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(...) It looks like this box is out of hiding now. I just communicated with John DiRienzo and he will be sending it to me shortly, I'll let y'all know when I get it. (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) The same instruction/promo sheet has both the US and the CA coupons on it. Also interesting (at least to me) is that the back of the bag says 'Made in DENMARK', no mention of USA OR Switzerland. So much for high shipping costs across the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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I should have posted earlier, sorry. Waterstones in Bath had them in when I checked on Monday. They cost me a whopping £3.99 each, which is the price shown on the back of the book anyway. I think they're great. My daughter has already seen the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.books)
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| | Re: "Buying Lego" FAQ to link auctions to
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I just noticed this huge thread, and only reading the first line by Kevin, I want to say, "Look at my trade page!" I have linked to just about every site I could think of that is a good site to find Legos. Look at it (see sig), LMK what you think. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.faq)
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A common practice in plastic mold tooling is to use inserts for variable mold features such as part numbering. The LEGO text on the studs is probably hard tooled. The part number and copyright marks on the inside may well be removable (changeable) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Lego Airplane #1775 Arrives!
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(...) And two auctions just popped up on eBay with starting bid of $49.95! Gack... we need to figure out how to effectively combat this eBay ridiculousness. I'm tempted to start suggesting to the eBay sellers I regularly buy from start migrating to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.market.theory)
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I have been working on this too, and I decided that I am going to live with a certain amount of uncertainty. If I can get to within a few inches of where I think I am, that's going to be good enough. Until it isn't anymore, and then back to the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I guess he meant "chain-wide" as that store isn't in my state or any adjacent states AFAIK. -- Have fun! John My Trade/Sale (and links) Page (URL) weird Lego site: (URL) Gatrelle wrote in message <000101bf1464$5c3f4a...j4j639>... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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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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(...) The pics are FINALLY developed and I'm working on getting them scanned. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) ??? I thought this was a US-only promo... Hmm, time to go scope out my local McD's. James (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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Included is a $3.00 rebate on a $9.00 purchase. One rebate per address.Also a $5.00 CDN rebate coupon is included. Julie (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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(...) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. They aren't Star Wars sets but at least they aren't juniorized and have some interesting parts. Their packaging bills them as "classic". I want the one with the purple slopes and will be getting more of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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In lugnet.general, Eric Joslin writes: <snip> (...) I had a similar experience today. They only had the lame white trick or treat bucket. What kid is going to use that dinky little bucket to haul their treats in?Maybe a 2 or three year old. My 2 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: More scale questions (Was: Scale of Lego)
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(...) Oh, I forgot about 1:76 scale. Some of the newer HOish scale military models are 1:76. I'm starting to remember that 1:72 scale came about because it was a little difficult to make some of the model railroading equipment at 1:76 or 1:87 scale, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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Travis Yanke <tyanke@apotexcorp.com> wrote in message news:FK83zC.I17@lugnet.com... (...) Can (...) Start with a search of the LUGNET newsgroups. If you are reading LUGNET via newsreader, you'll have to go to www.lugnet.com to get the search box at (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Trein set 4560
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Hoi, Ik ben op het moment ook bezig om trein 4560 in Nederland te krijgen. Maar tot op heden heb ik als verwachte leverdatum 22-5-2000 van Lego doorgekregen. Ik zal het in deze nieuwsgroep melden als ik de bewuste trein beschikbaar heb. Groeten (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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(...) TLG, by going to a central place, could if it wished, improve the quality of scans that are poor by, for example, supplying better ones, or supplying actual instructions for a volunteer to scan. Not that they would ever do that, of course, but (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I ordered these from Amazon.com as soon as I saw them listed but I just checked my order and they are still listed as "Not Yet Released by Publisher". As far as the price are you saying you can get them both for 5BP? Not bad since amazon.co.uk (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.books)
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| | Re: Junk Box #1 Thread
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(...) go (...) I received the real junk box Wednesday. I've contacted Frank Filz. I'm shipping it tomorrow. By the way this box is a real junker, but I still found a few great pieces. Thanks, Bryce McGlone (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: lego Technic "class"
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From: "Chris Phillips" <chris.phillips@comp...oards.com> (...) I've (...) the (...) I've (...) far. The adder/subtractor is an all mechincal design which handles this flaw. Take a look at (URL) I'm sure that others will chime in with their designs (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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