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(...) Oh, alright. With your caveat, of course. :-) (...) Oh, dang. I printed it out and it is being passed around at work. I think you can find it at www.thestinkers.com. It was frightening how many on the list I have seen, but also reassuring that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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Fredrik: (...) [ ... ] Nice solution. :) I should have thought of it. :( Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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I was thinking back to, oh, 1983-84 when there once was a big toy company by the name of Kenner making Star Wars toys between 1977 untill I forgot when it filed for bankruptcy and was bought by Mattel. After all, many of us thought "Return of the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Zulu warriors, hhhhmmmmmmmm. Yellow minifigs, hhhmmm...mmm. They seem a might.....pale? :-) Bruce (NO! Let's not debate that! Please!) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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nooooo! The 1.5 doesn't have a power connector. buy another 1.0 if you can. KL (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I don't know for sure, but I think I have more helicopters than Jets and Trains combined, followed closely by Police vehicles! :) Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Pirates, Castle, Blacktron, Police, Ice Planet 2002, M Ton and Space for sale
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Hello All I can get the following set as listed below. Email me if you need price's in UKP or USD, price do not include shipping from the UK You can also make me an offer on these sets or read my wants on my website. The stock is subject to have (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Lego 236 Garage
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(...) Back in the 50's and 60's not only didn't a lot of the sets not have instructions, but some of them had instructions on the inside box top. The Town Plan #725 and Junior Constructor #717 were two large 1961-64 sets that were in a large heavy (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Very nice construction!!! Could you post some pictures of your hand-held controller too? (Whatever is on the off-screen end of the tether seen in the video clip.) Is that just a battery box, or is there more to it? (...) I had some thoughts (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs group name nominations
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(...) Then maybe it's time to fix that, neh? :-, I had no idea what "Bay Area" was until I came to the States...then I discovered it referred to the San Francisco Bay area...then I discovered it really depended upon which bay you were closest to. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc)
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| | Re: McDonalds Happy Meal Set information
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"The under-three toy throughout the LEGO promotion will be a LEGO DUPLO® Parrot and is available by request." If all the sets are for 3+, does that maen the there will be no mini-figs... just freestyle? "Ronald® Helicopter" Great, another (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) For me the answer is yes but not a resounding one. Star Wars is actually better then most current lines in terms of generics. (...) I do alot to actually make generics. For the pilots it is easy just change the head. Because aliens are (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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It looks like if your Kids are too young for Lego... you'll get Duplo instead! "While each toy can be enjoyed individually, kids can collect all eight and build a LEGO super model aircraft. The under-three toy throughout the LEGO promotion will be a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: BT2 *mostly* bites (Was: Picture of Falcon?)
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(...) I have a friend at church who does shirt silk-screening and hat stitching from his house, not too bad, really... He's even offered me a couple'a deals. I'll bounce this off his head. (...) *ba-karoom* Noooo-one expects the Very large (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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(...) I actually bought one of the little planes from the adventurers set, on a whim (because I thought it was neat). Inside was the little brochure for the SW sets, which really got me going. My fiance is pretty supportive of it. She'll even urge (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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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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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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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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| | Greatest Adventurer Books
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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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| | Yet another Falcon opinion
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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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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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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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| | Star Wars Set WIshes
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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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| | Re: Windows 2000 (fwd)
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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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| | Re: Nautilus
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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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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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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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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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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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| | Re: Idea: Boycott the falcon
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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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| | Re: Windows 2000 (fwd)
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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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| | RIS 1.0 vs RIS 1.5
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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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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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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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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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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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| | Re: New Castle site
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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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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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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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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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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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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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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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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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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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| | RE: Pneumatics and the RCX -how?
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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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| | line-followers
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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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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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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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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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(...) "back"? There was such a thing as 3x3's???? And in CLEAR of all colors?!? DaveE (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Dark Forest FOTW
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(...) what (...) Just for any further lurkers, two people took me up on the offer and that's all in good conscience I can accept since this is dependent on the items still being available by the time the money arrives. Bruce (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Forgive my provincialism;-) So it's *Europe's* fault that slope parts packs aren't selling! Here in the States we have no use for red slopes. Now it's *our* turn. Produce dark gray slopes and see how sales go. ;John (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: mindstrorms in Nederland
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(...) De nieuwe blauwe Scout (pas uit in de VS, ik heb hem net meegebracht) heeft geen connector. Waarschijnlijk is dat de oorzaak van de verwarring, want het schijnt dat de RIS 1.5 qua hardware (de RCX) niet afwijkt van de RIS 1.0 Eric Brok (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | McDonalds Happy Meal Set information
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From the PR Newswire (which I follow since I'm a McD stockholder)... PR info on the new sets they're offering... (URL) to market.shopping ++Lar (in sunny Melville NY, Detroit later today, then on to MSP tomorrow and Thu) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs group name nominations
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(...) I'll second this one. Matthew Miller makes a good point about Wasatch not being a term that outside visitors would recognize. Plus GULL makes for a cute inside joke, though I don't usually go for that kind of thing(1). PLEASE let's vote on (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Some, not all. My kids couldn't tell the difference between nintendo or tenelevendo;-) (...) ILYK Today is my son's 10th birthday and he's getting the 8448-- I wouldn't bet against him, though;-) (...) I think TLG knows that kids are (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Updated web pages, Metroliner Monorails Pics
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(...) Hmm. Gets through the one at my work just fine. Those security filters are full of holes anyway. (let things through they shouldn't, block things that are fine, etc) Nice monorail. James (URL) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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James Simpson wrote in message ... (...) tried to (...) old (...) products, (...) I've been brought out my dark ages before the Star Wars Legos. What they will bring me out of is looking like my marriage..:-) Selçuk (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Although the Star Wars may be fine in and of themselves (I personally have no use for them), it's the idea behind there being a Star Wars tie-in that's disturbing. If TLG doesn't have enough imagination to come up with its own Space sets (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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(...) I've got quite a few of them. As parts go, its somewhere between rare and hard-to-find. I've only seen them in black, grey, brown (recent) and white(I think?) They probably exist in other colors as well, but I haven't seen them. James (URL) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <3814d069.204035275@...et.com>... <snip> (...) to (...) many (...) <snip> Men, you are lucky, you know!..I wish I were there. How could I say much more than that?..:-) Selçuk PS. Even I live in a place thousands of (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 64K UPGRADE
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When upgrading to 64K, could that be done when still using Interactive C? By the way, what's the main difference between 2.8 and 3.X versions? Advantanges and Disavantages!!! Thanks, Paul (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Monthly check for MO fans
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I am in StL. Pretty far from Springfield. I think I have been through Springfield, though! Isn't it near Rolla, kinda? -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL abieler wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) So did I. There have always been many alternatives to Lego. When I was younger, you had Star Wars, GI Joe, Atari and Matchbox cars. (...) are (...) stop (...) action (...) driving (...) up a (...) I strongly disagree. So then I take it that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Just STL? C'mon SPR!
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Are you still holding your breath? Don't feel bad, there aren't many (at least the last time I checked) from StL either. -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL abieler wrote in message ... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.spr)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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Thanks Gary, I would like to join. If you people have any more info about this new Lego "club" please let me know. -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL Gary Istok wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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Missouri IS in the Midwest. Thats all I have to say about that. -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL Christopher Weeks wrote in message <37E4FDBC.EEBBDAA1@e...se.net>... (...) the (...) West (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | Re: Need ideas for vehicle
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OK, here's what I think is going to take place with my model. (all I have to do is start building now) I was playing with a recon idea, but decided to merge that with the story that Tobias had for a search vehicle. I also liked Tom's idea of a MASH (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | FOR TRADE : 5988 Parts (Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins )
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Although this set is quite new, I picked it up real cheap in a sale ($12). Some parts are missing... but most of it is there. Does anyone need parts from the this set? Scott A (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Amusingly enough, the first time I heard this rumour I called S@H to confirm it as well. The rep said yes, this change was coming up; he went to ask and came back saying that it was definitely planned, but with no date set yet. (Afterwards, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why stop at Mindfest??
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(...) We had one back in 95 here in the Chicago burbs, but we called it Legofest 95. I've heard of them in other cities too. It was pretty fun. We had Lego bingo, blindfolded building contests, creative story telling with limited pieces, etc. Peter (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Problem with POV-RAY
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(...) Duh. For some reason I confused .mpd with ldao's extended commands. Sorry for the mis-info. Does anyone know if l2p does .mpds? -John Van (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: anyone use DYA-Shopping?
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Well, I just received my DYA order yesterday (along with my Busy Bee order - what a lot of LEGO). I'm affraid I may have to go back for more 5571s (and maybe an 8880 for parts)... (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Datsville is filling up!
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John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) Congratulations, you have reached the MAX_PARTS in L3P! L3P has an array of properties for all loaded parts (or rather DAT files), and long time ago I set the size to 900 - I didn't imagine anyone would (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem with POV-RAY
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John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) L3P *does* do .mpd's and has done so since Version 1.1 19981221, see: (URL) C. Hassing "No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway." L3P page: (URL) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Microfig 928 Galaxy Explorer
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(...) Great job, Greg. I might have to try something like that soon. ..joseph g (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | More Mindfest Tidbits
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This is a listing of a number of things that happened at Mindfest both related to the NELUG table and in general. 1. There were quite a few TLG reps on hand and many of us had a chance to chat with them. I will relate the few experiances I had and (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Launch of new site: SimiLego
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No Doubt, I've been salivating ever since I saw it about 5 minutes ago. Andreas, are you in Kansas City? Just wondering because you have lots of KC stuff yet the ISP is from Chicago. Great stuff! Wife must be way understanding. I just moved from KC (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Explorien Starship #6982
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My point was not to compete with anyone, especially DYA. Simply that I observed several of a hard-to-find set at a particular store. For those who wanted one and could not locate it, there they are. If someone partakes of those sets, cool. If not, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: by far rarest knights
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Dirk, You are right... I forgot all about the 1592 Knights, and I guess everyone else did, too. I have about 10 of these knights, making them the rarest knights in my collection. I have more of any other type of knight that Lego made, I am quite (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Kids of today have grown up around nintendo games and action figures You give a kid of today a 5571 giant truck or an 8880 supercar and say here are the instructions and here are the bits. see if you can put it together. do you think that we (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This is a good idea Sergey. Obvoiusly you have got a set of tools up to build the pbForth from the distribution. Does the makefile work OK for you? I might suggest that I add a word that turns the echos off or on? How does ECHO_OFF ( -- ) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi For the parts with some regularity (helmets etc) I draw them up on graph paper, showing three projections, converting the curves to polygons/prisms, using judgement as to the level of detail. Circular sections follow the 16-agon standard, curves (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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(...) Right on! SW Legos is what brought me out of my dark ages. For at least a year prior to the release of the SW line, I almost invested in other Lego products, but I could never quite justify the expense to myself. But it was SW that brought me (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I have a feeling that this has been said before, but still: Let's not forget that the Star Wars sets are probably the best LEGO System sets for a long time. I think most people would agree that these sets are much better in terms of (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: Boycott the falcon
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(...) Junorised pieces refer to parts like the new bay window pieces in the new town sets or the one piece car wheelbases from the new town sets. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I would say Lego has been targeting primarily kids since the introduction of the mini-fig. I can't think of even one instance (and I've been here a long time) where Lego implemented something an AFOL wanted. What's changed is that Lego now (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've seen them, I've seen them! Lego reps that is, not drop bears. But I didn't speak to them. (There were two together, some sort of Dropbear training?)!:) James. Bunyip anyone? Hmm... do 'mericans understand what a bunyip is? (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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(...) I do like these ideas and have tossed them around in my head myself but it allways comes back to $$. One of the biggest problem is to balance donations with peoples ability to pay. I for one could probably donate a fair amount but someone else (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: High praise for TLG after seeing 4288 bucket for first time
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(...) I've got a lot of these which you can have if you want.... (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Why? The spare parts packs (with the occasional exception) suck, and have sucked for years. They're mostly runoff from whatever sets Lego is producing at the time anyway. Have you ever considered purchasing DACTA sets? (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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Would this be all service packs, or only those in the 5xxx range? Surely they will not discontinue essential service packs, such as the 9756 LEGO MINDSTORMS Rotation Sensor, for example. Peter Callaway <pcallaway@bmcl.com.au> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm dual-booting to Win95 (haven't gotten around to bothering with NT, and don't want to give MS any more of my money) to use Photoshop. The GIMP is decent, but it's not there yet in power, features, or ease of use. I hope it will be someday, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) FWIW, many roofs in Europe are red. Where I was in Germany, I'd say it was the vast majority. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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Once i find out how to cross post I think we should be filling up the troughs of Loc.au just as you suggested to me.. So apologies for that. Santosh (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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| | Re: BT2 *mostly* bites (Was: Picture of Falcon?)
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Sproaticus wrote in message <3814975D.F8DC1ECF@io.com>... (...) Me too, if only for non- (or even just subtly!) patterned saucer pieces. They would be fantastic for making very large radar dishes that didn't make you gag every time you saw them (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | RoboForce Slope Invasion @ THE BRICKYARD!
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RoboForce Hits the Slopes! A Brickyard Update: (URL) Brickyard has recently posted the contents of several RoboForce sets (2152) and while the model itself is not much to luck at, the set is a motherlode of slope elements including roof caps end end (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) Sometimes we like to believe that most people don't suck. Most of the time we're forced to re-evaluate. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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(...) As an outsider, I'd recommend against this one -- Wasatch doesn't mean anything to me, and if I had to guess, I'd probably think "some strange and fabled mountain creature related to the Yeti" before I'd think "somewhere in Utah". That may not (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc)
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Scott-A <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message news:FK7Bz8.Bv9@lugnet.com... (...) I want something to wake me up in the morning - not send me to sleep ;-) Ben (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Idea: Boycott the falcon
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(...) That reminds me.... it's been awhile since I bought a Town set or anything besides Star Wars LEGOs or Space Legos. What are all the references to juniorized pieces? Is this something new? or are we talking about the same thing they've been (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Datsville is filling up!
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(...) No. :( I forgot to post this. I let it "parse" for ... oh, 6 hours, then it gave me some memory error and exited. I meant to re-run it this weekend but we've been busy looking at places to move. I'll fire it up again tonight when I get home (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO Droid Devel Kit TV Ad
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(...) Generally Moronic Tele-Vision? ;) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Glen's 3rd Lego Auction - 10/26 Update
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Welcome to Glen's third assorted Lego set auction. Listed below are the sets I am selling. This e-mail is separated into three sections. First is the listing of the sets for sale and the current price. Second is a detailed list of the set containing (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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