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Greetings, I'm attempting to prepare a speech on how LEGO toys are great as far as versatility in play and educational purposes. I'm having difficulties locating substantive resources to back my claims. If anyone can provide info pr just point me in (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Wild West FOTW
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(...) Curse you! That's one I need. Feh. ;) (...) The top shelf is a great place. At our Target, I found 9 4128 red freestyle buckets for only $3.18 each (from $20/each). I still haven't had time to part those out! (...) Hey, I've got 35 Frontier (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Theme longevity? (Was: Wild West ?!)
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(...) I've posted ideas about this before, but only in lugnet.starwars. Do you guys think that they will actually reissue some of the StarWars sets a couple years down the road? The X-wing especially, it seems, should be "always available" It is the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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(...) Yep. That's what I've found-- Back when I had about 10-15 thousand pieces, I decided it was high time they were sorted. So I went with the sort-by-color technique. Some colors were not too bad, but mostly, it was hard to see what pieces were (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Theme longevity? (Was: Wild West ?!)
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(...) Hmm, I can't say when the trend started - it was in my dark ages. :/ (...) I think TLG has/is sticking to it pretty closely - although the rotation period seems to vary a bit - Adventurers seems to be a one year cycle, for example. But we have (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.1
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Well, I haven't tried to set this up under windows yet, so I haven't responded. However, I suppose I can give it a try. Can you cut and paste some of the errors? I may be able to diagnose it- not sure. -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Reasons for ending an Ebay Auction (Was Re: Ebay's answer)
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Rather than continually cut+paste parts of the ended@ebay.com automessage, I'll include it here for any future reference. I feel that this auction could be ended for reasons: 1, 8, (16|17) and/or 21 depending on what the information is. Oh, and 26 (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Various Sets for Sale - Act II Scene I
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In which Ray drives across the deep South in search of a stash of 6263s, finds same and returns with those as well as various other small finds. Lightning, driving rain, & thunder effects all punctuate the search for Lego :) I have the following (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | GNU C-Compiler for HC11
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A new GCC/HC11 port is available. I had nothing to do with this one, but it looks much better than the GCC-2.8.1 port that I'm maintaining. It uses the full GNU toolchain. (URL) is reported to work with the Handyboard, the BotBoard2, and the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: The Ultimate LEGO Book Review....
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John Neal wrote in message <38210571.901A33B3@u...st.net>... (...) to (...) Oh, good point. I will have to check out this new book. -- Have fun! John My Trade/Sale (and links) Page (URL) weird Lego site: (URL) I can understand where you are coming (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Theme longevity? (Was: Wild West ?!)
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(...) well actually it is a 2 yrs period.. with some exceptions. but 2/3 dont bother it is still too short for some sets.... Starwars...it would be a shame if the x-wing dissapears within' 3 years and don't think TLG would make a mistake like that (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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(...) Well, I do both, an one to an extreme! I sort all BASIC bricks, plates and bricks, by color and form. So I have one (or multiples) of drawers for white 1x1 bricks, etc. All the other non BASIC bricks, I sort by shape as well. The color doesn't (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Wild West ?!
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Rose wrote about the western theme: (...) Well true...no need to argue 'bout her words! (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Theme longevity? (Was: Wild West ?!)
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(...) What I'd like to know is around when the 3 year period came about. Certainly some time after 1987, when Blacktron, among the first official themes, was introduced. Also, not every series is limited to teh 3 year itch. One that comes readily to (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BAYLIT suggestions
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(...) impacting (...) 3100 (...) ;-) (...) I've JUST descovered your wonderful service, and it would absolutely kill me to lose it before I had a chance to use it. A $25-30ish minimum purchase amount would be great, and force us consumers to wait (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Wild West ?!
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David Eaton wrote in message ... (...) that I (...) too! (...) I really like this series. I think that they fit well into the town sets. They are a great "old part of town". Rose (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Thoughts on McPromo Sets
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Oops :) Hit send by accident. Here is my real reply. (...) I personally have only tried twice (I really don't like the food) and I got a couple of #1's and 10 #3's. I really just want the sets with pink and purple. I agree that #1 has the best piece (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Wild West ?!
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Hmmm and that is the for sale price?! I hope not..... (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: info on pneumatics
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Jonathan (...) Sounds OK to me, what are you using to pump air directly into the pneumatic cylinders? Have you got some sort of electric pump (maybe a homegrown Lego one), a bicycle pump ...?? I quite like the idea of a Lego pump powered with some (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Thoughts on McPromo Sets
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(...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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