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Max P: Emails to you have been bouncing. I have received your payment, and I have shipped off your parts. Thanks, Naji (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) For 20 2x2 orange tiles, yes, I agree. One of the many people who buy sets and part them out will be more than happy to provide that third party service for you. Unfortunately, I don't want 20. I want 2000. I don't have $90,000 laying around (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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Micro-fig scale of course. Go to website to see more. (URL) J 0 0Rebel Blockade Runner 0Tantive IV 0By Pat Justison 0Built using MLCAD & old fashioned line editing 0(URL) 1999 Patrick Justison All rights reserved. 0 1 7 0 0 0 -1 0 6.66134e-015 0 1 0 (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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I'll have more pics up soon, maybe some annimations as well. DAT file is at website or posted on dat.models. This model will be given away to the overall winner of the USWLD contest unassembled with complete instructions. LMKWYT (URL) J (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Especially as that would give us even less incentive to buy their stinky sets! Ooops! Sorry Lego - Poindexter said it, not me! Richard (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Comparing the quality of the two sites (lugnet and lego), I don't think that Todd would appreiciate the insinuation that he's been working for TLG ;) (...) I disagree - when companies do market research, they don't offer lolipops to people who (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Wot no RCX power connector?
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-----Original Message----- From: Jacob Schultz <dungeonmaster@get2net.dk> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 8:36 PM Subject: Re: Wot no RCX power connector? (...) is a (...) batteries (...) and (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 2000 A-Wing comments
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Hmmm... I still like the A-Wing. I really like Slave I, despite what other people have been saying! And I must admit, the skiff is pretty bad. (...) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- jmbrown@mines.edu (URL) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) If you tick (...) <cut rest of message> Are you saying that if you need 20 2x2 orange tiles that come in the pod racing set for $90 a set, that TLG will not make more money selling 10 of those sets for $900 (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Your Local Lego Webmaster!
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(...) Heh, my websites suck, but they're mine. :) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Picture of Falcon?
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(...) Or a Lugnet Picket outside the gates of LegoLand.. "What do we want?" - "A minifig scale Falcon!" "How many pieces?" - "A thousand at least!" "When do we want it?" - "Whenever design contraints and budget requirements allow a suitable (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Tom is on VACATION
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(...) Wow, you've got things backwards. When I'm on vacation I check my home e-mail only. If something drastic happens at work and they really need me they know how to get in touch with me - but no way am I ruining a vacation by reading work-related (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) You're entitled to your opinion. Here's mine: The people at TLG who continue to ignore the overwhelmingly huge amount of interest the AFOL has in certain things (bulk order, better service packs, etc) are fools. Period. If they're concerned (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Indianapolis Business Journal Article Oct 18-24
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Well if half are men, I would think the other half would be women. Not discounting that children buy as well. I am sure that since the article was pro-AFOL they cheated the numbers a bit. Oh and I guess this was the same article as printed by (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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In repsone to Mike Poindexter's message ... Sure they (meaning Lego employees) read Lugnet, even if it is not in an official capacity. If you think about a corporation, many individual people are looking for ways to climb the corporate ladder. They (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: SW 2000 List
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(...) Here is the list again, with what I have heard or seen about each item. Technic X-Wing Unconfirmed Technic Darth Vader's TIE Fighter Unconfirmed Battle Droid Minstorms kit Confirmed with picture, actually a Technic set Destroyer Droid (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I'm suspecting MegaBlocks or another clone, but I have no proof... Yet... (...) This photo is definitely a chop jop. At the very least, all the background except for some schmuck's hand has been masked. Looks like parts of the aft section and (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | FA: 8001 Battle Droid on eBay
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(URL) :-) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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(...) been (...) See Stephen Gabriel's page: (URL) of course, has the whole rules set for the pirates vs. Nautilus. (...) kills (...) I was going to recommend Jason and the Argonauts, if only because the mummy-slashing scene in the current The Mummy (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Indianapolis Business Journal Article Oct 18-24
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Nick Goetz wrote in message ... (...) Hey what the women Lego fanatics??? Are we that small of a minority. The families that I know, the Mother is the one to make the decision about what toys to buy!!!! Any correlation to the minority of Female (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Wow! They *are* watching! Hey, LEGO folks out there! Come out to our Train Show tomorrow and Sunday in the Seattle Area! See how we promote LEGO among the train enthusiasts and their kids! Seriously, my agenda (in addition to trying to get (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Your Local Lego Webmaster!
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(...) Yeah, I think the problem is that we're all Lego fans! That means we love building things for ourselves, and using our own creativity to do lots of stuff! So the thought of having someone else design our pages seems almost like saying "I'd (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Picture of Falcon?
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In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes: Does anyone remember last year when the first picture of the X - Wing came out? Everyone hated it and thought it was ugly, and when the official sets came out, it was totally redesigned. I really hope that (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Mike's Train and Launch Command Auction Update 3
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I have added a second 4532 Level Crossing to the Auction!! This one is new, in an unopened box. Please note that the 4565 Freight and Crane Railway has been withdrawn from the action. 1. This is a Once, Twice, Sold auction. 2. To bid send email to (...) (27 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Tom is on VACATION
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I am on vacation all next week, and will not be able to get my home email (talonts@vfaq.com). If you have a very urgent Lego issue, email my work address, as I will OCCASIONALLY be checking work email. Otherwise, please wait until Oct 30 to email (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | HELLLLLLO?
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Just testing the water! -John Rudy (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ny.syr)
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| | Re: Picture of Falcon?
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(...) I hope that you're right, but if it is not somehow officially associated with TLG, then where did that canopy come from? Also, I'm puzzled about something . . . take a look at the radar dish. Notice the white coloration that appears between (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Blech. That's a truly awful design (for a production set). I'd rather have a Falcon-Jr. None of the other SW sets have this poor a design. I *hope* this was just a design/test model, and this approach was discarded. If that's the finished (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Nor to me. At the very least, I would expect a final version to have a printed piece for the cockpit. (...) I bet there's more parents willing to spend more than $100 on a MF model for their kids (and more kids clamoring for one!) than for a (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) THERE IS NO GOD! Of all the things they could have done... of all the cool ways to build it that have been online so far... of all the ... GAK! guhk! Having.. trouble... staying... alive... too... ugly!... If that IS the final model, well... I (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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(...) King Kong The Lost World (1925 silent) Any Harryhausen film: Jason & the Argonauts + all 3 Sinbads + Clash of the Titans are classics, but not in the Adventurers era. Suitable for inspiration, though. also: The Valley of Gwangi (throw some (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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Please let this not be TLG's interpretation of the MF. Please... But the only thing that scares me is the cockpit. I have never seen it before in any Lego sets. Can anyone confirm that? (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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I'm guessing here, but I would look for the theme to travel to the artic for 2000. Why? At The Adventurers Clubs at LEGOLand Parks, the first of which opened sometime in 1997, you travel through three scenes, starting with Egypt, on to the Amazon, (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | SW 2000 List
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Remember the list that was posted at www.theouterrim.com? When I first read it, I was very suspicious about its authenticity. But so far, from what has been revealed, it looks like the list is right on. The list contains an AT-ST so we can finally (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Is their a searchable archive of the LEGO Robotics Mailing List? Don Myers (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Your Local Lego Webmaster!
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(...) Hey, no problem. We like enthusiasm around here. (not that I run things, or anything) You've got your offer out there now, so what I'd suggest is maybe give some links to websites you've done, and let us take a look at your work. Although a (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.publish)
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That looks either: a) like a fan design, or b) an early mockup that does NOT look like a final TLG product to me. I have faith in them and so should you. Shame on you! :-) However, I have NO illusions about the Falcon myself. I expect it to be out (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: New Wal-Mart Value Pack
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The little carrying case thing counts as a set. (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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Well, it only took one day after my posting and a very friendly person (who asked me to keep her name off this newsgroup) from Lego Systems called me and wanted to let me know that (this is paraphrased from memory): "You had posted something on the (...) (27 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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