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At the Glendora, California Wal-Mart I was browsing the LEGO aisle when I happened to look up at the top shelf, where they usually have extra stock of what's on the normal shelves.. well, much to my surprise, I saw about 8 boxes of 6079 Dark Forest (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Sample chapter of Jonathan's book online now
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Hi all, O'Reilly has just released a new book on Lego Mindstorms Robots, that provides tons of excellent tips and ideas on how to take your Lego Robots further. Check out the first two chapters in the serialization of "The Unofficial Guide to Lego (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Sample chapter of Jonathan's book online now
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Hi all, O'Reilly has just released a new book on Lego Mindstorms Robots, that provides tons of excellent tips and ideas on how to take your Lego Robots further. Check out the first two chapters in the serialization of "The Unofficial Guide to Lego (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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I have been recently (this spring) been rescued from the dark ages by the release of the Star Wars Lego sets. As I explained to my wife (aka - tried to convince her to let me spend money on legos ;-) ), it is kind of like the old Reeces cup (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Sample Chapter of Lego Mindstorms book online now
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Hi all, O'Reilly has just released a new book on Lego Mindstorms Robots, that provides tons of excellent tips and ideas on how to take your Lego Robots further. Check out the first two chapters in the serialization of "The Unofficial Guide to Lego (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Current Projects?
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(...) The AT-PT is from the Old Empire, but the tech was used to design the AT-AT and AT-ST. AT-PT stands for All Terrain Personal Transport. I believe it is from some of the books and it is also in some of the video games. I think I have a recent (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) Gag.....Oh, okay, I'll withhold judgment until I actually see anything from this theme (when and if). At least I won't have to buy another white brick ever again.... Bruce (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: rare mini-fig?
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Crossed to general? Shawn, Here is a link, one of my favorite sets! :) (URL) are a few others, but this is my favorite! Scott S. (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) I haven't seen this in years, but whoever suggested it was right on. Sean Connery and Michael Caine have both said it was their own personal favorite (that was a number of years ago, so they may have new favorites). (...) The only reason to go (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | RE: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) Except me, I seem to be the invisible panelist in the Wired article. Hrmph. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com ---...--- (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) (There were in fact _lots_ of important people who didn't make Eric's list. I don't think he was trying to be comprehensive and certainly didn't mean to leave anybody out. There were a lot of people there, and I doubt anyone had time to meet (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I need help
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(...) RTL's (...) Try a power search, located to the right of the search button. You can type in rec.toys.lego under forum, and you can also choose what date you would like to read posts from. You can leave the other areas blank, they are optional. (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: MOTOR DRIVERS
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(...) Hi Paul, I think it would take out the chip, but I am currently doing this by installing a oversize heatsink & fan to the controller chip and pulsing the motor instead of constant current. Exceeding the max current capacity but, limiting (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) Thanks for the proposed honor :-) Unfortunately that is all I know. I would bet decent scans will show up very soon, since this info was spotted in a UK Lego Club magazine. Try going to (URL) and type in rec.toys.lego and todays date to read (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) Yes -- I sat at the table with them at lunch once, and can verify that they appear to be mortal humans, despite evidence we've all seen to the contrary. :) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Current Projects?
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(...) week! (...) Pardon my ignorance- AT-PT? What is it and where can I see a picture? Chris (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: I need help
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(...) ??? RTL has no homepage, as such. You could check Deja.com at: (URL) last time I tried, finding a specific newsgroup such as rec.toys.lego there is about a simple as replacing the clutch plates on a '91 Escort, and less enjoyable. Plus, (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) There is one obvious drawback to this option: I want 5000 2x4 light blue bricks. Another drawback is that I want 2000 2x2 orange tiles. That would be a $90,000 investment on your part to be able to fill my entire order. I just don't think very (...) (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'd pay upwards of .20 per brick for tan, brown, light blue, purple, and clear. The train windows don't apply to me. But, my hottest commodity is roof peaks - of all kinds. I lust roof peaks. Especially in less common colors (i.e., just about (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | rare mini-fig?
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i know this isnt buy/ sell/ trade, but i wanted to reach as many people as possible. I have a very old mini-fig and don't know what set it belongs to- the body is a white tank top with a red truck on it. the face is the standard smile, but the eyes (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) here (...) This is all starting to sound like an elaborate version of Auczilla combined with Jambalaya. Now, instead of Todd buying sets and parting them out, someone would be collecting everyone's bricks they don't want (for a price), and (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Current Projects?
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Hey, anyone working on any interesting Star Wars projects? My vast construction yard is trying to construct an AT-PT. 'Tis coming along suprisingly well, and I probably would've finished last night, if my inspiration hadn't hit at 11:30pm. Stupid (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Lego on sales at AMES starting wednesday
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I received a flier in the mail for Ames' "the Biggest The Best Toy Sale". 72 pages of nothing but toys! There is a whole page of Lego. Sale runs Oct 27 - Nove 23 Lego Sets: 4990 Rock Raiders HQ - $59.99 6456 Mission Control - $59.99 5986 Amazon (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: MOTOR DRIVERS
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Answer it'll fry the chip Question? Why would you even want to do that? (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Skapa en användarförening - SWELUG
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Eric Hampusgård skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Låter väl inte så dumt. Det svåra är väl att motivera föreningen, vad skall den vara bra för. vad skall man göra i den etc. etc. (...) SCANLUG? (Eller tänker ni bara på korv då?) LAN - Lego Användare i (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Nya modeller i BlockCAD-galleriet!
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Tobias Möller skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Jag brukar bygga så långt det går med BlockCAD eftersom det går fortast för mig, sedan får man fixa dom slutliga detaljerna/rotationerna i LDRAW (MLCad). Du har väl sett MLCad av Michael Lachmann förresten (...) (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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(...) This is what I would propose. If we are looking for spicific parts, the first one on my list (and Larry's too I guess) would be a train window and door. I -don't- care what colour (I'd prefer gray, but...as long as I can get 200-300 of 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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(...) I disagree. :) Like Larry, I think that a business case for exactly what we want needs to be developed. If we go to TLG asking for wholesale purchases, they will simply treat us like a small-scale retailer, and that is (IMHO)a road that leads (...) (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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(...) Exactly, Gary- A few pitchforks today, which can obviously be ignored by TLG as insignificant, but the IDEA will be planted-- in *our* heads. And once our silly blind loyalty/pure LEGO dazement is over, then the real trouble for TLG will (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Wot no RCX power connector?
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Not bad for an international connection. I'd rate it as "tolerable." I've scanned 3 pages, but the images are crooked on two. I'm going to cut the binding on my Constructopedia, and re-do the scans, then 3-hole punch them (I've got a binder full of (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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<trimmed original> (...) true, (...) and (...) Shop-At-Home), I (...) Why TLG has services packs at all is not a question I can answer. I don't know. I could guess but I would probably be wrong. I agree if they expanded the service pack options I (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | I need help
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Can someone out there be a good Samaritan and please give me the URL of RTL's homepage, you know the one they post daily news on? I would be forever indebted for you kindness. Thanks, Mark L (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Lego 236 Garage
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(...) I have put together the garage from pictures on the box (1 side + 1 flap) and an old catalog. However, I am not sure how the back wall of the garage looks like. The sides of the garage are not exactly same(different set of windows are used). (...) (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 think that if we got enough want lists like this, we could put something together buying just current sets. With a cross reference of set parts lists, we could determine which sets would have the mix of parts most requested by fans, and then (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Homebrew Sensor Workshop Slides
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I converted the 42 Powerpoint slides to HTML and they are now on my page. There is a some loss in this conversion, but I'm just about at the limit of my web page memory and I can't afford to give the images more resolution. Most of the material is (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Does anyone want any boxes?
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Simon Robinson <simon@simonrobinson.com> wrote in message news:010f01bf1dc1$f8...sco.net... (...) Possibly some of the Space ones. What do you have? (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Bluewater offers
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Next weekend (28-31/10) club members can get 5% off in the Bluewater shop, AND get a free ticket for LLW if they spend over £25. That'll make their prices closer to normal :-) But I expect you all know that - you will have received the flyer through (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: I got a Battle Droid!
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(...) It has to be one of the best engineered Technic sets ever. I suspect the Destroyer Droid will be even better... I already have 3, but I am not sure if I can afford to keep them all :-) Huw (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) parts, (...) I think that if we got something like this off the ground, that we would be able to provide this service. Atleast for parts that are currently available in sets from TLG. Lets say that you want 1,000 of part X Now lets say that (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Regarding latest outerrim pictures
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(...) My thoughts exactly. I believe these pictures are similar to the X-Wing we saw last year. I feel the main designs will stay basically the same, but printing, colors and minor changes will take place. Here are my thoughts on each set: 7155 AAT (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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