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(...) Alas, methinks thy words ring true. These minions of bone do make their existence solely within the realm of Castle... Ye shall know, however, that be it within the Lord's will, these un-fleshed mockeries of men may yet see the Seven Seas. Yet (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Ok, since this is to some extent an appropriate newsgroup... Why do you see case insensitivity as evil? I find case sensitivity evil. I have seen very little need to case sensitivity. (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Lego Article (Re: I'm famous (or infamous))
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Well, if it's a goofy show, they might be bringing you in to make fun of you ;-) Make sure to take some killer cool sets - Star Wars, Technic, etc, with you, to show why you are playing with "toys". (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Sun's implementations are free. Some others are not. Personally I use Sun's jdks... Have a look at: (2 URLs) you are under a Windows environment As a reply to Leonardo msg: You are right, but I encourage newcomers to the Java language to use (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [Datsville] Garbage Truck [DAT]
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(...) ---...--- This is the Second Contractor's Garbage Truck. Jeff 0 Datsville Garbage Truck 0 Name: garbage2.dat 0 Author: Jeff "Auld Dragon" Stembel < Dragonelf1@aol.com > 1 1 -30 16 160 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 32028.DAT 1 1 30 16 160 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 0 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: no minifig in my Island game
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Hmm, I bought the game when it first came out, and never got a minifig with it. Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
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PRESS RELEASE: As Mayor, I have hired two contractors to pick the garbage of our city! Now you all won't have to drive all the way out to the Datsville Municipal Landfill! You will all be recieve a letter announcing garbage pickup dates for your (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LEGO robotics dis'd in CACM Forum.
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Hmmm...mmm. Shall we compare ... ? Fischertechnic: $260 US 8 models 280 parts Lego RIS: $200 US 12 challenges, virtually infinite number of models 700 parts -----Original Message----- From: christie <christie@apple.com> To: (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) In this sense we agree! It would be a shame if after a so long emails exchange we didn't ;-) (...) I read .dat files in the std LDraw folders, and simply output oriented .dat files in another one. For duplicate instances, I use a folder name (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | no minifig in my Island game
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I recently ordered a LEGO Island game and was disappointed to see that the red infomaniac minifig was not included. Instead there was a LEGO Island comic book. Very sad since 90% of the reason I bought it was for the minifig. I guess this was from a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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(...) Interesting, Castle is the most stable. (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGO robotics dis'd in CACM Forum.
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---...--- (...) check out: < (URL) > It list for DM 499, which works out to US$ 260 ... later, greg (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | JDH Auction 4 - Shell / Soccer / Kelloggs / Value Packs / other unopened sets
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Advancements have now started. All sets are in mint unopened UK boxes except where marked with '*' - see Details section. Please note my revised bid increments for this auction - see Rules section. Lots ==== 1747 Pirates $3.50 Barry C 30Sep@22:38 G1 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Does anyone accually like 4561?
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(...) I'd think of the raft as a cheater peice: (URL) can build it out of regular lego peices, but instead of being imaginative, they build a new peice. Okay, having said that, I kinda like the zodiacs. Ciao! (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Weapons for the Undead Army?
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(...) see (...) Arrrrr, mayhap yer skellies pull not double duty as medieval and piratical undead? Read "On Stranger Tides" by Tim Powers. Just saw a great scythe made from a Lance, Katana, and connector (wish these things had names). Perfect for a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 7150 TIE Fighter and Y-wing
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(...) I agree that this is a really good model set. I am very pleased with the Y-wing engine assemblies, its color scheme, its tapered cockpit, and the excellent detail of its pilot's face and helmet. I am a bit disappointed with its flat underside. (...) (25 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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Well, they had some great prices on decent older sets, and I took advantage of them. The UFO brand is one of the last good space sets, IMHO. Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Blue tanks
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(...) <laughter> Now, if my alleged luck holds true-to-form, I'll get back home tonight and find one in my post-box, having kvetched about it here in public.... Cheers, Roger (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) Umm... what lego set was it? Was it a castle themed set (I'm guessing yes)? Was it "supposed" to be a Dark Forest set? Were there other extra/replaced/used/etc pieces in it? Were any pieces in polybags? My guess is, that since there were so (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) Ill do that but I wont have time till this weekend. As soon as its done ill post it Rich (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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More RTL stats at <URL:(URL). The different categories are counts of posts containing relevant keywords. (Sales & Auctions = "sale|auction", Mindstorms = "mindstorms", etc.) I plan do redo this with the addition of looking for "FS" and "FA" in the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) Better yet - pop his head and legs off, turn his arms backwards and just put his torso on the scanner. Dan (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) No, I Dont have a Digital camera but maybe this weekend ill take a picture of it, go to the library and get it scanned. Rich (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: New DK books on their way
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I have just ordered the books from my local DKFL - on special offer £5 the pair. I'll LYK my views when they arrive. Huw (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | RE: Blue tanks
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(...) I think S@H is mailing these one by one or something. I have seen "I've got it yesterday" messages for a couple of weeks now, but I still don't have one myself. Tilman (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FS: small minifig set (#2586 King on Throne) from Chess SW
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There has been some recent discussion in the castle group about this King minifig set from the LEGOMEDIA Chess software. I will sell this unopened set to anyone for $10 plus shipping (probably a dollar or two in the US). If you are out of the US (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Blue tanks
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(...) Very true...and I'm glad to see this is still on-going. Now, if only I had the -current- catalogue to which you make reference... Cheers, Roger (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) out (...) Do you have a digital camera or access to one? I think a lot of people would like to take a look at it. Dan (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Brown Forestmen
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(...) The collar constists of notched off squares just like any other classic forestmen. Rich (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Blue tanks
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(...) The Fall S@H still has it for $25 - a very good LEGO deal. DLC (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders
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Reasonable is a such a subjective term ;>) You might look at (URL) They have a very broad assortment of small pneumatic stuff. Internationally available Parker http:/www.parker.com has all the big stuff you'll ever need... not necessarily cheap, but (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Indranil
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(...) No. It's very open. You're obviously not. Your constant obfuscation is boring me. (...) be (...) It's not name calling, it's a valid observation. You can see quite a lot about us, but we know nothing about you. Tell us about yourself, so we (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Some questions about the shell promos...
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Jonathan Wilson <wilsonj@xoommail.com> wrote in message news:37F9F139.BF74A9...ail.com... (...) accually a (...) The one on the 4x3 car-front piece is a sticker, but on the 2x3 used on the racing car it is printed. Huw (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | rare castle sets for trade (6010, 6011, 6022, 6023, 6040, 6055 and others...)
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Hi, these sets were already sold, but by buyer mysteriously vanished...... Anyway, I have some early castle sets I want to trade. Some of these were never available in the US. All of the following sets are 100% complete, used and without exception (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Weapons for the Undead Army?
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(...) Yeah, actually the more I think about it, the more I'm thinking I underrated the Indian theme sets... They have a great selection of grey (all the better for castles), tree stumps (which I haven't seen anywhere else), greenery (great for (...) (25 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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(...) Oh well, I guess I missed out on getting a huge order. Did the 4 OA's for $31.44 and figured I would order 16 more with the 10% off coupon but never got around to it. Wonder if Lego Chess or Lego Loco are worth $15.xx, which seems to be what (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Lego Article (Re: I'm famous (or infamous))
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(...) Good tip, Gary. I'll see if I can tie the adult market in with a nod to Lugnet and its participants. The interview is for one of those goofy "morning" shows, so I don't have much hope for any serious questions but any press we AFOLs can get (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: KB KIDS.com 20% Off sale (and 50% clearance items, more importantly)
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The website now says that the set is out of stock... Naji (...) let (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Town Jr on LEGO site ?!?
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(...) It was. The term "Town Jr." appeared in RTL long before "Town Junior" ever appeared on the TLG website. (...) Pretty amazing! Kinda makes ya wonder... (...) I thought it was coined by Lou Zucaro in late 1996. Can someone check DejaNews? --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Article (Re: I'm famous (or infamous))
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(...) Here's the link to the SL Trib article: (URL) interesting to note that many paragraphs are copied word-for-word from the previous article...! Congrats, Joe! :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Lego Article (Re: I'm famous (or infamous))
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Hey Joseph, On the radio interview, you may wish to mention the fact that TLG has sort of ignores the adult LEGO population. Bulk sales are an example of this. No need to badmouth the company, just tone it into a polite way of saying that they could (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | RE: LEGO robotics dis'd in CACM Forum.
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"Also, while LEGOs (sic) are a wonderful tool for encouraging creative play in children, they fall flat as a university educational or research tool. LEGOs (sic) have so many structural limitations, and LEGO geartrains have such poor frictional and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Weapons for the Undead Army?
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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 (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Clipping / CCW / CW / INVERT [DAT]
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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGO robotics dis'd in CACM Forum.
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Weapons for the Undead Army?
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | US promos and McD's
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Lego article (Re:Im famous(or infamous))
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Article (Re: I'm famous (or infamous))
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Blue tanks
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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 (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: female figures
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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) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Blue tanks
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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 (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Weapons for the Undead Army?
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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, (...) (25 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... (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Weapons for the Undead Army?
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(...) Cool! Especially since these are on sale now! I'll have to check 'em out... DaveE (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Does anyone else like the new helicopter landing skid piece?
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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. (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Weapons for the Undead Army?
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders
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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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, (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Building a moon-display for your space models
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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. (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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. (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (25 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 (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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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 (...) (25 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, (...) (25 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) (25 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) (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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. (25 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. (25 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 (25 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. (25 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? (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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. (...) (25 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. (...) (25 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) (25 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. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bummer
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What animation? (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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