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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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| | Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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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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| | Re: My Lego Obsession & Philosophy
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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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| | Lego reference on www.theonion.com
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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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| | Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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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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| | Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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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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| | Re: Kenny from South Park joins Adventurers line?
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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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| | Re: Castle 2000 Eye-candy
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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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| | Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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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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| | Re: Castle 2000 Eye-candy
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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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