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(...) Yes. (...) Yes. (...) Yes. (...) Yes, just not as much as the above. (...) I recently made an almost life-sized model of our dog (well, her head). She's a border collie, so plenty of black and white bricks, plus a handful of grey, and red for (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | RE: Kevin Loch's pictures from Mindfest.
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Some of the Star Wars scenes make great desktop backgrounds too! Rich Thompson (URL) Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of Kevin Loch Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 2:07 PM To: (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Wow! The dog is very cute. I like when people build this kind of things, if it is dogs, cats or parrots doesn´t matter. --Tobias (...) Here (...) again (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) attention- (...) because (...) days after I started researching Lego on the net. After buying the Classic Star Wars sets this summer I have decided to get back into Lego after 10 years of them being stored away in a closet at my parents' (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Cramped city with a train and a monorail running through it soon. Need some help on how to do this.
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Why not make monorail tunnels through the buildings? That´ll look futuristiac and cool. Or, you could have the monorail above the ground, with stations on top of the really big houses. Oh, now I want to build a city like this!! --Tobias (...) have (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) That too!! (...) Yes - I always considered this as a parade or something of that sort. Dan (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I won't take that personally :) I think we've been spoiled by Matt's 1600x1280 digital camera. KL (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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The biggest hope I hold out is that the model railroading hobby takes to LEGO trains seriously and in a big way. This is a hobby which has manufacturers capable of meeting or exceeding TLG's quality of manufacture, and know that if they put out (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Don't forget that there is a *car* and a statue that has the date 1892 on it! Many European cities still have castles and the old town walls from the middle ages, and I always thought this set represented that. Jeff "I've had enough. I will (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | RE: Pneumatics and the RCX -how?
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There are other models of pneumatic LEGO hexapods on the web already that use linkage for the foward/reverse motion as well as a single large cylinder for each legs vertical motion. (2 URLs) a couple nice examples which inspired me to build this (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What do you do with your lego?
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(...) Speaking personally, I'm not that creative and I don't get that much time to create stuff; I've got a lot of large models that I find much more relaxing to build (I like following the pretty instructions!) OTOH, a colleague at work has just (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Lugnet Roll-call
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I never did this on RTL... Name: John DiRienzo Gender: Male Year of Birth: 1974 Mental Age/Status of Inner Child: 14-16 Location: Saint Louis, USA E-mail Address: ig88888888@stlnet.com or IG88888888@aol.com LEGO/home page URL(s): (URL) Status: (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Kevin Loch's pictures from Mindfest.
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I just wanted to make sure that those of you that don't follow the lugnet.org group saw that Kevin Loch has posted his pictures from Mindfest on his site. There are some great pictures here even though they are a little small. (URL) is Kevin's (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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(...) When I heard that Lego was finally issuing a Star Wars line (which I had been dreaming of since 1978), I lost all self-control and bought assorted Knights, Robin Hood, and Indiana Jones sets to supplement the only legos I had, a mint-box 6080 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Microfig-scale heavy melee mech (Was: Microfig-scale heavy worker mech) [DAT]
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Hey y'all, Here's a military version of the model I posted yesterday. Upgrades include a YBBG (1) in the right claw, jump jets on the back, and anti-personnel machine guns mounted on the shoulders. A name, it needs a name...! LMK! Cheers, - jsproat (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Not to condone juniorization, but I think a little bit of it may be a good thing. Of course, I think it's terrible to juniorize a whole theme (or range of themes!) across the board, but since every kid is different, some kids probably do (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: RCX with AC power - Still Available
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James C. Jones <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:v01540b02b43b87...121.26]... (...) Yea, but they want something like $150 compared to $200 for a RCX and a whole lot of parts with the RIS. (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Diana's train auction, update 8
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Welcome to Diana's train auction. Updates are emailed to all bidders and anybody requesting to be on the mailing list. set condition varies. n = new in box. b = used with box and instructions. u = used with instructions but without the box. s = see (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Well, except Star Wars -- but kids probably wanted that too. Do you mean things which adults wanted but which kids didn't necessarily want? Yeah, hmmm, I can't think of any wishes-come-true either -- certainly not in Castle or Town, to say the (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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I won't use MegaBlocks. But if some HOBBYIST produces parts I want, and does it in a way that is non infringing of TLG intellectual property, just tell me where to send my money. I'd rather buy them from TLG. But... (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: something nelug could do
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(...) Yeah, I'm tempted to agree. If we want to set up a meeting, we should have a specific purpose to the meeting other than just to say "hey, we're here!" Perhaps if we want to set up a grandiose-type event and want their input, we could get a (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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Ok, I am new to Lugnet and have a few questions as far as general topics. Can anyone suggest where I can go to post them? I am back into the childhood bliss of Lego after about a 10 year absence, thanks to the new Star Wars sets this spring, but (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | 1592 Town Square
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Just wondering - How many 'castle' people consider the 1592 Town Square set part of the castle theme. Don't get me wrong the knights are very cool, but I've always had trouble considering this to be a castle set. The British flag, the fish and chips (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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Good advice. One of the kids, when asked about why he persisted in touching stuff when I had asked him not to replied: "Well, my dad is very important around here so it's OK" Presumably he was some professor of education... you connect the dots. :-) (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | RCX Mower (was RCX with AC power - Still Available)
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You wouldn't necessarily have to map the lawn. Just let it go around randomly. A purely random algorithm would have a tendency to miss corners, though. You could do something random, but add a bias of some kind to help it get the corners of your (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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(...) Or those of us not in the US who bid on anything. I just recently got a lot off eBay that from 'cheque sent' to 'lot received' took over 2 months, shipped air-mail. The turn-around time at the sellers end was 2 days. I frequently get huge (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lego 6377 Delivery Center
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Delivery Center from 1985. Includes instructions but no box. This is not a complete set. Set contains 275 of 283 pieces. Here is a list of the missing pieces: 1 Blue 6x12 plate 2 clear window panes for 1x4x3 windows 1 grey 2x2 plate with turntable (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | FA(eBay) ending tonight: Rock Raiders HQ 32x48 baseplate, tall windows, 6x8 ramps, cranes, flags
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Rock Raiders HQ raised baseplate from 4990 (URL) parts - enough for 2 cranes (URL) large red windows 1x4x6 (URL) red 6x8x1 roof/ramps (URL) flags, 58 flagpoles (URL) Email: kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com Web page: (URL) auctions: (URL) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Mindfest Vidcaps
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I grabbed a bunch of images from the 2 hours of video I shot at Mindfest. Friday and Saturday are online now, Sunday tomorrow. Because my capture card is lame they are only 320x240 but the quality is better than I expected. Lot's of funny shots. I (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: New S@H catalog is a disappointment (to me)
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(...) Does the US holiday catalogue still have service packs listed? I just got my Canadian one a few weeks ago, and it had the usual multi-page spread of service packs. Just curious... James (URL) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | What do you do with your lego?
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So, what exactly do you do with your lego? hord it? Buy and sell it? Play with it? Actually create things with it?!?! Looking through your web sites (the various ones in delurking form) there was a surprising lack of original creations posted And (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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(...) Those of us who bid on AucZILLA;-) <runs> -John (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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(...) 6891 Gamma V Laser Craft is where I got one of mine, but I believe I have two others. Dunno where from tho. Jeff (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: New S@H catalog is a disappointment (to me)
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I'd have to agree...the only new thing I noticed wa the Legoland computer game. Blech! I'd rather play Roller Coaster Tycoon or Theme Park! I also noticed that there was no movement (again) on the "Limited Quantity" and "Hard to Find" sets. Will (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Launch of new site: SimiLego
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(...) <Snipped Scott Arthur's comments and Followed-up to lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan> Tom, Yes, my ISP is in Chicago (seemed to be a good value at the time), but I live in Kansas City. Great to hear from another greater-KC-area LEGO fan. We might try to (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan)
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| | Re: Lego Creator soft ware
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Jeffrey Baldwin: (...) Some problems with using LEGO Creator for your job (iirc): - No train wheels - No printing of instructions Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.games)
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| | Re: Busy-Bee has 6347 Monorail Accessory Track!
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Tom Stangl wrote in message <3807A33B.7911B8E9@n...pe.com>... (...) mentioned (...) whopping) (...) I think I could accommodate you with 3 of those. They are on my web (trade, promos) page... -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Spielwaren Reimann?
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I have bought stuff from Spielwaren Reinmann. They had most of the stuff on their list in stock at the time, but not after I ordered from them... <evil grin> They are a good company. -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: anyone use DYA-Shopping?
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The DYA web site no longer lists 5571 ... I was going to order one for my father but looks like I missed my chance. Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com Frank Filz wrote in message <3815B397.1548@minds...ng.com>... (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Big Mini-fig (was Re: Castle Minifigs: Relative Rareness)
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I already told y'all I really like those knights from 677/6077, but I had to show you guys this (in case you missed it)... (URL) try... (URL) Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL John DiRienzo (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Future Direction Of LEGO.....
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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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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----- 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 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (27 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 (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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. (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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? (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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