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(...) But, does this come down to one simple fact: Parent involvement? John Neal actually *enjoys* Lego bricks - I can personally vouch for that! Some parents nowdays just buy their kids toys and that's the end of it - they just tell the kids to "go (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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What I want to know with towns like this one is: how do you reach into the middle of it? What if a train derails in the middle, or you want to change something in there? Kevin (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Fortunately, my wife is quite long-suffering and indulgent regarding my Lego vice. A successful strategy that I have found is to spend as much money on her as I do on Legos. This serves 3 purposes: It makes her happy, gives me a little bit (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I would have to say that Jules Verne, Joseph Conrad, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned in some heavy weights in that category. How about the rest of you? Mark L (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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My two cents: - I'm not a big fan of the UFO hull pieces, but if they allow it to be produced at something other than an outrageously small scale because of weight/cost savings, I can live with it. - Since this is a preproduction prototype, we can (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) City (...) Hi fellow adventurers, While I agree with Bruce that the Quartermain movies stink they still must be considered because the fit the genre perfectly. I guess the best that could be said of them is that they are an extremely (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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(...) My apologies . . . in my haste I didn't do my research . . . that should have been "Bring back clear 3x2 slopes from Police Boat 709." (Don't ask how . . .) James "Invent and market through S@H vast quantities of clear 3x3 packs" Simpson (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Does anyone else wish they'd just include 'regular joes' with the various sets some times? Like the X-Wing Fighter, Snowspeeder, Tie Fighter, Naboo Fighter. It's annoying, to us that buy multiples (at least me) to have 10 Luke Skywalkers. It'd be (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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----- Forwarded message from alex wetmore ----- From: "alex wetmore" <alex@phred.org> Subject: Re: Windows 2000 (fwd) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:21:15 -0700 From: "Jim Choate" <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> (...) RC3 is the release candidate for the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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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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