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(...) I wonder if a traditional company such as Lego would respect a traditional approach like petition-writing. You could easily get the signatures of a handfull of people on the same piece of paper, and the rest of us could send the organiser our (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Alright I concede it is doubtful that it is impervious to shot. Still you must admit that it is a cool looking vessel and is highly worthy of lego modeling. And I bet you can't use one of those firing lego cannons to sink my model. Mark L (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | MA #12 - Advances Begin in One Week
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Advancements for MA #12 will begin on Tuesday morning, November 2nd. (URL) MA #12 is an automated auction of 60, 000+ brand-new lego parts. * Bidding is handled by a specially designed auction program. - Easy-to-use auction interface with single (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) I have not, but lord knows I want to. If you find anyone that has and can get pictures let me know. I will do the same for you. I had thought to use paint and regular head and body pieces along with Islander gear, but something still seems (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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I think, if they made them, these pieces would have been in those under water boats sets (forget what that theme/sub-theme is called, but it has a lot of blue and red, and magnets, IIRC). -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'm just tired. If they're killing service packs entirely I'd say chances of them ever doing any kind of bulk sales are nil. I almost bought a few of the Castle DACTA sets once, but I honestly couldn't see much in it that I truly wanted. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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Instead of Juniorized they could be cost cutting measures, one piece vs 5 or 6? Who knows....there are days I think we're (as in the older lego crowd, 20+) just thinking 'that's the way it was and we liked it' (Dana Carvey's Grumpy Old Man) when we (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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From: "Jim Choate" <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> (...) regular (...) This shouldn't affect mindstorms however, since it doesn't use any special devices (it just talks via the serial port). I haven't used the Mindstorms software in ages, so I can't (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I went to a local CompUSA looking for a add-on for Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri and was wandering around. Lo and Behold, I find a children's section of software with all the Mindstorm Kits! Including the new RIS 1.5. I just got my RIS 1.0 for my (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Nope. No red in the Adventurers. I'm theme-complete there, and I don't have any. (...) Doh. Yes, I have these in dk grey too. Blue? Neat. Do you recall where from? (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) The Richard Chamberlain/Sharon Stone movies? Dreadful movies. Awful. Terrible. And I like Richard Chamberlain. Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold. King Solomon's Mines. Golan and Globus productions: enough said to the wise. Bruce A (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) You are right ... I will take some pictures of my "unique" figures and do a little table/writeup about them. Designing those guys alone is almost as fun as building structures (if not more fun for myself - I like to get lost in my little lego (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'll pay shipping costs, no problem. I will also quite happily wait for overseas shipping. I think very few AFOLs will have any problem with a 'pay and wait' policy, because we're generally quite used to that in the second hand market. James (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) (at least as visible from thumbnails on KL's server)... of course I quite probably would have missed any that weren't obvious... Perhaps the Jungle Adventures stuff maybe? Anyone got more time than I do to do a more thorough job? I think the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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Ray, You could be on to something. That would explain why the European service pack catalog has like 3 times the number of service packs in it then our does. If people want bulk, maybe we ought to contact them over seas and see if we can do business (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have two thoughts/speculations: - Enfield only makes the highest volume parts. Below some production level, it is more cost effective to make the parts at a different factory and ship them to the other factories rather than each factory (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) if the number of mini-cylinders could be reduced by 10 by only using 1 on each leg (use 1/2 beams for bracing outside the cylinder) and maybe using single cylinders and links for moving the legs? The basic design has a wonderful symmetry that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Updated web pages, Metroliner Monorails Pics
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(...) Do you know whats triggering it? I can change the URL or text if there is a word or phrase that is causing the block. -- Scott Smallbeck scotts@contactics.com (URL) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, I would greatly appreciate information on line-followers and oscillating DC wire-followers to use with the Handy Board. Which models are the most practical? Where can I find the specs and instructions for these models? What is the code for (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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There seems to be a disparity between the costs of bricks in the bulk tubs and parts in general. Bricks in bulk tub vary around 1.5 - 2 cents each. In general set parts seem to cost 10 cents (or higher) per piece on average. <Speculation> Could it (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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