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From what I have hear Lego should be moving in a new direction soon. They have a new individual heading up their web division (not responsible for the recent alterations of lego.com) and I think the marketing folks in general are paying a lot more (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | what's with World Shop ?
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Hi, has anyone recently been able to put in (via Internet) an order at the LEGO World Shop? Since weeks, I am only getting a message about "technical difficulties" preventing them from processing orders. Is that for real? Thanks for any (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A few questions on NQC vs. VB
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Hi Zac, Dave Baum's NQC is excellent ... not quite the capabilities of pbForth, but *much* easier to learn. Mark Overmars' RCX-CC makes NQC even easier to use ... and best of all, both Dave and Mark have made their efforts available for use free of (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | New S@H catalog is a disappointment (to me)
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I was happy to find a new S@H (Holiday Magic) Catalog in my mailbox today. However, after perusing and finding no sets I had not seen before I felt let down. I was hoping for some hints as to new sets for 2000, but there weren't any. At first (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A few questions on NQC vs. VB
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(...) I'd recommend NQC; if you use visual basic, you'll need to go through a lot of communicating-with-the-brick and user-interface crap every time you want to make a program. With NQC, you concentrate on writing your code for the robot, and don't (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) What's next? Hmmmm.... (1) The continuation of prostituting of the Lego brand by putting it on everything from bedsheets to lousy computer games? (2) More and more commercial tie-ins to the point where there will be little or no original (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: A few questions on NQC vs. VB
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(...) After seeing all the cool stuff at Mindfest this weekend, I'll say this: 1. Learn about basic bot building using the graphical tools from LEGO 2. When you need more control, go to NQC 3. When you run out of variables or timers, etc go to (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Zac, I may not understand your objectives, but I'd say that using NQC with the Rcx Command Center RcxCC is the current best choice for work that is primarily concerned with programming the Rcx and Robots. You'll find it very easy to use, and there's (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Roarke's Drift (Zulu)
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(...) I thought you were refering to painting a proper shield. Break a spear in half for an assegi. I'd start with Islanders and simply accept that whatever resulted was a vague approximation. Bruce (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | RCX with AC power - Still Available
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Hi. Yes I mostly lurk, but what a great listserv this is!! I recently acquired a Robolab for my 8th grade science classes - WAY COOL. Also, I recently went to a Lego sponsored training workshop, where the Lego Rep. tells me that you can still get (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Future Direction Of LEGO.....
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I am seeing a lot of angry folks in LUGNET this week. Rather than "lighting the torches" just yet, let's let the group letter to KKK (and Peter Eio) take their course. One thing about the upper management folks at LEGO is that they are polite, and (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.0a multi-threading problem
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(...) [snip] Heh. I've spent 2 days on this, so I know how you feel :). main() must be the first function in your source file, otherwise really weird stuff happens. -- Regards, Modemch (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | A few questions on NQC vs. VB
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Hi all. I've been lurking in the shadows reading posts for a couple of weeks and now have a question of my own. I'd like to move beyond the programming capabilities of the RIS software and am trying to decide which way to go. I have VERY little (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Roarke's Drift (Zulu)
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(...) it. (...) Shame on you Bruce, You missed the reference to PAINT in my sentence. I had the most noble of intentions in my statement. I was thinking more along the lines of a grass skirt, new headpiece, etc. Not anything else, I assure you. And (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: MOTOR DRIVERS
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I also remember seeing people piggybacking the L293s to double the current capability. Thoughts? -chris ----- Original Message ----- From: Fred G. Martin <fredm@media.mit.edu> To: <handyboard@media.mit.edu> Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 2:26 PM (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) The semi-tractor's base in the helicopter transport semi (URL) I bought solely for the tr-red slopes) is so juniorized and in need of being several separate parts that the single part TLG use *is* indeed 2 parts *glued* *together*. More of (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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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 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: 3D geometry question
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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) -- ---...--- (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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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 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Roarke's Drift (Zulu)
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(...) Zulu warriors, hhhhmmmmmmmm. Yellow minifigs, hhhmmm...mmm. They seem a might.....pale? :-) Bruce (NO! Let's not debate that! Please!) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs RIS 1.5
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nooooo! The 1.5 doesn't have a power connector. buy another 1.0 if you can. KL (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: McDonalds Happy Meal Set information
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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. (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pneumatics and the RCX -how?
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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 (...) (27 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. (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Star Wars Set WIshes
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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 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Mc Donalds Duplo
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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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Launch of new site: SimiLego
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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 (27 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 (...) (27 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 (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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