 | | Re: KBKIDS 6441 Deep Reef Refuge for $18!
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(...) AucZILLA lot for Steve, but somehow free chondricthyes (cartiliginous fishes, which includes all but Mr. Octopus) seems a bit too generous. Maybe a nominal fee...? ;) (And is he still doing that Pirate game? It sounded like a heck of a lot of (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Castle sets for sale, Promos, more
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I have nearly every different Castle Lego set produced for sale on my webpage. I have most used and complete, and some new, never opened. I am open to trade offers, and can accept credit card purchases. International trades/sales are welcome. Use (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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i do not know if this was 9volt or 12volt track, it is just plastic, no metal take a look at it and help me figure its worth (URL) Grinnell (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | FOTW Knight Lords Castle parted out
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Hi all, I just came back from a short shopping trip and found a deal of the week. So I am offering some of it to you all if you want. There were about 6 more sets makeing a total of 7. The price $39.99 each set. I was wondering if there are enough (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Top Ten Toys on A&E
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <3821a7fd.181886445@...et.com>... (...) the (...) Meccano isn't really Meccano any longer - the UK company went broke(?), and the product was sold to a *French* company. As far as I've seen, they have gone into making (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | LEGO Research, HELP!
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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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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) Not really--I'm a nineteenth-century specialist. (I've got the Victoria ones down pretty well, though.) But I'll probably visit old Saxe-Coburg this next fall. Are there any monuments there to him? I'm sure that the money was made available (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Been to Datsville Lately?
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John VanZwieten skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Looks nice! But I still think you should move the camera away quite a bit, and diminish the camera angle, to get less perspective distortion. The indoor 'photos' are OK, but outdoors it looks unreal (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Wild West ?!
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Too bad noone liked the theme.....if they did, it could have been a nice and big theme with nice trains and wagons, which btw would not look bad in every town, a nice station. What do u think of the way Lego creates a new theme evry 3 years? If only (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
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(...) Ray speaks thusly: I grew up in Florida also, I still live here :) Send on the pink, the pastels, the lavenders. Give me something that resembles 'novelty' (wooden) siding and I will create a 1920s Florida seaside town. Heck, if I had enough (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Wide brown pirate hull center section needed
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The subject sums it up for the most part. I need one (two would be nice) brown center hull section for use with a Caribbean Clipper. Buying would probably be easier than arranging a trade, but I'll certain consider it if that's what it takes. I do (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Wild West ?!
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(...) $49.99 USD. You can find a lot of this kind of information in the Pause database: (URL) set to lugnet.western] James (URL) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Legofest
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Intersecando le disponibilità di Marco e Mario, rimangono i giorni 21, 27 e 28 novembre. Per me vanno tutti bene, aspettiamo ulteriori iscrizioni. Giulio (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Any new Lugnetters in Saint Louis area?
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-- Have fun! John My Trade/Sale (and links) Page (URL) weird Lego site: (URL) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.stl)
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| | Re: Caribbean Clipper Cwestion
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(...) My number three CC met a natural disaster (my son) and has been reduced to its component parts which lie scattered about. Once the organize-all-lego-parts project gets finished, I will reconstruct it with the ports the "correct" fashion. I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Wild West ?!
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(...) They sat on shelves in Canada for a long time, as well, although it is getting harder to find them. There's still a few places around that I could get them, but they seem to have disappeared from most retailers' shelves. Could be because TRU (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Wild West ?!
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What does the Main street box do in u.s In Holland it goes for about 55 dollars... (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Thoughts on McPromo Sets
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I have collected McPromo sets #1, #2, #3, and #4 so far and here a couple of thoughts - YMMV. I like #1 the best as I think it contains the most useful bricks and also has the largest number (18) of the first four sets. I also like #3 but really (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Wild West ?!
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(...) Well, here in the US, the Wild West sets have just sat on the shelves! Nobody's been buying them (same with Insectoids and UFO), and a lot of stores have been putting them on sale to try and get them out... I'm guessing that overall they (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Toward LUGNET equality
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(...) a (...) Oh gawd - there's a lugnet.admin.general and a lugnet.general. Whatever. Please tell me *you* are teasing! Bruce (I'm teasing...*this* time) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Wild West ?!
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Hey everybody, Gotta Question... Does anyone know why the wild-west series have been cancelled...? I Know people in Europe rather loved it...I hoped that it would become a complete theme with stations, farms and at least a saloon.... Does anyone (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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