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(...) i use this one... a lot. :-) (...) and i'll start using this one... often! (...) actually most people seem rather charmed when they encounter my lego passion. although, being an artist, i'm expected to have eccentricities. the only people in (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Ack ! Its huntin season here right now. Everyones tunin up ther guns. :) I wish Lego made a Game & Wildlife Management police set. Ray (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I rather enjoyed Romancing the Stone. It's follow up, Jewel of the Nile, sucked, but I have to blame that on the original writer dieing. Bruce (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yikes!! If I spent as much on any of those as I spend on LEGO toys, I'd certainly be dead by now... <grin> JohnG (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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This is currently on (URL) If Area Dad Steps On Legos One More Time DARLINGTON, SC--According to loud reports from within the Kaminsky household Tuesday, if area father Russell Kaminsky steps on one more goddamn Lego, man, forget about it. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You are truly an evil person. You post on the issue, but only to say that I didn't give it enough time?!?!?!? AAAAARGHHHHHH!!!!!! First Kenny, now this. Mark L :) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) Temple (...) up. (...) Temple of Doom is widely (and IMHO correctly) regarded as the weakest of the three Indiana Jones movies. Spielburg was vaguely disappointed by the results, and he directed it. Don't get me wrong,I still enjoyed the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Set 6457 Astronaut Figure
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This is my first go at an inventory. I chose this set because it's so small and I couldn't find it anywhere else. Comments, critique or any other feedback welcome. I intend to post some other sets (mostly Star Wars: Snowspeeder, Landspeeder, etc.) (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Set #918 - Space Transport [DAT]
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This was one of my favourite sets when I was a kid.I gave it away with all my other lego in 1985 or so (how I regret that now...), several years after I had lost interest in lego (or deemed myself to old for such kids stuff). I recently remembered (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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(...) Oh my god I am not even breathing anymore. You are absolutely right about it. Here I thought they were actually going to do it, and all this time it has been some super-weak attempt to capitalize on lame ESPN 2 X-game hype. My God this SUCKS! (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) As I said earlier, it looks like we will be getting "Arctic Adventures, not "Arctic Adventurers". :) Jeff "There's no pleasing some people." (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: My Lego Obsession & Philosophy
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(...) when I get negative remarks about my Lego obsession, I often respond with a varient of one of the following, depending on whether the person I'm talking to seems human or not. <friendly> "It's cheaper and safer than smoking/drinking/doing (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) should, I guess), is there any other information about the 2000 figs? Any hints as to what 'teams' are coming out? Any actual information from which we can extract information on the new sets themselves? DaveE (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) or (...) riders" (...) Yes the deceivers was new to me. Glad you recommended it and glad you liked the list. Yes, I think Romancing the Stone did suck, but not even close to those Allen Quartermain movies. Mark L (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) I won't touch your Indiana comment until you qualify your statement. The Mummy I was referring to was the current version. Why didn't you like the Phantom? Sorry that was Mysterious Island, and it probably should be moved up. (...) from (...) (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: possibilities - 4558, 4559, 2150 (2), etc
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(...) Well, you could leave it behind... it would have a good home... and when you decide to come back and settle here for good, you can have it all back. Promise! Heather Patey St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Pirate Wench / Brick Detective (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 760 piece buckets - problems with red fences
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(...) Sorry, I must have missed a 1 somewhere, mine is also 8 6185 18 :) JP (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Ice Cream
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Sproaticus skrev i meddelandet <381F1662.B167CCF0@io.com>... (...) Just go into Settings/Change.../S...,Grid,Snap and set your preferred increment for rotations (there are three different choices: coarse, medium, fine). Then you just use the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My Lego Obsession & Philosophy
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:46:09 GMT, Ian Sinclair uttered the following profundities... (...) I usually get responses along the lines of "aren't you sad, playing with toys." I respond "who's more sad, me, playing with toys, harming no one, or you, with (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego 8448 Survey
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:33:10 GMT, Ian Sinclair uttered the following profundities... (...) This survey card was in the UK, and as such has seen a shift in their advertising strategy, (or so it would seem). Check lugnet.loc.uk as there have been some (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 09:32:42 GMT, Ian Sinclair uttered the following profundities... (...) I am a bit behind in reading Lugnet, so sorry for the *very* late response..... The 8448 Super Car here in the UK had in it one of those user response cards. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Sales Proposal - Please Read
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:16:51 GMT, Peter Callaway uttered the following profundities... (...) Subject: 7151 - Sith Infiltrator From: "John Cromer" <cro@astro.caltech.edu> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:33:56 GMT Newsgroups: lugnet.db.inv 7151 - Sith (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: More scale questions (Was: Scale of Lego)
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(...) I'm definitely no expert on train scales, since I don't get involved with any model railroading. But I do find it interesting that the original LEGO Scale (Town Plan scale) where the classic LEGO door is 3 bricks high is very close to 'HO' (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Castle 2000 Eye-candy
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(...) Ahhh... ok. I don't know if I like the way it's been done on some of the sets, but it is a cool idea in general... The stone tower bridge was actually pretty good about it, with technic pegs holding the sections together... but some of the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: possibilities - 4558, 4559, 2150 (2), etc
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I would guess about $1000 Paul Sinasohn (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Or what he might have been referring to was that some of them come apart into interlocking modules, like the Stone Tower Bridge, and others have sections that are easily removable, like the prison on top of the first-year set that is (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Dk UK Lego Tour reaches BROMLEY
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Sounds like a good idea to me! My trader friend, Joyce lives within walking distance of Bromley town centre, and I need to visit her before LEGOfest in order to buy up some trade material 8-) If anyone else plans to attend Bromley, LMK, and I'll see (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) Yaay! Real castle! Don't like the helmet, though. It reminds me of the Renaissance too much, and that is my least favorite Pre-Industrial Revolution period. (*sigh*) Oh, well, maybe there'll be some cool musketeers! (to fight my homemade (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Castle 2000 Eye-candy
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(...) What Richard was reffering to is that the Ninja castles are built up out of wall modules which interlock, and can be combined in different ways. (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: ZNAP Adverts in UK
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(...) I've been working on a train bridge that would NOT be possible (at least as concise and strong as it is) without Znap. They make excellent structural components for large Technic structures. I want MORE! If you'd like to help me obtain them, (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: McD set numbers
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(...) yep (...) 2069 (...) yep (...) 1995. Go figure that one. I don't know about the rest, don't have them yet. (...) Steve (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | IR
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Hi All. Is there a way to set the IR transmitter to something like 'long range mode'? I would like to have a more powerful beam for proximity detection. I've tried lnp_logical_range(1), doesn't seem to make a difference. The problem is that I don't (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Classic Tub on sale at Zellers
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I've posted the inventory of 4291 in db.inv, (URL) readers can judge for themselves... I was hoping for more than 18 plates in a 760-piece set (which indeed it is, contrary to the Zellers flyer which says "800+") but it seems like a good set all the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Top Ten Toys on A&E
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Allan Bedford wrote: (URL) ge=0&view=collapsed&sb=5 Gack, what an example of horrid web design. All the links are dark blue on black in my web browser. These goofy web pages which override a foreground or background color without overriding the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Official LEGO site has MindFest pics
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(...) I wouldn't be embarased none of the non-robotics stuff made it. Which is of no supprise seeing that was the main theme of the event. I think most of the stuff other than Henry's call at the NELUG table would be considered Modeling or Art and (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Castle 2000 Eye-candy
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(...) Castle interlocking sections? Do you mean the 5x1x5 castle wall piece with a window in the center? What sets do these get used in of the Ninja sets? Offhand, I can only think of the log wall sections... or maybe you mean another piece? DaveE (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Seems like this show could/should have been titled "Top 10 Toys for Baby Boomers and GenX to get all nostalgic about". Slinky? Oh puh-lease, give me a break! Steve (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Sets for sale
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I have the following sets for sale: Price USD (including shipping ) 1029 Tine promo 25 ( 23 pr set if more than one ) 2539 Shell promo 7 2540 Shell promo 7 1180 Space 7 1183 Adventurers 12 5901 Adventurers 12 6420 City 12 6516 Space 8 6585 X-treme 7 (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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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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In lugnet.town, Frank Filz writes: <snip> (...) Ryan sent me the pictures in advance - there's a real talent in the making here. I think his next layout, if he can get it donw, will be very impressive. I like his solution to the train track support (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Classic Set 4291
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Here's the contents of the Classic tub 4291, discussed in loc.ca. 1x1 brick black 12 1x1 brick blue 28 1x1 brick red 28 1x1 brick white 28 1x1 brick yellow 28 1x1 brick w/side stud red 4 1x1 brick, printed yellow 2 1x1 round brick grey 6 1x2 brick (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: The Ultimate LEGO Book Review....
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(...) Speaking of "frosting pumpkins". I think I recall at one point in the book that they say that they only use standard LEGO bricks/parts in all of the creations for the LEGOLANDs and no "custom parts are created". What frosted me about this is (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How to McDonald's Sets Cheaper!
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(...) er, "hear about this around here". Yeah, that's what I meant. Steve "where's lugnet.off-topic.mybad when I need it?" Bliss (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 5938 Oasis Ambush
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In lugnet.adventurers, Joseph Gonzalez writes: <snipped review> (...) When I was in LLC, they had this set among a bunch of smaller ones in the $2.95 bins. I rubbed my eyes, and when they were still there, I picked up a dozen or so. Does that count (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: How to McDonald's Sets Cheaper!
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Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FKJFMB.Jo0@lugnet.com... (...) No luck for me either. $1.69 for the set and meal w/o drink still full price. I did get her to hold the burgers and toss in an extra set, though. -John Van (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How to McDonald's Sets Cheaper!
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Hmmm . . . I think that would be about 38% tax ($2.73 total - $1.97 for drink and 2 sets = $.76 tax). Maybe he added $.50 profit :) -John Van Eugwe Coral <Eugwe@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:FKJtCE.M25@lugnet.com... (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | I need a host!
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I have to set up a voting page for my contest and my host does not enable cgi scripts. Does any one know of a good, free and advertisement-free host that allows cgi stuff? All help appreciated! Pat J (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream
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(...) I'm not Mr. Big Rotation but I didn't see that as a big issue. Use the fine scale grid to get the rotation about right via the rotation buttons, then adjust by hand in the properties??? If I were naming off things to fix in MLCad my number one (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Official LEGO site has MindFest pics
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(...) Hey, at least you designed something and got it on the page. My Mindfest embarrassment runs deeper... (...) And it seems he did. It's almost tempting to ask that he spell out what NELUG is and/or link it to the website, but that would seem to (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Diana's train auction, update 12
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: McDonald's Promo Set #2
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Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FKBpCI.5CL@lugnet.com... (...) I picked up 3 of these last night. My son and I had just eaten dinner, so I asked the McD lady to hold the hamburgers and toss in an extra set--and she did. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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(...) In all fairness, Mark, you DID only post it two hours before. ;) LFB. (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) That's odd. Mine shows the baffling icons *and* the text...hmmm. LFB. (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Kenny from South Park joins Adventurers line?
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(...) well, that knight should stay busy defending the lady's honour with as often as she's already been refered to as something of a hootchie... isn't that an x-treme team head/ face in the kenny parka? could it be that the comng arctic theme is (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | The Ultimate LEGO Book Review....
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I finally bought THE ULTIMATE LEGO BOOK over the weekend. And here's my 2 cents/pfennig/centimes worth.... This is a book by and about TLG. It shows many of the models built by the model shops. It gives a brief (yes brief) history on LEGO, as well (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Castle 2000 Eye-candy
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(...) Considering that the Ninja sets had old-style Castle interlocking sections, can we hope that they'll be bringing those back too? Richard (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | RE: variables, etc.
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(...) Will do shortly... (...) I'm not sure I want to be known as the guy that hates variables. They DO have their place, as data structures or to hold information that is infrequently accessed or is inconvenient to manage on the stack. The thing (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: belated question from Mindfest
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 7:58 PM To: munafo@gcctech.com Subject: RE: belated question from Mindfest (...) Nice to meet you too. I'm not sure if anyone really appreciates (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: belated question from Mindfest
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-----Original Message----- From: munafo@gcctech.com [mailto:munafo@gcctech.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 5:24 PM To: rhempel@bmts.com; Robert Munafo Subject: belated question from Mindfest Ralph, It was good talking to you at Mindfest. As you (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: propellors wanted cheap!
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Don's some of these have the knurled face that mates with a 1/2 technic "nut"/bushing? Using that and some of the olderstyle nuts you can mount them rigidly to an axle although the thickness increases.. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: stupid question
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The buttons are smaller as icons and I need the real estate. Or so I claim. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Attention Calgarians & Edmontonians - Hobby Show
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(...) <snip> (...) So... how did it go? :) James htp://www.shades-of-....com/lego/ (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.ca.ab)
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| | Re: Bulkhead Flat
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(...) I'd like to get the naming, MPDness, etc. right but... More importantly, to me anyway, I'm also interested in the most compact way of saying "this is my design, I hold the copyright, you're OK to build it, but commercial use is not permitted (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: info on pneumatics
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(...) I didn't think air tanks were in the current spares catalogue Lego Dacta, the education arm of lego, do pneumatic sets containing tanks, tube T pieces and cylinders, see (URL) details of where to buy. Quite a lot of toy shops in the UK are (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 5938 Oasis Ambush
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Hi Joseph, This is not a criticism but a genuine question; what sets have you given an eight stud rating? I really like your reviews and always read them (in fact I save them in a seperate file). I noticed that even on the Adventurer sets you (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Top Ten Toys on A&E
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(...) Tim, I agree. Erector set, is definitely worth the top 10 list. It could be what inspired the LEGO Technic System. Gary Istok (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Met onze LEGO naar een modelspoorbeurs
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(...) LEGO- (...) Voor de goede orde: ik ben zelf ook lid van de Bouwsteen en het lijkt me inderdaad het beste om het via deze Vereniging te organiseren. Eric (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | Re: Categorizing uploaded robot images on legomindstorms.com
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You may wish to consider a combination of a main hierarchical taxonomy (mobile->wheels->...) with tag keys for attributes (contains homebrew sensor). User may search both ways. Eric (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BAYLIT suggestions
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All: (This hurts) I'm reaching an impasse with BAYLIT. My job situation will soon require me to travel extensively, severely impacting my ability to run BAYLIT. I don't know how long this will last - could be awhile Thus, I would appreciate your (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: legOS-0.2.1
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Hi Jeffrey, that's an OS issue - your host system should define O_ASYNC. Some older systems define FASYNC instead, try that one. You can work around this more elegantly, too: #ifndef O_ASYNC #define O_ASYNC FASYNC #endif And hope for the best. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: KBKIDS 6441 Deep Reef Refuge for $18!
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(...) Thanks for the heads up! I got a Deep Reef Refuge and Robo Stalker for a total of $32.32. (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Top Ten Toys on A&E
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(...) hmm.. we need horizontal log bricks so we can build log cabins.. shouldn't be too hard to make, and they'd be useful for all sorts of things (unlike lincoln logs) i had lincoln logs and tinker toys when i was young, but you don't see me using (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: lego Technic "class"
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(...) When I first noticed the motor/dynamo effect I used it to create a puppet "Furby" driven by cams. It's on my Mindstorms page: (URL) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) She's my next starship captain, e.g. from the book Starship Troopers. Or put her head atop a Blacktron body and look out! :-, Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Auto Chasis 956 on ebay (not my auction, but...)
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This is not my auction, but since the title on it sort of stinks, you may have missed it in the 1500+ Lego listings on ebay. Bidding stood at 96 when I posted this message. (URL) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Black roof bricks
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Hi ! I'm looking for black roof bricks, they are 2x2 on the base, they end up with 2x1 (like normal bricks), but they are 2 bricks high !? Does anyone know something about this bricks ??? Please E-Mail direct to: Adrian.Rohnfelder@pl...nterkom.de (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) Hmm. Could be. The colors on the scan are obviously out to lunch, but I was going from the original post, which said the sword was silver - the helmet is the same tone of purple as the sword in the picture, which (I think) makes it chrome as (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Kenny from South Park joins Adventurers line?
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If you'll go over to the Castle area, they are discussing a scan of a couple of new Castles figures. Included is an obvious Arctic-clad adventurer. Bruce (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Lego event in Glasgow
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(...) tour (...) At the above address, it says that you can swap one of your bricks for a free gift - just thought I'd mention it in case Ian or Richard turn up with a sack full of 2x4's unnecessarily! Stu C. University of Glasgow (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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(...) mark ~ the list looks great!! i'm glad you enjoyed "1900" (who wouldn't, imho) even though it's vaguely adventurers theme. had you seen "the decievers" before, or was it a new one to you? i was trying to think of other merchant/ ivory films (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Time available during 1 kHz system interrupt?
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The controls are spread across a couple of files, mainly in libhb.c we get /* pulse width modulation control: if off, all motors run at full speed if on, speed bytes are used to determine motor speed */ void system_pwm_on() {bit_set(0x39, (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Time available during 1 kHz system interrupt?
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(...) Mostly PWM will get jerkier. If you sit to long in there and the motors happen to be 'on' then you can go faster than you would like :-) You also "lose time" in the sense that msleep is no longer accurate so there are issues with tasks that (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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(...) Don't I always? (...) I'm not going to quibble over a moving them up or down a space or two. Temple of Doom was the weakest of the Indiana Jones movies and should switch places with Lost Crusade. Is that the Boris Karloff Mummy or the current (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Our Trip to the LEGO Store...
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See (URL) for more information. It's the North Georgia Premium Outlets in Dawson, GA. Address, phone numbers and directions are in the pages above. Mike ----- mike at faunce.com (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) I think it is Dark Grey. I don't want to start another long list of back and forth about it (a la the purple/blue Gungan Sub debate), but it really looks like dark grey to me. eric (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: How to McDonald's Sets Cheaper!
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(...) I hope the ASPCA doesn't here about this... Steve (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Technics for sale, MIB and Used
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Hello all Due to the alot of people looking at the list, i have expanded it to TEchnic's as well You will find the list under the Big Sale Sign: (URL) includes many old sets See you later -- Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of the UK (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Technic for sell, MIB and used
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Hello all Due to the alot of people looking at the list, i have expanded it to TEchnic's as well You will find the list under the Big Sale Sign: (URL) includes many old sets See you later -- Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of the UK (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Pirates, Castle, Blacktron, Police, Ice Planet 2002, M Ton and Space for sale
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Hello all Due to the alot of people looking at the list, i have expanded it to TEchnic's as well You will find the list under the Big Sale Sign: (URL) you later -- Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of the UK Technic Club Magazine Web (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Our Trip to the LEGO Store...
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Where is the N GA store? Do you have an address and phone #? Thanks Patricia Schempp <pschemp@clemson.edu> wrote in message news:FKJvL6.2Hr@lugnet.com... (...) store in (...) but (...) the (...) learn (...) the (...) packs (...) waiting (...) And (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) Oh sure. The first thing people notice is the breasts, but as soon as they get pressured, it's "No, no, I love the face, really!". <grin, duck & run> James (URL) slightly irreverant today (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 4558 and 4547 Question
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(...) Hunh? If they rereleased the 4558 the only thing it would "diminish" is the short-term market value. It wouldn't suddenly become a less worthy set, would it? For those interested in owning 4558, rereleasing would be a godsend. For those (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) I believe it was refered to as a "kettle helm" or "kettle hat", but all my reference material is at home. Late 1300s, possibly. On into the 1400s definitely. I recall it most strongly with English foot troops, but was probably used throughout (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) Yup. Just adding my approval to the new helmet. The only gripe I have with it is that it's chrome. This helmet, in grey or dark grey would ROCK. James (URL) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: What do I need to build a 4547 facsimile?
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(...) If anything could convince me to hold onto my train stuff it would be knowing the great sets could be reproduced like this in other color schemes. (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) more (...) After viewing the pictures the first thing that hit me was the helmet, and WOW! after contemplating it a little its more a wow! but still a nice one. The other thing is that the "device" on the shield looks pretty good from what I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | A little more info on McDonald's sets
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Ok. I did a little badmouthing of McD's before, so I'm posting this partially as penance. I went by McD's a few days ago (Saturday, to be specific) and went about the task of attempting to buy some of the sets. I noted that this McD's (which is not (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 5938 Oasis Ambush
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The desert sun is setting quickly on the Pedestal of Anubis dig site. But Matthias Snidely continues to work feverishly in the half-light of dusk on what he is certain is the opening mechanism to the crypt. Workers have long since retired to their (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Ice Cream
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(...) It's an ice cream cart. I like this model! Datsville needs some ice cream. :-, I like MLCAD, but it severely lacks in the part rotation department -- all rotations entered via the GUI are absolute. Until Mike gets that fixed, I'm still using (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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Alright guys this has spawned an awesome ZERO responses! Surely someone has an opinion. Mark L (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Coby Bassett's raytraced versions of Karim Nassar's microfig SW models (was: Re: BURP Adventure)
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(...) Yeppers! (URL) - jsproat (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad)
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