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(...) does (...) Glad to know I won something. Thanks for adding that section, it's tough to be the KING isn't it? I am also glad to know that I am not the only person in the world who thought that Joe and Cabinboy were greatness. Granted they don't (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: 2000 A-Wing comments
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(...) Thanks to everyone that responded to this question. I'm a bit less confused, now. -Jonathan (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Concerning the recent posts on the disappointing MF pics. There is no doubt that the final MF will still suffer from the 2 main problems of the System series: playability and payability ;-) It can in no way live up to the expectations each of us (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | BT2 *mostly* bites (Was: Picture of Falcon?)
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(...) :-D (...) If so, I hope BT3 would be much better than most of the dreck they tried to pass off as BT2... That theme gave us the goobered-up and utterly useless jetpack piece. They completey did away with the semi-morbid military black suits of (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: I've been offered a pirated set described as...
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Scott-A (<FK61un.GAC@lugnet.com>) wrote at 16:01:30 (...) Indigo Island is the UK name. (...) Sort of - it's part of the Islander sub-theme. There are a couple of pirate minifigs in it, as well as a bunch of islanders, including (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Picture of Falcon?
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(...) Are these model builders TLG model builders? If so, can we smack them with a clue stick? :-, Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: I've been offered a pirated set described as...
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(...) A) Presumably, but I can't tell you yes definitively. What country is the seller in? B) Yes, but that's only a techicality. The Islanders sub-theme is officially part of the Pirates line, and includes a few odd pirates figures, but you can (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) This has already been done in book-form, right? Didn't Richard do something like this for his school/class? I think a paper version could work, but I think a digital version would be easier to do. I know I'd be willing to pay for a few dozen (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDraw pieces printing
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(...) LDAO does have a catalog print function, which is a quick way of printing the bricks. Or you can look for Patrick's printable catalog, which has a better/more compact layout. You can find a link to the catalog by searching lugnet.cad.dev for (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Picture of Falcon?
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(...) I didn't see it quite that big, but about that, yeah. (...) Look at the ATT picture on www.theouterrim.com. It uses the hull pieces, the deceorations are very effective. If TLG hadn't printed the quarter-hulls, the ATT would not look nearly as (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Ditto. I've done this, so have many others. Rather than buying a bunch of buckets to part out to make money to try to come up with enough to try to persuade TLG into doing this (which is what I THINK I'm hearing Jodi suggest) I'd say we draw (...) (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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(...) I'd be interested. As for payment (obviously depending on how long the custom hopper takes to ldraw), can you say "blue hopper"? ;) More seriously, while reading today's messages, I started wondering about the viability of selling instructions (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | What can I do with a robot?
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A question for all of you fantastic robotics enthusiasts out there: I have to do a final year project next year, and I'm getting a head start on designing it. I've been told that I can do pretty much what I like with a robot, as long as it has a lot (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Well, I'm not Larry, but I think he's talking venture capital. Or venture consortium. Probably the second, actually, looking at context. (...) As I mentioned in my other post there are easily 8 or 9 people I can think of, just off the top of (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Large space/military vehicle
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(...) Do you have plans to turn this into a theme, with more vehicles? Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LDraw pieces printing
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(...) That's spiffy. Snarf away! Steve "Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain." (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Larry, what is VC???? (...) and the sales base that we have in our local stores. Just like Todd and Suzanne do in buying 10 sets and auctioning them off, we will be running a large base for bulk buying from the LUGNET community. If we find (...) (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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(...) I wonder...perhaps one could make a good profit with such models sold through eBay (or even a "Star Wars Idea CD" or something like that)? We could end up with a cottage industry of modules for building themed models, sort of a merchandised (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) Nope, won't work. TLG rejects any and all unsolicited outside suggestions, no matter what form they take. It's rigorous lawsuit avoidance behavior, so people can't go after TLG, claiming that TLG stole their ideas. Steve "Never trust anything (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Need ideas for vehicle
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Thanks to all who have responded. I have heard quite a few new ideas which intrigue me to say the least. I would also like to thank Lawrence for the pictures of his vehicle. I will be giving them a closer look as time goes on. I have decided this (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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(...) Really? I thought _Princess Bride_ was way funnier than _Men in Tights_. Then again, I thought Mel Brooks' _When Things Were Rotten_ was way funnier than _Men in Tights_. I wonder if WTWR ever made it to video? Hmm, IMDB doesn't say it was. (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) To an extent I agree with you, but I posit that this proof of concept has already been done. Julie Krenz, and several others routinely buy and part out buckets via eBay, and Todd (and others) also do it in large-scale parts auctions. The scale (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Analog port shaft encoder
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Rob, I use these same encoders just as you do, and they work fine. However, the spacing of the encoders from thier targets is important for proper function. 1.5 to 2 mm works well for me. In addition, I have had to play with the encoder high (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Asda Update - I was in there Today!
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Dear All, ASDA seems to be the place to go at present. My local has Mos Espa Podway reduced to £34.99. I had promised myself not to buy it as I considered it wildly overpriced on release but I weakened. Now I only have to hide it from my wife and (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: New Castle site
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(...) Thanks, Architechture was a problem - my main thing in this castle was the entrance to the Cathedral - I went ahead and made it a perfect (or as close as possible) circle with alternating black and red Half-Arches as seen here: (URL) than (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Photos Resized, Recompressed and Thumbnailed!
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(...) Oh...My...Heck. If there are Legos there next year, I am *NOT* missing the next one! Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Phone Numbers
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(...) There is a preliminary FAQ item on this issue: (URL) URL to LEGO addresses is now: (URL) you can find phone, fax, and snail mail contact info for TLG in several countries. Unfortunately, CA is not listed there; neither is S@H. :-( Cheers, - (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: IntelliMouse Ripe for Hacking
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(...) so, (...) I've (...) A year ago I bought a mouse on sale (Gyropoint, if I remember correctly) which tracks your actual motion at any speed in the open air; no surface needed (I use it with a laptop for presentations). It has never had any (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LegOS 0.2.0a multi-threading problem
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I have been attempting to us the thread API for a LegOS project. I have been following the examples I found on the LegOS How-To page with out much success. If I run some simple code inside the main function it works fine but if I try the same code (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LDraw pieces printing
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(...) Steve Bliss has this page: (URL) isn't optimized for printing, but I snarf myself a copy from time to time anyway... (I hope that's okay, Steve!) Arguably, you could download the pages, re-format the tables so that you double up the skinnier (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 8001 Battle Droid price - £19.99
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Just to say that I notice many of you saying that Beatties and other stores have them for £21.99 Bentals and John Lewis have them for £19.99 regards lawrence (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Microfig 928 Galaxy Explorer
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(...) What Tom said. Any chance of better pics, or even LDraw files? Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Regarding latest outerrim pictures
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(...) The purple color of the MF cockpit seems dubious to me. I have to believe that Lego will design a more authentic canopy; after all, Vader's Tie Figher and the Y-Wing, X-Wing, and Snow Speeder all have relatively detailed canopy markings, and (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Technic nyheter har kommit!
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Yahoo!!!!! RIS! Äntligen! Jag måste sticka till stor och Liten! --Tobias <38145077.88D69406@n...kth.se>... (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Launch of new site: SimiLego
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(...) monorail sets do you have? Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Skapa en användarförening - SWELUG
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Det låter bra, vi kanske kan få det till en underavdelning på LUGNET. SWELUG -jag vet inte, det står för Swedish Lego Users Group, va? LUGNET betyder Lego Users Group Network -kanske SWELUGN? Jag har inte sett till NELUG, men å andra sidan har jag (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message news:FK5zGK.B9I@lugnet.com... (...) into (...) people (...) buy (...) that (...) 2 (...) off (...) idea (...) quantity of an existing set, say one of the current buckets, and parting it (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Castle site
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(...) Wow. I'll say it again... wow. I thought my own ambitions of building a castle scene for my 103 Fantasy figures were big, but I hadn't realised some people had already blown my ideas out of the water - impressive, most impressive. Some (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) Hear Hear. Kudos to the folks at MIT for the overall making it happen, and huge kudos to Suz and NELUG for getting the fan participation way up. Nice buzz, people! (...) One nit, I think that this should be II + III, as I am not sure that Mr. (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nya modeller i BlockCAD-galleriet!
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okej, då har jag fått svar på min fråga. Faktum är att jag använde BlockCAD en tid utan att skicka in någon lego-bit *skäms* men jag har gått över till Ldraw..... Fast BlockCAD är ju tusen gånger så enkelt som LDraw, jag kom igång med det direkt. (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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