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(...) OK, getting closer. I went more closely through a bunch of recent messages here, scanned a few more papers, and thought more about what Seymour Papert said in his talk, then culled what seemed like the core issues and wrote down a couple (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: McDonalds Info
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I'm guessing that some of the apparent new colours are due to a change in the plastic used by TLG. If you take a close look some of the new bricks in the Star Wars sets, and compare to a standard brick in the same colour, you can sometimes tell that (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Group to discuss Teaching Lego Robotics?? lugnet.robotics.teaching ???
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(...) Boy, It's almost a blur now. If I remember correctly, the discussion was about setting up a forum to discuss various issues brought up by Mindfest and its future. I suggested that LUGNET might be open to creating such a forum, but it was (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Cannon info
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Funny you should mention this, I was just researching it today. My understanding is that some sets were made with non-shooting cannons for the Americas market and with shooting cannons for all the other markets. I think 6263 (Imperial Outpost) is (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Model of the Month
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(...) Yeah there's some stiff competition, from the stats as of now it looks like two or three of the models will be competing neck-and-neck (I won't say which ones). Jeff, your A-Wing model *does* rock :) (...) Hee... Um, I forgot to announce it I (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: IR questinos and more
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Hi Sergey, (...) if you intend only to transmit, you may just disable receiving altogether. (...) for an axle. yes, angle=rotation. (...) using the rotation sensor. otherwise, slippage may occur. night, markus. (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Some interesting Stats on Mindfest photo pages
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(...) Please keep in mind that this is a brand new account, the days shown are the only 8 days the account has been active. And there really isn't anything else on the site to look at yet, just some pictures for some of my current auctions. So (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | FA: 40 Lego Sets on SeriousCollector.com - many GOING TWICE!
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Thanks for looking! Click here to bid or view: (URL) Here, to see our new site: (URL) Description Currently Bids Status Current End [PDT] 2556 Shell Model Team F1 Ferrari MISB $60.00 8062 Technic Universal Set with Storage Case NIB $60.00 8857 (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Some interesting Stats on Mindfest photo pages
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(...) that (...) How (...) thumbnails. (...) I BELIEVE it is page hits, but it doesn't really say. The info is from simplenets "stats" program and was e-mailed to me. (...) a (...) I have no idea. I have access to the raw log files if you want them (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 1.0 to 1.5 Upgrade Kit
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Did some more surfing, and found this at (URL) MINDSTORMS introduces The Robotics Invention System 1.5 In response to customer requests to make the Robotics Invention System 1.0 easier for the new user to program and build we are releasing an (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mindfest thanks
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Here's a big thank you to everyone at MindFest for a great time! I wasn't able to attend any of the workshops, but that didn't stop the time from flying. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to talk to everyone I met (sorry, Ralph H. Great talk BTW; (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.people, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Some interesting Stats on Mindfest photo pages
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>Top 30 Clients Accessing troy.simplenet.com: (...) I believe that is "page views" but it doesn't really say. Troy (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Sales Proposal - Please Read
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(...) Actually, you were number 2 :) And the first list contained more items 9but less quantities! (Every response is helpful, even if it is just fro one item!) (...) model (...) cost. (...) This was my next course of action. I was thinking of maybe (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Is it just me or does the A-wing look too thick in the middle! I looks about the right length but too chunky! Shouldn't it be slimmer, more areodynamic. I think I spelled that wrong, o' well! (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Bulk Sales Proposal - Please Read
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(...) True, but people keep saying they don't want to go through the hassle.... (...) Well, that was why I decided to see if there was an interest first, so that I wouldn't take a hit on it. (...) I chose the bucket because it is readily available, (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Mike's Train and Launch Command Auction Update 9
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Note: I will be unable to check my email on Saturday, so there will be no advancing that day. 1. This is a Once, Twice, Sold auction. 2. To bid send email to mdarnett@nycap.rr.com. I will try to post updates daily. 3. Minimum raises: 0-$50 by $1, (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: One more time: The 2000 A-Wing is not too small
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(...) :) I've just been in a bad mood this week... personal life isn't going too great, and I'm not getting much sleep. Anyway... Darn it, 15m makes more sence given the 12.5m I have for the Z-95. :) And the Z-95 is visually smaller in the games. (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Group to discuss Teaching Lego Robotics?? lugnet.robotics.teaching ???
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(...) Aha -- Rich, thanks for stepping forward. I wasn't there until the very end of the meeting, so I missed your question, but I heard about it second- or third-hand. What was the answer to your question, and were you satisfied by it? What subset (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | 1.0 to 1.5 Upgrade Kit
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"The RCX Code can now be used to create more complex programs. Version 1.5 also has new tools like the Try-out tool that shows you what a block does and the Copy tool that lets you copy one or more blocks. All your programs from version 1.0 will (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Greatest Adventurer Books
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(...) H Rider Haggard sets a high standard for Adventure yarns. I would posit that Alan Quatermain is the blueprint for all the other wannabees: Indiana Jones, Johnny Thunder etc The 1980's film is a real cheesefest. Highly recommend the book. Lots (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Need ideas for vehicle
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(...) Thanks for the positive remarks guys. The project is resting at the moment whilst I await the arrival of more large types and shocks from Lego Service. Then I will resume work on the trailer In the mean time I will post a few more pictures of (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: RCX with AC power - Still Available
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have the bot use scisors. James C. Jones <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:v01540b02b43b87...121.26]... (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IntelliMouse Ripe for Hacking
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This is the way to go. If you can rig a PS2 mouse to RCX, then the new optical mouse should work also. Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:FK61A5.Ex7@lugnet.com... (...) so, (...) wonder (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Broken #8448 and #8445
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Hi! I normlly post in the Star Wars secion but I do hane some Technic sets also. Resently I bought the Super Street Sensation and the Indy Storm. They both have the new air cylinders! Well 2 out the 3 that I have have broken. I Just called TLG they (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Cannon info
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I learned some things about lego cannons last night that I didn't know. I was at a friends house and was looking through his collection that he is sorting and I found his cannons. I was weirded out to see that they were all one part. (the actual (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: HOSER problem
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I placed the required part(752 ??) where it needs to be and then used that point for getting the end of the hose where I want it. This is what I've been doing all along and I've never gotten the wierd end point like I was experiancing with this one. (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 1.0 to 1.5 upgrade
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Below are some products offered by (URL) I do not understand is that the upgrade kit from 1.0 to 1.5 can already be ordered, but the complete 1.5 will be available in January 2000. Can somebody explain? Harrie de Leeuw The Netherlands 9747 LEGO (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I admit it, I actually sorta like it! (was: Re: A New Hope (for the MF))
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(...) bad, (...) for (...) Well, I've been waiting close to 20 years for this puppy, and I am not in the LEAST bit disappointed, even with the fairly crummy photo we've seen. I've been using an old Kenner Falcon, retro-fitted with plates on the (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Group to discuss Teaching Lego Robotics?? lugnet.robotics.teaching ???
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(...) I think that might have been me. I was sitting in the front row right across from Mitchel. (...) Rich (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | More scale questions (Was: Scale of Lego)
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(...) I'd be curious to see what other commonly-used modelling scales there are, and what model genres are commonly used with them. For example, HO scale is commonly used in train models and is (I believe) 1/87; this makes a 1x4 brick approx. 9 feet (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Holiday Catalog-2000 Adventurers
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Mark Lindsey <markwars@fcmail.com> wrote in message news:FK9rDv.GK2@lugnet.com... (...) some (...) here? (...) Rest assured that as soon as I have a copy, I'll post scans to my web site. (URL) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Bulk Sales Proposal - Please Read
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(...) Yup. I'm his one response. That bucket had precisely four parts that appealed to me. I gave him my list,anyway - I figure it can't hurt. I really don't think a bucket is the best choice for this. I'd suggest picking something like the x-wing, (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Chaining multiple RCX's output to input
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Stephen Unwin <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:Marcel-1.53-102...n.co.uk... (...) That makes sense cause the RCX has a 10K pulling the input up to 5V. The 10K you put in series with the motor will put the voltage at half way (2.5V) (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Cleaning Legos with a WaterPik?
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Last night I was thinking about cleaning lego pieces, and suddenly, it hit me! Use a WaterPik(sp?)! Has anyone ever tried this? We got rid of ours years ago, so I can't try it out. Jeff "If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?" (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: adventurers villainess
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(...) ~ or it could be "sonny" instead of these clouds... if y'all think my 'figs are something, watch out for my puns! later ~ craig (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Bulk Sales Proposal - Please Read
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(...) I'd say you aren't getting many responses for a variety of reasons. Maybe including: People know they will continue to be able to get bulk bricks from lots of sources with lots of people breaking up tubs. People like me know that they can (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: adventurers villainess
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(...) Or Tor Naitto? (Groan) Mark L (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: stalled motor detection
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If a motor stalls, it draws a lot of current (compared to normal operation). You can measure that quite easilyusing dedicated chip, or by measuring the voltage over a small resistor in series with the motor: if more current is draw, the voltage drop (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: One more time: The 2000 A-Wing is not too small
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(...) Well, I think it means "nose to (the end of the) engine block". That's how I took it anyway. :) Hey, I never know what I'm talking about! ;) Jeff "This is definitely not a common spell!" (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: stalled motor detection
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Shaft encoders are hard to beat. If the wheels are commanded to turn and aren't, that's a good indication that something is screwy. Plus, if you're doing dead reckoning, you need them anyway so they are already there! Gary Livick (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: adventurers villainess
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(...) Cirro Stratus! :) On second thought, this would probably work better for the Wealthy Expidition Backer. How about his son, Nim Bo Stratus? What can I say, I'm taking Meteorology right now. :) Jeff (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: AFOL's in Wilkes-Barre, PA
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(...) I live about an hour south in Allentown (Bath actually but I'm moving to west Allentown in November). Other's in the area: Bruce Shaw in Blue Bell (about 2 hours south) Tim Vattima south of Philadelphia (about 2.5 to 3 hours south) Rob (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.swb)
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| | Re: adventurers villainess
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(...) on. (...) shirt (...) makes (...) to (...) of (...) Thanks for all of those suggestions. You're right about being busy for awhile! One question though, when you say that you have taken off an eye brow here and a mouth there how did you (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | RE: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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If you remove the lens from (I suspect) most pointers, you won't get a beam of light at all, even a conical one. Most laser diodes are essentially "point" sources, the light goes in any direction it can (think flat lightbulb). Moving the lens closer (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: HOSER problem
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Ryan, Remember that first you need to place the hose ends in the model yourself. Then determine the x,y,z of the "top" of each hose end. These will be the endpoints for hoser. Add the control points, and hoser will calculate the position and (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Blue Steep Sloped Corners
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(...) Correct! Space Station Zenon has 5 of them and as far as I know, is the only set that has them. Rob +---...---+ | Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com | | (URL) | | (URL) | +---...---+ (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Sam's Club Throwbots
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(...) Wow. Nice discount, assuming TB's usually go for $6 each. Steve "Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain." (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Your McDonalds sets
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(...) Usually, you can purchase the toy without the meal for a dollar or so. Also, it's not unusual for McD's to offer the complete set of the current toys on a mail-order basis. But it varies between promotions. I'll check when I get my first LEGO (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: One more time: The 2000 A-Wing is not too small
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(...) It says "12.5 from nose to engine block" but does this include the length of the engines past the body? Dosn't matter, that wouldn't be 2.5 meters... Ah, forget everything I said then. :( Show me to act like I know what I'm talking about. (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: McDonalds Info
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(...) I'm currently leaning towards that, too, but I'm not counting out regular blue yet. However, I do think the green is regular green. I think the lighting is just brightening everything up, 'cause the yellow looks brighter, too. Jeff "I've had (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: LTC national convention
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(...) One thing that always gets noticed by LEGO is an attempt to build the tallest LEGO structure ever. What is the current record anyway? Isn't it held by Australia? Scott Smallbeck scotts@contactics.com (URL) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: McDonalds Info
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(...) I wish! I asked about this and it was either $1.69 or $1.79 before sales tax, they weren't sure which yet. I'm hoping they erred on the high side... /Eric McCarthy/ (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: adventurers villainess
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(...) well, o.k., then... but you've no idea how many johnny thunders i've mutilated.... i have a teddy roosevelt/ rough rider thing going on as well. i modified a baron head by removing the scar & moustache. then painting a brown van dyke on. using (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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I think that a good way to have a lasertag competition is to have an arena with many walls to hide behind, and have the robots programmed with different tactics of defense and offense. It's not hard to make an IR light beacon on top of each robot, (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Castle site
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(...) Wow! That is a BIG castle! I love it! I think someone asked already, but how big is it in terms of area? It looks like it's around 4-5 feet wide! Quite astounding! Any future plans for improving it? (not that it needs improvement!) DaveE (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Microfig-scale BattleMech
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(...) It doesn't even have knees. KNEES! I FORGOT THE KNEES! ARRRRGGGGH! :-, Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LTC national convention
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We should have an LTC national convention next summer. We could even hold the 2000 foot LEGO track record from Geniuses Book of Records, certainly all the LTC's could muster the track. This could be the highlight of the convention. It would pull in (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Some interesting Stats on Mindfest photo pages
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I've noticed a bump in my site too, since yesterday. Not as dramatic, but still significant. In particular I had 1277 uniqe ip's yesterday versus around 800 average. Also the number of static pages jumped to 13,561 versus the recent average of (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Microfig-scale BattleMech
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Sproat, Nice mech! I like these that you've been doing lately. Heh, create a POV scene with a couple of lances advancing on the goodg- er, the enemy. 8) Um, not to be *to* picky, but the MadCat is a chicken-walker. The knees should go the other way. (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | SW Keycahins (was LEGO Club memebership (was: Bluewater offers))
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Darth Vader was the first one, then came Luke in his orange flight suit. Darth Maul makes it three so far... Jon. Michael Edwards <medwards@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:FK9q7o.DD1@lugnet.com... (...) each (...) news:FK7Lsr.G4@lugnet.com... (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | RE: Double echo
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(...) Yup. Dave tells me he is working on integrating the speedier loader into NQC or even making standalone loaders by themselves... Sergey, which features do you REALLY want/need for the next release. I'm doing the following... 1. ECHO_ON/ECHO_OFF (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: NZ spares stock buyout? (was Some disturbing news
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(...) Ditto. James (URL) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why basic bricks are cheap in US (was Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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(...) <bad cheese joke> Produced in Swiss? That explains why they're full of holes. (rim shot) </bad cheese joke> LFB. (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 5958 Mummy's Tomb
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It sits at the very entrance to the Corridor of Kings, an almost nondescript tomb to a slave priest. Where other slaves were cast aside, this one was lifted to a high and prominent office for his cunning and ruthless powers. Now placed as sentinel (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Personal Projects
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(...) the (...) still (...) Impressive...most impressive. Indeed you are a jedi. Your site blew me away. Could I link your site to another? Christian Lindblad's Adventurer site has links to impressive structures such as yours and I think it would be (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: I admit it, I actually sorta like it! (was: Re: A New Hope (for the MF))
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(...) year's (...) possible (...) can't (...) know (...) doesn't (...) this (...) colour (...) cockpit is (...) can (...) are (...) so (...) assumed (...) as (...) A resounding ME TOO! I think with a few details it'll be pretty cool. Chris (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Is this true???
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(...) I've got a full UK service catalogue from earlier this year, and it doesn't have the 62 brick packs (or plate packs, for that matter; except in white) but it does have Belville and Scala, so that seems right. [1] (...) What are the current US (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Chaining multiple RCX's output to input
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(...) Pop a 10K ohm resistor in series with the motor. On my quick test with a variable resistor I got a value of 513 with the resistor at 9.7k. With a 10k resistor, the RCX raw value is now flickering between 510 and 511. P.S. same with the older (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Group to discuss Teaching Lego Robotics?? lugnet.robotics.teaching ???
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(...) I'll see to it. --Todd (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | I admit it, I actually sorta like it! (was: Re: A New Hope (for the MF))
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(...) Okay, here goes <donning flame-retardant suit>: I like the MF prototype as seen in that picture (knowing that part of the colour separation is missing). Sure, sure, I may be the ONLY ONE, but with a little saucer decoration and in varied (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Group to discuss Teaching Lego Robotics?? lugnet.robotics.teaching ???
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(...) I think major areas of education will [have to] end up going through the same push->pull revolution that traditional media have begun to go through in recent years. Pushing television shows, commercials, movies -- and especially news -- in (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Model of the Month
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(...) Yeeouch! Talk about stiff competition for A-Wing! Look at that Statue of Isis! Amazing! I guess I won't be winning this month, especially when there are so many better models to choose from! I'm also gonna have a hard time voting! Pardon me (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: AFOL's in Wilkes-Barre, PA
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(...) We don't have TRU in my neck-of-the-woods, but from what I've read on Lugnet, it sounds like a terrific place to buy Legos. Thanks for the tip on the TRU at Wyoming Valley Mall. I'll be all over that next time I go to the WB. Fellow Texans: (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.swb)
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| | Re: controlling RCX from PC?!
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(...) thanks matthew and arjen! that's exactly what i am going to do. what i did not realize at first is that 2400 baud actually *is* way too slow, as 2400 bits/s is only 240 bytes per second. a message has a length of around 10 bytes (depending on (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | What do you do with your lego?
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(...) Well, I know some people that could be described as inanimate objects. BOOM BOOM! -- Liam. (URL) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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(...) Why spend money on a laser, that should have a focused beam, when all you're going to do basically, is turn it into a flashlight? (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AFOL's in Wilkes-Barre, PA
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(...) have (...) Boulder (...) thanks! I'll check some of those places out. i hate to offend any natives here, but the whole town reminds me of a suburb that doesn't have a city to belong to. I did find both TRUs, and I bought the big Space Shuttle (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.swb)
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Hi all, I'm working on a dead reckoning 'bot. I'm not really interested in what the wheels are doing unless they're stalled. Anyone know any good tricks for monitoring the motor current, or should I go with shaft encoders anyway? Thanks! Paul (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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You can also take the "lens" out of the front of a good laser pointer and it does the same thing. KL (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Castle site
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I am insanly jealous of anyone who can accomplish such a feat. I lack the vision and being in the service the space to set about such a project...BRAVO. I have many sets and many figures, but my castles are right out of the box. One day, my boys (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: AFOL's in Wilkes-Barre, PA
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I have lots of relatives in WB. I remember when I was a kid visiting those relatives, one of my favorite things to do was to go down to the "Corner Toy Store" (?) on Market Street to look at Lego. It's long gone however. At least there is a TRU up (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.swb)
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| | Re: AFOL's in Wilkes-Barre, PA
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(...) Chris: I'm sorry that I'm going to miss you . . . but I'm not in WB right now. I have family in WB, so I often go on vacation there, and I thought that I'd try to make some contacts and future friends in that area. When I was there last summer (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.swb)
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| | Dutch Shell Promo Sets
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I've just got back from Germany, where I was indulging another of my hobbies (boardgames). Anyway, our route took us through Holland, and of course the car needed topping up with petrol, and of course one thing lead to another ... I came back with (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Some interesting Stats on Mindfest photo pages
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(...) I'll say -- wow! -- 500+ MB/day of outgoing HTTP traffic just from these images alone -- that's popular! (...) What does the number there to the left of the client/hostname mean? Is that the number of page views for that client, or the number (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6042 Dungeon Hunters
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The Vorgem Marshes have swallowed yet another group of victims! This time a small wagon carrying farm workers was found run off the county roadway, axle deep in the smelly swampland with nary a sole in sight. Clearly the Gobragee Beast still lives (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: IntelliMouse Ripe for Hacking
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Through the PS/2 adapter it doesn't require any special driver. The native USB plug requires a driver in Windows 98. Cheers, Jim Andy Gombos <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3816307E.540F5E...nfi.net... (...) to the (...) it cannot (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: McDonalds Info
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(...) It could certainly be the new blue-purple color -- the one that shows up in the new DUPLO Dinosaurs sets. It's not purple, and it's not blue, but it's in-between. It's a *gorgeous* color and it does look great with yellow or orange. What's got (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Microfig-scale heavy melee mech (Was: Microfig-scale heavy worker mech)
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(...) Thanks, man! :-, (...) Yah, well, um, you know, *coughs shrugs* I'll get to it...eventually? ;-) Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: One more time: The 2000 A-Wing is not too small
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(...) No, the X-Wing is 12.5 meters long. This is straight from www.starwars.com. You can double check for yourself if you like. Jeff "I've had enough. I will not allow this! I will pay you back; because forgiveness, for one like you, could never be (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Microfig-scale BattleMech [DAT]
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Hey folks, Well, I caved in and built the ubiquitous BattleMech -- I think it's patterned after a Madcat, but I'm not sure... If anyone wants to come up with the BattleTech rules (1) for this scale (2), I'll build some more models. Maybe some Lego (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Entertainer Offers
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I havent checked this out personally yet, but my wife came back from Camberley saying that the Entertainer had a window display of discounted lego. She even noted down a few numbers and prices (wasnt that nice of her) 6097 - night lords castle £30 (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 2000 A-Wing comments
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(...) about (...) because (...) Here is Ben Fleskes' original message about the relative sizes of the X-Wing and the Y-Wing: < (URL) > In brief, the average ratio comes to 2.854 studs/meters. TLG's A-Wing is 21 studs long, making the Ratio for it (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Personal Projects
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 19:37:25 GMT, Mark Lindsey uttered the following profundities... (...) pyramids and parthenon (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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(...) If anyone knows please post it. Lucasfilm has a site up advertising these along with a 12 volume Young Indiana Jones movie set and they don't even bother to list the price or how to order them. Commercials for these aired last night, but again (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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(...) Hmm, I don't think that's quite true. You can equip the robots with rotation sensors, and have them programmed such that they will send the values of their respective rotation sensors every so often. They can either send them to one another (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sonar Sensor
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Danny, The Polaroid 6500 is very common, and if you have the expansion board on your HB you have a built in connection. There are drivers on the MIT HandyBoard site. The units are available from Acroname and they also have a good fact sheet. (2 (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: adventurers villainess
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(...) I must heartily agree with Joseph on this one. Craig is the minifig master! Keep those ideas for adventurers coming in. The cast of characters is so stale any breath of fresh air is welcome. Thanks again, Mark L (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Desperation sets in!!
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(...) <LOL> perhaps the ABS melded (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | One more time: The 2000 A-Wing is not too small
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:) Alright, I'm going to say it again, for the benifit of everyone just joining in. The new official LEGO 2000 Star Wars A-Wing ((URL) ,set 7134) is NOT to small. It is in the correct scale when compared to the X-Wing, comming in at 2.2 studs/meter (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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