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I havent finished my own project for a large vehicle, but your post prompted me to share my progress so far. Visit (URL) is only the one creation at present 'LL918'. I will name it properly once finished. It a large military offensive vehicle It is (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: 6000 Idea Book for auction on eBay "Bill & Mary" book
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(...) Yikes. Fifty bucks? These things usually sell for (at most) about half that, on a weekly basis. Thanks but no thanks. (27 years ago, 24-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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Everyone should pay attention to the shelf-space penetration of Mega Blocks. All the K-Marts (and to a slightly lesser degree WalMart) seem to have large quantities of Mega Blocks product available for purchase. My take is that Mega Blocks are (...) (27 years ago, 24-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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(...) costs (...) from (...) It erodes the market for their *SETS* which is where they make the most of their money. While they CAN make money selling bulk, I doubt that it will ever be the majority of their income. Following this idea, Lego would (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Microfig 928 Galaxy Explorer
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Very nice. Now experiment with that camera more, and get bigger pictures up ;-) And a DAT file ;-) (...) Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Babylon 5 ships
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(...) so (...) I (...) I think I now of three links to B5-ike ships: Narn Fighter: (URL) - 1 (URL) - 2 (URL) seems from this page there was some thread about it (URL) this helps. Gerwin Hassink (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Regarding latest outerrim pictures
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While I think it's mostly a result of Outer Rim not knowing what they're talking about, a few possibilities are: Store exclusive (seems unlikely, especially for the size) Shop At Home exclusive Internet exclusive I wouldn't really be surprised if it (...) (27 years ago, 24-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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(...) What should they -care-? if someone makes money on a aftermaket use of pieces, then all the power to them. If TLG is loosing too much money to the person, just hire them! It's not like someone is making a copy of Lego, then selling it. (trust (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nya modeller i BlockCAD-galleriet!
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Tobias Möller skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Ny är du allt nyfiken va? :-) Rättelse: Man *får gärna* skicka en legobit om man är *nöjd* med programmet. Jag har ju inte lagt ut det i vinstsyfte - och någon större vinst har det inte heller blivit (än). (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Mindfest Photos!
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Looks like it was fun. The Star Wars display is awesome!!! Talk about thousands & thousands of pieces.... There sure are a lot of pictures. I'm finally finishing going through them, after about a couple of hours. dscn1060.jpg "Impresive. Most (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Babylon 5 ships
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I've not seen any, but a Narn Heavy Cruiser is on my To Do list :) Jodi Neal <LunaTarlun@Prodigy.Net> wrote in message news:FK2IBC.ApC@lugnet.com... (...) so (...) I (...) like (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Babylon 5 ships
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(...) TNT pretty much killed Crusade when JMS wouldn't give upcreative control and let TNT turn it into Voyager. (With stuff like wrestlers guest starring, lame plots, etc.). Since the Sci-Fi channel passed on it, and I believe all of the actors (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: H8 tools problems on Linux
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(...) Vlad- First off, I'd suggest building your own tools, instead of downloading the pre-built tools (which, like anything pre-built, tends to work only on systems very similar to the original builder's.) There are pretty clear directions (I (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Asda Update - I was in there Today!
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I forget who put up the Asda announcement with the reference to the Scala House, 3290, but I am very grateful to them. Our local Asda, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, had around 20 of them. I bought 1 for my daughter for Christmas, but at the price of (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) opinion. You may have hit on a good point here! I'm sure that this is a concern to Lego, especially if they have been reading the groups ehre and have sensed the general unhappiness with most of the current sets. This would be easy to fix with (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) been (...) I think that the problem may be (IMHO) that all the attempts so far that i've seen have been made by "end users" or customers. Perhaps it takes a request from an actual retailer for something like bulk order to get through to the (...) (27 years ago, 24-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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Mike, let me be clear in case I wasn't, I'm not disagreeing with you. A number of people at TLG DO have rose colored glasses on. I'd rather just see if a well reasoned business case NOW could avoid the hundreds of millions in losses that would wake (...) (27 years ago, 24-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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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes: [snipped] (...) Larry, the prices quoted don't mean anything. When they got the order, they said not one item was available. A price quoted for a product not available is not truly a price. I have had to (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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Just some general comments: I. I know Larry P had something upwards of $10,000 -promised- payment for the bricks that (might have been/should have been...) ordered. If I was a company, and someone said, I have $10,000 worth of orders, IN MY HAND for (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nya modeller i BlockCAD-galleriet!
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Ja, skeppen ör verkligen imponerande. "Three models" -är det någon sorts skidort? Det ser ut som en liten snöskoter. Jag har en fråga: Man ska skicka en legobit om man använder programmet, va? Hur många bitar har du fått? Skulle de räcka till en (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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