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There has been a great discussion, about the optimizing with clipping topic, but it seems IMHO that people are forgetting simplicity is the best. Now if you read the subject of this message, maybe you know what I am talking/writting about. we must (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
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R> If you keep changing states (turning backface culling on/off or R> changing front faces from CW to CCW) very often, you'll get a *slower* R> rendering in OpenGL (don't know about D3D). And remember that in a R> couple of months nVidia's GeForce (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Busy-Bee has 6347 Monorail Accessory Track!
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Carbon 60 wrote in message ... (...) I hate to sound like a complete novice, but where is he getting these kind of numbers of sets? I can only assume that he has managed to get them directly from Lego? -Andy Lynch (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Robot navigation
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I have noticed a lot of effort being put into the most ingenius robot platforms designed to increase the accuracy and repeatability of navigation. While many of these designs are a credit to the designer concerned, I can't help but wonder if they (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: McArthur Glen Designer Outlet
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(...) I've never been) in Clacton, Essex. Chris (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Lego sale at Kmart, coupon at TRU
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(...) Well, that's the 2nd Target I've heard of with the $15.74 price on Sphynx's Secret Surprise. I think that someone made a data base error. Our Target had them on clearance (with a red tag) several months ago during the big Target LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | I was in asda at the weekend...
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Thay had a lot of half price Lego.... fright nights, technic etc. Also Scala(!) and duplo/toolo. (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: More name ideas
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(...) Congrats on a great meeting and what appears to be another strong LEGO group. If I may throw in my 2 cents worth here as far as a name goes. There are currently 3 general LEGO User Groups or "LUG's" in existance (BayLUG, NELUG, and GMLUG) and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Launch of new site yellowcastle.com
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This is to announce the launch of my updated web site at my new URL (URL) have several new models and castle building ideas, my new gray turret and yellow wall battlements under the My Original Creations section. In The Library I have an updated (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.books, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 8001 Technic SW droid found in Leicester Toymaster!
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Huw Millington <hmillington@cix.co.uk> wrote in message news:FJnp95.L1A@lugnet.com... (...) me (...) Any other suckers in the UK who can't wait for this to turn up locally can order it from the shop in Leicester. I just did :-) They charged 3GBP (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Anybody hear of Promotional Set 1250?
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I'd want 2 of the 6 sets shown on this scan ( (URL) ), B1 and B4, whatever set #s they ended up being. My Standard Exchange Rules apply - you sell to me for exact cost plus shipping, I do the same from my end for any US exclusive sets. I'd probably (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: McArthur Glen Designer Outlet
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Liam Parnell (<99101811104001.004...rrender2>) wrote at 10:07:12 (...) I think they had Space Shuttles (8480) at 60GBP and Saxondale Castles (6090) for 50. Um, trying to remember what else. There was some Scala, the Technic (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Yellow Castle: Reasonable price?
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(...) If you ever require therapy along those lines, let me know. I have a few ideas on how to help you out. Chris (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Open NELUG Meeting Saturday 10/23 @ 7:00 PM.
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(...) how (...) I plan to come, and suppose Marco Beri and my brother Giulio will come too, so count three of us. Looking forward to meeting you and the other folks there! Mario (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | WTT: Classic minifig heads for other heads...
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Hi gang I have a large number of classic smile minifig heads, which are all very nice, but I'd like to trade at least some of them for other heads - some of the Aquazone/Space Port microphone heads, red-beards, almost anything that wouldn't look out (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: DYA IS BACK !!!
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(...) And when you do put these up later this week, please don't spam the non- market groups again with another off-topic post. Especially with multiple messages not crossposted... Thanks. --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: DYA IS BACK !!!
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(...) When you put these up later this week, please don't spam the non-market groups again with another off-topic post. Thanks. --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: So explain to me why Lego UK dont do trains!
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(...) This is a good point. (...) As a parent, Lego trains do not represent good value for money for me. The quality of what is available, and the small amount of track is just not appealing. Scott A (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: McArthur Glen Designer Outlet
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The Kids Play Factory was in the one in Wales. The other branches probably have different toy shops. Were there any good offers in Cheshire? It is supposed to be 30%-50% off or something. -- Liam. (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Idea for 2 new bricks/plates
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(...) You can use a Technic halfbeam as a "double female plate". E.g., this part: (URL) course, it's slightly thicker than a normal plate, so it may not work well in all applications. Fredrik (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Millennium City
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Well.....finally assembled Millennium City. I've altered my webpage so it's now devoted to Millennium City at (URL) I don't have much on the page except a teaser image. It's a view passengers get when they leave Millennium City Airport and wait to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Anybody hear of Promotional Set 1250?
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Grahame Reid <gareid@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message news:380AB0B5.4BE654...g.co.nz... (...) November in a (...) (no (...) Its in exactly the right number range for it to be a Shell set, and I have had it confirmed since posting that Singapore (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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(...) Good luck. You'll find links to my HOWTO in various places- feel free to ask if you have problems. (...) Forth is a language for embedded systems, and since it is designed for embedded systems, (i.e., very low level) resembles assembly in some (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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For a more reasonable copy of the picture (read: downloadable in minutes, not hours) try (URL) note that I actually have access to 7, not just the 5 pictured. -Luis "still looking for interesting suggestions" Villa ###...### Profanity is the one (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | DYA IS BACK !!!
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Hi Legofans, At the end of this week, I'll place 2 new Lego Technic references on DYA SHOPPING website ! You'll discover 2 surprises....little prices...great service... See you later, Emmanuel. E-MAIl: dya.shopping@wanadoo.fr (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | DYA IS BACK !!!
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Hi Legofans, At the end of this week, I'll place 2 new Lego Technic references on DYA SHOPPING website ! You'll discover 2 surprises....little prices...great service... See you later, Emmanuel. E-MAIl: dya.shopping@wanadoo.fr (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | DYA IS BACK !!!
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Hi Legofans, At the end of this week, I'll place 2 new Lego Technic references on DYA SHOPPING website ! You'll discover 2 surprises....little prices...great service... See you later, Emmanuel. E-MAIl: dya.shopping@wanadoo.fr (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Ebay: 730 ORANGE Elements
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Well, the orange buckets are not coming out this year. I have set aside all the orange I figure I need and have just put all the rest up in one lot on Ebay. Take a look at: (URL) Smallbeck scotts@contactics.com (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | AI and even more exiciting stuff
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----- Original Message ----- From: Luis Villa <liv@duke.edu> To: ts <ts@zylotech.com.au> Cc: <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, 18 October 1999 13:09 Subject: Re: AI (...) I am using NQC at the moment. I have just found, and I am downloading (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | More name ideas
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Here are some more proposed names for our nameless Lego group: UTACS--Utah tube and clutch society SLLUG--Salt Lake Lego Users Group ("SLUG") DBUG--Deseret Brick Users Group ULUG--Utah Lego Users Group ULEC--Utah Lego Enthusiasts Club ULC--Utah Lego (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Yellow Castle: Reasonable price?
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(...) Alright I got a possible suggestion, save a few hundred bucks. Buy the important yellow slope bricks from me <g> at a greatly reduced price, download the instructions, and then recreate the castle from the stock pile of parts you already have. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Utah Get Together Report
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On Friday, Oct. 15th, the first Utah Lego get together was hosted by the Sproat family in Orem, UT. Here's a report from the fun event: In attendance: Barbara and Jeremy Sproat, Ashley Glennon, Joseph and Elizabeth Gonzales, Brian Hacking, Jason (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut)
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| | Re: Anybody hear of Promotional Set 1250?
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Could well be one of the six new sets to be available in Singapore in November in a co-promotion with Shell. Check out the picture at Huw's site: (URL) Reid (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Yellow Castle: Reasonable price?
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(...) I my novice opinion, I think my max would be about $150. That is what I have bid on this set before. I have a couple of these castles and they bring back warm fuzzy memories of building and playing all day w/ this set. However, I don't get (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: "Buying Lego" FAQ to link auctions to
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(...) Additions and (...) specific size? (...) more? (...) Cross tracks? (...) grey/tan/orange/light (...) minifig? (...) red! (...) sell at legoland? (...) get more track? (...) track? Can I run my (...) replaced? Sorry everyone about messing up my (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.faq)
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| | need a text editor
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What text editors do you guys use to write your IC code? I am on a Windows98 machine and having a real hard time finding one that doesn't add all of the extra formatting. Or is there an option that I am missing that I can turn the formatting off? (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: "Buying Lego" FAQ to link auctions to
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(...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: UK Suppliers
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(...) If you're prepared to mail order, you can get all the Handyboard stuff from the Robot Store, Hong Kong,www.robotstorehk.com I've found Patrick Hui to be most helpful and dependable. -- C S Soh (URL) where air is power (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: "Buying Lego" FAQ to link auctions to
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Here's my list of possible FAQ questions for this. Additions and suggestions, please! ---...--- Where's the best place to buy Lego? How can I get lots of bricks of just one color? How can I get lots of bricks of just one color and a specific size? (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.faq)
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| | FA(eBay): SW figs, pillars, side groove bricks, white ninjas, more
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Pirate ship hull pieces (URL) Support girders grey, black (URL) grey 1x4 brick w. side groove (URL) yellow 5-high pillars (URL) black 5-high pillars (URL) white pillars (URL) tan pillars (URL) white ninja samurai/knights with 2 horses (URL) Raiders (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: New Lego Site
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In lugnet.underground, James Howse writes: <clip> (...) Page 2 of the Sept/Oct Mania Magazine confirms the character info you gave above. Also mentioned is Bandit (blue legs/red torso/black hat) "an expert at sneaking crystals away" and Jet (female (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: AI
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Tony- AI is a huge field, encompassing a variety of algorithms and techniques. Some of them will work OK on the RCX, others take just too much computation, especially when floating point is required. Also, when you talk about functions and all that, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What happened to Larrys' eBay Hopper Auctions?
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(...) That's fine especially since we don't know who exactly has affected your listings that way. But I disagree. If one person is going to use a system (that they have the right to) in order to punish you for trying to make things right, why not (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: RCX Controlled Air Compressor Tester
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(...) Thanks for your patience. Just received 4 of the lil' compressor pumps and have built and tested John Morgan's new double-acting (*correct terminology*) compressor. Unfortunately, the design does not seem to work out in practice. After just a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What happened to Larrys' eBay Hopper Auctions?
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(...) I don't know about you, but I have the right to educate anyone I want to as long as it doesn't bother them. I tought Larry's goal was to educate buyers that are getting ripped off. (...) This suggests that you think something else has (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | update: items moving to 'sold'
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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. 19 Sept 99: I was asked about precedence when bids are for the same amount and whether the top (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Anybody hear of Promotional Set 1250?
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Hi. There's a promotional set 1250 up on ebay.de, I guess a dragster (no picture, unfortunately). The number doesn't register on Pause or Huw's site; anybody hear of this one? It apparently was available in Luxembourg and Belgium. I've written the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Clarification
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I need to know where the download site is for LDLite, not where it is on my computer! (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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(...) really (...) the (...) they (...) I bought 2 for $10 at Osco 2 years ago and they are still working on their 2nd set of batts. (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Busy Bee - in the flesh
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(...) Wow, almost seems like Busy Bee caters to AFOLs instead of just mindlessly marketing to what they think children want... (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: "cat whisker" trip switch
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Steve, I have also used Mindstorms to run a train, like this. But I used it in a railroad yard, not for a trolley. But it’s basically the same concept. I put the touch sensor at a 90 degree angel with the track and about one brick away from track at (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Minifigure Torso Generator
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Chris: Thanks for the info. During this week if i have time i should be working with the Xwing mechanic torso and a few others from older sets. I would soon post all the models on a web page so ppl can d/l them. What do i have to do to submit parts (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.0 released
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Well, this is a bad week to say the least, but I hope to have rudimentary HOWTO stuff for 0.2.0 within two weeks. Thanks for everything, Markus! Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Busy Bee - in the flesh
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Well having been intrigued by all the talk of Busy Bee I decided I was curious enough to see what the shop was really like. So on the way back from shopping in Manchester on Saturday I and a couple of friends took a detour and called in. You'd never (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | legOS 0.2.0 released
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Hello, legOS 0.2.0 is out. If you like to program your Mindstorms in C, or if you would like to try, it has become better than ever. Dynamic linking and program loading are fully supported now, as well as unreliable LNP datagram networking. Lots of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: McArthur Glen Designer Outlet
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On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Liam Parnell (<Pine.LNX.4.04.9910...0.18392-10 0000@ukonline.co.uk>) wrote at 23:41:55 (...) The one in Cheshire (Ellesmere Port) has Toy World, which didn't have 5561s about 2 weeks ago. I'll have to look and see if there's a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: NOVALTC meeting tonight
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(...) ...The meeting went great, tho there were only three of us there! The meeting room is perfect. A huge floor to spread out on and a nice central location for anyone who works in or near DC! We laid out some track to match roughly our table (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.va)
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| | Re: So explain to me why Lego UK dont do trains!
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Hi Lawrence While I sympathise with your sentiments, it's not true that Lego are somehow pulling out of trains in the UK, as you imply. For a very long time, the train selection in the UK has been more modest than across the Channel - I'd guess (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Lego sale at Kmart, coupon at TRU
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I'll second that motion. This is very true. Always ask for a price check. K-Mart and the sale: Time to move on all those purple buckets I've seen here and there. $4.50 (from original $5.99) is pretty decent for 400 pcs. Although some K-Marts have (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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*Real* lasers don't even look impressive. It is pracitaclly impossible to get a laser in the visable wavelengths to cut stuff. Usually UV lasers are used for this purpose. But anyway... in Oz, proper laser pointers are about $60. You can get really (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LDLite
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Where is it? My computer crashed and now that is all I am missing for my "virtual" models. Any help would be appreciated! (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Minifig Fire Helmet (3834)
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I know that many fire chiefs all over the world will be thanking you fir this part. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | HOSPITAL [DAT]
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Heya all ! After the Police station, this is my next building to Datsville. It's hospital ! 0 Name: HOSPITAL.DAT 0 by Robert Virsik 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2748.DAT 1 15 50 -24 -130 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3062b.DAT 1 15 -50 -24 -130 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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(...) Yes, Micro- is 10^-6, but Mini- is not necessarily 10^-3. Mini- is any size less than 1. Milli- is 10^-3. (...) Macro is any size greater than 1 or greater than usual. It *can* be 10^3, but it isn't necessarily 10^3. Macroeconomics, for (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: "cat whisker" trip switch
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(...) Before I add my 2 cents worth, I have zero experience with Mindstorms light sensors. That said, have you tried shading the sensor, especially from overhead light. Are Mindstorms light sensors similiar to those used in other forms of model (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Colous in Lego
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(...) I forgot to mention: Another name for the transparent fluorescent green/ yellow color is "antifreeze" or "antifreeze green/yellow." --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Any info on new castles sets?
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(...) LUGNET if you disclosed information here which was secret to TLG. Granted, it would probably be pretty tough for a TLG-outsider to prove that you actually had disclosed a secret, but if do you know something secret, then you probably do know (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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(...) Mini is 1/1,000 and micro is 1/1,000,000. Macro is 1,000 isn't it? This would put macrofig at larger than minifig. Typically, microfig is anything smaller than minifig scale. Nanofig is "smaller than that," which is very ambiguous, since (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Junk Box #2
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The more the merrier! Please sign me up. - Jim (Kansas, USA) --- (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Junk Box #1 Thread
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Why not? Sign me up please. - Jim (Kansas, USA) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Technic Box #1
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Please sign me up. - Jim (Kansas, USA) --- (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: General Box #2 Thread
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Please sign me up. - Jim (Kansas, USA) --- (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: General Box #1 thread
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sign me up. -Jim Kansas, USA --- (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | RE: Pink spaceship
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(...) <clip> (...) I have an orange ship. Built from 100% orange pieces. It is called the SUN-21 Transport. It is built on a macrofig scale (between minifig and microfig). I have it in LDRAW and will soon be posting links to my redesigned site with (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Idea for 2 new bricks/plates
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Those peices did/do exist with Tyco bricks. I seem to remember a couple of 2x2 "plates." There was the double female one that was 1/2 brick thick, and the double male that was about the thinkness of a baseplate. The real cool piece was double male (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Amtrak F 7 version 3
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(...) Not at all boring, looks great! I especially like the grab bars and Amtrack stripe treatment. I am sure most of us wish we had more of anything Metroliner. - Jim --- (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: So explain to me why Lego UK dont do trains!
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I saw a single Blue Turbo in TRU in Southampton yesterday - I think it was £95. They also had the new 'millennium Slizer' which was £15 -- Colin numbersix@freshfroot...erve.co.uk www.freshfruit.swinternet.co.uk ICQ 25808282 David Graham (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | RCX Firmware and SP
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Hi All, After a very frustrating weekend of fiddling with pbFORTH, I caved and asked Kekoa to help with a problem I was having with read_sensor() and pbFORTH. The problem we (mostly he) unearthed has to do with the SP and RCX firmware routines, so I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Idea for 2 new bricks/plates
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(...) on (...) I had suggested this very thing about nine months ago on lugnet.dear-lego! (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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What do youz guyz think of this... A brick or plate that was male on both sides and another that was female on both sides. For those who may not understand: male is the studded side and female is the side that receives the studs. Is there anything (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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Constitution, Constitution refit and Excelsior class Pictures are up. Please comment. at (URL) Spock mrspock@wxs.nl (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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I don't have any pink parts left. And if you look at the engineering section again it'll anwer your last question (I just updated it) Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> schreef in berichtnieuws FJrFoC.5sp@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) shuttle) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: So explain to me why Lego UK dont do trains!
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I was in Amsterdam on holiday (partly to buy the '99 train range) and noted the difference between the UK and the Netherlands. It is not just LEGO trains that are not just popular there, all toys and trains are. Trains and LEGO are all declining in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Scan of current S@H catalog
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(...) Good tips. So do you think that a frequent contributor has the same chance, or a better chance, of getting an article past the editors? (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | i need wild west sets
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Attention anyone who has wild west sets: I really need the bandits wheelgun and the bandits hideout, if you have these please e-mail me. i am willing to trade and possibly buy (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Minifig Fire Helmet (3834) [DAT]
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Here, at last, is the Minifig Fire Helmet. As usual, any comments would be most welcome. Enjoy - Chris (chris_w_dee@hotmail.com) 0 Minifig Fire Helmet 0 Name: 3834.DAT 0 Author: Chris Dee (chris_w_dee@hotmail.com) 0 Unofficial Element 1 16 0 -8 0 6 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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Nice ship. This is the first one I´ve seen in pink. Now, you´ll just have to build one in minifig scale (not that ship, but perhaps some kind of shuttle) but pink parts are hard to come by, I own no pink parts.. The website itself is also nice, the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Star Wars LEGO "promo", "give-a-way"
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Try asking in one of the market groups, since you're asking to buy something, which is off topic for here. You've already reached everyone in this group and if you didn't get any response, no one here has it. Hope that helps. You may want to review (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
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(...) I think the most accurate math term is actually the "greatest common factor" or "greatest common divisor" (GCF or GCD for short), which refers to the largest natural number which equally divides two whole numbers in question. In non-math (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lego sale at Kmart, coupon at TRU
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(...) Always scan the box, many times the final markdown sticker never makes it on the box. Anytime I see a clearance sticker I scan to check the real price and I have been pleasantly surprised. Julie (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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The Pictures are up in Main Engineering.at (URL) send comments, this are my first three MOC that i post Constitution, Constitution refit and Excelsior class follow soon. Mirror Spock mrspock@wxs.nl (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | FW: Documentation
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(...) No, I've never heard of anyone doing something so amazing. You might want to check your local bookstore, I hear there's an O'Reilly book on Mindstorms, but it's a secret and I'm not suupposed to tell anyone. There might even be a fire (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | York Lego report
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York is a very fine historical city, but totally devoid of good Lego. Only one toyshop in the City Centre (Toymaster) which had only current top-dollar offerings. TRU at the ubiquitous retail park was much the same. The only sets worthy of even the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | RIS 1.5 Upgrade in Canada?
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Anyone seen the RIS 1.5 upgrade lit for sale in Canada yet? Will it be available by retail or will I only be able to get it at www.legoworldshop.com (not available there until Oct 22) Thx... (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego.com - new look
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[Followup-to lugnet.off-topic.geek] (...) *grin* (...) Oh, certainly an amazing number of people use it wrongly. But a lot of people also say that they "could care less", when they mean that they couldn't. People don't think about what they're (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Upcoming _Star Wars_ Mindstorms and Technics Releases
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(...) Yeah, actually, that was kinda my point; I just picked a bad example. (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego.com - new look
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(...) Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in article (...) common. (...) <puzzled grin> I was expecting some contrary comments on my post, but wasn't really expecting a debate on semantics. :) Actually the expression "lowest common (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Documentation
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Hi all, Can anybody out there tell me some URL to / information that can be helpful to make an Operating system for MindStorms RCX? Plz reply to me personally on my email.I prefer to receive messages here rather at Newsgroup! Thankx Imad (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Upcoming _Star Wars_ Mindstorms and Technics Releases
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(...) But the R2-D2 set (9748 Droid Development Kit) -is- a MindStorms set. It's just not an RCX-based MindStorms set. (LEGO MINDSTORMS is a whole division of TLG and a whole product line. The RCX is just one brick in a series.) MINDSTORMS != RCX (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Lego sale at Kmart, coupon at TRU
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In the Sunday newspaper flyers Kmart is having its buy one Lego get another for 50% off sale this week again Oct. 17 through Oct. 23. Also, Toys R Us has a coupon you can redeem for a free extreme racer when you buy any Lego item at $24.99 or more (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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