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Laura- Next time you see your mom, give her a great big hug and thank her for encouraging you. During one of my husband's internships, he worked with a female engineer from Sweden who was *beaten* by her father when she tried to play with Lego as a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My fleet is bigger'n your fleet!
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(...) You certainly beat me on monetary value of your fleet! It just hurts too much to pay $200+ for a BSB or SES when I paid that much for four RBR. (...) MOC? No bandsaw. I like the idea, though. (...) And West Hills is....? I'm more of in "East (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Yes, I have to put the coastal town back together. You have me all hollow in big ships! Bruce (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I was using it in the sense of the term as Steve Jackson uses it in his Pirate Game rather than an actual ship (I know, a Brig ain't a ship). (...) flagships) Not tubby enough (IMHO). Whenever I get an extra brown midsection, I can return one (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: In what sets do #2 angle connectors come?
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John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) Searching my database I come up with the following sets that contain that part (32034): 2151 Robo Raider - contains 1 in Gray 5542 Black Thunder - contains 1 in Gray 8213 Spy Runner - contains 4 in Black (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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Eric Brok wrote in message ... (...) "And" would only apply in one statement. "She's a little busty, and looks like a whore." The two statements are separated because one of them is a question. A sentence should never start with "and". Should all (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The "geography" of local space
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Hi, just noodling around. Websters gives it as 1pc = 3.27ly It's the distance an ange of one minute subtends at a distance of one au. Don't be afraid of a little trig. au means astronomical unit. Lookit up. Would you like to know how to derive a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Cool! Actually, I'm surprised NASA diddn't do this with sojurner back in 96. (...) This probably means gluing the non-moving parts together. That is how all of the "official" models like store displays are built. (...) For most of us this is a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Lugnet.Underground vs Lugnet.Rockraiders
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Howdy All- I'm no Rock Raiders fan, however I just noticed that the Lugnet group for Rock Raiders is named "lugnet.underground". Was this Lugnet group named prior to us knowing the offical Lego® name??? The aquazone group is named just that, not the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Color & Classic Space
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(...) Hmmm... interesting. As a kid I ranked them: White = Technicians and also Medical personel Red = Engineers Yellow = Computer Systems Experts Blue = Scientists Black = Pilots/Commanders ('cause they looked the coolest) Not so different. And (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LEGO RCX Skydivers
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I'm not sure which is scarier... the concept of dropping an RCX or the fact that you would have to "test" the design. I'd really be interested in seeing details of your results, but only if you succeed. hugging my RCX, :?) bishop Ian Sinclair wrote (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Our Trip to the LEGO Store...
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Looks like LEGO will be planning even more outlets. I heard that LEGO might open an outlet at the world's largest outlet mall, Sawgrass Mills, outside of Miami. (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Oops! Sorry, hit the button 3 times . . .
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Going home for tonight. Hear from y'all tomorrow! Thanx in advance! (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: info on pneumatics
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(...) Hello Mike; You missed an excellent discussion about compressors and a compressor test stand built out of LEGO just a little while ago. You could probably search Lugnet for the discussion. Some very useful web pages by others are: (URL) for (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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(...) I sort by form and color. I have LEGO storage drawers (5225, 545, etc.). Each drawer is a color. 1 drawer for each color of 1x, 2x and plates. I also have drawers for miscellaneous elements by color: expanders, roofs, 5 tall bricks, rounds, (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: The "geography" of local space
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Can one of you budding astronomers tell me how many light years are equal to a parsec? <ICS> (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: ARE YOU READY...
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(...) Just so long as he says he has BSB, SES, for sale he can torture me all day long. lol matt (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | JPL engineer needs help with space instr. model
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Hi all! I am a field research engineer at JPL for the MISR project of the Earth Observation System. Our URL is: www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov. I have been involved with our project's outreach effort for some years and came up with an idea of using Legos to (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Wild West ?!
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(...) I've only bought the Indian set with the chief and a horse because I wanted it for an anthropological museum. I even switched his historically inaccurate spear for one of the Lego rifles and put the feathers on the end of the gun like real (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My fleet is bigger'n your fleet!
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(...) My fleet is made of 6 BSB 4 SES 5 Clippers 8 armada flagships i have a MOC and its a armada flagship with 7 midsections and cut yes cut with a bandsaw so i have a 26stud wide ship. matt morgan p.s. bruce do you live in the L.A. area I am in (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Quickie Auction: Bulk colors green, black, blue, and yellow
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I need to bump up my supply of red and white bricks so its time to break up another bunch of bulk tubs. I'd like to get 10 of 1200 pice tubs (Set 3033) but am open to getting more if there is a large enough demand for theses pieces. I'd like to get (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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(...) I faced that intimidation problem, too, when I initially wanted to change from color to shape. I'm actually still in the process of organizing (something that started quite a few months ago). Hopefully I'll be done by the time I have to move (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: In what sets do #2 angle connectors come?
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John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) 8417 (Mag Wheel Master 29.95 US) comes with 4 in black, and 8437 (Future Car ? US) comes with 4 in blue if that helps. If you get 8417 for these parts, I'll take the wheels! :) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Color & Classic Space
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This may be rehashing an old topic, but has anyone ever thought about what each color might mean for the old space mini-figs? Here's my theory: Yellow= Pilots- they always seemed to be the figs that came with spaceships White= Technicians- they (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: In what sets do #2 angle connectors come?
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(...) There is Service Pack #5201 from shop@home. I don't know if it is still available, but it has four of the 180 degree type, plus four each of the other types. Price list I have says: $4.50 USA $6.25 CAN <ICS> (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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(...) Ah yes, that's the problem, getting over the intimidation of wanting to actually SORT the pieces. I originally wanted to sort by shape/form but found that I was going to be at it for the rest of my life (hey I was ten at the time) so I went by (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Character Arrays
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You're initializing foo[] wrong, it should be: char foo[] = { '1', '2', '3', '4' ); (...) the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:43:50 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote: Ugh, sorting by colour. -_-; I've got all my bricks sorted by colour, I have both halves of the Futuron monorail set filled with black and grey bricks. Both halves of the second (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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(...) forever) I had them sorted by color. For some reason I just liked the way they looked and I didn't think I'd ever use them again, because I didn't have time to just leisure build and I had accidentally thrown all my directions out. Then I came (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Y2K Dream Last Night???
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When I woke this morning and recalled my dream I realized I had a LEGO dream. I'll admit, those don't happen often enough for me but in this dream I had dreamt of a new road crossing. It was a red color scheme like the 4556 and 4557 but this (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My fleet is bigger'n your fleet!
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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Bruce Schlickbernd (<FKp74n.BDK@lugnet.com>) wrote at 00:09:59 (...) No MOCs yet, and many not even out of the box: 10 Armada Flagships 6 Red Beard Runners 3 Imperial Flagships 2 Black Seas Barracudas (BSB) 1 Skull's Eye Schooner (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
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Yeah, okay, here's the thing - I pretend that the streetwalkers have houses in the outskirts since no idiot in his right mind would build enough houses for EVERY minifig. I'd have over a hundred if I did! (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: My Lego Obsession & Philosophy
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(...) I like it. Very neat. I like the LEGO van too... Is that a digitally modified van, or did you get a magnetic LEGO sign for fun trips? <ICS> (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Theme longevity? (Was: Wild West ?!)
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(...) I assume this is referring to three-year "theme" (Adventurers, Wild West, etc.) cycles, not "sub-theme" (Cowboys, Indians, etc.). I don't think three years is an accurate assumption: Wild West had two years ('96 - more cowboys/soldiers (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO RCX Skydivers
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The following post prompted me to resurrect an idea I dreamed up a some time ago... (...) I have had an idea for quite some time, but one significant problem... Wouldn't it be very cool to design and build LEGO Mindstorms Skydivers! These skydivers (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: something nelug could do
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(...) Perhaps it would be worthwhile to ask the art dept in CT about helping with a future S@H cover. I'm thinking: lending models for their photographing or some .dat art made to order... Usually art directors are open to people who are willing to (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
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Moving the topic over to general.... The other day I was in a store and came across a small number of 6595 Surf Shack. My first impression was: Is this paradisa without the pink ? It sure looks that way. Based on copyright dates (6595 = 1993), it (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Star Wars Lego site
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Good Stuff! I like the intro animation. We can never have enough Star Wars Lego Sites! Pat J (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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