 | | Re: Update and thanks to all of you (was: Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey)
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Hi fellows, Finally all the legos met with children. Last weekend I've brought the packages to their destination. I don't have enough time to continue right now, but I'll post a more detailed update as soon as possible. I've also taken some photos, (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: G'Day!
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Howdy, Apologies for the delay in seeing this message. I haven't really explored LUGnet since its inception. I've been reading rec.toys.lego for about three years now. In fact my vert first usage of the internet led to Matthew Bates' Lego Train (...) (27 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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| | Controlling two robots simultaneously
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Does someone know how to control two mindstorms or two cybermaster robots simultaneously? Of course, one can use either two PCs or one to drive the IR and/or RF sender. But: - in case of two mindstorms, the IR signals and the responses of the robots (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Castle site
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(...) castle together (...) think (warning - quite (...) blacksmith, a butcher, a (...) (instead of focusing on (...) flames, etc are welcome! (...) pawel ~ well, _alright_!! you've done a top notch job here! it's great viewing not just a well built (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: New Castle site
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(...) pawel ~ well, _alright_!! you've done a top notch job here! it's great viewing not just a well built model, but one so full of mini-fig life and storylines! that moody shot of the wolfpack army gathering its' forces under a stormy gray sky is (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Why TLG has not made a tie fighter
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The way I see it, if I was TLG I would use black satrwars wings for the solar panels. problem: 1.TLG does not make black wings, therefore another part needed. Would there be any other model that could use those parts? (just looked at the picture of (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Do the quarter saucer hulls come in grey?
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Do they? with or without pattern? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I like the idea too, and it could be set up as a member type thing to help you get the kitty up, so each person who wants to buy joins in. That would allow you greater buying power, and I'd be willing to look for sets here at some of those (...) (27 years ago, 25-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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(...) Depends on the part count an physical size. I've seen pictures of two AT-ATs (don't know which one is David's) from the NELUG display at MindFest ( (URL) ) but that doesn't always give you a good impression of the actual size of the models. I (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help with combining RCX and trains...
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <3813D4A3.2E69C446@v...er.net>... (...) I'm willing to do the surgery (gasp), just wanted some idea of how to open the train motor housing in some non-horrifically-disfiguring manner. (...) That's what I looking to (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Photos Resized, Recompressed and Thumbnailed!
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(...) I just looked at the Star Wars pictures, and the scene is AWESOME!!! I wouldn't mind having a pair of AT-ATs... :) But one question I do have: I'm thinking that the pieces used to make the scene belonged to several people. Am I correct in that (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) Ok all of you who are good at using LDraw, can we look into this and send it off to Lego has a new sew including a parts list? That may give us another in with them, if we start giving them some new fresh ideas to try in their research and (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) to get (...) to (...) I wouldn't mind doing something like this, it just takes the money (which I don't have yet!). But i'm getting there...I'm getting more and more money as I go along, with reinvesting all of the money I get from my auctions (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: new lego web site, microsoft, and trademark stupidity.
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You don't understand: It's the symbol formerly known as registered trademark. KL (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Mindfest Photos!
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(...) Uh oh, more fuel on the fire then! I just uploaded the updated pages with the new photos! Of course, they don't have descriptions, since I wasn't there and don't know what was going on! (URL) I have no idea how you are getting this stuff to be (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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(...) I don't know but that sounds like a cool ideal. But man that could be a great expense for a BO to do a trial run. They could open it up with prepaid funds tho from AFOL who know what they want and are willing to pay for the ability to buy in (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Datsville Idea...DatsvilleHUB was(Re: What happened to Datsville in space?)
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Jamie Obrien <jamien@interworx.com.au> wrote in message news:380e7f6b.550923...net.com... (...) I gotta ask...whats a multi function polus? (...) right now I used ALL of my basplates larger than 3x3...and it's rather small too...course I don't (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I just got my tax return back (albeit in AUD), so I'm ready for some bidding. I'd even pay DaveE just for the .DAT files!! Anyone with that amount of talent deserves to be rewarded! Pete Callaway (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Mindfest pics... one train pic.
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Who's that handling my Doodlebug! (URL) at least Matthew got ONE picture of some of the train stuff I brought. (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New Castle site
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I've finally got some time to put a little bit of my castle together (Strombrachter). Check it out and let me know what you think (warning - quite a few pictures). (URL) tried to do a few things (like have an Inn, a blacksmith, a butcher, a barrel (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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Call me crazy, naive, or just plain stupid, but here is a thought. There are I'd say 15-20 of you out there who really want some major amouts of certain bricks. Larry P, Tom, Tom, Doyle, John, and more of you then I can think of names at the moment. (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MiniFest or just a quick get together, anyone?
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(...) awww crap! lar was in my stomping grounds and i missed it. i should read the local group more often. pewp. -dave (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
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| | Re: Help with combining RCX and trains...
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It's dead easy if you are willing to have the RCX be stationary... just run the wallwart into the RCX power port, then have one of the motor controls go to the track. If you want to have the RCX onboard, powered by the rails, and controlling the (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) Didn't we just go through all this? Blue minifigs (frozen to death) and lots of white bricks. Igloos (more white bricks). Crushed white pirate ship (Ernest Shackleton) and lots of white BURPS and CRAPP. Oh, and a special all- white brick set. (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I'd go $550 just to outbid you. :) Maybe we can talk him into an auction? (27 years ago, 25-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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(...) Yeah, and I think a lot of rabid SW fans would outbid you. (27 years ago, 25-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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the parts in either one of the AT ATs (and I saw both in the flesh, WOW IS ALL I CAN SAY (yes I had to shout) ) would be way more than 150, I would think. There must have been 3000 elements in either one. Just guessing. I'd pay 500 for one. (...) (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: Boycott the falcon
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(...) I dunno; that's what I thought about the first X-wing photos. It turned out to be pretty accurate, although there were some significant improvements by the time the final models appeared. I don't know how much this one can be salvaged, though. (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) Ooh, that would be nice. I'd be into that, if done well. Might fit in with my space stuff! (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) It makes me toy with the idea of liquidating the whole shebang and moving on to something else. :/ I could get almost as much enjoyment out of a good virtual Lego building package for free, recover the use of an entire room, and spend the (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) $.04 (...) $1.00 (with glass) (...) 4864 in clear and blue-tint ( (URL) ) (...) $500+ -John (...) (27 years ago, 25-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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(...) How much would people pay for David's AT-AT model as a kit? I'm thinking $150 minimum. Probably a lot higher. (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mindfest Photos!
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PS: current batch is kinda fuzzy -- pretty low-light conditions in the gallery, unfortunately. Also, #1106 through #1111 are pictures of the NELUG logo done in lego, and not really interesting to the general population. :) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: One of the Mindfest pics
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(...) Yeah, sorry Todd. Maybe it woulda been more tactful if I'd censored a little bit. :) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Mindfest Photos!
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(...) Uh oh, you're fueling my laziness. Now I have a lot less incentive to go through and clean them up myself. I've got ambitious (heh) plans for actually adding descriptive labels and stuff. *laugh* PS: i really _can_ make a decent web site when (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Adventurers & Islanders
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G.W.J. Hassink wrote in message ... (...) Absolutely!! I've been collecting all of the Islanders set for a polynesian Adventurers subtheme. -Rob. (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Help with combining RCX and trains...
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I would like to run a train with the Mindstorms RCX. I seem to remember reading about someone applying 9 volts to the rails, picking that power up through the powered bogey (sp?) to run the RCX onboard the train, and using one of the motor outputs (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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What is it about TLG??!! How _can_ they be so obtuse? Or, are _we_ missing something? Because *somebody* is WAY off here. _Why_ can't TLG understand this point: WE WANT YOU TO SUCCEED!!!! WE WANT YOU TO TAKE OUR MONEY!!! WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: eBay Question
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Alan Demlow wrote in message ... (...) soak (...) you (...) I just had an e-mail telling me to forget it, the guy bought another one. I was going to tell him I would end the auction, sell it to him, and overnight ship it all for $100. It never came (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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