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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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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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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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| | Re: 1592 Town Square
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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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(...) <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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