick, and some of them are even current. The only one I know of for sure right now is the Rock (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Classic Space Auction Update #1
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Update #1 497 Galaxy Explorer This is a complete set in mint condition. The box shows a lot of wear. Instructions included Current high bid $50, increments $2 minimum I had this one before I came across the other one. No (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: female figures
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(...) for female "skirted" (...) one that I can find is the (...) anyone think of any others, (...) You can get sloped bricks like the one used for the witches skirt in white and red. Combine them with female torsos and you have a skirted female. (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The Best Basic Sets (725/730)
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(...) Asher, I couldn't agree with you more on these two sets. They are two of my favorite town sets. The 730 had (until the recent introduction of the black slopes service pack) the only extensive assortment of black slopes that LEGO ever made. (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.basic)
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| | Re: Lego Article (Re: I'm famous (or infamous))
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(...) <snip most of article> (...) So, um, is it just me who's wondering where Lego gets off telling us we aren't a market force? James (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Insurance
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The problem with doing that is that insurance companies normally have a limit on items/collections not separately identified on the policy document, on mine it is $1000. So if you have a collection worth $25,000 this is a dangerous way to insure. (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bummer
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What animation? (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Inverse grey corner slope availability
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(...) Hmm... I've got them in blue-- I THINK they came from the Cosmic Fleet Voyager, but I'm not 100% sure... think they're from the very front, just under the nose... Anyone found 'em in brown, orange, teal, pink, or green? DaveE (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Does anyone accually like 4561?
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(...) 'Useless' is in reference to building other stuff out of them. I'd *really* like to see someone build something with the raft which isn't a raft. Steve (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Somebody with a feedback of -2 is high bidder on my auction!
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Why do these people not just create a new account and start afresh? (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Inverse grey corner slope availability
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Just out of curiosity, what colors do these desireable pieces come in anyway? I have them in black, red, white, grey and yellow. Any other colors? Gary Istok (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Insurance
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If ever there was a reason for having a price list for LEGO values, then insurance purposes would be it. Unfortunately, 95 percent of the time that price list would be used as a base price for LEGO auctions and sales. Gary Istok (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lego Article (Re: I'm famous (or infamous))
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(...) Thanks, Gary. Here is a copy of the article (portions of it appeared in my statewide newspaper's business section today). I'm also supposed to do a little interview with a local radio station on Friday. THANKS, Poilin!!! ---...--- Lego Uses (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: I'm famous (or infamous)
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Hey Joseph, Congratulations!!! Like the late pop artist Andy Warhol once said, "everyone is famous for 15 minutes". Maybe you've still got another 13 minutes to go! Gary Istok (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: The beginings of my modular Star Wars base.
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(...) Yeah, kinda too bad we don't have more time... I don't think I'll keep mine up for too long after the event, tho... I've been on a castle theme kick for a while, but with most of my grey bricks used up in the AT-AT (and now the mountain too) (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: What is Homecoming? (Re: Somebody help.)
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(...) Did Tech ever win a homecoming game? Note to onlookers: Michigan Technological University is (well, was) not well-endowed when it came to football. At the time I was there (mid-80's) we didn't have a football stadium, just a gridiron with a (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: female figures
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(...) The only other one was blue in 6081 and I think in 6060. Dan (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | female figures
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Help!...I have been searching through my catalogues, for female "skirted" figures for a castle theme I'm developing. The only one that I can find is the witch, in black. I am after any other color - can anyone think of any others, or was the witch a (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Insurance
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(...) Yet another satisfied State Farm customer. I can't speak for home owners policies, but my car and renters insurance are handled by the same agent (and they just instituted a discount for having multiple different policies). As far as special (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Town Jr on LEGO site ?!?
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(...) Actually, mes amis, "Town Jr." was first coined as an attempt to upgrade the LEGO Duplo line and give it its first theme. This is why the new Duplo figures have legs and crude new vehicles with working patrol lights. They also have slopes and (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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(...) You can check out Robert Munafo's research on this very subject: (URL) short, it appears that LEGO bricks are neither, but hovering at some fudge factor in-between. Most likely, they started out using imperial measurements, were adjusted (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | RE: Rotary electrical coupling
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It's interesting you mention this. I have also started to use RJ11 and RJ45 connectors in my constructions. It is a neat and compact way of routing 2, 4, 6, or 8 wires around. I am working out the most neat and compact way of stuffing them into a (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Any info on 9700 (aka TC-0) ?
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According to Matt Chiles set list: 9700 1992 Dacta Technic Control 0 set Based on the date, I'd say it's probably 4.5v. I think it took Dacta a few years after the release of 9v Technic (1990) to move there line to 9v. This set was probably a (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: To sell or to auction, that is the question.
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The way of the world typicaly is first come first sever. it has its problems but in most instances it works. Auctions are more complicated and typicaly less fair to all then strait sales. The seller will sepend weeks or even months waiting and (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Town Jr on LEGO site ?!?
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If I recall, the term appeared in when Town Jr. first showed up in 1996(?), in some European literature from TLG. Ben Gatrelle <ben.gatrelle@nospam...gfoot.com> wrote in message news:FJ5xno.LG0@lugnet.com... (...) early (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) My code worked too but my point was to say that the part is not correct, there could be some cases where it won't work and besides that, it won't look good if you render it with a program that has backface culling. How are you going to save (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Somebody with a feedback of -2 is high bidder on my auction!
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(...) email and the -2 was one of the most concentious buyers I've dealt with. Maybe he was just trying to get his feedback up. Check the comments. Have you emailed him to see if he's even there? Chris (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Insurance
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(...) Ditto. We had some hail damage to our aluminum siding last year, and the adjuster not only didn't argue about the claimed damage, he went around the house looking for more problems. We were extremely happy with their service. I'm wondering if (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | feedback (was Re: eBay rip-off artist hides feedback)
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(...) Yeah. I'm straight-on reliable (a no lying, cheating, stealing kind of guy) but I'm not always as fast as someone more professional than I would be, and I still have an acceptable feedback rating. I figure anyone with a bad rating must be (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: LEGO for Life Sweepstakes
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(...) I interpreted it the same way you did. You're absolutely right, it was poorly worded. The "do not contact me" option directly contradicts the "By completing this form, you agree to receive future messages from LEGO" statement. Steve (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: TLG's customers
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(...) "Kids who are idiots with 10-second attention spans, and aren't interested in any toy that requires them to have imagination or might challenge their abilities." But I'm just going on empirical evidence. Steve (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) I guess you can download one from (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Got my own "How Dare You" message from eBay ripoff artist
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(...) I think what he meant was "you obviously understand exactly what we're doing, maybe if I insult you, you'll go away? And either way, I'm not clever enough to think of anything else to say or do about it. Unh, unh...mom, Larry's not playing (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: DUPLO at McDonalds too...and a rebate coupon
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(...) Hmm. I got a picture of toy #1, the Ronald McDonald red-and-yellow helicopter. Not much of a preview for us all, eh? I've seen the "hey kids! this is advertising" notice before. I think it was on McDonald's website. I think it's great that (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Somebody help.
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(...) <snip> An interesting thing to note here is that most libraries will check out an r-rated movie to anyone with a library card, regardless of age. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Bummer
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(...) Tobias Möller wrote in message ... (...) Me too and me too! Paul (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) OK, then help out a Java-dummy: are there JDK's available on the net, or are they purchase-only? Steve (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Tom's WANTED list - 2x4 black bricks tops it...
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(URL) that I now need hundreds of 2x4 black bricks. I will trade 2x3 black med slopes, 2x4 black med slopes, black inside corners, or black roof peaks in 1x2/2x2/2x4 (basically anything in the black roof brick pack except the 2x2 med slopes and 2x2 (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: number and letter bricks (was: Re: When should the 2000 Catalogue Appear?)
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(...) One possible use for Traniacs: labeling your modules for shows using a little nicer font than one could achieve by stacking different color bricks. (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Somebody with a feedback of -2 is high bidder on my auction!
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(...) their descriptions that they will only do business with people who have positive feedback or feedback of at least a certain number. (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | thousands of bargains (literally!) at my auction
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Christopher's LEGO parts auction V: I have taken bits and pieces from my previous auctions and the ones that I participate in as a buyer for this format. 10 Sept 99: Any listing without a bid can be bid on at any level. If no one else wants it for (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) Are the notches squared off or are they pointed? I think this would point out whether it was a classic forestman or from the newer Dark Forest line. Dan (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Plano in the UK
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, icehawk (<FJ4Jn6.3A0@lugnet.com>) wrote at 09:57:06 (...) I don't know about that, but check out ZAG storage. They are available at B&Q, and used to be rebadged by Do It All, but I haven't been there recently. They are modular (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Light Sensor in Mindstorms
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Wes Matchett <wes@augustschell.com> wrote in message news:37FA8820.BA3709...ell.com... (...) I think it is a phototransistor. (...) You betcha. I don't know if it is layman enough, but there is a detailed description of the Light sensor at: (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Town Jr on LEGO site ?!?
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The age ranges go from 0 - 9+ I have no problem with this. However, mindstorms is listed as being suitable for "all children". I'm not sure what my 11 month old would make of that. Scott A (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lubricating Cylinders
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(...) Yeah. Apperently this one came from Denmark where thier headquarters is located. My question: If they are just going to e-mail me saying that they can reply yet, then why didn't they just send a reply to from Denmark. I mean it's just more (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Classic space bits
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(...) couple in white too). See this thread in lugnet.general too: -> (URL) don't know about blue solid, though. I'd love one in black.... :: paul (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Is the windscreen from set 4564 in ldraw?
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I swear I saw a pov-ray rendering using this piece. It might have been made using another pov-ray library but I swear it had that piece. What is the part # of this part? Just so there is no confusion the rendering definatly was not using the boat (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Datsville Constructions Wide Load Warning Car [DAT]
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This is used to warn other road users that a wide load (a tractor on the flatbed truck) is approaching so that they can get out of the way. 0 Datsville Constructions Wide Load Warning Car 0 Author: Jonathan Wilson 1 14 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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