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Name: Benjamin Whytcross Age: 23 Where in OZ: Colac, Victoria Occupation: About to complete Computer Technology course. Married: not yet. Kids: nope. Lego fan since: Well, I think my first set started me at around 2. Number of pieces: I don't even (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Many bulk plates by color on BRICKS
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I put up a bunch of plates by size & color on BRICKS. They end this weekend. (URL) have a few more plate lots that I'll be adding this weekend also. Thanks, Julie (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Fun pieces from 6441 on eBay
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I put up some of the fun pieces from 6441 on eBay tonight. They are 3 day auctions. (URL) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Lego Fairy
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I guess I should mention I placed 2 seperate orders. I received my second order no problem. And, I was quite happy to see that my 6441 Deep Reef Refuge included a divers poster. Yippee!! Julie (...) a (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | FA(eBay): Duplo set 1856 Special Water Park Tub
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Duplo set 1856 Special Water Park Tub (1996, rare?) (URL) Email: kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com Web page: (URL) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Medieval towns (was Re: Wild West ?!)
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Heather Patey wrote in message ... (...) just (...) streets (...) the (...) I'd buy that for a dollar. It would improve my Imperials Guards towns dramatically. I have to exclude all my town roadplates at present, because they're too neat. Where to I (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New info and SDK for the Scout!
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For your convenience, here is the url of the page with the new information that Robert Eddings described: (URL) haven't tried this yet (I only just today bought my first Scout) but it appears they are saying that the Code Pilot codes that the Scout (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Scout brick and IR
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Lego is releasing some details of the Scout OS at the Lego Mindstorms web site. www.legomindstorms.com The article makes reference a Scout SDK, but I couldn't find the link to it. The other stuff looks quite interesting -- fewer and dumber sensors, (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FA(eBay): 432 Technic parts incl shiny wheels, 1x16's, lotsa black
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67 Technic plates (URL) Yellow 1x16 technic beams (URL) large shiny wheels with tires (URL) large narrow shiny wheels with tires (URL) black standard Technic beams (URL) black half-beams and liftarms (URL) black bend beams (URL) special black shapes (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: wackos
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) as (...) I aspire to become a wacko. I'd front up and join in the game, but the travel is a bit of a bore. At this end of the information decade, there has got to be a way for Pirate Wars to go virtual (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: LEGO RCX Skydivers
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(...) Ummmm... I am acutally finishing an RCX controlled hang-glider at the moment. (Well, maybe "controlled" is pushing it a bit far, but it does bank it right and left.) The RCX is heavy because you have the six alkaline AAs in it, so I took the (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO RCX Skydivers
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The tough parts are going to be getting the RCX to sign the legal form and pack its own parachute (-: (...) Another idea you should consider, if you are at all up to the technology, is to build a balloon (or blimp) that can lift the RCX/Cybermaster (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 2000 catalog
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(...) 2000 (...) Well, it showed up on Fibblesnork in October 98'... except they haven't gotten any new ones since... And what happened to the theme and set name generators? I got some pretty good themes from that (Future Force ETC.) and some bad (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | New info and SDK for the Scout!
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For those that don't know it yet, (URL) has a new section titled "Secrets of the Scout Revealed" at the main page. Once in this section, clicking on "Secrets" gives great new information on the Scout and some surprises! *** from (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Technic Box #1 Update (Canadian Tour)
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This box arrived at my door yesterday (Nov 4). It was extremely well packaged and very nicely wrapped. The parts themselves were in bubble wrap with newspaper at either end of the box. I was most impressed by the condition of the contents though. (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Other missing groups? (was: Re: Fabuland group (was: Re: 34 new newsgroups!))
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(...) No, it wasn't left out on purpose -- it was just an unfortunate oversight. In fact, Fabuland was listed on this page long ago, (URL) a niche thematic-interest group likely to pop up...it's always been something inevitable. So -- Are there any (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ohio get together??
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I had previously committed some time, and even a ride to Cleveland. Since then a number of things have happened in my personal life (buy house, get married). These things preclude me from doing much with LEGO. Sorry if I disappointed anyone, but I (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cin, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I'm new to castle collecting.
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(...) I just got off the phone with S@H and they do have the 6090 Royal Knights Castle in stock for $109. Last time I got one from S@H it was a European edition and it had some pretty wild catalogs in it. I also agree that for the most part that the (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Metro Station Plus
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(...) Cool man way cool. (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: info on pneumatics
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Mike -- I was going to put you up a bunch of links to compressors, but I see that Ian Sinclair has already taken care of that. I have also heard of people using compressed air cans (you know, the ones for blowing the fluff off computers, photo (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: new space craft rendering
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(...) Nice work! (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: ARE YOU READY...
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Emmanuel, Why don't you put your URL in your message? Thanks, -Phil (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Is Jambalaya a dismal failure?
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Thanks for your note Tom. I agree that it is sure frustrating not to see the status. I thought I would send an email to James Brown to ask him how the Canada tour was going with the Technic box and he took the time to send me the following reply: (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Color & Classic Space
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Hmmmm. Good Stuff! I never thought of it like that. But those early sets really did have the feal of something that could really happen. I remember that well. Lego Space had alot to with my early interest in Sci-Fi (and hence my interst now as (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Color & Classic Space
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(...) Back in 1978, when the very first LEGOLAND Space sets came out, all there was were red and white space figs. This was just a few years after the famous Apollo-Soyuz mission, and so for that reason, I think I always figured that the white (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | new space craft rendering
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I've been working on a CAD version of one of my recent ships. Don't really know where to post this stuff, so I'll try here. Its got a ways to go, but its getting there. LMKWYT (URL) J (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Color & Classic Space
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(...) each (...) I just always thought red/blue was for the men and white/yellow for the women. But my dark age began before I had many blue or yellow. As for status, naturally the men outranked the women! I sure didn't want my little sister bossing (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Color & Classic Space
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(...) I use Aquazone figs in my Space universe as Heavy Troopers. They have the capability to add on weapons to their suits. These suits are equipped with thrusters and short jump warp capability (boy do I have too much time on my hands). White and (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Color & Classic Space
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As a kid I ranked and organized my figures in a similar way. Futron minifigs were the elite or commanders of the color represented. Yellow = enlisted personel, grunts, mechanics, infantry, low skill jobs ( I had too many yellows) Blue = engineers, (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Datsville - clothing store
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In lugnet.cad.dat.models, Calvin Walton writes: Excellent. I like the hanging torso. -John Van (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: MindGame
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"Marco Beri" <marcob@equalis.it> wrote in message news:382595d1.684702...net.com... (...) No limits, please...... Ciao Carlo (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Rerelease of old Lego sets
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I had an idea that would be very cool. If we can get the Lego group to release some of the older Lego stuff as a limited edition series, such as a new one every month, that'd be cool. I want a ton of out-of-print space legos that have been gone 6 (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Uploading NQC programs to legomindstorms.com personal pages
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John VanZwieten <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote in message news:FKqG9J.J4J@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) At Mindfest Russ and many other LEGO folks showed a genuine interest for what goes on in this list. I'm glad to see they have turned off (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How to communicate sensor value changes to RCX Tower
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Farrukh S. Najmi <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3822F0C7.A06551...sun.com... (...) I doubt you can beat just polling it to death. Anything else might be a little more efficient, but will probably introduce delay and complexity. (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My Lego Obsession & Philosophy
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(...) LOL! That's hilarious. You should make it a license plate-ish sticker and then I'm sure others would be interested in them too for their own vacuum cleaners. You could have a hot seller here.. -Tim (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ohio get together??
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OK, so we talked about, we even set some dates for a possible meeting and Troy was nice enough to volunteer his place up near Cleveland for us to get together. So when is it going to be????? Jodi (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cin, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Communication with PC using NQC
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(...) You can use the -raw option for nqc to send raw commands (including the poll command) to the RCX. Not pretty, but it works in a pinch. As for libraries, I'm not sure what qualifies as "cute", but within NQC, all of the RCX communication is (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: MindGame
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(...) Bella idea! Se e` vero che i cagnolini prendono il carattere dai padroni magari anche gli RCX faranno lo stesso. In tal caso sono sicuro che il mio robottino si dirigera` a spron battuto verso la dispensa, dovunque essa sia e qualunque (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Legofest
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(...) Mah... io farei un calcolo del baricentro in base alla posizione geografica e al peso della persona. In questo modo potremmo minimizzare la quantita` di energia necessaria allo spostamento del legomaniaco. Cosa ne dite? (...) Per me e` (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Color & Classic Space
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How do you explain the early days, when there were only red and white? (Yes, I am old enough that I actually have an original Galaxy Explorer.) (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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